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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (13 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: 144. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 338 of 4 December 2018, when a reply will issue from the HSE. [7305/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: The Tánaiste should answer the question.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: The programme for Government talks of working to make our older years better years. It is a noble sentiment but let us look at the reality on the ground. Would the Tánaiste care to comment about the fact that the largest drugs company in the entire world, which dodged $35 billion in US taxes when it relocated to Ireland in recent years, is trying to downgrade massively the pension...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: 258. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be permitted to collect the one-parent family payment on behalf of that person's child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7419/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Developments in the Water Sector: Discussion (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: I feel this is a rather strange or weird meeting. There are Deputies and Senators and representatives of Irish Water, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department. There are 12 people here from those four groups and every one is a man. There is not a single woman sitting up front around the table here. Whenever this point is highlighted at meetings, the point is noted and then...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Developments in the Water Sector: Discussion (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: Katherine is the woman-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Developments in the Water Sector: Discussion (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: "We could not facilitate Ms Walshe because of the restrictions of the seats"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Developments in the Water Sector: Discussion (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: I am not sure that I understand the point that Ms Walshe could not be facilitated because of the restrictions of the seats.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Developments in the Water Sector: Discussion (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: I do not think that it is pedantic. I think it tells a story about what goes on in this place far too often. I am making a bit of a point about it this morning but I will move on and ask the same question of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Developments in the Water Sector: Discussion (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: Finally, I ask the same question of the water division of the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Developments in the Water Sector: Discussion (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: I will move on and ask my water-related questions. I will make one point before that. I do not think that it is good that this situation arose here this morning. The committee needs to have a discussion about avoiding similar positions in future. It should not happen. I am also not comfortable about continuing the meeting where there is an all-male panel of eight people, with a woman...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Developments in the Water Sector: Discussion (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: I have two questions and I will ask both together. The first relates to the CRU. It has a public consultation starting shortly on the amount to be charged for this new excessive-use charge, which my party believes is a Trojan horse for water charges. We take a keen interest in what is happening here. When precisely will the public consultation start? If a date cannot be given perhaps we...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (20 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: 23. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to counter price setting by institutional landlords (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8671/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (20 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: An interesting and in some ways extraordinary report from the economics division of the Department of Finance was published in The Irish Times last week. Its authors perceived a threat that corporate landlords would be in a position to set high rents in concentrated urban areas if they become a stronger force within society and the market. Will the Minister comment on that report?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (20 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: The Minister stated 70% of landlords own one or two properties. We know all that but the report refers to a new trend, namely, corporate landlords in urban areas – city-centre areas – becoming a real force and having the power to set rents. The report does not pull its punches in stating what these corporate landlords do. They supply apartments to the premium end of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (20 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: The Department of Finance has issued a warning, and it has done so in stark terms. It has raised the risk of the investors developing monopolistic or oligopolistic pricing power in rent setting. It refers to pricing people on both average and low incomes out of the market. I asked the Minister a simple question, concerning what he intends to do about this, and he gave me a lecture about...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (20 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: Answer the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (20 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: What is he going to do about it?

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: "Bring it on. Walking away is not in my DNA." These are like cheesy lines from a bad Clint Eastwood movie. I wonder what a woman who has been caught up in the CervicalCheck scandal would think of them. What would an old person who has spent a night on a trolley think of it? What would a young person who is suffering as a result of the Government's neglect of mental health services think...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (20 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: 26. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that the supply of new local authority housing is meeting demand. [8476/19]