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Northern Ireland: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: I will be speaking in this debate for Solidarity and for Solidarity alone. Today Northern Ireland is in crisis. Everyone here almost certainly agrees with this statement, but there are very different views as to why there is a crisis and as to the way forward. The Executive collapsed nearly a year ago and there is no sign of the necessary level of agreement to bring it back. The...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (13 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: 64. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland the ongoing incarceration of a person (details supplied) who had their licence revoked in March 2016 but has not received due process or opportunity to answer charges against them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53233/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: I think it is important and positive that all the groups and speakers have addressed the committee today. The points raised are relevant and sharp and put it up to the committee and people in a position of power regarding the transport infrastructure. I will not go through it company by company but Dublin Bus clearly has issues and questions to answer. The same applies to Bus Éireann....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: Is Ms Lennon saying the legislation will require a lower standard of private services than public services?

Other Questions: Public Service Retirement Age (14 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: 7. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which he will ensure that public servants who opt to work until 70 years of age will be doing so out of a desire to work as opposed to feeling compelled to do so for economic reasons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53259/17]

Other Questions: Public Service Retirement Age (14 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: Public servants will now be able to work until the age of 70. The question is whether they will be compelled to do so or whether they will they do it out of a desire to work. The Minister says that the decision for those public servant workers is completely voluntary. I put it to him that he has put in conditions which mean it is not completely voluntary. I will list three: the increased...

Other Questions: Public Service Retirement Age (14 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: That was a very interesting reply. If the Minister comes into the House to propose a socialist republic with public ownership of the means of production, I will second his proposal.

Other Questions: Public Service Retirement Age (14 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: I bet, however, that the Minister would not do it. He is a defender of the capitalist system and the rule of the 1% elite. Despite all the bluff and bluster from the Minister, many people will be smelling a rat here. It is well known that the Government intends to bring the State pension age up to 68. It is not a wild leap of the imagination to suspect that the ultimate aim of the...

Other Questions: Public Service Retirement Age (14 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: I am looking at the Minister.

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: 3 o’clock Concerns have been raised in Cork, and I am sure in Kerry also, in respect of the Technological Universities Bill 2015 and the proposed merger of the Cork Institute of Technology and the Institute of Technology Tralee to form the Munster technical university. Workers in these colleges are expecting job losses, and I believe they are probably right to expect job losses....

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: I am well aware that when I criticise the Government I am, in passing, criticising Fianna Fáil on this issue. Deputy Byrne has said that my comments are scandalous, represent a red herring and are typical of the far left. The Deputy, however, does not remark on the fact that a significant body of trade union opinion among the workforce in the Cork and Tralee institutes of technology...

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: I have the answer. There is no guarantee.

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: I would like to hear that one word.

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: That is precisely what I am talking about.

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: That is precisely what I am talking about.

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: The issue is whether there will be job losses in the institutes of technology, specifically Cork and Tralee, but also more generally, on foot of this Bill and the merger into the Munster technical university. Job losses could happen in different ways. They could happen on day one as a result of the merger or they could happen down the road, such as later in year one or in year two. The...

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: The spanner is still in the works, Minister.

McCartan Report on the Stardust: Statements (14 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: I first want to acknowledge the families of the victims of the Stardust fire present in the Public Gallery who have been campaigning for justice for almost 37 years. The documentary shown on RTÉ last Tuesday night entitled "After the Headlines", which was sensitively presented by Charlie Bird and showed him talking to the families of victims as well as a badly injured survivor about how...

Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: I will share time with Deputies Kenny and Boyd Barrett; we will take five minutes, three minutes and seven minutes, respectively. I express solidarity with all those who are homeless and those who are facing the threat of homelessness. I also want to make my nomination this Christmas for Ireland's Scrooge of the year 2017. That dishonour must surely go to Lugus Capital, the new owners...

Hospital Trolley Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2018)

Mick Barry: We have seen chaos in accident and emergency departments. The trolleys have been jammed together. The patients are toe-to-toe. The scandal of closed public wards has already been mentioned but no Deputy has yet mentioned that there were cases of other empty beds during this crisis too, sometimes just hundreds of metres away from the chaos in the accident and emergency departments. I am...