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Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Instruction to Committee (19 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: I want to make a few points about the Home Building Finance Ireland Bill. This is a market-based policy aimed at fixing a housing crisis which was caused by the market in the first place. It aims to route more public resources to private developers who have failed to invest during the greatest housing crisis the State has ever seen. The Bill aims to finance developers to whom, in many...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: Half a million young people are locked out of the housing market. They cannot afford to buy and they cannot afford to rent. They are the locked-out generation. Yesterday, Fr. Peter McVerry said that emergency situations require emergency action. He gave his support to the Take Back the City campaign, which is being supported by many of those young people. It is well established and I...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: The buildings have been vacant for years.

Future of the Post Office Network: Motion (18 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: This is a real blow to rural communities, to pensioners and to people who are dependent on social welfare. It is the biggest cull of post office services in the history of the State - 159 closures, effectively in one fell swoop. The post office in Allihies has been mentioned as one of the post offices in County Cork that will be closed. The nearest post office to people living in this area...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: It would be fitting and appropriate to pass this amendment on the day that is in it because one of the most important things to happen in the country today, if not the most important, has been the stand taken by workers at Ryanair for workers' rights in a company where workers' rights have been trampled on for many years. One of the big issues in that company is-----

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: One of the big issues in this company – I was just about to say the words, a Cheann Comhairle – is bogus self-employment. How many times have we heard on the media today, and we heard it earlier from the Tánaiste that some of the pilots have joined the picket lines today, the implication being that they do not have the support of their colleagues? The reason their...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: We will operate on the basis that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: There are some important differences, particularly on the issue of defining bogus self-employment. Although it is not perhaps as strong as the legislation that we put before the House-----

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: -----we think it is a progressive amendment and that parties and individual Deputies who support progressive legislation that will benefit ordinary working people, and I include Sinn Féin in this, should vote for such an amendment if the Deputy allows it to be put.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: I made visits this morning to picket lines at Dublin Airport and at LloydsPharmacy in Coolock. I am going to try to bring a little of the spirit of those picket lines to this Dáil exchange. In October 2016, Michael O'Leary attended a fundraiser breakfast in the Shelbourne Hotel where he made an attack on trade unionists, making reference, for example, to RTÉ as a "rat-infested...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: I too regret the stranding of passengers. However, unlike the Tánaiste, I put the blame where it belongs; at the feet of Ryanair and Mr. O'Leary. I also place blame at the feet of the Government. Who facilitated Ryanair's bogus self-employment practices? Who stood back while workers in Ryanair uniforms flew Ryanair planes, yet were officially declared to be self-employed? Who...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: Thanks to its workers.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: Mr. O'Leary launched the class warfare.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (12 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 37. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if information from the local authorities and an organisation (details supplied) on reports they receive and act on annually related to the welfare of greyhounds is collated by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31059/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fur Farming (12 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 561. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an inspection of a fur farm (details supplied) can be organised to check on the welfare of the minks. [31914/18]

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: There is no apology needed.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: Deputy Bríd Smith was ahead of me.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: The Minister proposes to delete a section of the Bill which would oblige the employer to offer newly available hours to existing employees. There are many part-time workers in this country who would want this provision to remain in the Bill and many more who would want this, if they were aware of this debate. The worst and most exploitative employers will be watching this carefully and will...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: I speak in support of decreasing the look-back period from 12 months to six months. If the argument is that to do so creates difficulties for seasonal work, we should go further than six months and bring it back to three months. Last time I checked, there were three months in a season and six months equates to two seasons. This is a reasonable and fair proposal that would benefit young...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: Are we on amendments Nos. 3 and 4?