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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (29 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to improve data protection for taxi drivers and their licences in order to make it harder for criminals to clone licences or to access sensitive details on drivers, which may be exploited. [16510/15]

Mortgage Arrears and Repossessions: Motion [Private Members] (28 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: Cuirim fáilte roimh an reachtaíocht seo. We support this motion and welcome any moves to discuss solutions for families struggling with distressed mortgages and desperately fighting to keep a roof over their heads. One crucial support for distressed mortgage holders is the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, MABS. The need for such a service is not quantifiable, and many of those...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Exemptions (28 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 111. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding temporary exemption from the local property tax in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16319/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (28 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 286. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to fill the gap in services for older persons left, after the re-assigning of a project worker of 13 years' service to a centre (details supplied) in Dublin 11 under Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, so that the worker can no longer work with elderly persons as has been the case up until now. [16492/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Taxi Regulations (23 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: The Minister keeps kicking to touch to the NTA and saying that it lays the rules but it was pointed out to the review group that this would cause problems. I do not see why there is a problem in allowing people to have decals that can be taken away and put aside instead of permanently having them on the vehicle. A big issue is burglary and theft from vehicles and taxis are a major target....

Topical Issue Debate: Taxi Regulations (23 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: Since the taxi industry review and the announcement of a host of reforms and new regulations, a number of problems have arisen for drivers trying to make a living and operate within the law. Some of these problems were not obviously going to arise but some were fairly clearly going to come up and taxi drivers were telling us this from the word go. Some of these issues have again been...

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: Put up another argument.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 171. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the details of those on local authority housing waiting lists in Waterford city and county, from 2009 to 2015. [16041/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 172. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons deemed to be in overcrowded accommodation in Waterford city and county, from 2009 to 2014 and in 2015 to date. [16042/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (23 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 189. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons who currently have allocated medical points in Waterford city and county. [16184/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (23 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 173. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of new housing units built in Waterford city and county in each year from 2009 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; his plans to build new units specially in 2015. [16043/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Data (23 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 174. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, by county, a breakdown of the number of units to be delivered through the rental accommodation scheme and social leasing as part of the Government housing strategy by the end of 2017. [16044/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. We have had a lot of discussion on this, but the thing about which I feel most concern is the question of making employers responsible for testing their employees. That is a very difficult thing to do, because if someone took cocaine it would be very difficult for an employer to have a mechanism to test them. We need to be very careful not to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: Will it specifically address the bigger operators? Are we saying that if it is a small family businesses, involving a husband and wife or one or two employees, it will be different. Is it going to be very specific in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I asked about the combination of alcohol and drugs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I do not think it is necessarily saying that blanket rules would apply but it is saying that in clearly defined residential areas a local authority could bring them in. If someone is doing 30, 40 or 50 km/h in a 20 km/h zone, we know that the fatalities go up. One is, therefore, putting a situation in place whereby one can gauge that a person must have been going at a certain speed and he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: I remember it well.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (21 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 237. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the cost to the State arising from the rent supplement scheme for each of the years, 1989, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005 ,2008, 2011 and 2013. [15250/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (21 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 621. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with respect to the 27,000 homes managed by approved housing bodies, if he will provide a breakdown of these tenancies, by type, including rental accommodation scheme, long-term leased, and directly owned by the housing body. [15244/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Expenditure (21 Apr 2015)

Dessie Ellis: 623. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the cost to the State from the rental accommodation scheme and the long-term leasing initiative for the years 2005, 2008, 2011 and 2013. [15248/15]