Results 81-100 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (14 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 309. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the body which will assess the capacity of persons in receipt of payment under the illness benefit scheme and the disability allowance scheme to be selected for the proposed fit for work scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15705/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (14 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 310. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to recruit medical professionals to conduct assessments under the fit for work scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15706/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (14 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 311. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to change the assessment process under the illness benefit scheme and the disability allowance scheme and to introduce one-on-one assessments with a medical professional; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15707/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (14 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 312. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of claims submitted, accepted, rejected and accepted on appeal under the illness benefit scheme and the disability allowance scheme in each of years 2013 to 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15708/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (14 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 313. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of assessments the chief medical officer conducted in 2015 under the disability allowance scheme and the illness benefit scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15709/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Subsidies (14 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 572. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the 13 cent State subsidy for each €1 in fares collected by Bus Éireann compares unfavourably with other EU 15 countries (details supplied); and the measures he proposes to improve the situation. [15691/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (14 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 573. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of plans to open a significant proportion of Dublin Bus routes to tender and if he accepts that private companies will try to compete for these routes on the basis of poorer pay and conditions for their staff. [15692/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Provision (14 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 574. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the opposition of Dublin City Council's elected members to the concept of an eastern bypass in the city, as manifested at their recent meetings on the Dublin City development plan. [15693/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Industrial Relations (14 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 580. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the pay claims by Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann workers, given that they have not received a pay rise in eight years. [15871/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the reform of Seanad Éireann. [15866/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met with religious leaders since the general election. [15867/16]

Priority Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (15 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 36. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to outline her views on zero-hour contracts; if she will introduce legislation to outlaw this practice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16244/16]

Priority Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (15 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: What are the Minister's views on zero-hour contracts? Will she introduce legislation to outlaw this practice? Will the Minister make a statement on this matter?

Priority Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (15 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: The report may state zero-hour contracts are not extensive, but tens of thousands of people are affected by zero-hour contracts alone, apart altogether from the if-and-when contracts and the other low-hour contracts the Minister of State mentioned. These people have enormous difficulty organising child care, credit, bank loans and mortgages and accessing benefits, including FIS. In addition...

Priority Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (15 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: It does not surprise me that employer organisations have come out against a ban on zero-hour contracts. It would not take a commission or a rocket scientist to work that out. Is the Minister of State aware that the New Zealand Parliament voted unanimously to ban zero-hour contracts and that became effective on 1 April? In New Zealand employers now must guarantee a minimum number of...

Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: Condolences to the friends and families of the Berkeley victims. I have two questions for the Tánaiste. The Government did not listen on the issue of water charges. Working class people, through the protest campaign, made it listen. The Government would be well advised to listen to the growing anger on the issue of bin charges. If it does not, working class people will again make it...

Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: Given the derisive response of people via text and Twitter in the past 30 minutes to the plan to send the Minister, Deputy Coveney, to meet the bin companies next week and the feeling that this is not good enough and is a shambles, I will give the Tánaiste another opportunity to answer the question of whether she is prepared to reverse before the weekend the legislation that opened the...

Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: There was a second question, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: Is the Tánaiste prepared to introduce legislation to reverse the privatisation, which has put these profiteers in charge of the industry?

Estimates for Public Services 2016 (16 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: Although I could probably speak on 20 different issues under this heading, given the time available I will speak on only one issue in more detail, namely, the rates for nurses in general and for young nurses in particular. Even from a young age, I have always found it telling how many capitalist societies force nurses, who save lives, to live on relatively low wages while paying handsome...