Results 4,141-4,160 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 54:In page 29, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:"(d) a representative nominated by the trade union movement.".
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D (infrastructure) will meet next. [42739/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: I understand that Cabinet committee D covers Irish Rail. Some people might be surprised that the next meeting of the committee is scheduled for 23 November given that there will be a national rail strike next Wednesday. It will be the first of five. The strike is being staged by a group of workers whose pay has effectively been frozen for ten years and who do a very good job. Irish Rail...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: I will be brief as I am due in the House to question the Taoiseach on funding issues relating to Irish Rail. My question to Mr. Allen is one I will not have time to ask the Taoiseach. We are facing a strike next Wednesday by Irish Rail staff, the first of five national stoppages planned for the coming weeks. These workers have not had a pay increase for a decade. Mr. Allen referred to a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: Yes, but I wish to ask about it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: The trip to Enniskillen included the CEO of the company, Mr. Franks, and invited guests at a cost of between €20,000 and €60,000. That is rubbing salt into the wound for workers who have not had a pay increase in ten years and are being forced out on strike next week. I would like more information on that trip. I have to leave so given that this is just one question, could I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: Briefly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: Very briefly on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: Mr. Franks was involved. The newspaper report mentioned a figure of between €20,000 and €60,000. What is the official position on how much taxpayers' money was spent on it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: The CEO was involved. Mr. Franks was there. It was sponsored.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: I would be interested in seeing the information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: The people who are being forced out on strike for a pay increase next week would be interested in seeing the information as well.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (25 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will reconsider its refusal to fund a new space at a school (details supplied) for resource teaching; and if his officials will meet with the principal and board of management of the school. [44818/17]
- Housing: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: I wish to share time with Deputy Boyd Barrett. We are debating the housing crisis. I have no faith in the market or the Government to solve this problem and, therefore, I would like to use my contribution to call on the trade union movement to organise a major national demonstration on the housing crisis and to use that to launch a nationwide protest campaign to force change on this...
- Catalonia: Statements (24 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: I wish to share time with Deputy Boyd Barrett.
- Catalonia: Statements (24 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: The decision of the Rajoy government to activate Article 155 and impose direct rule on Catalonia represents a major escalation of both repression and the crisis. It comes on top of the jailing of two leading civil society activists pending charges that could result in 15 years imprisonment for each. These two men are currently political prisoners facing a form of internment. It also comes...
- Catalonia: Statements (24 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: Shame on the Spanish state.
- Catalonia: Statements (24 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: I stand over my comments but I will proceed with my speech.
- Catalonia: Statements (24 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: These actions represent not just an imposition by a nationalist Spanish Government on the Catalan nation but also a clampdown on a mass movement for both national and social rights by a right-wing pro-austerity government. The actions of the Spanish state serve to confirm the observation of Friedrich Engels that the state, in the last analysis, can be reduced to armed bodies of men acting in...
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)
Mick Barry: No. We would like to propose that the Business Committee be convened later to discuss two amendments to the Order of Business for Thursday. First, given that Saturday is the fifth anniversary of the death of Savita Halappanavar and in view of the fact that Thursday is the closest Dáil sitting day to that, we would like the committee to consider that a minute's silence be organised in...