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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (12 Jun 2018)

Mick Barry: 659. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss failings in the market access system for obtaining drugs for the condition. [24558/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Transport of Animals (12 Jun 2018)

Mick Barry: 995. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if violations (details supplied) involving Irish trucks can be investigated. [25430/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Employment Rights (12 Jun 2018)

Mick Barry: 1109. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Workplace Relations Commission at hearings held on the 29 May 2017 and 17 June 2017 concerning working conditions on the merchant marine fleet and fishing fleet, respectively that an adjudicator ruled that vessel owners were not required to provide medical cover for crew; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (12 Jun 2018)

Mick Barry: 1258. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the expenses received by elected city and county councillors as distinct from their salary is reckonable as income when means testing a cohabiting couple in circumstances in which one partner is a councillor. [25427/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Eligibility (12 Jun 2018)

Mick Barry: 1259. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the disability allowance. [25428/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Disposal of Hazardous Waste (31 May 2018)

Mick Barry: It was not a question.

Topical Issue Debate: Disposal of Hazardous Waste (31 May 2018)

Mick Barry: There is shock, disgust and rage in the communities of the lower harbour in Cork at the decision announced this morning by An Bord Pleanála to give the green light to a 240,000 tonne per year hazardous waste incinerator at Ringaskiddy. I got a text before coming to the Chamber from a resident of Cobh, one of the harbour communities, who told me that the phrase on people's lips was "Only...

Topical Issue Debate: Disposal of Hazardous Waste (31 May 2018)

Mick Barry: The Minister mentioned the question of levies, so I will ask a question about levies. Were I him, toxic incineration of this kind would be knocked on the head. A previous Minister, former Deputy John Gormley, introduced something that was not a ban on, but disincentive of, incineration, namely, the incineration levy. Another former Minister who is a member of the party that the current...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Reform: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (31 May 2018)

Mick Barry: I want to discuss the issues of council powers and directly elected mayors. Local authorities have seen their powers diminish year after year in recent times. For 12 years I was a member of a local authority - Cork City Council - and witnessed that diminishment of powers. For example, bin collection services were run by councils, but they were then privatised across the country....

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Mick Barry: An aspect of this Bill that has not yet been mentioned in this debate is the requirement to take "reasonable measures" to "maintain the dwelling fit for human habitation during the refurbishment or renovation". I have raised the issues being encountered by the Leeside residents in Cork on a number of occasions in this House. The apartment building in which they live was purchased by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Bus Services: Discussion (30 May 2018)

Mick Barry: The rural bus link is a positive idea. This is a pilot programme, and I am informed, to quote my sources, by Deputy Michael Collins that there are two links in the pilot programme in County Cork. If there were to be a comprehensive service for the county, the Deputy believes that 35 to 40 routes would be required, which is approximately 20 times what is available under the pilot scheme....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regulation of Rickshaws: Discussion (30 May 2018)

Mick Barry: One would get the impression from the discussion thus far that rickshaws are only being operated in Dublin but that is not the case. For example, rickshaws are being operated in Cork. Earlier this year, 19 rickshaws were seized as part of a Garda operation, conducted jointly with the Revenue Commissioners. There are three options open to us: first, we can allow the current situation to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regulation of Rickshaws: Discussion (30 May 2018)

Mick Barry: Except when the Minister talks to Deputy Mattie McGrath.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regulation of Rickshaws: Discussion (30 May 2018)

Mick Barry: Does the Minister have the video of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regulation of Rickshaws: Discussion (30 May 2018)

Mick Barry: Was Deputy Mattie McGrath there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regulation of Rickshaws: Discussion (30 May 2018)

Mick Barry: We might have lost the Minister.

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 May 2018)

Mick Barry: We are debating the baptism barrier. There is no doubt that section 7(3)(c) of the Equal Status Act 2000 discriminates against young people. State-funded schools that are in receipt of taxpayers' money should not be controlled by religious institutions. They are paid for by the people and they should be controlled by the people. The State should control the schools and there should be no...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protection) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2018)

Mick Barry: We are discussing the issue of student accommodation and the rip-off of students by unscrupulous landlords. The Minister of State, Deputy Mitchell O’Connor, acknowledges the need for change but states we must proceed with extreme caution and that we have a difficult balancing act. I would argue that we must proceed with extreme urgency and must rebalance the respective rights...

Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (29 May 2018)

Mick Barry: Should schools, where necessary, be compelled to establish ASD units? Yes, they should. The situation on the ground speaks volumes as to why that is a necessary step. I cite the example of County Cork where we have 148 ASD classes in primary schools but a mere 55 ASD classes in secondary schools. That gap, approaching the 3:1 mark, is growing year on year. The situation in many other...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (29 May 2018)

Mick Barry: 185. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a scenario (details supplied). [23363/18]