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Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)

Mick Barry: A Cheann Comhairle, it was a carve-up between three Deputies.

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)

Mick Barry: New politics my neck.

Domestic Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2016)

Mick Barry: I would like to address some remarks to Fianna Fáil Deputies and those Independent Deputies who support the Government. Before I do so, I wish to address a brief point to the people of the country. Hundreds of thousands of people marched and more than 1 million people have boycotted, either in full or in part, the water charges. Thousands of people protested at the installation of...

Domestic Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2016)

Mick Barry: -----or not, as the case may be, to their proclaimed opposition to water charges, but who will go through the lobbies tomorrow night to derail this motion.

Domestic Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2016)

Mick Barry: I will address a point in particular to two Deputies who are not here tonight but perhaps they are watching the debate in their offices on the monitors, namely, the Ministers of State, Deputy John Halligan and Deputy Finian McGrath. The night they signed up to join a Fine Gael-led Government was the night they crossed the line. If tomorrow night they vote to derail a motion supported by the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Data (24 May 2016)

Mick Barry: 49. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to request Irish Water to publicise its payment figures for water charges for the past two billing periods. [11570/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (24 May 2016)

Mick Barry: 54. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to direct local authorities to accept social housing applications from victims of domestic violence who have fled their homes but who are ineligible if they retain joint ownership of the home occupied by their abusive partners. [11571/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Programme for Government Initiatives (25 May 2016)

Mick Barry: 46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his Department has carried out research on schemes similar to the fit-for-work programme operating in other countries, particularly in Britain. [11842/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Programme for Government Initiatives (25 May 2016)

Mick Barry: 49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of places which he will provide on the fit-for-work programme and the criteria for eligibility. [11843/16]

Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (26 May 2016)

Mick Barry: I thank the Minister for his reply. I would point out that in the case of Omar Barghouti, it is not merely a case of his travel documents not being renewed. His residency status is under review by the attorney general. There is a climate or an atmosphere that is very concerning in respect of the health and safety of this man and others who share his views. On 28 March 2016, an anti-BDS...

Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (26 May 2016)

Mick Barry: I listened carefully and I hear what the Minister is saying. I will frame the question in the following way. Omar Barghouti is recognised as a human rights defender by Amnesty International. Is the Minister prepared to say that this is something that the Government notes and gives serious and due consideration and weight to?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Reports (26 May 2016)

Mick Barry: 14. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has received a briefing from the Irish ambassador in France on the Nuit Debout movement of young persons and trade unionists which has emerged in response to the attempt by the President of France, Mr François Hollande, to change the country's labour laws; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11951/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Reports (26 May 2016)

Mick Barry: 18. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has received a briefing from his ambassador in Brazil regarding the suspension of the President of Brazil, Ms Dilma Rousseff, and the subsequent withdrawal of a number of Latin American ambassadors from Brazil. [11950/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (26 May 2016)

Mick Barry: 35. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 33 of 17 May 2016, to provide the paragraph numbers and text of the 90 recommendations of the McMahon report which have been implemented fully and of the 26 recommendations which are in the process of being implemented, and the status of the remaining 57 recommendations in tabular form; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 May 2016)

Mick Barry: 112. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will extend the order of his predecessor, which expired in April 2016, to the four Dublin local authorities that half of all housing units that become available to them to house social housing applicants be made available to those on the various priority lists, including homeless priority [12449/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (26 May 2016)

Mick Barry: 220. To ask the Minister for Health if he will fill on schedule the posts of two senior dieticians and one diabetes nurse specialist to support the diabetes community in counties Cork and Kerry, given that the 2016 Health Service Executive plan sanctioned 36 posts nationally to support the implementation of the type-2 diabetes cycle of care initiative, which commenced in October 2015. [12495/16]

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Mick Barry: This morning, The Irish Timesreported a briefing note prepared for the Minister, Deputy Leo Varadkar, suggests the qualifying age for disability allowance be raised from 16 years to 18 years. It states the reason for doing so is that young people with disabilities might be considered as a cohort in the broad definition of jobseekers. Last Saturday, the same newspaper reported on a briefing...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (31 May 2016)

Mick Barry: 64. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to expedite the restoration of pay and pay equality for public servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12993/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (31 May 2016)

Mick Barry: 69. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has consulted with Government Departments on the difficulties in recruiting and retaining certain types of public servants arising from the two-tier pay system and other pay reductions applied during the economic crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12994/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance (31 May 2016)

Mick Barry: 262. To ask the Minister for Finance to introduce a regulation obliging car insurance providers to take into account the safe driving record maintained by returning emigrants when they lived abroad who are currently being treated as new drivers when seeking insurance here with consequential high premiums. [13482/16]