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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: 319. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the long-term decline in occupational defined benefit pension schemes in the private sector; his further views on the idea of a State supervised unified defined benefit, half final salary occupational pension scheme for workers in all sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23051/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: 531. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Bord na gCon obtained a valuation of Harold's Cross stadium from the Valuation Office or another valuer prior to its sale; the valuation arrived at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25359/17]

Other Questions: Family Income Supplement (31 May 2017)

Mick Barry: 33. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 176 of 18 May 2017, the reason for the rise in the number of families in receipt of family income supplement over the past four years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25952/17]

Other Questions: Family Income Supplement (31 May 2017)

Mick Barry: I would like to ask the Minister the reason for and his explanation for the very sharp rise in the number of families that have had to avail of the family income supplement over the last four years.

Other Questions: Family Income Supplement (31 May 2017)

Mick Barry: The number of people in employment has indeed gone up. While the numbers in employment have gone up, the numbers in receipt of the family income supplement have gone up at a far greater rate. There is a sharp scissors effect there. I believe it is undeniable that it reflects a growth in low-paid employment. I suspect that the Minister has had his own eye on a particular job for a long...

Other Questions: Family Income Supplement (31 May 2017)

Mick Barry: I find it incredible that the Minister is attempting to deny that there has been a sharp increase in low-paid employment. What were the numbers he gave us for FIS? There were 32,000 recipient families in 2012 and 57,000 in 2016. Yet, the numbers in employment have increased from 1.86 million to a little more than 2 million. One is an extremely sharp increase and the other is a not...

Topical Issue Debate: Supreme Court Rulings (31 May 2017)

Mick Barry: I believe the case was taken by a Burmese man who had been in the system for eight years. He spoke about an almost complete loss of autonomy. He spoke about depression. He spoke about the effects that being forced not to work for that period of time had on his sense of self-worth. Approximately 5,000 people are trapped in this system, and more than one third of them are children. It is a...

Topical Issue Debate: Supreme Court Rulings (31 May 2017)

Mick Barry: The provision of direct provision centres has been a shameful episode in the history of the nation. A comparison has been made with the Magdalen laundries of former days and it is fair to say the centres are the Magdalen laundries of our time. I do not buy the Minister of State's argument that the fact that people are spending less time in direct provision accommodation is entirely down to...

Topical Issue Debate: Supreme Court Rulings (31 May 2017)

Mick Barry: I will let the Minister of State know.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (31 May 2017)

Mick Barry: 50. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will reverse the lower rate of jobseeker's payments for young persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25951/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (31 May 2017)

Mick Barry: I was on my way to work and called into my coffee shop. The chap who owns it asked me what I was going to be doing today. I told him I was going in to Dáil Éireann to ask the Minister, Deputy Shane Ross, a few questions. He said to me: "Shane Ross? That fella used to be a communist with the Sunday Independent." I explained that he used to be a columnist with the Sunday...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (31 May 2017)

Mick Barry: -----the Minister gave the strong impression that his Department was very close to finalising a deal with the Department of Social Protection. The Minister never said it was within days or weeks but the strong impression was given that it would probably be within weeks. What we are being told here is that the news will be unveiled in the budget. The budget is a long way off. Can the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (31 May 2017)

Mick Barry: What about the discrimination against Bus Éireann?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (31 May 2017)

Mick Barry: There is a big private operation-----

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: The nominee is quoted in the papers this morning as supporting a republic of opportunity. How does he square that with his support of the abandonment of the principle of equal pay for equal work and his support for wage discrimination against young public servants? Two-tier pay rates in the public services were presented as being emergency and temporary measures at the height of the...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: Deputy McHugh is to be the new Government Chief Whip. I am sure he was listening carefully to the Taoiseach’s acceptance speech today, where he indicated quite strongly that he supports a change to the rules that apply in the House. The Taoiseach framed this as a democratic issue. The real agenda, however, was shown yesterday on the front page of the Irish Independent, which ran the...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: These were the rules that they agreed at the Dáil reform committee just over 12 months ago. Our group, Solidarity-PBP, will make it clear tonight that those rules will not be changed without our strong opposition and resistance, as well as that of all the other Opposition parties, apart from Fianna Fáil.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: Deputy Eoghan Murphy is to be the new Minister with responsibility for housing. He will face major challenges. Before I speak about them, I want to make some comments about the Minister leaving that post, the Minister, Deputy Coveney. In the course of the Fine Gael leadership election, he spoke about wanting to fight in the interest of the man in the sleeping bag. There are many more men...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: Three families were forced to sleep rough in a nearby park.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: It is true.