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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: The State would lose €59 million in payroll taxes. If 2,500 workers were to claim social welfare payments at the minimum rate for a single person, it would cost the State €26 million, but the final amount would be way more. The figure for redundancy payments, with a minimum of two weeks' statutory payments, would be €124 million, but the redundancy packages would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: To clarify, it is down by €9 million on the figure for 2009. The sum is the exact equivalent of the cut. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: Is the PSO figure down by €9 million since 2009?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: The Minister said he felt Deputy Troy was totally honourable. I am sure he thinks every member of the committee is totally honourable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: Of course. Can the Minister share the report he is about to share with Deputy Troy with all the committee members?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: Very good.

Bus Éireann: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 2: To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following:“recognises that:— Bus Éireann’s financially parlous state arises in large measure from the legacy of a cut to the State subsidy which in 2016 was still €12 million less than 2009 levels; — this has been further compounded by a...

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (7 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: 47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department has estimated the potential impact on the environment of the promised withdrawal by President Trump from the Paris Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5800/17]

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (7 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: Since taking power, Mr. Trump has given the go-ahead to the Keystone XL and Dakota pipelines, forbidden scientists from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, from speaking to the media and is insisting they must submit their work to the White House for review before it is published, and removed all reference to climate change from the White House website. His choice of...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: We found out last night that there are two secret waiting lists in the health service. The HSE fiddled the figures and, in so doing, made the official lists look not as bad as they really are. Who benefited from that fiddling? The HSE did and so, too, did the Department of Health. In addition, successive Ministers for Health benefited from the fiddling of the figures, including the...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: The Minister read from a prepared script and did not answer the questions. Did the Minister know about these secret waiting lists? If he did not, why not? How much of the delay in access to treatment for public patients is due to private patients being taken ahead of them? Is it the case that if one cannot pay one suffers, even if one is a child and that if one can pay one can go ahead...

Pensions (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: Hi Mick,I am an employee of Pfizer, Ringaskiddy, for 22 years. The proposed changes to the pension that the company is trying to bring in would lead me to have a shortfall of approximately €286,338. I am 51 years old, and to maintain the current value I have on defined benefit, an outlay of €15,849 would be my cost per annum. I have managed to save for my kids' college fees...

Priority Questions: Bus Éireann (8 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: 32. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the unfolding crisis at Bus Éireann and the case for an increased subsidy from his Department. [6356/17]

Priority Questions: Bus Éireann (8 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: What is the Minister's views on the unfolding crisis at Bus Éireann and will he comment on the case for his Department allocating an increased subsidy to the company?

Priority Questions: Bus Éireann (8 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: The Minister is the sole shareholder in Bus Éireann. We are 12 days away from a national bus strike which could spill over into a national public transport strike. The Minister said the same sterile mantras 12 days ago that he has repeated in the Dáil today. Will he be saying them in 12 days' time when a national bus strike will kick off? We need more than that. I understand...

Priority Questions: Bus Éireann (8 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: Bus Éireann now runs its Cork-Dublin services along the motorway. The towns that lost out between Portlaoise and Cashel are now served by private operators who are paid €440,000 a year for that work. Bus Éireann services from Dublin to Galway and Dublin to Waterford do not travel only on the motorway. If they travelled exclusively on it, it would cost the State between...

Other Questions: US Travel Restrictions (8 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: 39. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the impact of President Trump's executive order banning refugee entry and the entry of persons from seven named states into the United States on the pre-clearance service at Dublin and Shannon airports; the practical co-operation authorities here would have to provide to facilitate such entry refusals; and if he will make a...

Other Questions: US Travel Restrictions (8 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: My question relates to the executive order in the US and the travel ban. This might seem to be less of a burning issue now in light of the federal court's decision to strike down the order. However, the question still stands and I would like the Minister to answer it, particularly given El Presidente's determination to get his way. The fact that he has tilted the numbers on the US Supreme...

Other Questions: US Travel Restrictions (8 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: I ask the Minister to detail the number of people - beyond the one individual about whom we already know- who were stopped at the pre-clearance facilities in our airports. How do the Irish authorities become involved when such a decision is made? The Minister has been among the most vocal, if not the most vocal, of all Cabinet members in his disapproval of El Presidente. Uniquely among...

Other Questions: US Travel Restrictions (8 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: I note that the radical left councillors on Dublin City Council attempted to have an emergency motion debated on Monday night last. Unfortunately, they were ruled out of order. The motion proposed that Dublin be declared a sanctuary city in solidarity with the sanctuary cities across the US, where the local authorities have indicated that they will not co-operate with racist, anti-migrant...