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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: Is Ms Gleeson confident that the situation will be reversed in 2021?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: My final question is for anyone who cares to take it. Why are rough sleepers not counted as part of the official homelessness statistics?

Apprenticeships: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: I am a supporter of apprenticeships and of a strong apprenticeship programme. What we have currently is falling way short. The motion reads "of the 1,500 registrations targeted by Government for new business-led apprenticeships in 2018, only 410 starts (27 per cent of target) had taken place by 30th September this year, while the 2017 target was missed by 58 per cent". It further reads...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Urban Renewal Schemes (7 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: I have looked at the Minister of State's reply and there are many lines I could pick from it. One indicates that the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has already paid €1 million to Cork City Council. Does the Minister of State know on what the €1 million has been spent? It has been spent on consultants and solicitors' fees. Not one single brick has been...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Urban Renewal Schemes (7 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: We have been hearing about potential for three years now.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Urban Renewal Schemes (7 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: I want the Minister of State to explain to the people of Cork what the story is with the event centre, for which we have been waiting 1,000 days. The Minister of State's former leader, the then Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, was pictured on the front page of the newspapers with a shovel turning the sod for the event centre. It is 1,000 days later and not a single brick has been laid on that...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: In recent weeks workers at Glen Dimplex in Portadown have been on strike for a pay increase of 27p an hour. It is ironic in a bitter way when one considers the fact one of its bosses is Martin Naughton, a billionaire ranked only ten days ago by the Irish Independentas the 11th richest man in Ireland. The 27p increase would bring these workers up to stg£8.70 an hour, in other words, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation: Traveller Accommodation Expert Group (6 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: When we have a conversation about Traveller accommodation or lack thereof, we are having a conversation about human rights and the denial of human rights. The expert group clearly has important work to do and the recommendations it comes up with will be important for the Traveller community, society and human rights. The discussion needs to be framed in this context. I will use the example...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation: Traveller Accommodation Expert Group (6 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: -----was allocated and not spent over 18 years in Tipperary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation: Traveller Accommodation Expert Group (6 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: That puts the recent controversy into context.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation: Traveller Accommodation Expert Group (6 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: Yes. That figure says a great deal about the reality. Various ideas have arisen here. One is the idea of having a sanction hanging over councils whereby if a council does not spend its budget, sanctions will be put in place against the council on other fronts. There is also the idea that the powers be removed from the councils entirely and given to another entity whose job would be to do...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pensions Data (6 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: 222. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount spent on an annual basis in public sector pensions to retired State employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44677/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2018)

Mick Barry: The Tánaiste should answer the question.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Judgments (25 Oct 2018)

Mick Barry: 168. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 273 of 29 November 2017, if he will direct the Chief State Solicitors Office to make an appropriate payment in view of the conclusion of a court case (details supplied). [44368/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2018)

Mick Barry: The programme for Government claims to aim to promote the rights of ethnic minorities. In recent days we have seen the spectacle of a candidate in the presidential contest singling out an ethnic minority. He has poured contempt on them with a racist commentary, all in a crude attempt to boost his poll ratings. These are racist comments from what we might call a desperate dragon. I...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Disposal Charges (18 Oct 2018)

Mick Barry: 247. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the recent 15% increase in bin charges by a company (details supplied) in County Cork; the action he will take to reduce costs of bin charges in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42810/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Mick Barry: Mr. Cussen made an interesting point. We do not want to lock up public lands only for one segment of society which, I suggest, is what is happening currently. Let us look at the 60:30:10 mix of tenure. The average market price in a private development in Dublin today is €378,000. The proposal before us is for 60% of public land to be used to facilitate private development with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Mick Barry: I will direct my questions entirely to the delegation from Cork City Council, if the Chair is happy for me to do it that way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Mick Barry: I will start on the point Deputy Ó Broin finished with. Ms Doherty's submission includes the following very significant comment: "Cork City Council also urges Government to address in appropriate circumstances underutilised private lands, even if this requires a re-examination of the protections currently afforded to private property in the Constitution." That is a significant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Mick Barry: Would Mr. Geaney say eight years on the list would not be exceptional?