Results 301-320 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (18 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: 63. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the budget announcement that 1,000 additional nurses will be recruited to the health care system will be achieved in the context that many graduate nurses are leaving the country citing pay and conditions. [30297/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: 98. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the Economist Intelligence Unit's mental health integration index which shows Ireland lying in 11th position out of the EU 15 and 14th overall of the 30 countries studied (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30619/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Legal Services (18 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: 312. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 446 of 27 September 2016, if he will reconcile the reply he provided with a claim subsequently made to this Deputy's office via social media, that Scope has been legally represented by the Chief State Solicitor's Office and a person (details supplied) in at least one previous appeal similar to the one...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Labour Employer Economic Forum (19 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: 34. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the matters discussed at the Labour Employer Economic Forum which he chaired on 5 October 2016. [30638/16]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: Forty-three years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: I thank Professor Reynolds-Feighan for her interesting presentation. My questions are as follows: can she give us a breakdown, in terms of transportation within Ireland, of the percentage that would be bus and rail and the percentage by car? How does that compare with the European norm and other European countries? What knock-on effects will that have in terms of congestion and carbon...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: There was a question about fares. What is the European experience of cuts in fares resulting in an increase in usage? Have those initiatives worked?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: I can see the headlines now, “Senator threatens extreme riots”.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: My first question relates to Iarnród Éireann. Mr. Noone put before the committee information that is shocking. It shows that the Irish Rail subvention has been cut from a little over €180 million to €98 million in seven years. That is a cut of almost 50%. Mr. O'Leary stated, "The safety of rail is second to none but in future years, we will only avoid catastrophe...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: Was that an Ernst & Young or a Deloitte report?
- Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the Government is committed to increasing the budget for the arts to at least the European Union average of 0.6% of gross domestic product; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31142/16]
- Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: Deputy Humphreys is the Minister with responsibility for the arts and she is the Minister who has cut the arts budget in terms of €188.5 million last year and €158.3 million last week, which is a cut of 16%. How does she account for herself? Let us not have any excuses about the 1916 centenary celebrations. The budget was cut, this Minister cut it and I ask her to account for it.
- Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: I am blinded by the spin.
- Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: I am absolutely blinded by the spin. Let us have a look at it. The Minister secured an extra €5 million for the Arts Council. Is she aware the Arts Council received €83 million in 2007 but this year is receiving €65 million, a cut of more than 20%? Is she aware it is only now at the level it was six years ago in 2011? She said the majority of the 1916 money had been...
- Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: As I said, it is spin.
- Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: Jo Mangan from the National Campaign for the Arts said "There is strong disappointment coming from members" with regard to the budget. She said that her members' responses on social media were despair, anger and disbelief. That contrasts with the self-satisfied tone that emanates from the Minister in the House today. I am glad the Minister has accepted that the point I made about the 1916...
- Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: It is spin. It is not the majority of the money; it is a tiny minority.
- Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: By the Minister's own comments-----
- Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: The Minister is condemned by her own comments. The Minister hides behind the fact that her Department has not yet produced a system for calculating the amount of GDP spent on the arts. The European average is 0.6% but it is 0.1% here. If the Minister wants to challenge that figure, she should produce statistics. We are waiting. When will we get them?
- Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: The Minister does, indeed.