Results 781-800 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Mick Barry: The vantage point from an editorial chair in Tara Street, a CEO's office in a bailed-out bank or from the backbenches of the Fine Gael Party is somewhat different from the vantage point of working class people in my constituency of Cork North-Central or from the vantage point of a homeless person in a doorway or a young mother trying to make the rent. Such commentators will be far more...

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Mick Barry: Social inequality on a scale never before seen in this State was achieved by them all, building on the legacy of the previous Fianna Fáil administrations. On the legacy issue, who was right - the hundreds of thousands of people alienated from the political establishment or the editorial writers? Perhaps both are right in their own ways, coming from completely different, opposing and...

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Mick Barry: I am afraid that I am going to have to deal with a certain topic in my supplementary question. I ask the Minister to confirm that the Taoiseach, on retirement, will be in receipt of a lump sum of €378,000-----

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Mick Barry: -----and on top of that, an annual payment in perpetuity of €126,000. Next week the Minister is going into public sector pay talks and standing over a negotiating stance of support for two-tier pay rates, allowance systems and pension rates for new entrants. This is the solidarity that the Minister is showing to the people who helped to get this country out of the crisis, the working...

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Mick Barry: Does the Minister have any comment to make on the Taoiseach's pension?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (18 May 2017)

Mick Barry: 178. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will hold formal negotiations with a group (details supplied) regarding the restoration of cuts to pensions in view of the fact that they affect retired public servants. [23689/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 May 2017)

Mick Barry: 207. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the comment from the representative of Cork university hospital in correspondence (details supplied) justifying a three day delay to the treatment of a person's head wound; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23690/17]

Order of Business (23 May 2017)

Mick Barry: We have just discussed the Manchester tragedy. More than one Deputy rightly praised the work of the men and women who provided the emergency services. Members can agree these are people who get up early in the morning, to use a phrase that is doing the rounds.

Order of Business (23 May 2017)

Mick Barry: We are indeed. Yesterday, the Minister for Social Protection stated that the men and women who provide similar services in this country should have their right to strike restricted or even banned. Today, a man who bankrupted the country walked free. Yesterday, the men and women who are the backbone of the country were threatened with having their rights restricted. Given that plans to...

Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)

Mick Barry: I support the amendments to the Government motion seeking to focus the commission of investigation but also seeking to suspend NAMA sales pending the completion of the investigation. We are in the habit of having investigations and commissions that tread over the same ground. It remains to be seen if this investigation will get us any further. That said, it is walking on the foundation of...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2017)

Mick Barry: I will start my contribution with a simple question to the Minister. In regard to the €110 million fund, what interest has built up on it in the intervening years since it was established and is that interest being added to the fund for the survivors? If not, why not? I would appreciate an answer to that question. Why does Caranua not pay people a lump sum, similar to a pension? As...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: Former Garda press officer, Superintendent Dave Taylor, claims that he sent a text to the Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O'Sullivan, some years ago in which he told her that a journalist had interviewed a person making allegations against Maurice McCabe. Superintendent Taylor claims Commissioner O'Sullivan sent a one-word reply, "Perfect." We are told now that Commissioner...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: Perhaps the Taoiseach might ask the Garda Commissioner about the phone, try to establish the position and then let the House know. On the question of legacy, the Taoiseach will want part of his legacy to be the speech where he criticised the church and mentioned, among other things, the Magdalen laundries. The Magdalen laundries of this day and age are the direct provision centres. What...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: The topic relates to the legacy of the Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: I want to ask the Taoiseach about news that broke as we came into the Chamber. It relates to the issue of asylum seekers.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: Are you saying it is not in order?

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: I had wished to ask the Taoiseach about the news that broke at lunchtime regarding the asylum seekers.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: This is a really serious ruling from the Supreme Court.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: Okay. I will ask the Taoiseach about it outside the forum of Leaders' Questions.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he obtained an independent valuation for the Harold's Cross stadium before his Department purchased the stadium from Bord na gCon; the valuation arrived at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25360/17]