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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...

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...

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

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach says it will not be a disaster here, so maybe we will ask for a commitment on this. The companies that got the contracts in the UK have been the subject of an investigation by the National Audit Office regarding their financial claims about the numbers on the schemes and this and that. It has become a major topic of debate in the House of Commons. One of the companies that...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)

Mick Barry: The Tánaiste has been asked a question. Will she answer it?

Order of Business (17 May 2016)

Mick Barry: I wish to make a brief point on behalf off the AAA-PBP regarding the Order of Business. Our grouping has not been included in Leaders' Questions this week nor are we included for next week. I understand this is because the House is currently operating on the basis of what we would call the old Standing Orders. We have been offered the facility of a technical group as an opportunity to...

Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 May 2016)

Mick Barry: Variable mortgage interest rates in the State are 2% above the European average. In other words, there are states in Europe in which variable mortgage interest rates are more than 2% below the rates charged here. This equates to an extra €167 per month for a household per €100,000 owed on a mortgage. For someone with a €200,000 mortgage, we are talking about a...

Adjournment Debate: Industrial Disputes (17 May 2016)

Mick Barry: What is the Luas dispute about? It is about whether the Luas drivers will get a real slice of the profits they have created for their company. In 2014, Luas drivers carried an extra 2 million passengers on the line. Transdev's profits from 2014 to 2015 increased from €24 million to €82 million and the profits for one of the two parent companies, Veolia, amounted to...