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Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: This motion is useful in so far as it should dispel any notion that there is any difference of consequence between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael when it comes to being cheerleaders of the neoliberal agenda. The motion starts with a partial account of the turn taken in industrial policy under the reign of Seán Lemass. I remind Fianna Fáil Deputies that the original strategy of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fishing Vessel Licences (20 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: 1874. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions that have been taken by the marine survey office against owners of fishing vessels that refuse to submit log books. [28117/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Citizen Information Services (20 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: 1981. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for his claim made in her amendment to the Fianna Fáil Private Members' motion on the independence of local citizens' information services that the Citizens Information Board made a decision to restructure the local citizens information services at a meeting on 17 February 2017 when this decision is not recorded in the minutes of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Citizen Information Services (20 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: 1982. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the discrepancy of accounts between herself and the chief executive of the Citizens Information Board as to when a decision was made to restructure the governance of locally formerly independently run citizens information centres (details supplied). [26639/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Citizen Information Services (20 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: 1983. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the provision in the Comhairle Act 2000 or the Citizens Information Act 2007 which empowers the board of the Citizens Information Board to unilaterally alter the local board structure of independently run citizens information centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26640/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he has yet spoken to the British Prime Minister. [27227/17]

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: There have been a number of significant general elections since the last European Council meeting. I will comment on the results of the elections in the UK and France. In some ways the election in the UK was the more significant of the two. It had a strange result where the winner was the loser and the loser was the winner. At the start of the campaign, Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party was...

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: Of course I am. The Taoiseach will be sitting across from the people who participated in that election campaign. There could be another election in the UK before the end of the year. The election saw the biggest gains by the Labour Party in the UK during an election campaign since 1945, narrowing the gap from 23% to 2.5% during the campaign. Since then, there has been the horror of what...

Other Questions: National Maternity Hospital (21 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: 52. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the allocation of space for private practice in the plans for the new national maternity hospital is compatible with the elimination of private care from public hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27861/17]

Other Questions: National Maternity Hospital (21 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: 128. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact the State will pay for the construction of the new national maternity hospital yet it will be owned by a private entity; his Department's general policy in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27860/17]

Other Questions: National Maternity Hospital (21 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: The Committee on the Future of Healthcare has proposed the phasing out of private practice from public hospitals yet it is clear the plans for the national maternity hospital make provision for a significant amount of private practice within it. I do not know how that can be squared but I look forward to hearing the Minister's comments on the matter.

Other Questions: National Maternity Hospital (21 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: The architect's plans for the national maternity hospital, if anyone puts them up on the wall and has a look at them, show a corridor marked "private clinics". There are five rooms on the plans marked "private consult". We have a two-tier health service and it is two-tier in maternity services as well. I reject the Minister's point that there is equality. If anyone goes private, there is...

Other Questions: National Maternity Hospital (21 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: It is nothing to boast about that both public and private patients will have their own rooms. This is something that has existed for a long time in the National Health Service in the UK.

Other Questions: National Maternity Hospital (21 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: It is a real sign of the backwardness of the health service in this country that we have not had this up to now. It is not something to be boasting about. Ireland is one of the few countries in Europe that does not have universal foetal anomaly screening and many pregnant women were not able to avail of that last year. If a woman has concerns about genetic defects, she has to pay for...

Other Questions: National Maternity Hospital (21 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: Single-tier.

Other Questions: National Maternity Hospital (21 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: It is outrageous.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: I wish to share time with Deputy Bríd Smith.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: The row between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil over the appointment of Ms Máire Whelan by the Cabinet to the Court of Appeal has dominated politics for six days. While there are important issues at stake, the row has taken the form of a spat between two factions of the ruling elite in this country. The story of the Irish Judiciary and of the judicial appointments system is a story of...

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: The bulk of these politically connected judges are connected to which parties? They are connected to Fianna Fáil and to Fine Gael.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: Those are the facts of the matter.