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Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)

Dessie Ellis: In the lifetime of this Government.

Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)

Dessie Ellis: The aim of this Bill is to scrap water charges once and for all and to give people-----

Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)

Dessie Ellis: -----certainty that the prospect of such charges being introduced will never arise again.

Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)

Dessie Ellis: Eight years after the legislation to introduce water charges was passed, efforts have been made in recent days to reintroduce the charges, which were described as a high-level priority by the Department of housing. Uisce Éireann’s water charges plan 2024 describes in full how excess water charges for domestic users will work. In order to implement these water charges, Uisce...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (3 Apr 2025)

Dessie Ellis: I thank the Minister of State. I am delighted that the land swap has been agreed, there but I am worried about the Minister of State's comment to the effect that there are a lot of surveys to be done. The Oscar Traynor Woods complex is right beside the school. Some 895 apartments and houses are being built there. In nearby Whitehall, Santry and Coolock, vast numbers of apartments are also...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (3 Apr 2025)

Dessie Ellis: Táim an-bhuíoch den Aire as an seans labhairt faoi Ghaelscoil Cholmcille, a bunaíodh in 1996. Gaelscoil Cholmcille was founded in 1996. Its first years were spent in the upstairs rooms of the football club St. Kevin’s in Santry, Dublin 9. It is a very successful Gaelscoil and has a great academic reputation. It is a very popular choice for parents in the area....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Apr 2025)

Dessie Ellis: Car insurance hikes are hitting the ordinary motorist, particularly loyal customers. Despite certain reforms that lowered legal costs and claims, these savings are not being passed on to the customer. The Government has given a commitment in the programme for Government to publish a new action plan for insurance reform. When will this plan be published and its recommended reforms implemented?

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Mar 2025)

Dessie Ellis: The most recent homelessness figures issued in January show a significant rise in the number of people and families who are homeless. Homelessness figures have reached record levels and stand at an overall total of 15,286, of which 4,603 are children. Over recent years, a large number of landlords have been leaving the rental sector. Estimates show that between 2021 and 2023, roughly...

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (5 Mar 2025)

Dessie Ellis: Rinne an athbheochan Ghaelach ag tús an 20ú haois iarracht stop a chur le meath na teanga agus an cultúr Gaelach bhí ar riocht neamhbhuan de thoradh na dlíthe daingean a chur cosc ar na teanga agus ar chultúr dúchasach na nGael, agus - ina dhiadh sin - an gorta, an imirce agus an meath. Bhí an dearcadh ann san am a chuaigh thart go raibh an Ghaeilge...

Oideachas trí Mheán na Gaeilge: Tairiscint [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] (4 Mar 2025)

Dessie Ellis: Dúirt Pádraig Mac Piarais uair amháin, “Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam”. De bharr stair an chultúir Ghaelaigh, agus gur cuireadh an Ghaeilge faoi chos, tá sé de dhualgas orainn go léir, go háirithe ar an Rialtas, a chinntiú tar éis na gcéadta bliain d’ionsaithe ar an teanga nach mbeidh sí ina teanga...

Housing Commission Report: Statements (27 Feb 2025)

Dessie Ellis: After two years of deliberations, the Housing Commission released its comprehensive report in 2024. The report contains 83 recommendations and hundreds of additional recommended actions that would be necessary to transform the housing landscape in Ireland. It is a significant report from a commission whose membership comprised academic experts, economists and business professionals, all of...

Housing Commission Report: Statements (27 Feb 2025)

Dessie Ellis: Could the Minister look at this as a matter of urgency? I have many people who are waiting for approval and who are really worried.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (25 Feb 2025)

Dessie Ellis: 737. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the length of the waiting list is for a child to see a children’s disability network team for a child resident in Finglas, Ballymun, Whitehall and Beaumont; and when a child (details supplied) will be seen by the CDNT; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7176/25]

Mental Health: Statements (18 Feb 2025)

Dessie Ellis: There is clearly a crisis in mental health, the provision of mental health services and the resourcing of these services. Many of these problems are a consequence of insufficient staffing levels in such services. For many years, mental health services have haemorrhaged highly qualified staff without them being replaced. Mental health services in Ireland have had a big staff retention...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (18 Feb 2025)

Dessie Ellis: 691. To ask the Minister for Health regarding a building project (details supplied) the initial projected cost of this centres new entrance; the reason some construction work that was completed, relating to a wall that was built at the centre, was subsequently demolished; if there has been any further request for additional funding for this project; if so, the amount of additional money...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Future-proofing to Improve Life and Longevity for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)

Dessie Ellis: I thank Professor McCarron and everyone else for attending. It was interesting to hear we have the strongest data in the world, which we do not normally hear, especially when it comes to people with intellectual disabilities and people who are ageing. That is very informative. Professor McCarron mentioned future-proofing to improve life and longevity for people with intellectual...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Service Executive (5 Nov 2024)

Dessie Ellis: 922. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there has been any funding allocated in the HSE’s Capital Plan for 2025 to build a facility to provide for the additional services to be provided by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44453/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Centres (24 Oct 2024)

Dessie Ellis: There is no doubt that these services are urgently needed. We welcome them, as do the residents. We have raised this matter over so many years and, at last, we are making serious progress. For how long does the HSE propose to lease the space in Omni Shopping Centre? I am curious to know the costs of both the rent and fitting out of the property. Do we have a timescale for when the centre...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Centres (24 Oct 2024)

Dessie Ellis: The Government's plan to roll out primary care centres across the country is a necessity. With regard to an area in my constituency of Dublin North-West that encompasses Santry, Whitehall and Beaumont, which would be regarded as an area of high density when it comes to population and which is constantly growing, there are plans to provide a number of essential health services for the area....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (24 Oct 2024)

Dessie Ellis: 101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he could exempt public service vehicles, such as taxis, from the peak-time toll prices (€12.50) at the Dublin Port Tunnel, as this incurs a substantial extra cost to a taxi fare which is passed onto the clients (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43607/24]