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Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protection) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2018)

Dessie Ellis: As we know, Ireland has an accommodation crisis which is particularly prevalent for students. It is estimated that we need at least 25,000 additional units of student accommodation. Each year we witness thousands of students scrambling for accommodation. The lucky ones might be able to find something close to the university or college they are attending, but it is more likely that they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Dessie Ellis: With regard to the homeless figures, the Minister was wrong to state certain numbers that were being accounted for without checking the full facts. That was poor on his part. With regard to RAS, many contracts are expiring and others are being terminated. Tenants in the Dublin City Council, DCC, area, in particular, are finding that the scheme cannot deliver them another place or even...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Dessie Ellis: That is happening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Dessie Ellis: This is urgent. Young women and children are being pulled around from Billy to Jack and having to wait for telephone calls late in the day. The family of four I mentioned got a call but Focus Ireland could not secure a place for them having searched everywhere. I had to contact the homeless section of DCC but nothing was available. It is terrible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Dessie Ellis: There is not always a place. The Minister is wrong on that and that is the problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Proposed MetroLink: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Go raibh maith agat a Chathaoirligh. I dtús báire ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a thabhairt do gach duine a tháinig anseo inniu agus an imní a thaispeáin sibh go léir dúinn. Tá Sinn Féin i bhfabhar metro ach go háirithe táimid an-bhuartha mar gheall ar an bplean suíomh Mobhi a úsáid agus na himpleachtaí atá...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Proposed MetroLink: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Dessie Ellis: The point I was making, and I will pick up on what Mr. Creegan just said, is that analysis was done in the Glasnevin area on the basis of cost. Mr. Creegan outlined this. I am asking whether everything will be weighed up. It can move outside of the Glasnevin area and north towards the M50, but will we weigh up the cost of moving a club and reinstating all of its facilities, including...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Proposed MetroLink: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Dessie Ellis: We cannot put a cost on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Proposed MetroLink: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Can we get some answers on the environmental impact assessment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Proposed MetroLink: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Dessie Ellis: One of the issues that annoyed me and, I assume, many residents and groups was that reference was made to the emerging preferred site before the consultation had even begun. That was hard to swallow. I made suggestions with regard to options. The location of the boring machine, whether it is double or single bore, can make a big difference. I am curious as to whether the NTA and TII...

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Fianna Fáil no longer has confidence in the Government.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Passports (24 Apr 2018)

Dessie Ellis: 106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of diplomatic passports issued; the criteria for such passports being issued; the number of such passports issued to spouses; the number of such passports issued to persons who have left Government service or are no longer public representatives that have not been returned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17634/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Light Rail Projects (18 Apr 2018)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the Minister for his reply. There has been a huge amount of consultation on this project over the years. There were very contentious consultations before the project was scrapped and put on the long finger in 2011 but the current proposal regarding the land of Na Fianna is the most contentious I have seen. It does not make sense. When I met the NTA and other parties at the recent...

Topical Issue Debate: Light Rail Projects (18 Apr 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Sinn Féin has always supported metro north. It will benefit the environment as it will remove thousands of cars from our streets every week and carry more than 50 million passengers per year. There are major benefits relating to employment, not just during the construction phase, which would provide 4,000 jobs, but afterwards, with the creation of new jobs and businesses all along the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (17 Apr 2018)

Dessie Ellis: 599. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí stationed in Whitehall Garda station at the time of its closure; the number of gardaí stationed in Santry and Ballymun Garda stations at that time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16711/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (17 Apr 2018)

Dessie Ellis: 600. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí servicing the area previously covered by Ballymun, Santry and Whitehall Garda stations; if these gardaí are exclusively operating from Ballymun Garda station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16712/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (17 Apr 2018)

Dessie Ellis: 1016. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated for the provision of applied suicide intervention skills training, ASIST, courses; the number of such courses held to date since January 2018; if the HSE has run ASIST courses since January 2018; if the HSE plans to run ASIST courses in 2018 which are not outsourced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16678/18]

Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Dessie Ellis: It is clear we are in a major housing and homelessness crisis and I do not have to tell the Minister this. Not only are we not delivering social housing on the necessary scale, but we do not even have an affordable housing scheme. For many of us the reasons for this are obvious, but for the Minister and the Government it is an ideological resistance to State involvement in the delivery of...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2018)

Dessie Ellis: The Minister would want to get real.

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2018)

Dessie Ellis: Has the Government or the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government examined properly the reasons homeless figures continue to soar? The Government's reliance on the private sector to build housing and on the private rented sector is one of the reasons. Non-interference in the private market is a major issue in relation to homeless figures. The unwillingness of the Government to...