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Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Dessie Ellis: Nobody gets anything for nothing. Everybody pays taxes.

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Dessie Ellis: Where did those staff come from?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (20 Apr 2016)

Dessie Ellis: 467. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that Kildare County Council has a process of only replacing windows in elderly persons homes if there is money left in the budget at the end of the year and, despite an increased allocation in the 2016 housing maintenance budget, if they will be operating the same process for this year; if this practice is...

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Dessie Ellis: It is 24 days since the votes of the people were counted. For nearly three weeks it has been clear that if a Government is to be formed in the 32nd Dáil it will be made up of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. In those three weeks many more families have become homeless, while these two parties play footsie under the table and shadow-box for the public. For its part, Fine Gael, as part...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Provision (22 Mar 2016)

Dessie Ellis: 563. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will install a bike station in the Glasnevin Cemetery and the Botanic Gardens area of Dublin, given this area's popularity with tourists and its large population. [4749/16]

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2016)

Dessie Ellis: What about the trolleys?

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2016)

Dessie Ellis: Maybe the Taoiseach will debate them.

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2016)

Dessie Ellis: At a cost of €12 billion.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Dessie Ellis: The Tánaiste is a class act.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Dessie Ellis: The Tánaiste has a US-style tax system.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Dessie Ellis: What about the health service and the housing problem?

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Dessie Ellis: What about their water charges bill?

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Dessie Ellis: Our amendment No. 1 reads as follows:To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that:- there are more than 1,600 children and up to 780 families in emergency accommodation; - placing families and children in hotel rooms rather than proper accommodation is totally unacceptable; - the Government failure to build significant social housing has led...

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Dessie Ellis: The 20,000 homes were heralded almost as if they were part of a misleadingly titled social housing strategy.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Dessie Ellis: These homes are not intended to be social housing or part of any defined affordable housing scheme.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Dessie Ellis: The plan is simply for the National Asset Management Agency to be supported in building housing to profit bailed-out developers. Given the way in which NAMA has operated, these properties could easily be snapped up by a major real estate investment trust, REIT, at a cheap price in order that the public can be screwed even more. In the past five years, we were told again and again that NAMA...

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Dessie Ellis: The Minister knows well it is true. His friends in Fine Gael overruled him on the issue. With such puny housing construction figures, tenants can expect equally exorbitant rent increases when their next rent review takes place. Rent controls and certainty are the only solution to the housing emergency, which should have been tackled in 2013 at the latest. Allowing the Private...

Topical Issue Debate: Property Tax Rate (26 Jan 2016)

Dessie Ellis: I accept that the LPT was set in May 2013, but that valuation was high and many of the residents in Longboat Quay did not fully understand the problems or know what was about to happen. A large number of them are in a serious situation, have needed to spend money and are going through the inconvenience caused by what has happened at the estate, but the Minister is sticking by the mantra that...

Topical Issue Debate: Property Tax Rate (26 Jan 2016)

Dessie Ellis: After much campaigning on the plight of the residents of Longboat Quay, it was thought that they had at least achieved some respite when the Revenue Commissioners wrote to them accepting valuations in the lowest band for their local property tax, or LPT, liability. Last week, however, they were shocked to receive letters from Revenue reversing this decision. Can the Minister for Finance...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (26 Jan 2016)

Dessie Ellis: 305. To ask the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 was denied a medical card. [2844/16]