Results 661-680 of 4,672 for speaker:Dessie Ellis

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2019)

Dessie Ellis: The Deputies should not fall out with each other.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: There is ongoing concern about the privacy of women availing of abortion facilities, as well as the potential for intimidation of those who have made hard and difficult decisions to have an abortion. The Minister for Health has indicated that he will introduce a Bill to create safe zones around the facilities to provide an area where women will not be subjected to possible abuse,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: I doubt it.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (21 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: 122. To ask the Minister for Health when a new primary care centre will be delivered for an area (details supplied) in Dublin 11 for which land has already been identified; when funding will be available to build the centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8810/19]

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: Fianna Fáil Deputies are the opportunists.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: Will that take long?

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: It is hard to know where to begin with the failures of the Minister. Many have already been outlined in detail by my colleagues but I wonder if the Minister is paying attention to what people are saying. If his tweets this morning show anything it is the same old arrogance of this Government propped up by Fianna Fáil. The Minister tweeted "Bring it on" about a debate on a vote of no...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: -----to listen to what they say.In his arrogance, the Minister tried to manage the news around the catastrophic failure of the overspend on the national children's hospital.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: The Minister must not try to shut down debate throughout the country on the cost of this overspend to local communities.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: How dare the Taoiseach suggest that those who raise concerns and fears that health projects in their areas will be delayed or not go ahead are being unscrupulous or insincere. I am sincerely concerned that health projects in my constituency-----

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: It was because of the incompetence of this Minister for Health. I will not stop raising concerns and I will not have the Taoiseach or his Minister accuse me of being unscrupulous for looking after the interests of my constituents.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: One after the other.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (20 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: 27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take in view of the findings of the European committee on social rights that Ireland remains in violation of the European social charter on five grounds for Travellers by failing to redress insufficient provision and inadequate quality of Traveller accommodation, in legislation and practice and in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018 and Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Discussion (20 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: I welcome the Bills. There are some issues on which we would not to be in agreement, particularly regarding the Anti-Evictions Bill, but by and large most of the recommendations are very solid. We talk about rent pressure zones and normalise this idea that there can be a 4% rise every two years. That has been the wrong road. People say it is working in some areas. We would have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018 and Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Discussion (20 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: Is Deputy O'Sullivan saying it would be done in every case, whether it involves rent supplement, HAP or even private tenancies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018 and Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Discussion (20 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: It does not matter if the tenancy relates to private rented accommodation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018 and Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Discussion (20 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: Yes, that is right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018 and Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Discussion (20 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: I thank everyone for their contributions. I have felt frustrated. The witnesses looked on everyone here as an enemy and spoke as if many of these Bills were designed to attack the Irish property owners and people renting. I do not see it that way. I do not necessarily agree with everything that is in these Bills. I would have problems with some areas. The way I see it we are trying to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018 and Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Discussion (20 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I know that most of the RTB's dealings are between tenants and landlords and there is a proposal here around the receivers and the banks. How would the RTB see that sort of an engagement? I am curious how that would work and I can understand the reason for it being here because we are obviously encountering this more and more. Can the RTB fill...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018 and Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Discussion (20 Feb 2019)

Dessie Ellis: There is a major problem in respect of the deposit being paid to a receiver as opposed to directly to the landlord. Is Ms Carroll saying that if that goes to the bank or some other second party, the tenant cannot pursue it?