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Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Can I be given a time as to when it is coming to the House?

Other Questions: Pyrite Panel Report Recommendations (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: The Minister mentioned that he was talking to the banks about setting up a fund in lieu of getting the levy later. Is that still in the pipeline? It is very disappointing that this has not moved forward. I know the Minister has set up the panel, but we need to move quickly. There are 800 houses in serious need. This is urgent. Surely the legislation can be drawn up quickly so that we...

Other Questions: Water Charges (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Many houses have lead pipes, which cause problems.

Other Questions: Water Charges (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: The problem was with individual houses in Whitehall and Santry.

Other Questions: Water Charges (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Many apartment blocks have management companies which will probably take on the role of deciding who will pay what. It will be complicated and create problems. Many of these apartment blocks are in trouble. Can the Minister outline how metering will work in that context? I have encountered many local authority properties where two houses are fed from one line. As far as the footpath,...

Other Questions: Septic Tank Registration Scheme (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: Do not penalise him.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether the development of sustainable, permanent social housing owned by local authorities is an important part of the drive to end long term homelessness. [12957/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on his Department's pursuit of the use of social housing bonds to develop more permanent social housing units particularly those that would be in public ownership. [12956/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for measures to ensure that local authorities properly draw down funding allocated to them in order to provide for the needs of local people to whom they are responsible, especially in the case of traveller specific accommodation. [12958/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will make a commitment to local authority tenants that their rents will not increase or other services be cut as a result of the levying of the property tax on local authority properties. [12959/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the removal of pyrite from affected homes; the numbers that have successfully been completed in targets for 2013; and when the remediation scheme proposed will be operational. [12960/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on works to an estate (details supplied) in County Longford including the specific works that have been carried out; the timetable for future works and any additional funding which may be available or needed. [12961/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown on a Dáil constituency basis of the number of persons on social housing waiting lists, specifying numbers waiting five years and more and ten years and more. [12962/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he is taking to ensure better community relations between the Traveller and settled community particularly in areas which have experienced difficulties with this in the past. [12963/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Statistics (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of publicly owned social housing units that were delivered in 2011 and 2012 respectively; and the targets for same in 2013. [12964/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he is undertaking to ensure an improved system of social housing maintenance in local authorities with faster reaction times to serious maintenance issues and less stop gap measures to deal with recurring problems. [12965/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown based on local authority area of the current average turn around time for local authority housing that has become vacant; the current number of vacant public housing units; and the number that have been vacant for six months and more and one year and more respectively. [12966/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (12 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make any allowance for persons who hold an SPSV licence who recently replaced their vehicle but are now found to be in contravention of new regulation such as those on tinted windows and are unable to pay to replace these windows at this moment in time (details supplied). [12897/13]

Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: It will sell them.

Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)

Dessie Ellis: We have sold our water with our gas.