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

Mick Barry: It impacts peoples' lives to this day.

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

Mick Barry: I thank the witnesses for coming in and for their presentations. I am a Deputy for the Cork North-Central constituency. As I mentioned to the Minister when he was in earlier on, Cork North-Central is the constituency that contains Spring Lane, Blackpool and Nash's Boreen. I notice from some of the handouts that I have been given, that those halting sites, had been highlighted as case...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: The year I turned 20 years of age, a fundamentalist, misogynistic amendment was written into the Constitution. The year 1983 was 35 years ago. Since then 170,000 women have been forced to travel for abortions. For a new generation and those who can become pregnant today, it is a toxic legacy. It sits on their shoulders and haunts them, an unwanted ghost from a different century. I...

Order of Business (20 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I wish to raise the programme for Government commitments around sports grants and participation in sport. It is clear from the justifiable critical reaction to the awarding and non-awarding of sports-related capital grants to schools that an examination and overhaul of the system is needed. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, saw fit to trumpet the €150,000...

Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: This issue has inspired me to verse.

Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: Here goes:For Ministers it is not wise to get caught telling porky pies, So now they fix you with a grin and package it all up with spin. The Taoiseach built a spin machine. He tried to build it strong and lean, Though when he took it for a spin, the spin backfired and did him in. He thought he would spin without a care, but look at what happened to Tony Blair. For spinners spin and get...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: New Communities Unit (20 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: 991. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of homeless non-Irish citizens from the European Economic Area or a country outside Europe that have been seen by the new communities unit, by month, since January 2015; the number of these that have been provided with emergency accommodation; and the form this accommodation takes. [12817/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Judgments (21 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: 227. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 273 of 29 November 2017, if he will instruct the Office of the Chief State Solicitor to make an appropriate payment in view of the conclusion of a High Court case (details supplied). [13224/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (21 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: 266. To ask the Minister for Health if health-related residential accommodation will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13225/18]

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: It is important and positive that these issues as they relate to cyclists have been placed on the agenda. Cyclist groups and their campaign are important. I am disappointed that the amendments on minimum passing distances are not being discussed, but I note the fact that the Minister has indicated that he intends to address the points made by way of bringing forward a statutory instrument....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uisce faoi Úinéireacht Phoiblí) (Uimh. 2) 2016: Céim an Choiste
Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I noted the Taoiseach's comments when he was asked about the Bill. He made a case against progressing with it on the grounds that it was not urgent and no longer necessary. That is interesting because he did not argue against the Bill on legal or technical grounds but on political grounds. Is he right? Is it no longer urgent or necessary? Then and only then must the technical issues be...

Services for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (27 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: Last year, as Ireland clocked up ten years without ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a series of protests took place outside the gates of Dáil Éireann. Hundreds of people participated in these protests. Before coming into the Chamber this evening, I spoke to one of them, a young person aged 21 who participated in several of those protests....

European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: Last Sunday, the former President of Catalonia, Mr. Carles Puigdemont, was arrested in Germany on foot of a European arrest warrant. He had been in exile since October and Catalonia's declaration of independence and he faced charges from the Spanish state, including the charge of rebellion. He was arrested when his car pulled into a petrol station in northern Germany, following a spy...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (28 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: 66. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the continuance of democratic rights in Hong Kong. [14223/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (28 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: 86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise the need for full democratic rights in Hong Kong with the Chinese authorities. [14224/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I thank the witnesses for all the expert opinion that we have heard. It has been a very interesting discussion. We will be fully supportive of a ban on microbeads but I hear the point that has been made by experts and academics today, that microbeads represent a small fraction of the problem and the issue is far broader than that. There are two ways in which one can deal with that. One is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: Sorry Chair, I-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: It was quite a short pause, I thought.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: The idea that there is a potential impact on human health is obviously of real concern and I imagine the situation here is cumulative. There is a large quantity of microplastics intersecting with marine life. It is growing. Is there a tipping point? Maybe that is a point that could be addressed. Is it just a case of quantitative changes or does it turn into something more serious at a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: Was his initial reaction not one of opposing the Bill?