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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy (15 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 460. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to raise the speed limits on specific parts of our motorways and national routes. [43433/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (15 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 461. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the works planned by the National Transport Authority on the level crossing at Ashtown Pelletstown. [43434/13]

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: This budget will directly contribute to homelessness. The Minister's recent launching of an initiative to end homelessness was farcical and nothing but a PR stunt. The budget continues the slashing of the housing budget, which has been cut by over €1 billion since 2008. Most spectacularly, it continues the Government's practice of attempting to spin a hit as a gift. This summer,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Shannon Aviation Services and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2013: Discussion (16 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I thank everyone for their presentations. I have read them but I must examine the Bill and take on board some of the suggestions that have been made. I agree with Mr. Reidy's comment on workers having a role on the board because it is important they do so. I am also concerned about how pensions will be transferred and the repercussions. I am not sure what effect the change will have and...

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Think of all of those who have emigrated.

Cochlear Implants: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Many of us take for granted the beauty that is the gift of hearing. It is something we rarely consider and something we even curse at times in these days of constant din. Dublin is a noisy city and Leinster House is a noisy place with the constant chatter, the whirr of air vents, the clinking of radiators and so forth. We try to drown much of this out and to ignore the noise of daily...

Topical Issue Matters: Local Authority Staff Code of Conduct (17 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Over the years we have had many issues with planners and planning. Inquiries and investigations have been carried out and hundreds of millions spent on tribunals with little or no return or convictions. Of course I do not for a moment suggest that the issues I raise are in the same category but, nonetheless, they are serious. This issue has been brought to my attention and that of others,...

Topical Issue Matters: Local Authority Staff Code of Conduct (17 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the Minister of State for her response. We all await the views of the county manager in respect of the audit. I fear that we have seen more of this activity in other councils. The matter in Louth has been brought to our attention. I am not saying for one minute that what was done was wrong to the extent that there was very serious intent but I fear there could be other cases in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (17 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has conducted research assessing the impact of changes to the State pension for future pensioner poverty. [43682/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (17 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will respond to the finding of the KPMG actuarial review of the Social Insurance Fund that as a consequence of changes to eligibility rules for the State pension contributory more persons retiring in 2020 will be entitled to a smaller pension and if she is concerned in view of the role played by social transfer in reducing pensioner poverty...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (17 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make available a clear, plain English list of new demerits and fixed charges now in place following the passing of the Taxi Regulation Bill 2012. [43926/13]

Other Questions: Expenditure Reviews (22 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 58. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if any progress has been made on a website portal and joint commercial and marketing strategy as outlined in the Comprehensive Review of Expendidure 2012-2014; if he will outline that progress; the projected income that such an initiative might accrue to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44239/13]

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: So they had no reason to protest, had they?

Older Citizens: Motion [Private Members]: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I dtús báire, caithfidh mé a rá go bhfuil mé i bhfábhar an rún seo ar ghnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha. I agree with the sentiment represented by the motion. It reads like a clear enough statement that there were fairer options this Government could have chosen in budget 2014 but did not. It makes the point that it will create financial...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Submissions (22 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 133. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 176 of 8 October 2013, if he will name the political party mentioned in his reply that submitted their budget proposals to his Department for costing and if any other party did so prior to Budget 2014. [44180/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (22 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 217. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form a list of the countries of origin of all bodies which took part in Industrial Development Agency visits in 2012 and to the end of September 2013; the counties they visited and the number of jobs that resulted from these visits. [44215/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (22 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 350. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount of money from the recently announced jobs stimulus capital programme that will be spent on social housing building; the deadline for applications by local authorities for this funding; the dates on whch decisions may be expected on the local authority applications; the date(s) on which the funding will...

Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: As a result of the announcement of €10 million in the budget for the remediation of properties with pyrite, can the Taoiseach confirm whether the pyrite levy Bill is being withdrawn or is it dead in the water? This fund will go nowhere near to addressing the problems. It will cost roughly €30,000 to €60,000 for each home, so only 250 homes could be delivered based on...

Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Okay.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (23 Oct 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Táim an-bhuíoch as labhairt ar an ábhar seo. I am thankful to be speaking on this subject. I also wish to express my gratitude to Edward Snowden for his courageous work in exposing the USA’s secret spying programme. During the summer, we learned that US agencies were secretly bugging the EU mission and member states in New York and its embassy in Washington, as well...