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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jan 2019)

Mick Barry: Military and dual-use hardware worth more than €6 million was sold to Israel since 2011. In the context of 9,000 Palestinians, including more than 2,000 children, having been killed by the Israeli State since 2000, what plans does the Government have, given the human rights commitments, to introduce legislation and deal with this issue?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jan 2019)

Mick Barry: The arms trade.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)

Mick Barry: January is traditionally the month with the highest number of evictions. If anecdotal evidence is anything to go by, that is likely to be the case again this year. For hundreds of renting households across the State, January 2019 will be black January. It is the month in which they will be evicted or will have received a notice to quit. The State’s homelessness numbers for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish National Election Study: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Mick Barry: I am a supporter of a properly funded, democratic audit process, which is not ad hocbut is in place on a permanent basis. This is a democratic issue because if there is no public process, the only process is private and there are private processes. We are then left with corporate media and big political parties being the only forces in society which gather, analyse and process the data....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral and Referendum Reform: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (23 Jan 2019)

Mick Barry: Listening to the stories alleging massive fraud in the latest referendum, I wonder if Deputy McGrath will be like those Japanese soldiers who were still coming out of the jungle 30 years after the war as he continues to try to fight the referendum.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral and Referendum Reform: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (23 Jan 2019)

Mick Barry: I will park it there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral and Referendum Reform: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (23 Jan 2019)

Mick Barry: I will focus on one issue, albeit there are a lot of issues here. It is the one on which we had the group in to discuss earlier. The group was making the case for what was described as a permanent democratic audit process. I support strongly what was argued for. The example was given of European countries such as Finland, Austria and Switzerland, which provide permanent funding for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

Mick Barry: By the party that is propping you up.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

Mick Barry: You are not making a very good job of it.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (31 Jan 2019)

Mick Barry: I am sharing time with Deputy Bríd Smith. Mental health issues are the leading cause of disability among young people aged between ten and 24 around the world. According to research carried out by the Royal College of Surgeons for the Health Research Board in 2013, by the age of 13, one in three young people in Ireland is likely to have experienced some type of mental disorder; by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Mick Barry: I will start with a quick observation and then ask a question of each group. At the start of November, the Ó Cualann Cohousing Alliance organised a conference which was addressed by Orla Hegarty from the UCD school of architecture. In the course of her remarks, she said: I think we need to redefine what affordable housing is. I would have a concern that defining affordable housing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Mick Barry: When will that be known?

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: Fine Gael Ministers are losing the battle against the nurses in the court of public opinion. It is a battle I believe they cannot win. Senators Colm Burke and Buttimer expressed concern at their parliamentary party meeting last night that Fine Gael could be hit hard in May over this issue. Their nervousness is entirely justified. Our message to the public is to stick firm with the...

Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: Ambulance paramedics, advance paramedics and emergency medical technicians will strike on Friday and again on 28 February and 1 March. The striking workers are members of the National Ambulance Staff Representative Association, NASRA, a branch of the PNA. It is a strike for union recognition for workers to be allowed to be represented by the trade union of their choice. The Minister of...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: The Tánaiste stated earlier that there was no parallel whatsoever between the cost overruns in respect of the national children's hospital and those relating to the Cork event centre and that no conclusions could be drawn about the fact that one company, BAM, was central to both projects. The BAM overrun at the national children's hospital arose when the figure of €432 million...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: Okay. The tender was won at a cost of €46 million. The bill that was submitted was for €58 million, a cost overrun of more than 25%. There was actually a court case about it. BAM said in the course of the court case that the €12 million overrun was down to an arithmetic error. Is the Minister concerned by the fact that this major construction company was linked to...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: Is the Minister bringing in Irish Water?

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: The Minister should answer the question.

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: The Ministers are doing everything except answering the question.

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: Is the Minister concerned about three major cost overruns involving one company?