Results 261-280 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

Questions on Proposed Legislation (28 Sep 2016)

Mick Barry: I understand legislation is promised by the end of the year to provide protections for workers on insecure, low-hour contracts but, given that a publicly-subsidised State-owned public transport company, namely, Bus Éireann, is looking at introducing a low-hour and low-pay regime for those workers in its expressway service, scandalously lowering the terms and conditions of hundreds of...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Mick Barry: I have three questions for Professor Pollock. Can she hear me okay?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Mick Barry: I am moving in as close as I can. I thank Professor Pollock for her presentation. I would like to ask three questions. It has been suggested that there should be a shift in the Irish health service towards the establishment and strengthening of a model of hospital trusts. These trusts would have the power to raise their own finances independently and to outsource services from the private...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Mick Barry: I would like clarification on the question that had been asked on the issue of why systems with private health care are more expensive, in Professor Pollack's opinion.

Report of the Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Motion (29 Sep 2016)

Mick Barry: I am a member of the committee. We have heard a range of very valuable and interesting witnesses. I will talk in this session about a key witness from whom we heard this week, namely, Professor Allyson Pollock, the professor of public health research and policy and the director of the global public health unit at Queen Mary University of London. The committee asked Professor Pollock to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Investigations (29 Sep 2016)

Mick Barry: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the ongoing investigations of the sale of NAMA's Northern Ireland portfolio, he favours halting any more sales of NAMA portfolios; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27621/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Aid Investigations (29 Sep 2016)

Mick Barry: 27. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the European Commission's findings that the State breached EU rules regarding the tax treatment of a company (details supplied), he has identified any other corporations which are based here for tax purposes that may have a similar tax liability; if so, the number of corporations that have been identified and the amount of the liability...

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: I will be brief. In 2014, the Council of Europe upheld an earlier ruling that members of An Garda Síochána should be permitted to strike and participate in trade union activity. In our view, such human rights legislation should also permit gardaí to refuse to be used against trade union and community campaigns such as we saw with the water charges campaign. Does the...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (4 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: One aim of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill is to amend the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013 to allow the reimbursement of some over-the-counter medical products, including emergency contraception, to medical cardholders. I, along with Members from the Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit, AAA-PBP, will vote for this. It is better that those on medical...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (4 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: 34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the concerns of a group of parents whose children attend a school (details supplied) that classes are too big in the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28388/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Disputes (4 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: 43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the indications from the ASTI that it will ballot for strike action on the grounds of the use of financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation against it. [28389/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: My question relates to corporation tax rates. After the Brexit referendum, the former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced plans to slash the UK corporation tax rate from 20% to below 15%. On BBC Radio Ulster on 5 July 2016, the Minister of Finance, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, referred to this in light of the plans by the Northern Ireland Executive to...

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: I am sharing my time with Deputy Gino Kenny.

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: I will start by extending a welcome to the campaigners in the Public Gallery and indicating that we will be voting for the motion. On 7 May this year, 120,000 people gathered at various locations throughout the State at 4.15 in the morning. They walked and ran five kilometres, crossing the finishing lines of the Darkness Into Light events as the sun came up, raising money for the suicide...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: 68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to tackle child homelessness in the next year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23029/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: 28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he has had discussions with the Minister with responsibility for housing on tourism-related measures to alleviate the housing crisis; if he has considered prohibiting the advertisement on a company's website (details supplied) of professional lettings of whole apartments or houses in the greater Dublin area,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: I will not say much about the Dublin Bus dispute except briefly to congratulate the workers on achieving the 3% offer. However, the Minister's failure to increase the State subvention has complicated the ballot because workers are asking where the money to fund the claim will come from. There is a concern that if it is not funded from the State, workers will be made to pay through the back...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: Can the Minister clarify his position on the plans to cut the wages and conditions now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: There is an outstanding question. Bus Éireann management has made it clear that it plans to slash the wages and conditions of the workforce. Will the Minister comment on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: Is that 15% or 50%?