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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Dessie Ellis: I am not asking Ms Bryce to comment on it. I am just aware of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Effectively, Ms Myler is saying building low rise apartments blocks on greenfield sites will work out more cheaply. There are restraints in terms of the time developers have to get everything done before they get people in and recover their costs. It would be cheaper to build three or four-storey buildings on greenfield sites. Much of the problem arises in the city, for example, where...

Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Táim ag tabhairt tacaíochta don Bhille seo. Sílim go bhfuil sé thar am gearrchéim tithíochta a ghlaoch. I welcome the Bill and thank Deputy Healy and his colleagues for bringing it forward. It aims to acknowledge and affirm what common sense as well as the national statistics on homelessness, housing and the rental sector tell us, namely, that there has been a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Supports (18 Oct 2018)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the Minister for her response but information that Sinn Féin has received shows a very poor uptake of Brexit business supports to date. A response to a parliamentary question shows that, up to last month, just ten SMEs had availed of the Brexit loan, drawing down just €2.49 million, which is less than 1% of the total €300 million pot. In addition, we have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Supports (18 Oct 2018)

Dessie Ellis: In the budget last week, a new loan scheme for businesses, the future growth loan scheme, was announced. Why would we announce and introduce such a scheme when the current one is clearly not working? The current one, worth €300 million and announced in budget 2018, has helped only a tiny handful of businesses. I acknowledge the Minister said there are applications outstanding and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Supports (18 Oct 2018)

Dessie Ellis: My colleague, Deputy Michael Quinlivan, sends his apologies as he could not make it this morning. Will the Minister outline the effectiveness of the Brexit business supports available such as the market discovery fund and the Brexit loan scheme? Is she concerned about the low uptake of these supports? What are her plans to increase the uptake and will she will make a statement on the matter?

Road Traffic (Quads and Scramblers) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Oct 2018)

Dessie Ellis: I am disappointed that the Government and its partners in Fianna Fáil are opposing the Bill and preventing its progress to the next Stage. I, too, took legal advice from senior counsel on this issue who outlined the problem that we have identified. I have made it clear that Sinn Féin is open to amendments to the Bill that would address whatever concerns the Government or Attorney...

Road Traffic (Quads and Scramblers) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Oct 2018)

Dessie Ellis: He scrambled out of here.

Road Traffic (Quads and Scramblers) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Oct 2018)

Dessie Ellis: We have that-----

Road Traffic (Quads and Scramblers) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Oct 2018)

Dessie Ellis: It has.

Road Traffic (Quads and Scramblers) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Oct 2018)

Dessie Ellis: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I think we can all agree that in recent years the use of quad bikes and scramblers has become not just a nuisance but also a real danger to ordinary people who use public spaces such as parks and even when just walking through their own housing estate. Without exaggeration, it is a major problem that is particularly prevalent in urban areas...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2018)

Dessie Ellis: The situation is serious.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2018)

Dessie Ellis: The Government is worried about people screaming when we have such a serious situation.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Today everyone could feel the palpable anger on the streets of Dublin at the Raise the Roof protest outside Leinster House. This anger is not just being heard on Kildare Street but on every street across the country. People from every walk of life came to express their anger and want action, as well as to let the Minister know that this crisis in housing and homelessness never was and never...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2018)

Dessie Ellis: What about social housing?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Maybe if an emergency was declared, Fianna Fáil would vote for it next time, for God's sake.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: How is it divisive for God's sake?

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: He said here earlier that he does not support large scale social housing. He said that.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Is it any wonder the Minister - and, by extension, the Government - is facing a vote of no confidence? The Government, with the collaboration of Fianna Fáil, has been in power for nearly three years and Fine Gael was in power with the Labour Party from 2011 to 2016. Fianna Fáil was the architect of this crisis. It is no surprise that its Deputies will abstain in the vote on this...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Bring down the Government.