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Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: I believe that people and families who have notices to quit hanging over them should be included in the homelessness figures. In this apartment block, we have young families with children who go to school in the vicinity. One family I spoke to pays €700 per month in rent. They have gone out to look for alternative accommodation. The prices being asked are from €1,000 up to...

Other Questions: Maternity Services Provision (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: 39. To ask the Minister for Health if the provision of anomaly scanning for all pregnancies will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48181/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Funding (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: 24. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the increase in mental health problems reported in the most recent census; the impact of the level of mental health funding in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48284/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Funding (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: Census 2016 tells us there was a 122% increase in mental health conditions for females aged between 13 and 22 in 2016 compared with 2011. The equivalent figure for males was 82%. This is quite clearly connected with the economic and social system and capitalism, which have given rise to precarious work, housing insecurity, increased education costs and so on. The increase in the problem is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Funding (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: How we deal with mental health is really important. Is the Minister of State aware of the report that has emerged in Cork in the past two days of a 14-year-old boy with Asperger's and anxiety who wrote to Cork County Council explaining that he was stressed out because of his family's situation of being on the housing waiting list? Shortly afterwards, his mother received correspondence from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: How is Mr. Barry? We have a couple of things in common, namely, the surname and the fact that we each have a job to do. I understand that Mr. Barry is coming into a new job. My job is to try my best to be a voice for public transport workers. The question they are asking me is whether Mr. Barry is going to be the privatisation guy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: The public transport workers I am talking to are looking at Mr. Barry's CV and seeing that he is a non-executive director of Ervia. That rings a bell in their heads because they know Irish Water was a subsidiary of Ervia and that there was a privatisation agenda there, albeit that has been defeated now by the campaign. They also look at his CV and see that Mr. Barry was involved in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: I wish to raise some issues regarding social housing. The headline above an article in this morning's edition of The Irish Timesmorning states, "Less than 1% of needed social housing has been built since start of 2016, says analyst". In the article, Mr. Mel Reynolds, a housing policy analyst, provides statistics that I will not go into in detail. That said, 6,005 people in Cork city are in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: I think they should respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: I will just put it to the Minister if he will allow me-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: I was invited in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: The Minister has invited me in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: I think the Taoiseach's comments to the effect that Ireland's homelessness numbers are low by international standards have been disproven by now. Yet, the Minister has repeated them again this morning. The Minister has said the policies are working, despite the fact that in the past two years our homelessness numbers have more than doubled. I asked the Minister of State whether his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: The Minister of State claims there is no co-ordination whatsoever. We have had three speeches trying to normalise and minimise homelessness, and a fourth speech this morning, in the space of four days. Yet, the Minister of State claims there is no co-ordination. I do not believe it and the people do not believe it either. It is a disgusting campaign.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: It is a disgraceful campaign that Fine Gael Ministers are waging.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: It is a co-ordinated campaign.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: The only campaign here is a co-ordinated campaign by Ministers to minimise and normalise homelessness, and the Minister, Deputy Murphy, is part of it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: I am going to take the opportunity to ask the Minister a question about local authority staff being transferred over to Irish Water. The staff are now to be transferred in the year 2021. The original plan was that they would be transferred over at a later date, I think it was 2026 although I stand to be corrected on that. It is happening five years before it was originally planned. I am...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: Sure. They took risks of fines and penalties and the threat of the law that was used against them, the threat of appearance in court. There is a debt of gratitude owed to those households. I welcome the refund of €173 million for the 990,000 households and will be supporting it. The first question from Deputy Barry related to the implications for those workers transferred to Irish...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: I must respond briefly to the comments of Deputy O'Dowd and the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy. Obviously we are very strong critics of Irish Water but we are the best champions of the interests of the ordinary people who work for that company. That is shown by the fact that we raised concerns this morning about pay and pensions and will defend pay and pensions if there is any attempt to...