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Topical Issue Debate: Air Services Provision (26 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: Ryanair is not only a non-union company, it is an explicitly anti-union company. It is run like a corporate dictatorship. Any worker in Ryanair who stood up and announced that he or she planned to try to unionise his or her fellow workers faced immediate sacking. I put it to the Minister that the absence of trade union organisation is part of the problem, as is the absence of trade union...

Topical Issue Debate: Air Services Provision (26 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: The pilots at Ryanair have mutinied against their pay and working conditions and I congratulate them on having done so. The men and women who fly Ryanair aeroplanes, work to a Ryanair schedule and wear Ryanair uniforms operate under the fiction that they are self-employed. This is social dumping by Ryanair on a grand scale. There is a scandal in the context of sick pay, holiday pay and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (26 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 107. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will make retrospective the compensation to all public servants recruited since 2011 on lesser pay than their longer serving comparators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40488/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (26 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 108. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason FEMPI remains on the Statute Book; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40489/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Fares (26 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 473. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost in 2018 if all Irish Rail, Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and Luas fares were halved. [40514/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Non-Contributory) Eligibility (26 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated net cost in 2018 if the eligible age for the State pension was reduced from 66 to 65 years of age, taking into account the savings that would be made on jobseeker's allowance or benefit. [40513/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Charges Refunds (26 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 537. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the reimbursement of water charges will come entirely out of 2017 expenditure; and if part of the reimbursement comes out of 2018 expenditure, the amount of same. [40512/17]

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: Rubbish. The Government has a strong record on-----

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: I am very calm.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: I will start by asking a question: what exactly is going on in the Dáil Chamber this evening? The radical left has proposed that a right to housing be in the Constitution, something which exists in more than 80 other countries around the globe. Every single party represented in the Chamber has indicated its support for this proposal with the exception of two. Fianna Fáil and Fine...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: I want to address the issue of the public services card. Section 5 of the Bill allows for the public services card to have dates of birth on it at the request of the cardholder. The card can then be used as ID with non-State bodies, banks, etc. Currently, the card does not have a date of birth and cannot be used as ID with non-State bodies. We oppose the use of the public services card as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Report: Dr. Mary Murphy and Dr. Rory Hearne, NUI Maynooth (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: I have three questions. My first question is on the housing assistance payment, HAP. Some of the statistics the witnesses have provided in the section on HAP are staggering. Mind-blowing would not be an exaggeration. Their report states that HAP is an expensive policy option and far more costly than building social housing directly. They calculate that over a period of 30 years in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Dublin Regional Homless Executive (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: I only have the one question. It is on the issue of hubs. I want to briefly read into the record some quotes because the quotes in the report are really interesting and important and it is important the voice of the people in the hubs is heard. The researchers were told by various parents that they felt their parenting was being checked all the time, that they got warnings, that the hubs...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 53. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the JobPath scheme in view of the numbers that have been sanctioned through the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39687/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on making the public services card compulsory for availing of public services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39686/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Safety (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 129. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of reports that have been made to the Health and Safety Authority since the beginning of 2017 regarding unsafe climbing and operation of construction site cranes by unqualified and under-qualified personnel or unsafe use of construction cranes; the number of inspections by HSA personnel that followed; and the findings in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Authority (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 130. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of whole-time equivalents qualified to conduct workplace inspections that are employed by the Health and Safety Authority; and the number employed in 2008. [39176/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Consultations (11 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance when the report commissioned by his Department and the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection on bogus self employment practices in the construction sector and resultant losses incurred in PAYE and PRSI will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37596/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Support Services (11 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 599. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views regarding the measures advocated by the safe passage campaign (details supplied) which seeks to reunite separated refugee families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37569/17]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hare Coursing (11 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: 703. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a copy of the licences she has issued for the netting and tagging of hares for the purpose of hare coursing in 2017. [37591/17]