Results 3,701-3,720 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry
- Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: I will continue to be disorderly-----
- Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: -----until the Minister answers the question.
- Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: Last week the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, upheld the right of a vulture fund to issue eviction orders to more than 20 households at Leeside Apartments in Cork in the middle of the largest housing crisis in the history of the State. Many of the households have children and are low-income. Many of the residents have had Leeside Apartments as their home for years. One of them, Aimee...
- Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: Sorry, a Cheann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: Very briefly. I asked a question.
- Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: I asked a question and I would like an answer.
- Address by Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission (21 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: Other Deputies have chosen to address President Juncker primarily on the issue of Brexit. I choose to address him on an issue no less important, which is now an emergency in Irish society. There is a housing emergency here. Rents skyrocket and 10,000 are officially homeless. More than 500,000 young people are locked out of the housing market, unable to afford rents, let alone being able...
- Address by Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission (21 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: -----but we do not hold the reins yet so instead I ask him to relax those rules. He should agree to relax those rules to allow the emergency to be addressed before a social explosion takes place in Ireland on this issue.
- Seanad: Address by Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission (21 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: Other Deputies have chosen to address President Juncker primarily on the issue of Brexit. I choose to address him on an issue no less important, which is now an emergency in Irish society. There is a housing emergency here. Rents skyrocket and 10,000 are officially homeless. More than 500,000 young people are locked out of the housing market, unable to afford rents, let alone being able...
- Seanad: Address by Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission (21 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: -----but we do not hold the reins yet so instead I ask him to relax those rules. He should agree to relax those rules to allow the emergency to be addressed before a social explosion takes place in Ireland on this issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: I want to address two issues. First, the removal of 875 people from the official homelessness statistics and, second, issues related to the housing assistance payment. At the end of April, when the official homelessness statistics for the month of March were produced 875 people had been removed from the housing waiting lists. According to the Department, they had been "reclassified"....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: On a specific question-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: It will be even less. The survey is almost complete and will be ready in a few weeks. Can the Minister be more precise about that? Can we have it by the end of June? Will we have it before the Dáil adjourns?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: When will we have it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Core Bus Corridor Proposals: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: Given that other members were given an opportunity to respond to the comments of the senior civil servant, I would like to make a brief point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Core Bus Corridor Proposals: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: There is no way free travel pass holders will be barred from peak time routes on my watch. That is the message I wanted and expected to hear from the NTA spokespersons. They did not say that. There was a famous individual in the United States who was told to go to the back of the bus and we all know what happened next. Discrimination is not acceptable in our society and the idea that free...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Core Bus Corridor Proposals: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: It is clear and it is a disappointing answer. It needs to be noted. I have other points I wish to raise. My next point is again a direct question. Is BusConnects something that the NTA envisages happening on the basis of a fleet the same size or roughly the same size as the current fleet or will it come into operation on the basis of new buses being added to the current fleet to be put...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Core Bus Corridor Proposals: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: I asked the question because there is a concern that if there is not a rock solid commitment to increase the fleet to bolster this proposal fully, we will end up with a trade-off. The trade-off is that while there will be an increased and improved service along the route of the bus corridor, other services which currently exist will be sacrificed in full or in part to facilitate that. Bus...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Core Bus Corridor Proposals: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: I have listened very carefully to what Mr. Creegan has said. It leans towards the idea that this is an addition to services rather than a replacement of services. The devil will be in the detail. I look forward to seeing the published plans next month and the debate that comes from that.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (20 Jun 2018)
Mick Barry: 35. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if legislation will be introduced to protect residents at a location (details supplied) who face eviction by a vulture fund and other tenants that find themselves in similar situations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26807/18]