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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Transport Provision (15 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Will the Minister answer the question about the Bus Éireann chairman not being present in all of this?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Transport Provision (15 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Can I get the Minister's answer on that point? I would like to know why the chairman has not come back in the middle of a crisis where people will lose €4,000 or €5,000 from their wages. That is what is being imposed on ordinary workers. As a matter of courtesy, we need to find out about the chairman.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Transport Provision (15 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: For God's sake.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Transport Provision (15 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 2. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efforts he is making to work with CIÉ and its subsidiaries to develop a plan to ensure adequate funding for public transport services into the long term avoiding further run down of service and protecting the pay and conditions of ordinary workers. [23296/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Transport Provision (15 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the Minister for his response. It is important to point out that the cut to the subsidy last year was approximately €5 million. The cost-cutting measures being sought in the company at present are to the value of approximately €5 million. Our subvention is one of the lowest in Europe and I do not understand what the Department has done in the negotiations with Dublin...

Order of Business (15 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Two reports recently completed on behalf of Dublin City Council and the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland found the majority of inner-city flats surveyed did not meet basic standards and did not even have planning permission.

Order of Business (15 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: In one case, nine flats in one building had the most terrible sanitation and no proper toilet facilities. Will the Taoiseach outline when the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012 will return to the House? Is any legislation planned to deal with this appalling vista whereby for monetary gain landlords are abusing the system no end?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Policy (15 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he has taken to pursue all-island tourism cooperation; his future plans in regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22856/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: The Gathering Expenditure (15 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 45. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of the way the €7m allocated by his Department for the Gathering will be spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22850/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (14 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I want to know what we are doing. Are we going to pass on the report? What is the next step?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (14 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I am not here to attack the local authorities, some of which are doing a good job. I have a great relationship with most of the people involved, but many of the issues outlined are not being tackled in a cohesive way. The point that some local authorities are carrying out their functions better than others is fair. That is an issue the committee might explore.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (14 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the councils and the Traveller community representatives for their input. An open and frank debate on what is happening is long overdue. I believe the Traveller accommodation programme has not delivered for various reasons. It has been admitted by the three local authorities present that the money has not been drawn down. I raised the issue with the Minister who pointed out that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (14 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 146. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres opened since May 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22565/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Deployment (7 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 85. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of Defence Forces personnel currently deployed throughout the world; and the number of countries. [21288/13]

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Bille seo ach tá imní orm maidir le rudaí áirithe. I welcome the Bill in so far as it allows elected public representatives to take part in the setting of rent rates in all local authorities. This already happens in some areas but currently it is not set out in law. Any system that allows rent levels to be set by a county or city manager...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (2 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 21. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the time frame for the publication of the new Immigration Residency and Protection Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20838/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (2 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the tax take broken down by county or bailiwick for income tax PAYE and non-PAYE, VAT,corporation tax and capital gains tax for the years 2000, 2007 and 2011. [21046/13]

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Home repossessions are not in anyone's interests. The Bill before us makes easier the repossession of homes by banks in the case of mortgage arrears. Instead of protecting people from being thrown onto the streets, the Government has worked diligently and efficiently to produce legislation that will increase the stress and fear already experienced by families struggling to keep their heads...

Other Questions: House Purchase Schemes (1 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: The tenant purchase scheme was excellent. I availed of it myself only recently.

Other Questions: House Purchase Schemes (1 May 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Many people in local authority housing purchased their homes by means of this scheme. Everyone is concerned with regard to the stock of social and other housing stock. In the context of the incremental purchase scheme - the Minister of State referred to new houses in this regard - what is it proposed to do about people who have longer-running tenancies in older homes? The incremental...