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Other Questions: Irish Water (29 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: The Minister spoke about the number of meters that have been installed. The Irish Water target is for somewhere between 1 million and 1.1 million. Irish Water has said that approximately 850,000 have been installed so far. The bulk of the areas where the meters have yet to be installed are the working class communities where people have organised to resist their installation, areas such as...

Other Questions: Irish Water (29 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: Does the Minister mean that they will back off?

Other Questions: Irish Water (29 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: I think he is saying that they are going to back off.

Other Questions: Irish Water (29 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: I note with interest the comment of the Minister that he expects Irish Water to take what he describes as a pragmatic approach. In reality, he is saying that Irish Water is likely to back off where there is strong community resistance to the installation of water meters. I hope all the activists and campaigners in those communities listen carefully to the point the Minister has made, draw...

National Asset Management Agency: Motion [Private Members] (29 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: Does the discount obtained by Cerberus for the 850 properties and the murky circumstances around the £6 million success fee require an investigation? It does, absolutely. However, there is a bigger picture in the sense of how NAMA has operated. By the time it concludes its business, a total of 772 developers will have received write-downs amounting to a staggering €40 billion....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Arrears (29 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 30. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if arrears will be written-off in the event of water charges being abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18478/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: We are keen to add our voice to points raised on the need for a far more urgent approach and urgent action in respect of the case of Ibrahim Halawa. The main issue that I wish to raise is the issue of the renewal of the financial emergency legislation. It is somewhat strange that financial emergency legislation is being renewed at a time when there is no financial emergency in the State....

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: I do. I have a number of questions.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: I was about to make the point that the two-tier wage scheme is widely seen as a scandal and discrimination against young people. The business committee discussed the possibility of a debate in the House on this. Do we have any information on if and when a debate is to be scheduled on the matter? How can the Government justify emergency legislation at a time when the Government and the...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: -----when so many people feel this legislation should be ripped up and put in the bin?

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: The Government is penalising young people-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: -----with new entrant rates of pay-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: -----which mean that young teachers will lose up to €250,000 in the course of a working career.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: The Government is penalising young people-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: -----who are working alongside older colleagues who started work before this legislation came in. They are doing the same work in the same workplace.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: They are doing the same work-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: -----in the same workplace-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: -----yet one group of workers is being paid less.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: It is total discrimination in that regard.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: Does the Minister not accept that it is totally discriminatory against young people?