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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)
Dessie Ellis: People who were in receipt of rental supplement will now be in receipt of a housing assistance payment. No new people will be in receipt of such a payment and that is another problem. The introduction of the HAP initiative was part of the Government's policy to improve the position, but that has not happened and we are barely holding on to what we have in place. Moving on to my questions...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)
Dessie Ellis: What is the Department's expenditure on rent supplement and on the rental accommodation scheme? The last figure we heard for the number of people in receipt of rent supplement was 78,000 but that figure has decreased to 71,000. That indicates that 7,000 of that initial number are no longer in receipt of that supplement. Some of those people are now in receipt of a housing assistance...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)
Dessie Ellis: I will leave it at that as I would have a million questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)
Dessie Ellis: I hope I will get answers to some of my questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)
Dessie Ellis: It is a lot more complicated than that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)
Dessie Ellis: Many speakers today stated that the market sets rent levels. The problem is that when there is insufficient housing stock, house prices continue to rise and so, too, does the cost of rent. We need to find a way to control the market. In other words, we must ensure rents are not increased by any more than the cost of inflation. We will be continually faced with crises in this area if that...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Jun 2015)
Dessie Ellis: 774. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend, or mainstream, the CARE programme of alcohol treatment service, which is piloting in Finglas, Ballymun, Dublin 11 and North County Dublin, and has proved to be very successful and cost efficient, but is set to conclude in June 2015 [21903/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (9 Jun 2015)
Dessie Ellis: 1068. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if consideration will be given to the banning of hard flooring such as tiles and laminate floor covering in apartments, due to the transfer of noise and sound between apartment dwellings. [22045/15]
- Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: As a Teller, I seek a vote by other than electronic means so as to give Government colleagues in the Labour Party and Fine Gael an opportunity to examine their consciences and what they are doing to the country.
- Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: The same promises were made to Spanish workers and they were let down the same way.
- Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: How much does he get?
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: When is the Government selling it?
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: There is no such thing as an indefinite veto, as the Tánaiste knows.
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: Yes, we have them already.
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: For now.
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: Why is the Government changing it then?
- Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (27 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: Under this deal, Ireland will, in time, become like Scotland, utterly ignored by IAG through British Airways, which is purely interested in growing out of Heathrow. As stated by Senator Sean D. Barrett last night, "We are trying to develop this country, yet we are handing over the national airline to an airline whose track record is not to provide services from Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow,...
- Order of Business (27 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: We might receive the information.
- Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (27 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: It is a little messy.
- Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (27 May 2015)
Dessie Ellis: I understand. I object to this process, as we have not been furnished with proper documents. My party leader made this objection this morning. It was also agreed that this matter would come before the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications before a vote was taken or a decision made. The Minister's colleagues and Labour Party Deputies agreed to the issue being discussed at the...