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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (4 Dec 2018)

Mick Barry: 338. To ask the Minister for Health if suitable residential care can be obtained for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50262/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes Fees (27 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Irish citizens living outside the EU for over three years must pay non-EU rates of fees for undergraduate courses; if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied). [48921/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan (27 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: 487. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on planned offshore wind farms; the status of planning and procurement for prospective offshore wind farms; the status of offshore wind farms being built; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48871/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (27 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: 598. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 317 to 323 of 21 March 2018, the outcome of the consultation process regarding reconfiguring the age of eligibility for domiciliary care allowance and disability allowance which was due to conclude in April 2018 (details supplied). [49530/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protections) Bill 2018: Discussion (22 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: We will support this Bill. There are many important significant changes being proposed but I have one question. The USI submission says the following: Places like Trinity Hall, owned and operated by a university, are already excluded from the act. It is not clear how this would square with the provisions of the bill which state that a tenancy will include a licence in student specific...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protections) Bill 2018: Discussion (22 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: The Deputy is clarifying the USI position that Trinity Hall would be important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protections) Bill 2018: Discussion (22 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: I have a question from Mr. Crosby. I read his statement and welcome that the Department of Education and Skills is open to extending some of the protections, improving quality standards and allowing students access to dispute resolution. However, allowing students access to dispute resolution is of little value to students who cannot get into accommodation in the first place, which is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protections) Bill 2018: Discussion (22 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: I welcome our guests. I will not make a big speech but rather I have one or two points and a couple of questions. Maybe there can be a bit of back-and-forth. On 3 October, I was really struck by the number of students participating in the protest. If there were 10,000 people there that day, I would bet my right arm that at least half were students. They were pouring off buses from around...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protections) Bill 2018: Discussion (22 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: I am interested in exploring the issue that most students believe they do not have protections in respect of rent pressure zones, the right to take a case to the RTB and so on. I am hearing that in fact, many students and probably most students do have that right. Let us drill down into that a little bit. Ms Carroll mentioned that there have been a number of cases. From what she has said...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protections) Bill 2018: Discussion (22 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: How does that typically happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protections) Bill 2018: Discussion (22 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: I have some brief supplementary questions. This is very interesting. There has been a handful of cases. It is difficult to pin down the figure exactly but it is on the low side. There is a range of scenarios to which this could apply. It could be an accidental landlord or any one of a number of scenarios. One scenario would be a big student accommodation provider, perhaps a big...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protections) Bill 2018: Discussion (22 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: There was a question about the nature of the offence.

Brexit: Motion (21 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: The campaign itself would be a sectarian head count and carry the risk of ratcheting up sectarian tensions. The only solution to the problems of sectarianism is to build a powerful workers' movement that can challenge both unionism and nationalism with socialist policies, including through the creation of a new mass political party that represents Catholic and Protestant working-class...

Brexit: Motion (21 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: I am going to start with a statement of first principles. Reference has been made to the national interest. We care about the interests of working-class people. When we say working-class people, we mean the interests of working-class people here in the Republic of Ireland, the interests of working-class people in Northern Ireland, both Catholic and Protestant, and the interests of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: I have a question on rent for both the Department and Property Industry Ireland. I understand that, if there is increased FDI into Ireland, particularly the cities and more particularly Dublin, the tendency of staff in those workplaces is to rent, leading to an increased demand for rental property. Unless there is a corresponding increase in supply and if it is left to the market without...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: Sure. I ask that question of the Department also.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: Sorry. I also ask the question of representatives of the Property Industry Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: I apologise.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (20 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: 601. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 17 of 8 December 2016, if she will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied). [47722/18]

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Second Stage (14 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: The Government trumpeted the budget as awarding the princely sum of €5 a week to people on social welfare, although they have to wait until March to get it. However, Social Justice Ireland’s verdict on the budget is that it lacks any serious initiatives to begin to significantly reduce poverty and that the Government’s choices and priorities have given the least to...