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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)
Dessie Ellis: The problem we have with this issue is that the rules seem to differ across the various local authorities. Some local authorities are adopting a hardline attitude to the owners of properties and will not move until the issue of ownership is resolved. Dublin City Council has been much more flexible in the sense that it accepts there is a housing need. It will allow a person to access rent...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)
Dessie Ellis: I have other meetings to attend. We know there is a massive housing crisis, and a homelessness crisis in particular. Since 2008 we have had cuts of €1 billion in the housing budget. We should not mask the figures. Even last year €60 million was cut from the housing budget. We keep hearing that more funding is being added but that is not the case. We should put that in the...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Discounted Travel Schemes (7 May 2014)
Dessie Ellis: 215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount it would cost his Department to extend discounted travel schemes to everyone in full-time education under the age of 18 years old. [20446/14]
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)
Dessie Ellis: Down the road they will privatise it, when all the concessions are gone.
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)
Dessie Ellis: It happened with the bin charges. There were waivers for the first few months and then they privatised it.
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)
Dessie Ellis: I have to respond to what they are saying.
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)
Dessie Ellis: That is what taxes are for - PRSI, USC-----
- Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)
Dessie Ellis: Táim an-bhuíoch deis a bheith agam labhairt ar an mholadh seo agus tacaíocht a thabhairt dó. I thank the Technical Group for raising the issue of housing through its Private Members' time this week. It is an issue close to my heart and that of Sinn Féin. I have raised the issue of housing in the Dáil almost every week since my election. Sinn Féin...
- Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)
Dessie Ellis: Now there is no hotel accommodation and people are being turned away from homelessness services. Given all of this, how will it be possible to end long-term homelessness by 2016? Voluntary housing bodies can play a role in the solution, but they do not have the capacity to be the solution by themselves. The State has a responsibility to provide housing through local authorities, and it is...
- Leaders' Questions (1 May 2014)
Dessie Ellis: The Tánaiste could do with a bit of memory.
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2014)
Dessie Ellis: We have a very serious problem in our hospitals where psychiatrists are terrified to admit individuals who present at accident and emergency, despite their being a danger to themselves and others due to mental health issues. The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013 may go some way to protecting mental health professionals and preventing the early release of patients. At its annual...
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2014)
Dessie Ellis: The other day I was at the funeral of a young Finglas lad who was released from the Mater hospital after a serious overdose.
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2014)
Dessie Ellis: He had made several suicide attempts. He was on a ventilator for 40 hours and was released under the Mental Health Act, despite his mother's pleading with the hospital to keep him in. He was taken out of the canal after lying there for two weeks. We need to address this. We must not be in denial. The Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, was in denial that...
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2014)
Dessie Ellis: This needs to be investigated.
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2014)
Dessie Ellis: I know, but when I speak to families after fishing their sons out of the canal-----
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2014)
Dessie Ellis: I understand, but I am very annoyed.
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2014)
Dessie Ellis: I did so.
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2014)
Dessie Ellis: Will the Taoiseach do something about families-----
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2014)
Dessie Ellis: It has been a while since the Minister was up North.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2014)
Dessie Ellis: I will be up again.