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Housing: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: I wish to share time with Deputy Boyd Barrett. We are debating the housing crisis. I have no faith in the market or the Government to solve this problem and, therefore, I would like to use my contribution to call on the trade union movement to organise a major national demonstration on the housing crisis and to use that to launch a nationwide protest campaign to force change on this...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizen Information Services (24 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: 393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the statement of the former Secretary General of her Department addressing the Committee of Public Accounts on 28 May 2015 to the effect that changes to the future corporate governance arrangements for Citizens Information Services and MABS had not at that stage been considered...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (24 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: 422. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department collects annual statistics from local authorities on the number of joint tenancies in local authority and approved body housing in which one partner relinquishes the tenancy; if so, the number of these instances it is the female partner who relinquishes their share of the tenancy leaving the male partner as...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D (infrastructure) will meet next. [42739/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: I understand that Cabinet committee D covers Irish Rail. Some people might be surprised that the next meeting of the committee is scheduled for 23 November given that there will be a national rail strike next Wednesday. It will be the first of five. The strike is being staged by a group of workers whose pay has effectively been frozen for ten years and who do a very good job. Irish Rail...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will reconsider its refusal to fund a new space at a school (details supplied) for resource teaching; and if his officials will meet with the principal and board of management of the school. [44818/17]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: I will speak to amendment No. 15, particularly as the Bill relates to three and four-person households, especially four-person households. What the Minister and the supporters of the Bill have been saying is that the so-called excessive use charge, the penalty, will only apply to what are being described as water wasters, 8% of consumers of water in the State. The way in which the Bill is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: Briefly, we must have clarification of the average household issue. Our understanding of the position tallies with that of Deputy Eoin Ó Broin, which is that a five or six person household is calculated as a five or six person household but that households with one, two, three or four persons have all been calculated on the basis of the 2.6 or 2.7 figure, not what the Minister appeared...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: The Deputy should show me where it says it on the tin.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: I will speak to amendment No. 24 which states: "The Minister shall report to Dáil Éireann within six months of this Act coming into effect on the number of domestic swimming pools for the purpose of levying a charge on such pools." We submitted this amendment because the legislation includes the so-called excessive use charge. As far as we are concerned this is a Trojan horse,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 24:In page 9, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:“(4A) The Minister shall report to Dáil Éireann within six months of this Act coming into effect on the number of domestic swimming pools for the purpose of levying a charge on such pools.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 51:In page 17, lines 31 and 32, to delete all words from and including "section 22."." in line 31 down to and including line 32 and substitute the following:"section 22. (7) Within six months of this Act coming into effect the Minister shall--(a) commission a report on the upgrading of the water infrastructure and the volume of unaccounted water, and (b) commission a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 52:In page 18, line 2, to delete "dwelling.", and" and substitute the following:"dwelling. (1B) Within six months of this Act coming into effect the Minister shall report to Dáil Éireann on the establishment of a grant to domestic households for the purposes of water conservation.",and".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 53:In page 22, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following:"(4) When prescribing the regulations under subsection (3) the Minister shall ensure one third of the membership of the Forum consists of trade union representatives and one third consists of local community representatives.".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 54:In page 29, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:"(d) a representative nominated by the trade union movement.".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: I will be brief as I am due in the House to question the Taoiseach on funding issues relating to Irish Rail. My question to Mr. Allen is one I will not have time to ask the Taoiseach. We are facing a strike next Wednesday by Irish Rail staff, the first of five national stoppages planned for the coming weeks. These workers have not had a pay increase for a decade. Mr. Allen referred to a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: Yes, but I wish to ask about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: The trip to Enniskillen included the CEO of the company, Mr. Franks, and invited guests at a cost of between €20,000 and €60,000. That is rubbing salt into the wound for workers who have not had a pay increase in ten years and are being forced out on strike next week. I would like more information on that trip. I have to leave so given that this is just one question, could I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: Briefly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: Very briefly on that.