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- Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (22 Mar 2017)
Dessie Ellis: We should do that.
- Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (22 Mar 2017)
Dessie Ellis: I thank the Minister for taking this matter. I am unsure as to whether he is familiar with the Meakstown area. It has grown considerably to over 3,000 units, with more on the way. It covers Charlestown, Lanesborough, Seagrave, Mayeston, Creston and Melville in the Fingal area and Hampton Wood in the Dublin City Council area. According to recent statistics, its population has increased by...
- Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2017)
Dessie Ellis: As the full, shocking story about the home in Tuam slowly emerges, the horrors of what happened in mother and baby homes, county homes, Magdalen laundries and other institutions, including the Bethany and Westbank homes, are beyond comprehension. Sinn Féin believes we need to extend investigations beyond the current commission, which is why it was necessary to draft this Private...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (7 Mar 2017)
Dessie Ellis: 307. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will give consideration to removing the year 2000 rule to community employment schemes, which is proving to be a barrier to recruitment. [11447/17]
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Dessie Ellis: No.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Dessie Ellis: Is any provision being made for affordable housing? This has been requested by many people. The Minister will be aware of Ó Cualann in Ballymun, which is co-operative housing, and it is working off a site that was fully serviced. As the Minister said in respect of plans to service different sites, money has been set aside for the local authorities. Is there any way to use...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Dessie Ellis: I do not generally have a problem with affordable rental. However, I am aiming for the affordable housing that was delivered in the past in different estates. Substituting affordable housing for affordable rental housing, as the Minister is doing, is not what many people are looking for in certain areas. We need an affordable housing scheme where people have mortgages.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Dessie Ellis: That is what happened with shared ownership.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Dessie Ellis: I mentioned Ó Cualann, the co-operative model operating in Ballymun. The Department has provided a good deal of money for underground services. The council could get the sites ready. Could we not look at models like Ó Cualann, which is going to deliver the houses for less than €200,000? We could expand it as an affordable housing model. Ó Cualann is looking to...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Dessie Ellis: If the Minister could respond to the question on PPPs.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Dessie Ellis: I have been running into this issue and have spoken to the officials in Dublin City Council, many of whom are convinced that this is not going to work. They are even talking about a lot of these public private partnerships going to co-operative or voluntary housing and perhaps the councils themselves buying some of the units within these PPPs. Is it acceptable to the Minister that the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Dessie Ellis: We could spend an hour going into that and I am not going to.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Dessie Ellis: I will talk to the Minister separately because I would be here for an hour explaining.
- Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)
Dessie Ellis: What we have seen in recent years is a race to the bottom. Workers' rights have been and are being eroded. It is no wonder many people voted for Brexit because of the lack of workers' rights in Britain. The European Union was supposed to be a guarantor of workers' rights but it has not proved to be the great guarantor. People have had enough and they are standing up, whether Bus...
- Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)
Dessie Ellis: Yes.
- Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)
Dessie Ellis: As the Minister of State will be aware, there are negotiations going on at present between union representatives and Tesco management. Hopefully, a more sensible approach will be taken by Tesco, and not the confrontational one which was previously taken which triggered almost two weeks of protests by workers. The support shown by the public who, in significant numbers, did not pass the...
- Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)
Dessie Ellis: For example, Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016 was opposed by both of them last week in the Dáil.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (28 Feb 2017)
Dessie Ellis: 463. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to reinstate the free passport for over-65s. [9840/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (28 Feb 2017)
Dessie Ellis: 516. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to roll-out the use of the drug Abiraterone (details supplied). [9572/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: RAPID Programme (23 Feb 2017)
Dessie Ellis: 36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the structure and timeline for delivery of selected projects of the reactivated RAPID scheme; and the way the budget of €4.5 million will be broken down. [8996/17]