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Agriculture and Fisheries Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Mick Barry: A debate like this can often be taken up by the minutiae of subsidy regimes, quotas and CAP reform but a bigger picture can be lost if a debate like this is confined to such narrow terms. The Department of Social Protection reported in 2013 that one in ten persons in this State was experiencing food poverty. The European Federation of Food Banks likewise reported food poverty rates of 9.6%...

Agriculture and Fisheries Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Mick Barry: It was.

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Mick Barry: I agree with the points made by Deputy Seamus Healy. I will make several points about the scandal that recently unfolded on the Eden estate in Blackrock in Cork city where tenants in 35 apartments received letters earlier this year terminating their leases and giving notice to quit. Many of them had lived in the properties in question for years. The letters were issued by Grant Thornton,...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Mick Barry: The nomination of Deputy Ruth Coppinger marks the first time in the history of this State that a woman has been nominated for the position of Taoiseach. Women continue to be treated as second-class citizens in this State. Of those living in poverty, around 70% are women. Child care provision lags way behind the European norm. Meanwhile, many historic wrongs done to women remain to be...

Dáil Reform: Statements (6 Apr 2016)

Mick Barry: So was Deputy Murphy.

Housing Issues: Statements (14 Apr 2016)

Mick Barry: The issue is how to tackle the housing crisis in a serious way. I will start with a couple of citations, the first of which is from the chief executive officer of NAMA, Mr. Brendan McDonagh, when he addressed an Oireachtas committee in December. According to The Irish Times, he stated that a developer could expect to earn a profit of €20,000 on a newly built home that sold for...

Insurance Costs: Statements (20 Apr 2016)

Mick Barry: Suppose we wanted to strike a blow against the interests of young people, old people and people on low incomes simultaneously, how would we go about doing it? The insurance industry gives us a case study of how it can be done. Last summer, Allianz and Aviva announced they were no longer taking new business for cars of 15 years or older. There was an outcry and the usual mantra was trotted...

Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)

Mick Barry: Hear, hear.

Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Apr 2016)

Mick Barry: I will start by saying a few words about the suicide crisis. Over the 30 years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, more than 3,500 people died. In the Republic, nearly 7,500 people died in the first 15 years of this century from troubles of a different sort: suicide. The majority of these suicides resulted from a mental health crisis. Comparing the political response to the two sets...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (26 Apr 2016)

Mick Barry: 176. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the controversy surrounding the recent Belly Wien circus, which has been banned in a number of other jurisdictions, and recently toured here, if he will introduce legislation to effect a ban on the use of animals in circuses, and in any other performance capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8466/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (26 Apr 2016)

Mick Barry: 346. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the Health Service Executive to reconsider its decision to transfer the Mallow intermediate care vehicle to Cork city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8462/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (26 Apr 2016)

Mick Barry: 414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the reports of delays in payments and poor treatment, in respect of the Caranua redress scheme, experienced by survivors of abuse (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8463/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (26 Apr 2016)

Mick Barry: 421. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if she will effect a policy change to permit local partnerships to provide course funding assistance in a situation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8465/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance (26 Apr 2016)

Mick Barry: 490. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when funding will be provided to complete the repairs on the Fota Road, Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8464/16]

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Mick Barry: Time is concluded.

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Mick Barry: The Government is losing and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, is a very bad loser. Once upon a time, not very long ago, the Government seemed strong and the people seemed weak. Then the anti-water charges movement came along and it is now the people who seem strong and the Government-in-waiting which seems weak, nervous and fearful of the...

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Mick Barry: A secret document.

EU Migration and Refugee Crisis: Statements (28 Apr 2016)

Mick Barry: The immediate backdrop to this debate is the recent deal struck between the European Union and Turkey to contain the flow of refugees into the European Union via Greece. The President of the European Council, Mr. Donald Tusk, accompanied the German Chancellor, Ms Angela Merkel, to a refugee camp on the Turkish-Syrian border and stated at a press conference that Turkey was the best example...

Climate Change: Statements (4 May 2016)

Mick Barry: Ignore the reality of climate change and we risk dislocating the world economy to a greater extent than it was dislocated during the Great Depression, the First World War or the Second World War. That is according to the Stern report on the economics of climate change presented to the British Government in 2006. In fact, the author of the report says that he underestimated the position....

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Mick Barry: After 70 days we have a Fine Gael and Independent minority Government, but it is a three-legged Government not a two-legged Government. It is a statement of fact that the Fine Gael-Independent minority Government cannot survive without the support of Fianna Fáil, which will prop it up for the lifetime and the duration of this Dáil. Thus, we might say that we have in the form of...