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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: ...at home with their parents into their 30s, from sky high rents which have gone up again today and from the hotels, bed and breakfasts and Garda stations. The Government is not letting a good crisis go to waste. It is exploiting it to push a privatisation agenda. The Government's vision is for 87,000 households to be housed with housing assistance payment, HAP, landlords in the years to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Reform: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (31 May 2018)

Mick Barry: ...However, it was stymied and blocked by the protest campaign. Nevertheless, control of water services is no longer in the hands of the local authorities. I could go on. I have given as examples waste management, housing and water services. I am surprised that the Minister of State has asked councillors what extra powers they might be given and that no response has been given. I could...

Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (19 Jul 2016)

Mick Barry: Last Friday night, a cohort of 11,000 customers of a waste collection company based in Cork by the name of Country Clean, which provides waste services in both Cork city and Cork county, received a text from it. The text indicated that, as of Monday last, there would be an increase in the pay-per-lift charge. The pay-per-lift for general waste was to increase from €8 per lift to...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: ...the Minister attempt tonight to offer a version of "move along now, nothing to see", it will not wash because these events show the need to open up a debate about what is the best way to organise waste services in this State. Something is clearly very wrong with the way they are operating at the moment and change is needed but what change? The Government is operating a crazy model of...