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Order of Business (18 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: He is on the same wave.

Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: What about rent controls? It is a big issue.

Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: Why does the Tánaiste not bring in rent controls once and for all and stop the increases?

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: The Taoiseach does not even know where Northern Ireland is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Tourism Industry: Discussion (17 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: I know the arrangements are short term but, for instance, one hotel got €200,000 in a year from Dublin City Council. While the contracts might be short term, there is a long-term accommodation procedure in place. I just wanted to clarify that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Tourism Industry: Discussion (17 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the delegates for their presentations. The tourism industry has certainly come a long way and the reduction in VAT has made a huge difference in that regard. I have a few questions, one of which is about the impact on capacity of the use of hotels and guesthouses for homelessness services. The hotels enter into contracts with the local authorities. I have seen figures in this...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Social Welfare Code (17 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 38. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm if section 27(f)(iv) of Statutory Instrument 312 of 1996 or any other provision exempts a person (details supplied) from having to pay PRSI on the portion of income that comes from the person's workers' director fee in CIE. [48623/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Consultancy Contracts Data (17 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of consultants used by the National Transport Authority since 2009 to date in 2014; and if he will provide in tabular form the cost and rationale for use of them in each case. [48624/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (17 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the subvention received by a company (details supplied) in County Kilkenny on a yearly basis; the length of time it has been receiving this subvention; the number of tickets it received from Bus Éireann and the passenger numbers carried. [48625/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (16 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 672. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the quality bus corridor and accompanying works did not proceed on the Swords Road, Dublin, in 2006-2007. [48264/14]

Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: On road safety issues and the use of Go Safe vans detecting speeding offences, penalty points have been quashed by judges for technical reasons leading to very serious implications. Are there any plans or legislation to address this anomaly? Has the Cabinet discussed the issue? The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, indicated recently that he would brief...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: When is it coming before the House?

Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: Tomorrow.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: I speak in support of amendment No. 20 which has been tabled by my colleague, Deputy Ó Snodaigh. Sinn Féin appreciates the desperate situation that deferred members of the IASS are left in. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald and I recently met representatives of the IASS deferred group. I knew their story but hearing it again from their own mouths was shocking. An appeals process is...

Homelessness: Statements (10 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: At the recent summit with the Minister, Deputy Kelly, the Minister of State, Deputy Coffey, officials, managers of local authorities and politicians, Sinn Féin outlined that an immediate response and provision of emergency accommodation was essential. My party also outlined how it envisaged this issue could be tackled and put forward a number of suggestions. Sinn Féin did not want...

Homelessness: Statements (10 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: Local authorities have a scheme of letting that is signed off by councillors and is in place. That is the question I wished to ask the Minister. The key is that tenants must be protected and emergency accommodation must be provided. Housing must be provided for those in emergency accommodation and for those on social housing lists and all such provision must be continued into the future....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (10 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the names of the persons or groups who lobbied her Department to cease rent supplement in the Ballymun, Dublin 11 area as she referred to in a Topical Issues debate on 8 May 2014. [47361/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (10 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children attending primary schools in Ballymun, Dublin 11; and if she will provide in tabular form the absentee rates for the years 2010 onwards. [47358/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (10 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for an Educate Together secondary school in Ballymun, Dublin 11. [47359/14]

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (9 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: It is a great honour to speak on this important motion. As an Irish republican I am always mindful that we as a nation once stood before the world and demanded the recognition that had up until then been denied to us. The 1916 Proclamation called for our exaltation among the nations. In the Declaration of Independence we claimed for ourselves the recognition of the world that we were an...