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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 146. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason Defence Forces Regulation A.11 paragraph 16 was altered; if he will engage with the representative organisations in contravention of paragraph 24(2) of Defence Forces Regulation S.6; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29516/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Legal Cases Data (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 147. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of cases settled by his Department with members of the Defence Forces who have taken court cases for infringements of the working time directive; the amount the legal fees and settlements will ultimately cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29517/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 148. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the legislative and procedural changes he plans to introduce to settle outstanding grievances with the Defence Forces representative organisations in view of the breach of the European Charter of Fundamental Human Rights (details supplied). [29518/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Legislation (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce leglislation to enable problem gamblers to voluntarily self-exclude from locations in which gambling takes place as exists in other jurisdictions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29519/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 257. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department will investigate the colleague representative committee in a company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29520/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons who have received the HAP, both homeless HAP and regular HAP, since its inception; and the number of those who have subsequently presented again as homeless to their local authorities when their HAP tenancies expired. [29521/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (10 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 80. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on an industrial dispute (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30631/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (10 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 315. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to a notice (details supplied) issued to residents at a direct provision centre in Newbridge; and if he will intervene to have the notice rescinded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30606/18]

Other Questions: European Semester Process (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which he will respond to the country-specific recommendations from the EU Commission. [30961/18]

Other Questions: European Semester Process (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: On 23 May 2018, the European Commission published recommendations on the 2018 national reform programme of Ireland and delivered a Council opinion on the stability programme of Ireland. Could the Minister comment on the recommendations it made?

Other Questions: European Semester Process (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: The European Commission report states that existing climate change mitigation efforts will not enable Ireland to achieve its 2020 climate goals domestically. It states that the way in which the Government might deal with this is by buying carbon allocations from other member states. That would indicate that the taxpayers would pay for a subsidy for both industry and agriculture. Does the...

Other Questions: European Semester Process (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: The Minister's answer is "Yes" to buying carbon credits. I also asked the Minister how much he proposed to spend. He might respond to that. The report also says that according to the OECD, childcare costs in Ireland relative to wages in 2015 were the highest for lone parents in the EU and the second highest in the Union for couples. It also states that the high cost of childcare can...

Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: Given that Cork City Council has decided to withhold pay due to its firefighters under the terms of a national pay agreement, that every other local authority in the State has honoured the agreement and paid its firefighters and that this decision to renege now places Cork two weeks away from an official firefighters dispute, is the Taoiseach prepared to ask the Minister for Finance to sign a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent EU Council and the meetings he attended. [30968/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: I will begin with the following quotes: "A nation which expects its biological survival from immigrants will not survive" and "Europe's migrants are Muslim invaders, not refugees". Are these two quotes from Mein Kampf? Not at all, they are from the mouth of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who attended this Council meeting. I wish to ask the Taoiseach about some comments that he...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: Are we on amendments Nos. 3 and 4?

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: I speak in support of decreasing the look-back period from 12 months to six months. If the argument is that to do so creates difficulties for seasonal work, we should go further than six months and bring it back to three months. Last time I checked, there were three months in a season and six months equates to two seasons. This is a reasonable and fair proposal that would benefit young...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: Deputy Bríd Smith was ahead of me.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: The Minister proposes to delete a section of the Bill which would oblige the employer to offer newly available hours to existing employees. There are many part-time workers in this country who would want this provision to remain in the Bill and many more who would want this, if they were aware of this debate. The worst and most exploitative employers will be watching this carefully and will...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: There is no apology needed.