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Housing Strategy: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: The launch yesterday of the Government's action plan falls well short of addressing the needs of families that are affected most by the housing crisis. There will be no solution to the housing crisis without a social aspect and there will be no solution without State intervention. The action plan for housing and homelessness launched yesterday is a case in point. There are some good...

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: The function of any government in a Western democracy is to provide for its citizens in a basic range of areas. Irish governments over the last ten years have failed at this in many regards, but none more so than in housing. The current crisis is years in the making but its origins lie in the decisions of the past and present governments not to get involved in building houses and to allow...

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: -----purely to avoid any embarrassment or conflict with its partners in government in Fianna Fáil.

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: I do not think it is funny.

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: Fianna Fáil Deputies would want to think through what they are talking about.

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: Reductions in our housing stock are something we all have to be very careful of. We have an emergency and a housing crisis, and a further reduction in our housing stock is another problem that would come back to haunt us down the road.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: The Taoiseach said that in 2014.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal Charges (20 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: 194. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress of discussions with a company (details supplied) on the change of price plan and for customers to stay on the current plan they have to contact the company while automatically they transfer to the new pay-by-weight scheme in the aftermath of the pay-by-weight issues and his agreement with the waste...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (19 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: 126. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí based in Finglas Garda station; the number of Garda vehicles available to them during each of the past six years; and the most up-to-date figures for same. [22508/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (19 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: 127. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí based in Santry Garda station; the number of Garda vehicles available to them during each of the past six years; and the most up-to-date figures for same. [22509/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (19 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: 128. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí based in Ballymun Garda station; the number of Garda vehicles available to them during each of the past six years; and the most up-to-date figures for same. [22510/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (19 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: 129. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to K District of DMR west division of An Garda Síochána, Dublin; the number of Garda vehicles available to them during each of the past six years; and the most up-to-date figures for same. [22511/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (19 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: 130. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to H District of DMR north division of An Garda Síochána, Dublin; the number of Garda vehicles available to them during each of the past six years; and the most up-to-date figures for same. [22512/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (19 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: 131. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí based in Finglas Garda station, Dublin, during each of the past six years; and the most up-to-date figures for same. [22513/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (19 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: 132. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí based in Santry Garda station, Dublin during each of the past six years; and the most up-to-date figures for same. [22514/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (19 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: 133. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí based in Ballymun Garda station, Dublin during each of the past six years; and the most up-to-date figures for same. [22515/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Coroners Service (19 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: 337. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if county councils are required to pay for the county coroner; and if so, the amount this costs on a county basis. [22153/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Renewal Schemes (19 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: 370. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the projects in Ballymun that received funding from the regeneration programme; and his plans to bridge any gap in funding that may occur from the completion of the programme in 2017. [22646/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (13 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: 125. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to make funding available through the Health Service Executive or Fingal Council to assist persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21457/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Data (12 Jul 2016)

Dessie Ellis: 101. To ask the Minister for Health the number of orthodontic treatments that the Health Service Executive has outsourced for patients who are waiting over four years for routine orthodontic treatment and for how many patients; the hospitals these treatments have been outsourced to; how many patients are waiting one, two, three and more than four years for these treatments; and if he will...