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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent EU Council and the meetings he attended. [30968/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: I will begin with the following quotes: "A nation which expects its biological survival from immigrants will not survive" and "Europe's migrants are Muslim invaders, not refugees". Are these two quotes from Mein Kampf? Not at all, they are from the mouth of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who attended this Council meeting. I wish to ask the Taoiseach about some comments that he...

Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: Given that Cork City Council has decided to withhold pay due to its firefighters under the terms of a national pay agreement, that every other local authority in the State has honoured the agreement and paid its firefighters and that this decision to renege now places Cork two weeks away from an official firefighters dispute, is the Taoiseach prepared to ask the Minister for Finance to sign a...

Other Questions: European Semester Process (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which he will respond to the country-specific recommendations from the EU Commission. [30961/18]

Other Questions: European Semester Process (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: On 23 May 2018, the European Commission published recommendations on the 2018 national reform programme of Ireland and delivered a Council opinion on the stability programme of Ireland. Could the Minister comment on the recommendations it made?

Other Questions: European Semester Process (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: The European Commission report states that existing climate change mitigation efforts will not enable Ireland to achieve its 2020 climate goals domestically. It states that the way in which the Government might deal with this is by buying carbon allocations from other member states. That would indicate that the taxpayers would pay for a subsidy for both industry and agriculture. Does the...

Other Questions: European Semester Process (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: The Minister's answer is "Yes" to buying carbon credits. I also asked the Minister how much he proposed to spend. He might respond to that. The report also says that according to the OECD, childcare costs in Ireland relative to wages in 2015 were the highest for lone parents in the EU and the second highest in the Union for couples. It also states that the high cost of childcare can...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Aid Investigations (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount spent defending a tax judgment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30962/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (10 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 80. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on an industrial dispute (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30631/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (10 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 315. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to a notice (details supplied) issued to residents at a direct provision centre in Newbridge; and if he will intervene to have the notice rescinded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30606/18]

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: The migration deal that was signed last week has been described by Oxfam as "a recipe for failure, [which] directly threatens the rights of women, men and children on the move". Médecins sans Frontières, MSF, has said that the deal "aimed to turn away even the most vulnerable people from Europe's shores". Compare and contrast the comments of Oxfam, MSF and many other NGOs with the...

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: I will conclude on this point-----

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: I will conclude. One cannot have capitalism without racism. We need to challenge these racist policies and the system that gives rise to them.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the issue of non-teachers marking leaving certificate examination papers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29329/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the progression to Committee Stage of the Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018 will be discussed at Cabinet (details supplied). [29330/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 146. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason Defence Forces Regulation A.11 paragraph 16 was altered; if he will engage with the representative organisations in contravention of paragraph 24(2) of Defence Forces Regulation S.6; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29516/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Legal Cases Data (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 147. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of cases settled by his Department with members of the Defence Forces who have taken court cases for infringements of the working time directive; the amount the legal fees and settlements will ultimately cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29517/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 148. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the legislative and procedural changes he plans to introduce to settle outstanding grievances with the Defence Forces representative organisations in view of the breach of the European Charter of Fundamental Human Rights (details supplied). [29518/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Legislation (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce leglislation to enable problem gamblers to voluntarily self-exclude from locations in which gambling takes place as exists in other jurisdictions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29519/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 257. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department will investigate the colleague representative committee in a company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29520/18]