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Order of Business (10 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I know there are three separate Bills but I want to know when that particular one will be coming up. This is very serious. Local authorities have their hands tied at the moment.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations Issues (10 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 12. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the timetable for finalisation of the legislation relating to work place relations. [33512/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Inspection Numbers (10 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 54. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of health and safety inspections undertaken last year and the target for inspections in the coming year. [33513/13]

Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: The Constitutional Convention recently voted overwhelmingly to have a referendum on the issue of marriage equality. Only a fortnight ago we had a massively successful Pride festival which brought tens of thousands onto the streets of Dublin from all over Ireland and further afield. The LGBT community is clearly a positive part of our society but its members are still not treated as equals...

Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: The Government has a clear mandate to let the people decide on marriage equality. When will this happen? Will the Taoiseach set a date for a referendum? If he is not prepared to do that yet, will he outline when he might do so? Ireland is ready for marriage equality.

Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I was asking about a referendum, as I am surely entitled to do.

Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I asked if it was promised.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: You never collaborated with the Brits either.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: You collaborated with the Brits.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: You well know what I am talking about.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Fraud (9 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 60. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of personnel involved in the investigation unit of her Department; the number of joint checkpoints with An Garda Síochána and Customs and Excise there were on each of the past five years; and a regional breakdown of those checkpoints. [33264/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Numbers (9 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 104. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of personnel who have retired from her Department and the number of additional staff employed; and the types of contracts they are on during each of the past two years. [33265/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Services Provision (9 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 567. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the issue of rural hackneys as detailed in action 46 of the taxi review report and his Department's plans have been discussed by the taxi advisory group; and if not when it will be discussed. [33112/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Services Provision (9 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 568. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce a new plan for rural hackneys as detailed in action 46 of the taxi review report; and the advice he has sought on this new plan from experts and stakeholders. [33113/13]

Order of Business (4 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: The lies they were telling. Use the word.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Delivery of a universal health scheme was promised by the Minister, Deputy Reilly, and was also in the programme for Government. We were told it would be delivered before the end of the term of the Government, which is in just over two years' time. People are no longer able to afford private health care and are being forced to leave it. The Tánaiste and his party believe in a public...

Order of Business (4 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Will we see it before the end of the term of Government?

Order of Business (4 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Is Deputy Maloney not into mediation?

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Care Services (4 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 9. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32590/13]

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (3 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: In a real republic, one that honours the commitments of those who brought this State into being through their sacrifice and struggle, equality would be the watch-word of any Government of the people. It would be at the heart of every policy and would be the aim of every initiative. That kind of approach would not just honour our past but ensure our future, not simply as an economy or a...