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Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: I will speak in support of it.

Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: Thank you. Our amendment proposes that €12.30 would be the national minimum wage and that would be merely a step on the road to a rate of €15 per hour, which is what a real living wage would be in this country. That is what is needed to live, not simply to exist. I stood on picket lines today with English language teachers at the Delfin English School in Parnell Square. They...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: I would like to start by extending sympathy to the family and friends of Timmy Hourihane. A sharp clash is looming between the interests of the church and the interests of the State in Cork city. I refer to the decision of the Sisters of Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary to withdraw from involvement at Bessborough by the end of the year, to attempt to sell the land there and to effectively...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: This is a test case. Religious orders are selling up not just in Bessborough but in other locations across the country, selling lands and buildings, which is having a detrimental impact on State funded services. We have another example if this at St. Vincent's Convent on the north side of Cork. Therefore, this is a litmus test for the Government. Will it stand up for the interests of our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Chairperson Designate (15 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: I have a short and simple question. Has Mr. Dunne ever had the experience of being a tenant and paying rent to a landlord? Has he ever had the experience of being a landlord and collecting rent from a tenant? If he has had either of those experiences, how did he find it?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: Back in the day there was a vicious form of corporal punishment known as birching. We heard about a new form of it today. AIB has a project named Project Birch. It is a plan to sell in early 2020 thousands of distressed mortgages secured on family homes. This is a majority State-owned bank. Does the Government stand over this plan? It should stop the sale. Vulture funds should be kept...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: It is a choice.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: The Tánaiste should answer the questions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: Did the Government poverty-proof the budget?

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Services Provision (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: 11. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the implementation of the recommendation by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution for the availability of free contraception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41358/19]

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Services Provision (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: I heard the Minister mention earlier that he would have a contraception report in the next few days and perhaps it is timely to ask him to report on the implementation of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Eight Amendment of the Constitution for the availability of free contraception. I look forward to hearing his comments on that matter.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Services Provision (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: The Minister stated that the report will be published in the month of October. I would have liked to seen it published before the announcement of budget rather than after it, which brings me to my first supplementary question. Has the Minister made provision in the budget arrangements for 2020 to provide the funding necessary to provide free contraception for all in this State in the year...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Services Provision (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: My view is that it would have been best if we had free contraception available in 2020. I take it from the Minister's reply that is not the intention of the Government. He seemed to indicate it is his intention for 2021. Specifically, is the Minister saying that he aims to see the introduction of free contraception in this State in 2021? I ask him to comment on that. Currently, in terms...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Rehabilitative Training Allowance Payments (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: If the Minister of State raises his voice a little louder, he might convince himself. I do not think, however, that he has convinced the trainees and the staff in question. He accused them of giving misinformation. There was no misinformation given by the trainees.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Rehabilitative Training Allowance Payments (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: There was no misinformation given by the staff. It is a fact, as the Minister of State has just admitted, that those who commenced the programme on 1 September, approximately 400, no longer receive the allowance. It is not misinformation that the payment of €31.80 which would otherwise have been used to pay for lunches and travel to the training centres has been taken from new...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Rehabilitative Training Allowance Payments (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: The Minister of State has said all trainees who go to rehab centres are eligible for and availing of free travel. Will he reflect on that comment? Will he say whether he stands over it? Is it correct that all trainees are eligible and availing of free travel? Second, I did not ask the Minister of State whether the moneys would be reallocated. I do not care how many letters he reads to me...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Rehabilitative Training Allowance Payments (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: Will it be reallocated today or in the future and, if so, when?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Rehabilitative Training Allowance Payments (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the decision to cut the rehabilitative training allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41501/19]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Rehabilitative Training Allowance Payments (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: The Government cut the rehabilitative training allowance from 1 September, taking €31.80 a week away from young people and school leavers with disabilities. At the time, the Minister of State spoke about alternative plans. However, I did not see any alternative plans in Tuesday's budget. Perhaps they are buried in there and he can explain what he intends to do with that €3.7...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: I wish to ask the Minister about the cut in the rehabilitation training allowance-----