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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I note that there has been a change in the Government position from an initial stance of leaning strongly towards opposition to one of saying that it will not oppose it. I think that is public opinion and that the debate that has opened up has been a factor in that. That is my view.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: No. In essence, I am looking for a bit more information about what is coming down the tracks with regard to the changes in the US and the question as to whether the build-up of microplastics is something which has a potential tipping point beyond which it becomes more serious.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (28 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: 66. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the continuance of democratic rights in Hong Kong. [14223/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (28 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: 86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise the need for full democratic rights in Hong Kong with the Chinese authorities. [14224/18]

Services for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (27 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: Last year, as Ireland clocked up ten years without ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a series of protests took place outside the gates of Dáil Éireann. Hundreds of people participated in these protests. Before coming into the Chamber this evening, I spoke to one of them, a young person aged 21 who participated in several of those protests....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uisce faoi Úinéireacht Phoiblí) (Uimh. 2) 2016: Céim an Choiste
Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I noted the Taoiseach's comments when he was asked about the Bill. He made a case against progressing with it on the grounds that it was not urgent and no longer necessary. That is interesting because he did not argue against the Bill on legal or technical grounds but on political grounds. Is he right? Is it no longer urgent or necessary? Then and only then must the technical issues be...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: It is important and positive that these issues as they relate to cyclists have been placed on the agenda. Cyclist groups and their campaign are important. I am disappointed that the amendments on minimum passing distances are not being discussed, but I note the fact that the Minister has indicated that he intends to address the points made by way of bringing forward a statutory instrument....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Judgments (21 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: 227. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 273 of 29 November 2017, if he will instruct the Office of the Chief State Solicitor to make an appropriate payment in view of the conclusion of a High Court case (details supplied). [13224/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (21 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: 266. To ask the Minister for Health if health-related residential accommodation will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13225/18]

Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: This issue has inspired me to verse.

Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: Here goes:For Ministers it is not wise to get caught telling porky pies, So now they fix you with a grin and package it all up with spin. The Taoiseach built a spin machine. He tried to build it strong and lean, Though when he took it for a spin, the spin backfired and did him in. He thought he would spin without a care, but look at what happened to Tony Blair. For spinners spin and get...

Order of Business (20 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I wish to raise the programme for Government commitments around sports grants and participation in sport. It is clear from the justifiable critical reaction to the awarding and non-awarding of sports-related capital grants to schools that an examination and overhaul of the system is needed. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, saw fit to trumpet the €150,000...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: New Communities Unit (20 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: 991. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of homeless non-Irish citizens from the European Economic Area or a country outside Europe that have been seen by the new communities unit, by month, since January 2015; the number of these that have been provided with emergency accommodation; and the form this accommodation takes. [12817/18]

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: The year I turned 20 years of age, a fundamentalist, misogynistic amendment was written into the Constitution. The year 1983 was 35 years ago. Since then 170,000 women have been forced to travel for abortions. For a new generation and those who can become pregnant today, it is a toxic legacy. It sits on their shoulders and haunts them, an unwanted ghost from a different century. I...

Prohibition of Bogus Self-Employment Bill 2018: First Stage (8 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Prohibition of Bogus Self-Employment Bill 2018: First Stage (8 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to disincentivise employers from entering into bogus contracts for services, to prohibit dismissals in order to induce workers to enter into contracts for services, to prohibit misrepresenting employment as a contract for services, to prohibit false inducements for contract for services, to provide for a right to redress for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: Let me give an example of what really happens. In my constituency of Cork North-Central, there is one site at Nash's Boreen where a family has lived unofficially in a field for nearly 30 years. The family has a child with leukaemia and she must regularly travel to Birmingham for treatment. Thankfully, she is in remission but she still needs to travel regularly. Storm Ophelia was a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I am concerned that I heard the Minister of State say that while he accepts there were cuts, there were cuts across the board. The budget was cut from €40 million to €4 million. This is a 90% cut. Politicians' pay was not cut by 90%. It was cut, but not by 90%. Other programmes were cut, and I might have opposed those cuts, but they were cut by far less than Travellers'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: It impacts peoples' lives to this day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I thank the witnesses for coming in and for their presentations. I am a Deputy for the Cork North-Central constituency. As I mentioned to the Minister when he was in earlier on, Cork North-Central is the constituency that contains Spring Lane, Blackpool and Nash's Boreen. I notice from some of the handouts that I have been given, that those halting sites, had been highlighted as case...