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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (29 May 2019)

Mick Barry: Does the Minister deserve to remain in office? Does the Government deserve to remain in power in the light of these horrific figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (29 May 2019)

Mick Barry: Does the Government deserve to remain in power?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (29 May 2019)

Mick Barry: It has nothing to do with personalising it. Does the Government deserve to remain in power? There are more than 10,000 people officially homeless. The numbers are going up once again on the Minister's watch. Does he think the Government deserves to remain in power?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (29 May 2019)

Mick Barry: If the 10,378 people who are officially homeless, or a group of them, were here, across from the Minister this morning, and were saying they are in emergency accommodation, they are homeless, they want to see change, they do not want to see it next year or in six months but they want to see a change in their lives over the next weeks and months, what would the Minister say to them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (29 May 2019)

Mick Barry: Therefore, the problem is even worse.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (11 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: 38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the minimum guidelines for dormitory space and for cubicles and the shared kitchen ratio for co-living arrangements. [24035/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (11 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: 41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider amending the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme to allow persons who are not first-time buyers but who do not own their current residences to avail of the scheme. [24034/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (11 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent by each local authority to date in 2019 from its Traveller accommodation budget. [24033/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (11 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: 974. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the criteria for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme will be changed to include non-first time buyers such as those that may have had their homes repossessed during the recession and that could now be in the financial position to pay back a loan. [23669/19]

Defence Forces: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: Some HR challenges.

Defence Forces: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: In the opening paragraph of his opening statement, the Minister of State stated "Let me be very clear that I have no difficulty in acknowledging that we face some HR challenges." If there is an award at the end of the year for the understatement of the year in the Dáil, that would be a contender. There is a crisis of pay, of conditions and of morale in the Defence Forces. Some 84%...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: With these motions, the Government is asking us to give another green light to keep some of the most draconian legislation on the Statute Book for another year. These measures represent a serious attack on some key basic democratic principles. The right to trial by jury, the right to silence and the right to call witnesses in a trial are all impinged. There is also a lengthening of the...

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: What is the Minister of State doing? What is going on on his watch? Home help allocations have been effectively frozen and, despite the Minister trying to spin it otherwise, home help hours have also been effectively frozen. Was this the decision of the Minister of State or was it the decision of a bureaucrat in the HSE, to which he did not object? The Minister of State has responsibility...

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: We have a restriction of home help allocations until November. We can debate the extent of the restriction. What was the Minister of State's part in the decision-making process? Was the decision made by someone in the HSE? Was it made by the Minister of State? If the decision was made by a person in the HSE, did that person inform the Minister of State of it? When did he or she inform...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Family and Child Homelessness: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: I thank all the organisations that are represented here and all their representatives who have come in to give their evidence this morning. We have the fastest growing economy in Europe, we are told, and the scandal of growing child homelessness in our midst. It is the responsibility of the committee and of the Government to listen to the recommendations that are being made. There are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Family and Child Homelessness: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: I am just going to use ten minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Family and Child Homelessness: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: Does the Chairman want me to ask my questions together?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Family and Child Homelessness: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: Okay, we will do that then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Family and Child Homelessness: Discussion (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: My first question relates to the figures on housing completions for 2022 and 2023 that were released by the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government yesterday, and which Mr. Allen commented on. If I understand him correctly, he is arguing that we need approximately 36,000 housing completions per annum to maintain homelessness and child homelessness at their current levels. If...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: The Government will not be doing that for the next five months.