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Motor Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (27 Feb 2018)

Mick Barry: 9 o’clock I put it onto my Facebook page this morning that I was going to be taking part in a debate on car insurance. The messages came thick and fast and I will read four:Axa Insurance Ireland, €2,800, Axa Insurance Scotland, €380. Same care, same driver, same cover. Another read: "Axa is charging over €7,000 for new entrants to the taxi business, no...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (27 Feb 2018)

Mick Barry: 60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which persons that are experiencing faults in the water system between their property and the mains supply are to meet the cost of repairs under Irish Water's policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9704/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (27 Feb 2018)

Mick Barry: 86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the delay in the publication of the figures for homelessness for February 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9703/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Evictions (27 Feb 2018)

Mick Barry: 96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will meet persons facing eviction residing in apartments (details supplied) as requested. [9705/18]

Provision of Cost-Rental Public Housing: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: The motion contains some correct points about the scale of the housing crisis, the plight of renters and the under-utilisation of publicly-owned land. However, it also contains a glaring untruth and, in the final analysis, it is a retrograde policy. I will not be supporting the motion although I am not sure which way I will vote. The fifth point of the motion states: "the provision of new...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: A Residential Tenancies Board adjudicator will hear a case tomorrow which will show what vulture funds are all about. The case will be heard in Cork city and concerns the city's Leeside apartments complex. The apartments were bought by a vulture fund, Lewis Capital, late last year. Its plan is to evict using major refurbishment as the weapon of choice, to raise rents and to get new tenants...

Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: On 12 February the Taoiseach and the British Prime Minister arrived in Belfast. They were full of hope. The British Prime Minister said the agreement would be up and running very soon. The Taoiseach said he was hopeful the two parties could come to an agreement this week. However, people should not count their chickens before they hatch. The breakdown of these talks is a reflection...

Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: So much for no return to the status quo.

Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I am quite clear on what was in the agreement. The LGBT community and the 68% in the North who support marriage equality clearly can have no faith in any of the establishment parties in Stormont. People power is needed in order to win marriage equality. Despite all the rhetoric in this talks process about rights, all the parties stand for the status quowhen it comes to denying women the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: This time last week we were getting a lot of weather warnings. We were told there was to be a blizzard. A blizzard is particularly dangerous because one cannot see what is really happening. At today's hearing we are speaking about pension schemes, statutory instruments and legal opinions. There is a danger that this is a blizzard of big words and we cannot see exactly what is happening....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: The Chairman may be a few years ahead of the game there. Mr. Ennis said that he had a document that was, in his words: "explosive" and a "game changer". Mr. Ennis said it was a 2009 document prepared by CIÉ management that basically outlined in advance what we have seen happening over the past ten years - the fall off in CIÉ management making the contributions necessary to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I also ask that the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport support the call. That is the least that can be done here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I have a brief supplementary question. I have listened carefully to the points raised by Mr. Carlyle. The volume of correspondence on this issue is familiar. However, we are not talking about the volumes of correspondence. We are talking about this particular item of correspondence. I welcome that, while we were told previously it might be an extract from a CIÉ document, Mr. Carlyle...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I have spoken to the Chair about how I must leave to attend the Dáil in a few minutes, so I will be brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I have submitted a motion to the Vice Chairman, which states: "This committee calls on the CIÉ board to fund an independent legal opinion for the CIÉ workers on issues relating to their pension schemes prior to any WRC hearing." I have received a note from the clerk to the committee saying that, although we do not take motions without notice, we can write to the Minister expressing...

Prohibition of Bogus Self-Employment Bill 2018: First Stage (8 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to disincentivise employers from entering into bogus contracts for services, to prohibit dismissals in order to induce workers to enter into contracts for services, to prohibit misrepresenting employment as a contract for services, to prohibit false inducements for contract for services, to provide for a right to redress for...

Prohibition of Bogus Self-Employment Bill 2018: First Stage (8 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (8 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will direct the Revenue Commissioners to respond to the past four letters sent to them by PDFORRA regarding the status of flat rate expenses. [11386/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: Let me give an example of what really happens. In my constituency of Cork North-Central, there is one site at Nash's Boreen where a family has lived unofficially in a field for nearly 30 years. The family has a child with leukaemia and she must regularly travel to Birmingham for treatment. Thankfully, she is in remission but she still needs to travel regularly. Storm Ophelia was a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I am concerned that I heard the Minister of State say that while he accepts there were cuts, there were cuts across the board. The budget was cut from €40 million to €4 million. This is a 90% cut. Politicians' pay was not cut by 90%. It was cut, but not by 90%. Other programmes were cut, and I might have opposed those cuts, but they were cut by far less than Travellers'...