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

Dessie Ellis: The Tánaiste is not showing it.

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

Dessie Ellis: It is a point repeated so often that it almost loses all meaning, namely, that we judge a state by how it looks after its most vulnerable citizens. However, that is really a power principle and should be the basic bar by which we judge all our decisions in politics, namely, whether a measure hurts those who have least or target those who have been unfairly targeted already, and whether it is...

Public Transport Bill 2015: Second Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: This is a fairly technical Bill which deals with a number of issues relating to public transport which are important and not very controversial. A number of sections deal with different aspects of transport such as safety, fines and accidents. However some very controversial issues arise in any more general discussion of public transport. At present, the public transport services owned by...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (30 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 621. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of houses on local authority books that are long-term vacant or in need of renovation. [26024/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (30 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 622. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the average rental income for a local authority house by county. [26025/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (30 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 623. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total rents received by local authorities for social housing in 2014; and the amount owed in outstanding arrears for that year. [26026/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (30 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 624. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the planned capital expenditure in each year up to 2020 for social housing build through local authorities. [26027/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (30 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 627. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the social housing targets issued to local authorities by his Department for the period 2015 to 2017, detailing the total number of units to be delivered by each council and the breakdown of these units by construction and acquisition, social housing current expenditure programme and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (30 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 640. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to fund Traveller specific accommodation in the years 2015 to 2020 respectively; and if he will provide details of the allocation of this funding. [26347/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (30 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 641. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the average cost of the delivery of a unit of Traveller specific housing. [26348/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (30 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 642. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to ensure the draw-down by local authorities of funding for Traveller accommodation; and the steps he will take to discourage failure to use this funding, as has happened in previous years. [26349/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (30 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 646. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the delivery of National Asset Management Agency housing units in north Kildare detailing where houses and apartments are, and their current status. [26383/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (30 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 647. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the delivery of National Asset Management Agency units for social housing; the number that have been delivered or are in the process of coming on stream; the location; and if they are to be leased or purchased by local authorities. [26384/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (30 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 675. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reopen the Tuam to Athenry railway line in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25882/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (30 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 702. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) is required to maintain a national car test for a vehicle which has been declared off-the-road; his plans to change this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26338/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (30 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 703. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the plans to remove the taxi rank from O'Connell Street in Dublin 1 for the duration of works relating to the Luas cross city project; his plans to ensure continued access to taxis in the area, given his Department's responsibility for the Luas works and the need for taxi access on Dublin's main thoroughfare. [26343/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Outstanding Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland: Discussion (25 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I thank our guests Mr. Michael Culbert, Mr. Tom Roberts and Mr. Robert Campbell for their contributions. I am an ex-prisoner myself and I find a few areas extremely worrying. One area is the issue regarding taxis and another area is that of visas, and there is also the message that this sends out. I was in jail in America and I cannot get into America or Canada, and that is the case now 17...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Proposed Repeal of UK Human Rights Act: Discussion (25 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: Have the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission engaged with the human rights bodies in England, Scotland and Wales? What is their attitude to the Irish commissions? Obviously they are well aware of the significance of this vis-à-visthe Good Friday Agreement, which is an international agreement. Will they explain how they are faring...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (25 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 243. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of units that were renovated for social housing use in 2014 and to date in 2015; the planned figure for 2015; the number of units that are planned for renovation in 2016; and if these properties are owned by a local authority. [25485/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (24 Jun 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 248. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current average cost of constructing a social housing unit by a local authority. [25345/15]