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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Freedom of Information Requests (6 Feb 2018)

Mick Barry: 83. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason his Department has not yet provided an organisation's (details supplied) representative with files sought in view of the ruling by the Information Commissioner against his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5661/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (6 Feb 2018)

Mick Barry: 166. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public contracts a company (details supplied) holds here; and if, following the recent experience with the collapse of another company (details supplied) precautionary measures can be taken to safeguard public projects and jobs. [5737/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (1 Feb 2018)

Mick Barry: 16. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the practice of tendering school build projects in view of the collapse of a company (details supplied) resulting in the discontinuation of work on six school build sites here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4658/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Contractors (1 Feb 2018)

Mick Barry: 28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consequences of the collapse of a company (details supplied) on six school build projects here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4657/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dog Breeding Industry (1 Feb 2018)

Mick Barry: 313. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which is it possible for an unregistered dog breeding enterprise (details supplied) to operate without planning permission unimpeded by either his Department or the local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5286/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2018)

Mick Barry: Some of the information Ms Orla Hegarty provided the committee was interesting. I represent the Cork North Central constituency. The figures she gave from the UCC report about Cork's North Main Street, a street I know well, are interesting. This points to reasons to support this Bill. We want to support this Bill but we have some issues and reservations which we have flagged before. Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Mick Barry: Homeless circumstances. To anyone here who is a public representative, who has worked as a Deputy or as a councillor in a local authority, that figure would not be a shocking one. We deal with people in those circumstances all the time. There can be any number of good reasons, which would stand up, for someone in homeless circumstances to refuse the offer of a house. I had many debates on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Mick Barry: I would not dream of making a suggestion such as that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Mick Barry: I am clearly not suggesting that even a tiny percentage of the Cabinet-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Mick Barry: I think the Chair knows what I am saying, and I think she knows-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Mick Barry: I will finish my point and then ask him to reply. I am merely using an extreme example to make a point. The chairperson of the Housing Agency should know better. He should know how his comments would be taken up. I will be blunt with him. I suspect that he did know. I think he knew how those comments would be taken up, and I think that there are people who are in high places in this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Mick Barry: On a point of information-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Mick Barry: I would like Mr. Skehan to clarify his comments about hundreds of thousands of people living in trailer parks in various states in the US, that this is not the position here and that it is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Mick Barry: That is the clarification sought.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Mick Barry: I have not finished asking my question. From what Mr. Skehan said, I took it that we should be proud of the fact that we do not have that scenario here. I am asking him whether he thinks it appropriate as chairman of the Housing Agency at a time when there are more than 8,000 people in emergency accommodation, including a record 3,000 plus children, to say we should be proud that we do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Mick Barry: I have a brief question. Mr. Skehan provided the joint committee with information from a variety of sources to support the view that there are at least questions about people gaming the system. Some of this information was from social media sources. While I stand to be corrected, I understand Mr. Skehan indicated he was involved in an entity or business and had obtained some of this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Role of Chairperson of Housing Agency and Related Matters: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Mick Barry: What is the name of the company?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (31 Jan 2018)

Mick Barry: 88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress being made in Cork city in accommodating 55 Traveller persons in emergency accommodation arising from the damage done to their dwellings during Storm Ophelia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4555/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenancy Protection Scheme (31 Jan 2018)

Mick Barry: 95. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he will take to protect the interests of the households at a location (details supplied) that face the threat of homelessness arising from the notice to quit they received from a company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4554/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (31 Jan 2018)

Mick Barry: 249. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the person or body that has the authority to exterminate stray cats; the sanctions that exist if an unauthorised person or company attempts to exterminate cats; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4695/18]