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Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (25 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: I have two questions. The ESRI recommended that in the event of there not being a no-deal Brexit, the Minister should go harder on carbon tax increases and property tax increases in the budget. I ask him to comment on that. I note the comments of Deputy Michael McGrath, reported in The Irish Times, that Fianna Fáil would not push for the traditional €5 increase in social welfare...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: Some 10,000 hospital support workers are due to strike tomorrow for justice, pay justice and for the State to keep its promises. It has been stated that this will be as big a strike, in respect of disruption, as the previous dispute involving nurses and midwives. There was some discussion of this issue during Leaders' Questions but that is not sufficient for such a major issue affecting...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Products Supply (25 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: 524. To ask the Minister for Health if the family of a person (details supplied) can have a more efficient method of obtaining incontinence pads from their primary healthcare centre in Portmarnock, County Dublin. [26850/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Disposal Charges (25 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: 577. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to introducing a service for the collection of medical related domestic waste such as incontinence pads particularly in view of increases in domestic waste collection charges [26851/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Disposal Charges (25 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: 578. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the commitment to provide financial assistance to those that have to dispose of incontinence pads in their domestic waste can be honoured. [26886/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (25 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: 727. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she will take to address the losses in pension income suffered by tens of thousands of women arising from the 2012 reforms introduced by her predecessor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26853/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social Housing Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: We will support this Bill. The point that has come up for discussion is the question of whether one reverses and goes back from 10% to 20% or whether one goes beyond that, which this Bill proposes. We need to go beyond it. We had 20% when there was no housing crisis. We now have the greatest housing crisis in the history of the State. The figure should not be below 25%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social Housing Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: The starting point for this discussion, which we should not take as a given and of which we should remind ourselves, is the greatest housing crisis in the history of the State. It is a housing emergency, with more than 10,000 people officially homeless and a generation that has in large measure been locked out of the housing market. Every serious analyst, think-tank and commentator, almost...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social Housing Bill 2016: Discussion (20 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: What was the number of units delivered last year?

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: There is a shortfall of hundreds of midwives in this country between what is needed, what is best practice and what is reality. The motion makes reference to 200 but I believe the real figure is closer to 300. At the same time, women are tending to have children at a later age than was the case in the past, including at a later age for a first child. The combination of these two things is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: Christopher Columbus would never have set sail for America without having galley slaves aboard. No army ever won a war without the PBI - the poor bloody infantry. The infantry of our health service are our porters, our cleaners and our canteen staff. When the bankers and developers crashed the economy, they were the men and women who took on extra responsibilities to keep our health...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: It could do.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: In 2017, McKinsey consultants recommended to An Post the closure of one of its four mail centres, which are located in Dublin, Portlaoise, Athlone and Cork. An Post indicated that the mail centre to be closed would be named in 2019. In the past 24 hours, speculation has grown that An Post is targeting the Cork mail centre for closure. Deputy Bruton is the Minister in charge and presumably...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: If the Cork centre is facing closure, will he indicate whether the closure will include both the mail and parcel operations or the mail operation only? There are 200 full-time and 30 part-time workers in the Cork centre and they make a major contribution to the local economy. I ask the Minister to tell the House how many redundancies are being planned in the event of the centre being closed.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: The Minister is not going to tell us which centre is closing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: The Government will not be doing that for the next five months.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: They are freezing the hours.

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: We have a restriction of home help allocations until November. We can debate the extent of the restriction. What was the Minister of State's part in the decision-making process? Was the decision made by someone in the HSE? Was it made by the Minister of State? If the decision was made by a person in the HSE, did that person inform the Minister of State of it? When did he or she inform...

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: What is the Minister of State doing? What is going on on his watch? Home help allocations have been effectively frozen and, despite the Minister trying to spin it otherwise, home help hours have also been effectively frozen. Was this the decision of the Minister of State or was it the decision of a bureaucrat in the HSE, to which he did not object? The Minister of State has responsibility...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: With these motions, the Government is asking us to give another green light to keep some of the most draconian legislation on the Statute Book for another year. These measures represent a serious attack on some key basic democratic principles. The right to trial by jury, the right to silence and the right to call witnesses in a trial are all impinged. There is also a lengthening of the...