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Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Dessie Ellis: ...plead with the Minister of State, Deputy Coffey, to consider the amendment. He knows, as he has dealt with local authorities over the years, that we have had lots of problems with local authority land, whether in-fills, regeneration or PPPs. This will drive the local authorities to sell off land. That would be a disaster because we need to target properly that land for social housing,...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (7 Jul 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I move amendment No. 2:In page 6, line 29, after "land" where it secondly occurs to insert "not owned by a local authority or publicly owned housing body".The purpose of the amendment is that local authority sites and publicly owned sites should not be the subject of a vacant levy. Although all efforts should be made to use such lands for social housing, this is not possible due to the lack...

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: ..., but there are. Their situation is not punishment for some wrongdoing but simply a consequence of the unequal society presided over by successive right-wing Governments more concerned with the needs of Ireland’s own oligarchs than child poverty. Despite that, the Government plans to cut more from the one-parent family payment scheme. This time the Tánaiste has tried to...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: ...the property is of low market value then the levy rate may not work but some form of charge should be in place in areas where there is a need for housing. Developers would be better off using this land and potentially increasing its value. Currently, they do not have to do anything on these lands, which in many cases they bought for speculative purposes. The owner may have lost out on a...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (16 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: ...have to provide 10% for social housing and 10% for affordable housing from that development. Local authorities are not just given these properties, of course, as they pay a price based on the apparent cost of the construction and land. This works out at below the market rate and represents a recoupment of expenses for the developer. When it worked, Part V provided mixed communities of...

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: ...they cannot afford, while low paid workers are suffering increased deprivation in order to make rent payments. Children are going hungry or parents are going without to feed their children and keep their landlord from moving forward with the threat of eviction. Many of these homes are no better than slums, with over 90% of flats in Dublin failing council inspections for basic standards....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Western Rail Corridor: Discussion (4 Mar 2015)

Dessie Ellis: ...on moving this forward? Are there any indicators in terms of the number of jobs this would create? Would extra rail freight or stock be needed? I know there are no issues on subvention. Regarding the landowners, it has been said it would cost €30 million to do this section. Are there issues with landowners or rights to land that has not been utilised a lot? As regards TEN-T...

Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (22 Jan 2015)

Dessie Ellis: ...be posted. There is confusion among the public about where and when a vehicle can be clamped. Thankfully, the Bill brings clarity in formulating clear regulations for public and private property and lands. The measures included in the Bill to tackle the problem of rogue clampers are important. They will help us to create a driver culture in which motorists will expect fair but firm...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (9 Dec 2014)

Dessie Ellis: ...the favour of that recognition granted by our earliest allies and supporting the right of a small nation to be free. Some would paint support for the cause of the Palestinian people to have a homeland as an attack on the people of Israel, but it is not black and white. The absence of a Palestinian state is in reality only in the interest of warmongers and zealots. The President of the...

State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)

Dessie Ellis: ...some type of regulation to deal with what and who is on these aeroplanes. Many of these people have been taken away from their families in other countries, moved from one country to another, landed on our soil and then taken to what are effectively internment camps. Whether they are guilty or not is not the issue. The issue is that we are accepting them on our soil, so therefore we are...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (9 Jul 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 344. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount it would cost to build 1000 Y:Cube units as used by London YMCA and to place them on vacant local authority lands with appropriate servicing. [30365/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (9 Jul 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 346. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of square feet of vacant land for housing currently in the possession of local authorities. [30367/14]

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Dessie Ellis: ...commitment was never lived up to. What has happened is that many who availed of accommodation under RAS have ended up homeless, which is absolutely scandalous. They are left sitting in no-man's-land. I understand that the agreement at the time was that people who availed of RAS would be taken off the housing list from 2011. People who had been on the housing list for ten years or more...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Dessie Ellis: It does not. They are in no man's land. The issue must be addressed.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Status (25 Mar 2014)

Dessie Ellis: 646. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the publicly owned serviced and rezoned land in Ballymun; and the future plans for this land. [12900/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)

Dessie Ellis: ...If someone was proposing to run one of these lines through one's family farm that is in one's history, one would have problems with that. Will EirGrid have any additional powers to access these lands? Will it have more powers than the NRA or Bord Gáis? Will it have any additional powers when it is trying to commandeer lands to develop these lines across a certain area? When Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid Grid25 Project: Discussion (20 Nov 2013)

Dessie Ellis: ...the groups come from. The main issues for all of us are health and safety, the visual impact and the impact on our communities. We do not know the cost of the project, including the purchase of land, nor do we know the cost of putting the lines underground or whether underground or overground is better in the long term. I do not accept the argument that the line is not traceable...

Youth Employment: Motion [Private Members] (19 Nov 2013)

Dessie Ellis: ...have been hit repeatedly by austerity. They never voted for the Governments that gave us an unstable, unequal boom and an inevitable, crushing bust, and they never cheered for the kinds of policy that landed us here, yet they are so harshly made to pay the price. Not only have they been treated harshly, they have been insulted most despicably by the Labour Party Ministers who treat them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Roads Authority: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)

Dessie Ellis: ...problem? Has the extra funding of €50 million announced by the Minister addressed some of the issues with local authorities? I am unsure of the role of the NRA with regard to the acquisition of lands. I ask Mr. Barry to clarify whether the NRA deals with landowners and farmers on those routes.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Conflict Resolution (26 Jun 2013)

Dessie Ellis: ...which stretches between Israel and the West Bank in Palestine, that the Israeli Government has recently revived plans to continue building this road, that the new plans may lead to the confiscation of land from Palestinian farmers in Beit Ommar and that it may lead to the demolition of houses in Beit Ommar and effectively cut the town in two; and if he will raise the issue with the Israeli...