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An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: I will start by asking a question: what exactly is going on in the Dáil Chamber this evening? The radical left has proposed that a right to housing be in the Constitution, something which exists in more than 80 other countries around the globe. Every single party represented in the Chamber has indicated its support for this proposal with the exception of two. Fianna Fáil and Fine...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: Rubbish. The Government has a strong record on-----

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: I am very calm.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 53. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the JobPath scheme in view of the numbers that have been sanctioned through the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39687/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on making the public services card compulsory for availing of public services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39686/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Safety (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 129. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of reports that have been made to the Health and Safety Authority since the beginning of 2017 regarding unsafe climbing and operation of construction site cranes by unqualified and under-qualified personnel or unsafe use of construction cranes; the number of inspections by HSA personnel that followed; and the findings in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Authority (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 130. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of whole-time equivalents qualified to conduct workplace inspections that are employed by the Health and Safety Authority; and the number employed in 2008. [39176/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Report: Dr. Mary Murphy and Dr. Rory Hearne, NUI Maynooth (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: I have three questions. My first question is on the housing assistance payment, HAP. Some of the statistics the witnesses have provided in the section on HAP are staggering. Mind-blowing would not be an exaggeration. Their report states that HAP is an expensive policy option and far more costly than building social housing directly. They calculate that over a period of 30 years in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Dublin Regional Homless Executive (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: I only have the one question. It is on the issue of hubs. I want to briefly read into the record some quotes because the quotes in the report are really interesting and important and it is important the voice of the people in the hubs is heard. The researchers were told by various parents that they felt their parenting was being checked all the time, that they got warnings, that the hubs...

Topical Issue Debate: Air Services Provision (26 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: The pilots at Ryanair have mutinied against their pay and working conditions and I congratulate them on having done so. The men and women who fly Ryanair aeroplanes, work to a Ryanair schedule and wear Ryanair uniforms operate under the fiction that they are self-employed. This is social dumping by Ryanair on a grand scale. There is a scandal in the context of sick pay, holiday pay and...

Topical Issue Debate: Air Services Provision (26 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: Ryanair is not only a non-union company, it is an explicitly anti-union company. It is run like a corporate dictatorship. Any worker in Ryanair who stood up and announced that he or she planned to try to unionise his or her fellow workers faced immediate sacking. I put it to the Minister that the absence of trade union organisation is part of the problem, as is the absence of trade union...

Flooding in County Donegal: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: I appreciate that. The floods which hit Donegal in late August, as the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will know, were devastating. The report I read - I am not even sure if it was the final report - indicated 47 households registered as being displaced and 300 issues relating to the road network, ranging from extensive structural damage to bridges to stretches of rural roads being completely washed...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (26 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 107. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will make retrospective the compensation to all public servants recruited since 2011 on lesser pay than their longer serving comparators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40488/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (26 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 108. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason FEMPI remains on the Statute Book; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40489/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Fares (26 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 473. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost in 2018 if all Irish Rail, Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and Luas fares were halved. [40514/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Non-Contributory) Eligibility (26 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated net cost in 2018 if the eligible age for the State pension was reduced from 66 to 65 years of age, taking into account the savings that would be made on jobseeker's allowance or benefit. [40513/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Charges Refunds (26 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 537. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the reimbursement of water charges will come entirely out of 2017 expenditure; and if part of the reimbursement comes out of 2018 expenditure, the amount of same. [40512/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: My question is about the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill. We were told the aim of this Bill is to amend the 1990 Act to give the Garda representative associations access to the State's industrial relations institutions. Yesterday, however, we read about a working group report produced in advance of the legislation, which advises against trade union status. Interestingly, the report...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: This motion from Sinn Féin is on social and affordable housing. We support the motion although we believe it does not go far enough in some respects. However, we will speak and vote in support of the motion. I suspect that the motion will be defeated by the combined votes of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael or that it will be gutted by the amendments that have been tabled. The main...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hare Coursing Regulation (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 45. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the repeat capture of hares for hare coursing; and the measures she will take to prevent this occurring. [40718/17]