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Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2014)

Dessie Ellis: The national debt is €200 billion. That is progress.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Transport Provision (1 Oct 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 2. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the Luas to other parts of north Dublin. [37055/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Transport Provision (1 Oct 2014)

Dessie Ellis: I welcome the Minister to his new job and I look forward to dealing with him. In the past week, media sources have said the NTA and some people in the Minister’s Department are considering a plan to extend the Luas line on the north side of Dublin to Ballymun, Finglas and other places. Are there plans to do so? The Minister’s predecessor, Deputy Varadkar, indicated that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Transport Provision (1 Oct 2014)

Dessie Ellis: While I welcome the NTA's study, it is clear that north Dublin has been the poor man of the transport system. We have a vital area, the airport, to which we need a link. That could be through Ballymun, Finglas or Swords, and it is extremely important. As the Minister knows, because it affects his area, the metro north has already cost approximately €165 million. When the so-called...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Transport Provision (1 Oct 2014)

Dessie Ellis: In the past, particularly with regard to the metro north, we were mainly examining the underground option. That was obviously a very costly way of doing it, but there are other ways, and I am sure the NTA is examining whether the project could go overground. There is another issue regarding the metro north. Many people along the route paid levies of €4,000 to €6,000, many of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus Services (1 Oct 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 15. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on progress with the Swiftway bus service; and his views on keeping the service as a Dublin Bus operation beyond the next renewal of contracts. [36792/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (1 Oct 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 34. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efforts he has made to encourage wheelchair accessible taxi services and his views on prioritising companies with high numbers of wheelchair accessible vehicles for public and departmental contracts. [36791/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (1 Oct 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 36. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties faced by passengers seeking information or to purchase tickets online for cross-Border transport services; the efforts he has made to improve these links and access to them. [36789/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (1 Oct 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 39. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for temporary provision of alternative taxi rank spaces for the duration of the Luas cross-city works. [36790/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus Services (1 Oct 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 44. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to work with Dublin Bus to make its service more attractive, affordable and accessible; and if he will commit to not supporting any more fare increases. [36793/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (1 Oct 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the long delay in the processing of an application for a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [37252/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (30 Sep 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 167. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to address an office facility issue at one of her Department's offices (details supplied) in Dublin 11. [36962/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Administration (30 Sep 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 295. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the departments within the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service dealing with requests to stay under subsidiary protection and the good to go scheme, respectively, are doing so without any co-operation resulting in applicants receiving deportation order letters which are not correct; and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann Services (30 Sep 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 625. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to set out his views on an application to amend Bus Éireann Expressway route number 7, which is intended to abandon historic population centres such as Ballyporeen, Moneygall, Clogheen, Castlecomer, Crettyard, Ardfinnan and others, and which is before the National Transport Authority at present; his further views on whether the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (25 Sep 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 153. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to complaints regarding the treatment of clients and the use of funds at Oberstown campus, County Dublin; if he will investigate the matter. [36259/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences Renewals (25 Sep 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 284. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) has been allowed to continue to operate an SPSV for hire given their conviction for issuing a death threat in 2011; and if, under new legislation, the person's status will be in question. [36288/14]

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Sep 2014)

Dessie Ellis: The Minister mentioned yesterday that the number of people on the housing waiting list has decreased from 98,000 to 89,872 since 2011. He neglected to mention that since 2011, anyone coming into the rental accommodation scheme has been removed from the housing list. The number of people participating in that scheme now stands at 36,000, which represents an increase on the figure of 15,000...

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Sep 2014)

Dessie Ellis: While such a sum of money would be welcome, it would be too little, too late. The Minister said last night that the Government is pursuing a housing-led approach. To illustrate this, he outlined figures setting out the number of houses being provided. He later listed some of those figures again, either to confuse or to emphasise. The former Minister of State with responsibility for...

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Sep 2014)

Dessie Ellis: The Deputy should not believe the newspapers which tell complete and utter nonsense.

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Sep 2014)

Dessie Ellis: It is from the answers to parliamentary questions. It is from the Department of Finance.