Results 4,001-4,020 of 4,674 for speaker:Dessie Ellis
- Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (27 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Question 425: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social housing applicants for Galway city east. [16763/12]
- Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (27 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Question 426: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the predicted number of social housing units to become available in Galway city east in 2012. [16764/12]
- Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (27 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Question 686: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to develop rail links as part of Western Arc from Cork to Belfast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16971/12]
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (22 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a list of all the residential units accommodating children who are in the care system during each of the past five years; the number of children they have accommodated each year; the number of times each of these units has been inspected by the Health Information and Quality Authority since its establishment;...
- Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (22 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children placed in the care system during each of the past five years due to parents' inability to financially cope; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15106/12]
- Bank Guarantee Scheme (22 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Yes. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for that.
- Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (22 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: I wish to inform the Acting Chairman that I am opposed to this legislation.
- Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: In March 2011, the Government framed itself as an Administration with the mandate of a democratic revolution. This mandate was to sweep away the corrupt, undemocratic, wasteful, greedy and negligent political practices of the past and usher in a new era of better Government. This claim was not based on the Government's belief that it really had better ideas or different politics but merely...
- Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: The Government would know all about that.
- Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: I had intended to raise the same issue as Deputy Healy-Rae.
- Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: No, we do not.
- Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: We would not have a problem going to the markets if we were not lumbered with all the debt to which the Government has signed up.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: It is succeeding in punishing the people.
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (21 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to address the charging of VAT on taxi base fees in view of the fact they were not collected until this year and those who are being asked to pay for VAT from previous years have received tax clearance. [14956/12]
- Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (21 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Question 375: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to defer the levy of the household charge on properties which are currently under the control of executor of wills until the resolution of the will. [15397/12]
- Written Answers — Water Fluoridation: Water Fluoridation (21 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Question 605: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to instruct local authorities to cease the fluoridation of drinking water until the Department of Health and his Department can be sure of the implications of this measure, particularly in view of the recommendations and findings of a number of reports including that by environmental scientist, Declan Waugh, outlining the human health...
- Written Answers — Water Fluoridation: Water Fluoridation (21 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Question 706: To ask the Minister for Health if he has met with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the serious concerns over the fluoridation of the water supply by local authorities in view of the fact that there has not been sufficient information gathered on the implications of this practice for public health. [15694/12]
- Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (15 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Question 76: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households obliged to pay the household charge in the district electoral divisions of Ballygall A-D and Ballymun A-F, Dublin, and current registration and payment figures in these areas. [14675/12]
- Written Answers — Road Project Contracts: Road Project Contracts (14 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Question 202: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the issues in dispute between the National Roads Authority and a contractor (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14393/12]
- Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Dessie Ellis: Five families have been in caravans for the past two years in Avila Park in Finglas, having been moved there on health and safety grounds due to pyrite in their homes. Recently, officials from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government met with Dublin City Council and the capital project has been cut from â¬1.3 million last year to â¬50,000, a devastating cut. Will...