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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: They are freezing the hours.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: It could do.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: In 2017, McKinsey consultants recommended to An Post the closure of one of its four mail centres, which are located in Dublin, Portlaoise, Athlone and Cork. An Post indicated that the mail centre to be closed would be named in 2019. In the past 24 hours, speculation has grown that An Post is targeting the Cork mail centre for closure. Deputy Bruton is the Minister in charge and presumably...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: If the Cork centre is facing closure, will he indicate whether the closure will include both the mail and parcel operations or the mail operation only? There are 200 full-time and 30 part-time workers in the Cork centre and they make a major contribution to the local economy. I ask the Minister to tell the House how many redundancies are being planned in the event of the centre being closed.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: The Minister is not going to tell us which centre is closing.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: Christopher Columbus would never have set sail for America without having galley slaves aboard. No army ever won a war without the PBI - the poor bloody infantry. The infantry of our health service are our porters, our cleaners and our canteen staff. When the bankers and developers crashed the economy, they were the men and women who took on extra responsibilities to keep our health...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: There is a shortfall of hundreds of midwives in this country between what is needed, what is best practice and what is reality. The motion makes reference to 200 but I believe the real figure is closer to 300. At the same time, women are tending to have children at a later age than was the case in the past, including at a later age for a first child. The combination of these two things is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social Housing Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: We will support this Bill. The point that has come up for discussion is the question of whether one reverses and goes back from 10% to 20% or whether one goes beyond that, which this Bill proposes. We need to go beyond it. We had 20% when there was no housing crisis. We now have the greatest housing crisis in the history of the State. The figure should not be below 25%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social Housing Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: The starting point for this discussion, which we should not take as a given and of which we should remind ourselves, is the greatest housing crisis in the history of the State. It is a housing emergency, with more than 10,000 people officially homeless and a generation that has in large measure been locked out of the housing market. Every serious analyst, think-tank and commentator, almost...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social Housing Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: What was the number of units delivered last year?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: Some 10,000 hospital support workers are due to strike tomorrow for justice, pay justice and for the State to keep its promises. It has been stated that this will be as big a strike, in respect of disruption, as the previous dispute involving nurses and midwives. There was some discussion of this issue during Leaders' Questions but that is not sufficient for such a major issue affecting...

Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (25 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: I have two questions. The ESRI recommended that in the event of there not being a no-deal Brexit, the Minister should go harder on carbon tax increases and property tax increases in the budget. I ask him to comment on that. I note the comments of Deputy Michael McGrath, reported in The Irish Times, that Fianna Fáil would not push for the traditional €5 increase in social welfare...

Home Help: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: A few days ago the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, said there are no cuts to the home help service and that it is in fact being expanded. Is he telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Let us look at some of the facts. It is a fact that the scheme is effectively being closed until November. The HSE has said so. I presume the Minister of State does not deny that....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Products Supply (25 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: 524. To ask the Minister for Health if the family of a person (details supplied) can have a more efficient method of obtaining incontinence pads from their primary healthcare centre in Portmarnock, County Dublin. [26850/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Disposal Charges (25 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: 577. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to introducing a service for the collection of medical related domestic waste such as incontinence pads particularly in view of increases in domestic waste collection charges [26851/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Disposal Charges (25 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: 578. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the commitment to provide financial assistance to those that have to dispose of incontinence pads in their domestic waste can be honoured. [26886/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (25 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: 727. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she will take to address the losses in pension income suffered by tens of thousands of women arising from the 2012 reforms introduced by her predecessor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26853/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: We do not support the cause of judges' pay.

Post-European Council: Statements (26 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: Yesterday in this Chamber the Taoiseach expressed concern about gross human rights violations by the regime in Sudan. Many of these violations have been led and organised by rapid support forces drawn from the old Janjaweed militia who have engaged in beatings, rape, torture and killings. They have fired live ammunition in hospital wards. They have been responsible for the widespread...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: I oppose amendment No. 2. It seems to me that the majority of those amendments are fine and are basically technical amendments. The exception to that is amendment No. 2. Before I register that position, I seek clarity and have a question. My understanding of amendment No. 2 is that it changes the provision of the vacant property charge, in the case of a vacant property, from the owner...