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- Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: They are not off the wall.
- Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: Check the Rebuilding Ireland figures.
- Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: Here is another figure. Some 10,000 people are officially homeless in the State. That has remained the case for seven consecutive months under this Government.
- Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: There have been 10,000 people-----
- Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: -----on the official housing lists for seven consecutive months. It is clear that for the Independent Alliance, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil there is now an acceptable level of mass homelessness because no measures in this budget will put a serious dent in that figure. An additional €20 million has been allocated for homelessness services. That might be an admission on the part of...
- Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: One thing that will increase for certain are the payments to the private sector landlords. There has been an increase of €18 million in HAP and an extra 15,750 new tenancies. More money will be shovelled towards private landlords for the privatisation of social housing as opposed to building local authority housing. Ireland also continues to have the highest childcare costs in...
- Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: Local authority builds.
- Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: I will speak about Financial Resolution No. 2. The Minister said, in his budget speech, that this measure had cross-party support. That is not the case.
- Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: We will be asking for a vote on this resolution and I suspect that at least 25% of the Dáil will be in opposition to it. More importantly, I think that many ordinary people will oppose this. They see it as the first tax in a whole series over the next ten years which will put the burden for the climate emergency on their shoulders rather than on the shoulders of the big corporations...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres (10 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: I wish to ask the Minister about the cut in the rehabilitation training allowance-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres (10 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: If he will be here in the next ten minutes, we will hold. Otherwise, I need to ask the Minister.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres (10 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: I am happy to go to the next question and wait for the Minister of State's reply later.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres (10 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: If the arrangement is that the Minister of State will take my question, I am happy to wait for him.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres (10 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: I have put down Question No. 11, which I could take.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Rehabilitative Training Allowance Payments (10 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the decision to cut the rehabilitative training allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41501/19]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Rehabilitative Training Allowance Payments (10 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: The Government cut the rehabilitative training allowance from 1 September, taking €31.80 a week away from young people and school leavers with disabilities. At the time, the Minister of State spoke about alternative plans. However, I did not see any alternative plans in Tuesday's budget. Perhaps they are buried in there and he can explain what he intends to do with that €3.7...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Rehabilitative Training Allowance Payments (10 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: If the Minister of State raises his voice a little louder, he might convince himself. I do not think, however, that he has convinced the trainees and the staff in question. He accused them of giving misinformation. There was no misinformation given by the trainees.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Rehabilitative Training Allowance Payments (10 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: There was no misinformation given by the staff. It is a fact, as the Minister of State has just admitted, that those who commenced the programme on 1 September, approximately 400, no longer receive the allowance. It is not misinformation that the payment of €31.80 which would otherwise have been used to pay for lunches and travel to the training centres has been taken from new...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Rehabilitative Training Allowance Payments (10 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: The Minister of State has said all trainees who go to rehab centres are eligible for and availing of free travel. Will he reflect on that comment? Will he say whether he stands over it? Is it correct that all trainees are eligible and availing of free travel? Second, I did not ask the Minister of State whether the moneys would be reallocated. I do not care how many letters he reads to me...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Rehabilitative Training Allowance Payments (10 Oct 2019)
Mick Barry: Will it be reallocated today or in the future and, if so, when?