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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: How much time do I have left?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: Regarding the Minister's invitation to Deputy Coppinger to meet with him about the issue under discussion, we will be happy to meet him to discuss that. We will welcome the compiling of statistics. We will hold the Minister to that. However, we will want to discuss a lot more than that. We will want to discuss the steps the Minister plans to take to ensure that people in such a situation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: The Minister has given the wrong answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: That was the wrong answer.

Beef Sector: Statements (17 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: I voiced my support during the debate for a policy of taking the meat industry into public ownership. We know the Minister is not going to agree with that. I want to ask him about the Government's policy of providing State assistance to the beef industry in the event of a major crisis flowing from Brexit. Does he believe there would need to be guarantees from the industry on the defence of...

Beef Sector: Statements (17 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: Some 355 workers were laid off today by ABP. Some 6,000 workers have been laid off in total. Thousands more are facing lay offs and those who have been laid off temporarily fear that it will be more than temporary. In this dispute to date, we have heard the voice of the meat industry, the Government and, at least to some extent, the voice of the farmers. It is time for the voice of the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Pensions (17 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: 88. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a commitment can be made to continue to provide funding for the medication of a person (details supplied) who is on an Army disability pension. [37725/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures: An Post (17 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: I want to ask about the decision to close the Cork mail centre. I listened carefully to the presentations. What struck me was the theme about An Post’s relationship with the State, the harp above the door and the 900 Government offices. What conversations, discussions or consultations, if any, did Mr. McRedmond have with Ministers before the decision to shut the Cork mail centre was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures: An Post (17 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: Was it the Cork mail centre specifically?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures: An Post (17 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: After the decision was made in An Post and before it was announced to the wider world and the workers, did Mr. McRedmond have a telephone conversation with the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Coveney, to discuss the issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures: An Post (17 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: Was that before the announcement was made to the workers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures: An Post (17 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: Did the Tánaiste or the Leader of the Opposition – the leader of Fianna Fáil - push back in any way against the decision and urge Mr. McRedmond in a strong way to reverse the decision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures: An Post (17 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: Let us focus on those issues. When the State is spoken about, one sometimes wonders whether the left hand knows what the right hand is doing. The Government has a strategy entitled Project Ireland 2040. Cork will be the fastest growing city in the country in the 2020s and 2030s and there will be a doubling of population by 2040. Was any account taken of that plan when An Post was making...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures: An Post (17 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: Project Ireland 2040 was factored in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures: An Post (17 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: I want to ask Mr. McRedmond about parcels and re-employment, but before I do, let us talk about what will be travelling on the road infrastructure. I understand that the position is that a letter posted in County Kerry or County Cork will not go to the Cork mail centre for sorting but will go to Athlone or Portlaoise. If that letter was posted to someone across the road or town or 20 miles...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures: An Post (17 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: What percentage of vehicles will be electric?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures: An Post (17 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: Until now a letter posted somewhere in County Cork to Blarney, for example, would have gone to the Cork mail centre and then sent to Blarney. Now it will go to Athlone or Portlaoise and come all the way back down. Presumably, in the course of a year there would be hundreds of thousands or millions of such letters. Not one single truck is electric, it is all done using diesel trucks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures: An Post (17 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: It sounds to me that there will be more trucks going up and down the road on a daily basis. If the number is multiplied over a period of weeks, months and years, it will be a significant negative in terms of climate change. I will park that point and turn to the issues of re-employment and the parcel service.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures: An Post (17 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: The Cork mail centre will close. It is a valuable property. Is it An Post's intention to rent or sell it? What price might it expect to receive? Is this issue being actively pursued? There is a flipside to that question. I understand the growth of the parcel business has meant that there will be a parcel hub in 2022 or 2023. The delegates might clarify the position in that regard....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures: An Post (17 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: I wish to be clear. I understand that someone transferring from the Cork mail centre to the north city DSU will be on the same wages and conditions. However, in the case of people working in the Cork mail centre today who decide to do something else with their lives for the next couple of years and who then apply for a job when the new parcel hub opens in the 2020s, is Mr. Bridgeman giving...