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Climate Change: Statements (19 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: More than two thirds of all industrial greenhouse gases emitted worldwide since 1988 have been the responsibility of just 100 companies. The young people carry banners and placards on their demonstrations calling for system change and not climate change. It is clear who is running the system which is threatening the planet. It is not the working class people or the middle class people that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on increasing social protection payments for 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38891/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: What are the Minister's views on increasing social protection payments for 2020?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: The Minister did not mention the word "pensions" in her reply. I want to zero in on the issue of pensions. Is it true, as we are reading in some newspapers, that the Government and Fianna Fáil, with which it is negotiating or framing the budget, are considering freezing the base pension rate in the budget? I understand there is a threat of a no-deal Brexit, which would present a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: On the issue of freezing the pension, the Minister said she does not know which paper I read. I do not know which paper she does not read because it seems to me that every newspaper in the State is being briefed by the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, and by Deputy Michael McGrath, in respect of expecting a freeze of the basic pension rate. Fianna Fáil's fingerprints are all over this one,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: I will address my question to the Minister. Is she concerned about a similar reaction from the grey panthers on foot of an attempt to freeze the basic pension rates in the upcoming budget?

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

Mick Barry: The President brought them into the debate.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: News of the 1,200 job losses at Wrightbus in Ballymena follows on from news of job losses in the Gallaher Group, Michelin and Harland and Wolff, where the workers are fighting back and are sitting in. It is clear that there is devastation taking place in Northern Ireland's industrial base. Particular questions need to be asked in this circumstance about the £16 million in charitable...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: I have seen many mean Government cutbacks in my day, but one of the meanest of all has to be that involving the decision to axe the rehabilitative training allowance of €31.80 per week which was mainly used by young school leavers with disabilities to go to training centres. When the Government axed the allowance, it also axed the travel and lunch money of those young people. There...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach is splitting hairs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: I will address my questions to Mr. Coleman. I look at this matter first and foremost from the point of view people who have been locked out of the housing market. They are young people, people on low incomes and, in many cases, people on middle incomes. When these people hear of the establishment of an agency that has a remit to deliver 150,000 houses over a 20-year period, they will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: And St. Kevin's?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: Will Mr. Coleman address my query on going for a different mix on 60:30:10 on the St. Kevin's site? Is that ratio fixed or is the LDA open to the idea of it changing?

Development of a Liquefied Natural Gas Facility in Ireland: Statements (3 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: Methane emissions from the drilling for fracked gas in the US are responsible for one third of the total recent increase in methane emissions worldwide. Methane is second only to carbon in terms of endangering the climate. It is even more dangerous than coal. Last week, the Taoiseach presented himself as a champion of the environment when he addressed the United Nations in New York but...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: It is a pity the State pension is being frozen.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: The Budget Statement mentions the Brexit emergency and the climate emergency but what about the housing emergency? We are experiencing the biggest housing crisis in the history of the State, yet in the budget we have effectively been told that housing must wait. Skyrocketing rents are causing distress in the daily lives of so many people. There were two sentences in the Budget Statement...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: I am glad the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, finds it amusing that the Government has decided to freeze the old age pension. There was a day when he would have spoken strong and hard against it before he turned his back on pensioners and others and started voting for such measures in return for a seat in the Government.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: Let us have less laughter from the Minister of State on the other side of the Chamber. No measures have been put in place to deal with price increases, rent increases and pay cuts that we are told are coming as a result of a no-deal Brexit. The Government says it has put in place measures to deal with jobs, but it has allowed in its estimates for 33,000 jobs to be lost over the next...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: Is the Minister of State disputing that as a fact?

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: The figures are what?