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Leaders' Questions (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: Perhaps the Taoiseach might ask the Garda Commissioner about the phone, try to establish the position and then let the House know. On the question of legacy, the Taoiseach will want part of his legacy to be the speech where he criticised the church and mentioned, among other things, the Magdalen laundries. The Magdalen laundries of this day and age are the direct provision centres. What...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: Former Garda press officer, Superintendent Dave Taylor, claims that he sent a text to the Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O'Sullivan, some years ago in which he told her that a journalist had interviewed a person making allegations against Maurice McCabe. Superintendent Taylor claims Commissioner O'Sullivan sent a one-word reply, "Perfect." We are told now that Commissioner...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he obtained an independent valuation for the Harold's Cross stadium before his Department purchased the stadium from Bord na gCon; the valuation arrived at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25360/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: 319. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the long-term decline in occupational defined benefit pension schemes in the private sector; his further views on the idea of a State supervised unified defined benefit, half final salary occupational pension scheme for workers in all sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23051/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: 531. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Bord na gCon obtained a valuation of Harold's Cross stadium from the Valuation Office or another valuer prior to its sale; the valuation arrived at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25359/17]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2017)

Mick Barry: I will start my contribution with a simple question to the Minister. In regard to the €110 million fund, what interest has built up on it in the intervening years since it was established and is that interest being added to the fund for the survivors? If not, why not? I would appreciate an answer to that question. Why does Caranua not pay people a lump sum, similar to a pension? As...

Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)

Mick Barry: I support the amendments to the Government motion seeking to focus the commission of investigation but also seeking to suspend NAMA sales pending the completion of the investigation. We are in the habit of having investigations and commissions that tread over the same ground. It remains to be seen if this investigation will get us any further. That said, it is walking on the foundation of...

Order of Business (23 May 2017)

Mick Barry: We have just discussed the Manchester tragedy. More than one Deputy rightly praised the work of the men and women who provided the emergency services. Members can agree these are people who get up early in the morning, to use a phrase that is doing the rounds.

Order of Business (23 May 2017)

Mick Barry: We are indeed. Yesterday, the Minister for Social Protection stated that the men and women who provide similar services in this country should have their right to strike restricted or even banned. Today, a man who bankrupted the country walked free. Yesterday, the men and women who are the backbone of the country were threatened with having their rights restricted. Given that plans to...

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Mick Barry: I am afraid that I am going to have to deal with a certain topic in my supplementary question. I ask the Minister to confirm that the Taoiseach, on retirement, will be in receipt of a lump sum of €378,000-----

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Mick Barry: -----and on top of that, an annual payment in perpetuity of €126,000. Next week the Minister is going into public sector pay talks and standing over a negotiating stance of support for two-tier pay rates, allowance systems and pension rates for new entrants. This is the solidarity that the Minister is showing to the people who helped to get this country out of the crisis, the working...

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Mick Barry: Does the Minister have any comment to make on the Taoiseach's pension?

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Mick Barry: The conversation about the legacy of Deputy Enda Kenny has begun. The conversation to date has been somewhat one-sided. The official version is out there. Stephen Collins in The Irish Timesthis morning summed it up. He said:By any yardstick Enda Kenny has been one of the most successful political leaders in the history of the State ... His crowning achievement was to lead the country of...

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Mick Barry: The vantage point from an editorial chair in Tara Street, a CEO's office in a bailed-out bank or from the backbenches of the Fine Gael Party is somewhat different from the vantage point of working class people in my constituency of Cork North-Central or from the vantage point of a homeless person in a doorway or a young mother trying to make the rent. Such commentators will be far more...

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Mick Barry: Social inequality on a scale never before seen in this State was achieved by them all, building on the legacy of the previous Fianna Fáil administrations. On the legacy issue, who was right - the hundreds of thousands of people alienated from the political establishment or the editorial writers? Perhaps both are right in their own ways, coming from completely different, opposing and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (18 May 2017)

Mick Barry: 178. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will hold formal negotiations with a group (details supplied) regarding the restoration of cuts to pensions in view of the fact that they affect retired public servants. [23689/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 May 2017)

Mick Barry: 207. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the comment from the representative of Cork university hospital in correspondence (details supplied) justifying a three day delay to the treatment of a person's head wound; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23690/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)

Mick Barry: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the Cabinet committee on health will be held. [23041/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)

Mick Barry: When I was out and about in my constituency at the weekend, I saw a neighbour of mine limping a little more badly than usual. I asked him what the story was about his hip. He is a man who had a knee operation a few years ago privately, but his private insurance has lapsed. He was placed on the public list last June for a hip operation and told recently to expect to undergo an operation...

Equal Participation in Schools Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2017)

Mick Barry: I was born in the United States of America and I went to school there for eight years. Every morning, we had to stand, face the flag, place our hands on our hearts, and sing "O say can you see". Children going to school in England at the time would have been taught in school that once upon a time, the sun never set on the British Empire, that Britain was the workshop of the world. Every...