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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (3 Feb 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 563. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide update on the implementation of the tenant purchase scheme; if he will provide a list of all local authorities where this scheme will be available; and the expected time at which it will be commenced in these areas. [4423/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Charges Application (3 Feb 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 585. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the plans by Limerick council to place a charge on local authority tenants to cover the cost of the local property tax; if this policy is to be taken up by other councils; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4927/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (3 Feb 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 588. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the large number of vacant local authority houses which have been lying idle in south Kildare Athy-Monasterevin area for upwards of six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4995/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I thank everybody for the presentations. I opposed the privatisation of Aer Lingus, which has been a disaster. Many promises were made, including that the Government would retain a figure of 20% and that nobody would be able to take over Aer Lingus without the Government's approval. Now we see that they were not true and that promises were not worth the paper they were written on. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: Demands for people to say whether they agree or disagree are being challenged.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I thank everyone for the presentations. I suppose I would feel a bit disappointed over the opinion that IAG is merely going out there and stating it will improve connectivity, deliver more flights and deliver more passengers. It was Deputy Dooley and I who put forward the suggestion of bringing witnesses in, not to scare people but because, in advance of the possibility that some group...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: There is no guarantee that it will go the opposite way either.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (28 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 81. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child (details supplied) in Dublin 15 was only provided a special needs assistant for two hours a day when they require one between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. due to difficulties arising from delayed global development syndrome; and if he will review the matter. [3990/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 101. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the problems with growing waiting lists in Cappagh Hospital, Dublin 11 being caused due to a lack of nursing staff which means that one theatre for elective surgeries has remained closed; his plans for staffing levels which will see the theatre opened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4052/15]

Housing Affordability: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: On the face of it, the Fianna Fáil motion says practically nothing. It certainly proposes very little, and what it does propose is either vague or seriously flawed. The lack of any firm proposals in this motion speaks volumes. Fianna Fáil, like the Government, is incapable of grasping the reality, namely, that the crisis we face in housing and particularly social housing has now...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: Dismiss it then.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: It belongs to the people and not to the Taoiseach or any Government.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (27 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 289. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the possibility of legislation for harsher penalties for persons who issue threats specifically to public servants and local authority employees while they are carrying out their duties. [3383/15]

Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (22 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I welcome the Bill, like many citizens who have been the victims of rogue clampers and a process which has been seen generally to be rather frustrating to deal with and often too rigid in application. In particular, I commend the process by which the Bill has been developed. It began at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport and Communications as the work of a cross-party group for the...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: The Government starved Dublin City Council of funds.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Agreements: Motion (21 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the Minister for appearing before the committee. Canada is the most important in terms of these agreements. Does Ireland conduct an audit of all the countries where we are not up to speed in regard to agreements and particularly the countries with which we trade most? Is any country being left outside the loop from an EU point of view and from Ireland's point of view? The Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (21 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 212. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for the delivery of 5,386 social houses in 2015 as promised in his Social Housing Strategy 2020, including the breakdown of these units by local authority; the number of these units that will be covered by existing planning permissions held by local authorities across the State; the number of these units for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (21 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 213. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that the 5,386 social houses as detailed in his Social Housing Strategy 2020 will be built and tenanted in 2015. [2959/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (21 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 214. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason his Department has not yet informed local authorities of the social housing budget for 2015; and the allocations for each local authority in tabular form comparing the 2015 allocation to that provided by his Department in 2010, 2011 and 2013. [2960/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (21 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 215. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details on the proposed off balance sheet funding mechanisms for the provision of social housing referred to in his Social Housing Strategy 2020, including timeframes for the establishment of each structure (details supplied); if the structures will be State-wide, regional or local authority-based; and...