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Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: The landlords' government giving money to the landlords.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: Make the landlords richer.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: Record homelessness.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: Record homelessness.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: Fine Gael has been nearly nine years in office.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: Record rent levels.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: Record homelessness.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: Record homelessness.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: Record levels of rent and homelessness.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: You have been in government for nine years.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: Nine long years.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: Show it to the long-term homeless people.

Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: I am sharing time with Deputies Bríd Smith and Gino Kenny. This debate is about housing solutions, so I will speak directly to that issue. The first solution is to build public housing on public land. Mel Reynolds, who is a housing commentator and expert, has said we have enough public lands in this State to build 114,000 public homes. The Government's plan for public lands depends...

Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: In February.

Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: So this Government did bring in vulture funds.

Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: This Government did bring in the vulture funds. The Minister of State has just admitted it.

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: This is not just a debate about rent. It is a debate about class warfare. Since Fine Gael came to power, rents have increased at a rate more than twice the rate of wage increases. In the capital, rents are up 75% since Fine Gael came to power but the minimum wage is up only 30% in the same period. The well-paid worker has been put to the pin of his or her collar. The medium-paid worker...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (10 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider measures to reduce the class sizes in DEIS schools in view of evidence such as the study Addressing Education Disadvantage by the Educational Research Centre, that children have better outcomes from smaller classes sizes; the measures he will take to bring class sizes below 20 pupils for primary education; and if he will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (12 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures she is taking to double arts funding by 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52178/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (12 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: I ask the Minister to set out the position with regard to the Government's plan to double arts funding.