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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (8 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will direct the Revenue Commissioners to respond to the past four letters sent to them by PDFORRA regarding the status of flat rate expenses. [11386/18]

Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: So much for no return to the status quo.

Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I am quite clear on what was in the agreement. The LGBT community and the 68% in the North who support marriage equality clearly can have no faith in any of the establishment parties in Stormont. People power is needed in order to win marriage equality. Despite all the rhetoric in this talks process about rights, all the parties stand for the status quowhen it comes to denying women the...

Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: On 12 February the Taoiseach and the British Prime Minister arrived in Belfast. They were full of hope. The British Prime Minister said the agreement would be up and running very soon. The Taoiseach said he was hopeful the two parties could come to an agreement this week. However, people should not count their chickens before they hatch. The breakdown of these talks is a reflection...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: This time last week we were getting a lot of weather warnings. We were told there was to be a blizzard. A blizzard is particularly dangerous because one cannot see what is really happening. At today's hearing we are speaking about pension schemes, statutory instruments and legal opinions. There is a danger that this is a blizzard of big words and we cannot see exactly what is happening....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: The Chairman may be a few years ahead of the game there. Mr. Ennis said that he had a document that was, in his words: "explosive" and a "game changer". Mr. Ennis said it was a 2009 document prepared by CIÉ management that basically outlined in advance what we have seen happening over the past ten years - the fall off in CIÉ management making the contributions necessary to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I also ask that the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport support the call. That is the least that can be done here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I have a brief supplementary question. I have listened carefully to the points raised by Mr. Carlyle. The volume of correspondence on this issue is familiar. However, we are not talking about the volumes of correspondence. We are talking about this particular item of correspondence. I welcome that, while we were told previously it might be an extract from a CIÉ document, Mr. Carlyle...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I have spoken to the Chair about how I must leave to attend the Dáil in a few minutes, so I will be brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: I have submitted a motion to the Vice Chairman, which states: "This committee calls on the CIÉ board to fund an independent legal opinion for the CIÉ workers on issues relating to their pension schemes prior to any WRC hearing." I have received a note from the clerk to the committee saying that, although we do not take motions without notice, we can write to the Minister expressing...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: A Residential Tenancies Board adjudicator will hear a case tomorrow which will show what vulture funds are all about. The case will be heard in Cork city and concerns the city's Leeside apartments complex. The apartments were bought by a vulture fund, Lewis Capital, late last year. Its plan is to evict using major refurbishment as the weapon of choice, to raise rents and to get new tenants...

Provision of Cost-Rental Public Housing: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: The motion contains some correct points about the scale of the housing crisis, the plight of renters and the under-utilisation of publicly-owned land. However, it also contains a glaring untruth and, in the final analysis, it is a retrograde policy. I will not be supporting the motion although I am not sure which way I will vote. The fifth point of the motion states: "the provision of new...

Motor Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (27 Feb 2018)

Mick Barry: 9 o’clock I put it onto my Facebook page this morning that I was going to be taking part in a debate on car insurance. The messages came thick and fast and I will read four:Axa Insurance Ireland, €2,800, Axa Insurance Scotland, €380. Same care, same driver, same cover. Another read: "Axa is charging over €7,000 for new entrants to the taxi business, no...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (27 Feb 2018)

Mick Barry: 60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which persons that are experiencing faults in the water system between their property and the mains supply are to meet the cost of repairs under Irish Water's policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9704/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (27 Feb 2018)

Mick Barry: 86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the delay in the publication of the figures for homelessness for February 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9703/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Evictions (27 Feb 2018)

Mick Barry: 96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will meet persons facing eviction residing in apartments (details supplied) as requested. [9705/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (22 Feb 2018)

Mick Barry: I will address my questions to Mr. Grant. Has the agenda to privatise water gone away? The anti-water charge movement succeeded in knocking it back and I think that it has been delayed but that the agenda has not gone away. It can be seen in recent comments by the Taoiseach, when he indicated his views on Deputy Joan Collins's Bill to keep water in public ownership. We also see it in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (22 Feb 2018)

Mick Barry: There are no commitments to maintain wages, conditions and pensions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (22 Feb 2018)

Mick Barry: Briefly, on the issue of the public realm, I welcome what has been said but there is a difference between what is being said and what is being practiced on the ground. It is important people are not thrown from Billy to Jack, with the local authority saying Irish Water will do it and Irish Water saying the local authority will do it. We will hold Mr. Grant to his comments and proceed with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (22 Feb 2018)

Mick Barry: Absolutely.