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- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Dessie Ellis: Is there a necessity to state this applies to people of a certain age?
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Dessie Ellis: No, but, in theory, this provision could apply to a minor.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Dessie Ellis: It would be harsh.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Dessie Ellis: There is confusion. Although we should have discussed amendments Nos. 8 and 9 with the other amendments, somehow we neglected to do so.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Dessie Ellis: I move amendment No. 9: In page 31, after line 42, to insert the following:“35.The Air Navigation and Transport (Amendment) Act 1998 is amended by inserting a new section 32A as follows:“32A.(1) A healthy company or companies under section 32 shall not be allowed to close its pension scheme except where the scheme has reached a minimum 90 per cent funding standard. (2) For the...
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Dessie Ellis: We were all caught up in the argument over pensions and deferred pensions. I elaborated on how a healthy company should be defined. Companies should not be allowed to close their pension schemes. Certain standards should be in place. In this case we are specifying a standard of 90% funding, which is reasonable. In section 2, I defined a healthy company as one which has positive net...
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Dessie Ellis: I have tabled amendment No. 7 which deals with the appeals mechanism but particularly deferred members because there is a fear that any restructuring arrangement will impact disproportionately on them. It also seeks to have such an appeals mechanism established by regulations that would outline the manner by which representatives of deferred members would be selected and recognised for the...
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Dessie Ellis: I too have serious concerns about this Bill. It is one thing to deal with the different entities in Shannon, but in this Bill we are dealing with significant issues that will affect the pensions of employees as well as the deferred members of the pension scheme. While the issues are interconnected, I believe they are so serious that they should have been considered separately instead of...
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Dessie Ellis: Will the chief executive have a fixed-period contract? It is unclear. Will the person hold a five-year contract that will be automatically continued with the consent of the Minister?
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Dessie Ellis: Can it only be renewed once?
- Mental Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Jul 2014)
Dessie Ellis: The mental health services of this State are in danger of "stagnating and moving backwards" claims the Mental Health Commission in its latest report. That stagnation has already taken place and mental health care is deteriorating. Like many of the vital services which cater for the most vulnerable in our society the mental health services were given a bit of a tidy up during the Celtic...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (2 Jul 2014)
Dessie Ellis: 124. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the number of persons on the housing waiting list for Westmeath County Council area broken down by the number of single applicants and families on the list; and the number that have been waiting in excess of two, five and ten years, respectively, to be housed. [28698/14]
- Order of Business (26 Jun 2014)
Dessie Ellis: The Minister's colleague, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, has indicated on several occasions that he plans to bring in legislation to deal with mandatory testing of drivers for drug use. This is a major problem which needs to be dealt with on a scale similar to the way alcohol was dealt with - we know of the problems in that area. I believe the Minister...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2014)
Dessie Ellis: I move amendment No. 45:In page 72, after line 31, to insert the following:"Protection for RAS tenants 59. Tenants under RAS shall receive a priority with regard to allocation of social housing by the relevant authority should they be evicted due to unaffordable rent levels.".
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2014)
Dessie Ellis: I also have an amendment.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2014)
Dessie Ellis: I tabled an amendment stating tenants in the RAS should receive priority in the allocation of social housing by the relevant authority should they be evicted owing to unaffordable rent. It was said when the RAS was introduced that participants would get another property that would be deemed appropriate to the RAS, be on a contract or get local authority housing. This is the commitment to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Transport (26 Jun 2014)
Dessie Ellis: 5. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the privatisation of bus routes currently serviced by Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann; the rationale for this move; if an impact assessment was sought in relation to effects on current jobs and future pay and conditions for workers in public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27415/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Transport (26 Jun 2014)
Dessie Ellis: Will the Minister of State give an update on plans to put 10% of Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann routes out to tender and the rationale for this move? Has the impact on current jobs and future pay and conditions for workers in public transport been assessed? Will the Minister of State, please, make a statement on that matter?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Transport (26 Jun 2014)
Dessie Ellis: I am surprised that the Minister of State, coming from the Labour Party, would go along with this. I would expect Fine Gael to do this because it has been pushing a privatisation agenda for many years. In November 2013 the NTA, in spite of negative experiences of privatisation of bus services, went along with the idea of putting out to tender 10% of Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann routes...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Transport (26 Jun 2014)
Dessie Ellis: The fact that Dublin Bus is hiring workers is a very good reason not to go down this route. Blaming the European Commission and saying its rules have been put in place-----