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- Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)
John Brady: Homelessness is not just a blight on those left behind by society due to substance abuse, mental illness or tragic personal loss. For years legislators have failed these people, leaving the responsibility of care in the hands of hard-pressed volunteer organisations whose resources were cut in the fire storm of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Labour austerity. Today homelessness affects...
- Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)
John Brady: It is not by choice.
- Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)
John Brady: They are being forced to do it. It is not by choice.
- Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)
John Brady: Nelson Mandela once stated, “A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” The World Health Organization's constitution enshrines “the highest attainable standard of health as a fundamental right of every human being.” These are not aspirational achievements but the basic fundamentals for a fair society and the bedrock...
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
John Brady: Only one good thing has stemmed from the introduction of water charges, namely, the awakening and politicisation of a generation of people. Hundreds of thousands of people have mobilised since Fine Gael and the Labour Party first implemented Fianna Fáil's blueprint for water charges. We have seen a coming together of progressive forces and the formation of the Right2Change movement,...
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
John Brady: They are paying for it out of both pockets.
- EU Migration and Refugee Crisis: Statements (28 Apr 2016)
John Brady: That was to be the case. He might be here shortly.
- EU Migration and Refugee Crisis: Statements (28 Apr 2016)
John Brady: I will start by addressing some of the language being used by some of my colleagues across the Chamber. There is nothing wrong with being a migrant. Certainly, we, in Ireland, should know this, but we should also know that refugees are not migrants; it is a refugee crisis about which we are talking. There is nothing wrong with seeking a better life where one can find it, but refugees are...
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)
John Brady: But Fianna Fáil is with the Government.
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)
John Brady: The grubby little deal cobbled together by what can only be described as parties that make up the new austerity alliance is an agreement which, ultimately, will see no real change and the crisis in housing continue. As we sit here this evening, we have a situation in Wicklow where two homeless men who were turned away from all services are now locked up in a county council building in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (25 May 2016)
John Brady: 27. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he has completed the review into the JobBridge scheme; and if so, the reason he has not published it. [11889/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (25 May 2016)
John Brady: I welcome the news that JobBridge will be scrapped. That needs to be done with immediate effect. We should not wait until September. It needs to be done barring those who are already on the scheme. When I looked at the website this morning, I saw new, fresh positions being advertised. There was an advertisement for an internship as a deli assistant. In my day such a position required...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (25 May 2016)
John Brady: When businesses advertise JobBridge internships in which they seek applicants such as fully qualified architects or, as in a more recent example, a fox hunting organisation advertises for the position of first whipper-in, it is clear that the scheme has been and continues to be abused. What will replace JobBridge? The Minister stated that he would look forward to proposals from Sinn...
- Domestic Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 May 2016)
John Brady: Last night during the debate, the Minister said he wanted to take the heat out of the issue of water charges. However, he clearly has not. Yesterday, two Wicklow men, Sean Doyle and Eamon McGrath, were released from Cloverhill Prison on a technicality, having spent 16 days behind bars for protesting against the installation of water meters. These protests are continuing across the State....
- Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)
John Brady: I thank the Minister for his speech. I am surprised by Fianna Fáil Deputies speaking out of both sides of their mouths. They failed to mention that they were in government and implemented many of the cuts to which reference has been made.
- Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)
John Brady: Fianna Fáil cut rent supplement when it was in power and also initiated the cuts to social welfare for those under 20 years of age.
- Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)
John Brady: Absolutely. It is surprising there is no increase in funding for social protection. One would think we lived in some sort of utopia, with no serious social or economic difficulties facing massive sections of Irish society. The programme for Government acknowledges that Irish people have worked hard for the economic progress we now have. The Government continued to pat Irish people on the...
- Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)
John Brady: While the Government can talk about GDP growth and Ireland having the fastest growing economy in Europe, we are also a country with 1.3 million people experiencing deprivation, thanks to Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.
- Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)
John Brady: According to CSO figures and research carried out by Mandate, three quarters of a million people living in poverty-----
- Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)
John Brady: May I speak without interruption from Deputy Willie O'Dea?