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- Other Questions: NAMA Portfolio Issues (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: I am doing my best.
- Other Questions: NAMA Portfolio Issues (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: We have had several deadlines in terms of housing from NAMA. In 2012 we were told there would be 2,000 and then at the end of 2012 we were told there would probably be 4,000 but as the Minister said, we have only delivered 443. Can the Minister tell me whether some of the houses leased from NAMA will have to be put back into pristine condition and what would be the cost involved in that?...
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: It is 23 compared with 400.
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: Like most of the so-called reform produced by this Government, the Bill is a missed opportunity to bring about real change to how local authorities operate in order to improve their ability to respond to the needs of their areas. My main focus in this regard is housing. I am tired of reiterating the stark figures around housing demand and the shortfall of supply in this State but it must be...
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: A Cheann Comhairle, can I ask-----
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: I am only asking why all the questions cannot be taken together. Questions Nos. 8, 10, 15, 28 and 70 should have been taken together.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: I know, but it amounts to excluding our questions. We have tabled questions on this matter.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: A Cheann Comhairle, can I ask one question?
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: I have no wish to waste time.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: I have tabled 14 questions.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: I did not get a chance to raise one.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: I am asking for the questions to be grouped.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: Why can we not group the questions?
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: It does not make sense.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: Táim an-bhuíoch as labhairt ar an ábhar seo. I am thankful to be speaking on this subject. I also wish to express my gratitude to Edward Snowden for his courageous work in exposing the USA’s secret spying programme. During the summer, we learned that US agencies were secretly bugging the EU mission and member states in New York and its embassy in Washington, as well...
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: As a result of the announcement of €10 million in the budget for the remediation of properties with pyrite, can the Taoiseach confirm whether the pyrite levy Bill is being withdrawn or is it dead in the water? This fund will go nowhere near to addressing the problems. It will cost roughly €30,000 to €60,000 for each home, so only 250 homes could be delivered based on...
- Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: Okay.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: 28. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government where funding for the proposed €30 million social housing boost in the recent budget will be sourced from; how it will be allocated; and if there are any short, medium and longer-term deadlines for implementation of this scheme. [44834/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: 48. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way in which funding for the €100 million investment in housing for the elderly in the recent budget announcements has been sourced; the way it will be allocated; the criteria for persons seeking to be housed with this initiative; and if there are any short, medium and longer term deadlines for implementation....
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Animal Welfare Bodies (23 Oct 2013)
Dessie Ellis: 145. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to help relocate the Ballymun Dogs Trust, which will be without a premises soon due to the regeneration of its current location in Balbutcher Lane, Dublin 9. [45082/13]