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Waste Management (6 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: I know.

Bank Reorganisation: Statements (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: The contrast between the manner in which the Government is prepared to continue with the disastrous bank bailout and that in which ordinary citizens are being treated could not be starker. Fine Gael and Labour are hardly a wet day in office and they have already gone back on their promises to make the bondholders pay and not to pour more good money into the black hole of the bank bailout....

Bank Bailout and EU-IMF Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: We have already done that.

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (6 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: Question 33: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to resolve the problems associated with ghost estates. [6915/11]

Criminal Justice (Community Service) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: Tá Sinn Féin i bhfabhar an Bhille seo. Tá slí níos fearr ann ná daoine a chur i bpriosún ar feadh téarma gearr mar seo. Sinn Féin believes this Bill presents an important opportunity to eliminate inflated expenditure on unnecessary incarceration by ensuring that the courts will be obliged to consider the imposition of community service orders in certain circumstances. It is clear...

Written Answers — General Practitioner Services: General Practitioner Services (12 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures he will put in place to increase the number of general practitioners, particularly in view of the shortage of GPs in many areas, including large working class areas in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7549/11]

Road Traffic Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (13 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: Mar a dúirt mé cheana, tá Sinn Féin i bhfábhar an Bhille seo, atá lán de chiall. As I stated on Second Stage, Sinn Féin welcomes this legislation. However, I reiterate some of the concerns we outlined previously, as there has been no movement by the Government on these issues, although I welcome some of the comments made by the Minister. I take the opportunity to commend the Road...

Road Traffic Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (13 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: I understand.

Road Traffic Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (13 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: I reiterate what Deputy Ó Snodaigh said about people who are seriously injured following an accident. We must legislate carefully to deal with individuals in these situations. It is not easy if one is forced to take samples from someone who is unconscious and has not given consent. There may be a means to have someone present, a doctor or some other person. It is important that we look...

Road Traffic Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (13 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: I welcome the fact that the amendments are being withdrawn. We need to move ahead and not delay. This Bill is very important. I have always had serious problems with the idea of people leaving the scene of an accident. There may be various reasons for doing so and imposing these major penalties is a dangerous way to go. This proposal puts heavy jail sentences on people and I would be...

Order of Business (14 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: It is a learning curve for some of us. The programme for Government refers to cutbacks in capital programmes. Some of the capital programmes, including metro north-----

Order of Business (14 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: Will the Tánaiste outline if there are any future plans to cut capital programmes?

Order of Business (14 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: Will there be legislation or anything brought forward in that regard?

Order of Business (14 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: I am asking about proposed legislation.

National Substance Misuse Strategy (14 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: I have not had a chance previously to wish the Minister well in her job. She referred to the National Substance Misuse Strategy 2009-16 on which the steering group is working. Much work has been done across communities with drugs task forces. I have been a member of the Finglas-Cabra Local Drug Task Force and the Ballymun Local Drug Task Force for 11 years. They have made a significant...

Written Answers — Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta: Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta (14 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: Question 19: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs an bhfuil sé i gceist aici fiosrúchán a dhéanamh maidir leis an aighneas atá ag dul ar aghaidh faoi láthair i Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta. [7967/11]

Written Answers — Coláistí Samhraidh: Coláistí Samhraidh (14 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: Question 28: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs cén plean atá ag an rialtas chun na ciorruithe a chuir an rialtas deireanach i bhfeidhm ar na Coláistí Samhraidh, a aisiompú. [7966/11]

Energy Resources: Motion (19 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: Last February there was an energy action conference on fuel poverty. A speaker from Age Action noted that inability to pay for home heating might contribute to approximately 2,000 winter deaths in the State each year. Older people are more likely to be affected and are generally at higher risk of fuel poverty. Increasing numbers are falling into arrears on their utility bills and hundreds...

Road Traffic Bill 2011[Seanad]:Report and Final Stages (20 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: This is a short but important Bill. Each of its sections will enhance the provisions of the Road Traffic Act 2010 and send an important message to the public from this House that drink driving and drug driving will not be tolerated. Section 2 of the Bill allows for the mandatory testing of drivers following a collision. I read earlier in the week that since last November, 50,000 drivers...

Public Transport (20 Apr 2011)

Dessie Ellis: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport the criteria being used by him to evaluate and compare proposed major transport projects under the terms of the comprehensive spending review, specifically the Metro North, DART underground and LUAS interconnector projects; and his views on whether his suggestion to privatise the construction of the Metro North project will...