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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Eligibility (11 Apr 2017)

Mick Barry: 787. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a person (details supplied) can be designated as having the required skills that will enable them to seek work without being dependant on an employer sponsoring them; and the process open to them to pursue this aim. [18201/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (5 Apr 2017)

Mick Barry: I have three points. The first payments under this programme will be received by services this week, including five in Cork. Better late than never, I suppose, and it is welcome news, but what of the others? Will they receive their money by Easter or by the end of April? I am referring to centres that have submitted all of the paperwork and are just waiting for what they were promised and...

Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (5 Apr 2017)

Mick Barry: We are talking about 13 not-for-profit community crèches here. There are 87 jobs at stake and 349 children involved: 44% of those children come from one-parent families; 73% come from families that can only continue on the basis of State income support; and 33% have specific disadvantage. The demands of the campaigners are straightforward. Apart from the emergency funding already...

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

Mick Barry: Last Friday, workers in Iarnród Éireann and Dublin Bus engaged in an act of solidarity with their colleagues in Bus Éireann. It was an act that I and my party, and more ordinary people than one might think, are prepared to defend because they are appalled by the role of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross. Under the terms of the Industrial Relations Act...

Defence Forces: Motion (4 Apr 2017)

Mick Barry: The Minister of State said, "The Fine Gael record is one of standing up for the Defence Forces and the men and women of Óglaigh na hÉireann who serve our country with loyalty and distinction." What he should have said is, "The Fine Gael record is one of treating the Defence Forces and the men and women of Óglaigh na hÉireann who serve tge country with loyalty and...

Brexit: Statements (4 Apr 2017)

Mick Barry: Again, it is left to us on these benches to bring an explicitly left and working class perspective to the debate on the EU and Britain’s exit. One unfortunate aspect of the referendum campaign in Britain is that the justified working class anger at the EU on the sound grounds of its neo-liberal and anti-worker agenda did not find expression in the national debate in the UK. Jeremy...

Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)

Mick Barry: There is rage at the Minister across the country outside of Dublin, including in Cork, Galway, Limerick, Waterford and the smaller towns and among stranded passengers, including elderly passengers, workers who have to pay for taxis to get to work and businesses that have been hit hard. In an unpopular Government, with unpopular Ministers, the Minister, Deputy Ross, is the most unpopular of...

Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)

Mick Barry: We were told originally that this was about a €6 million loss at Expressway, but now the chief executive of Bus Éireann is talking about the need for €30 million in savings. Where does the €30 million figure come from? We know that under EU dictat by 2019, some 10% of Bus Éireann services must be opened up to competitive tender. Under this tender, all city...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: The Minister says he has no interest in participating in a race to the bottom and that there is no race to the bottom. There is a proposal on the table to establish a panel of part-time and temporary drivers at Bus Éireann working off a type of zero-hour contract. The proposal will bring some of the worst excesses of private sector exploitation and make them part of the semi-State...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: The Minister says he does not want to see a race to the bottom, but in the next breath he says the proposal to have a type of zero-hour contract is not his responsibility and that it is a matter of indifference to him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: It is included in a discussion document from the Workplace Relations Commission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: I referred to a type of zero-hour contract. It states part-time and temporary drivers will form part of the weekly rosters. It states a minimum fixed-hour working arrangement will be agreed to in advance with part-time and temporary drivers. It states payment will be for revenue hours covered and that the company may, on a short or longer term basis, utilise part-time or temporary staff to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: What did the Minister say?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: I will read from something and do not know whether the Minister will think it is rubbish. A few years ago someone said Ireland's trade unions had subverted our democracy. He said:What a pity there was no strike last Thursday. Some of us were longing for it. If the trade union leaders had called a strike they would have suffered bloody noses. I think the person who said that has an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: We all have tussles with various individuals. It is more than a tussle to say:What a pity there was no strike last Thursday. Some of us were longing for it. If the trades union leaders had called a strike they would have suffered bloody noses. It does not seem that the Minister has changed his views one iota in the year since that article was written. The stakes are very high in this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: If I may be very brief, the Minister states that he comes in here and hears the same points from me. I come in here and hear the same points from the Minister. It is a stalemate, but I suspect that it will not be settled in here but outside when Dublin Bus and Iarnród Éireann workers display their solidarity with and support for their colleagues, which I know they will display, in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: I agree with the Minister of State on one point: things in the garden are not rosy - not by a long shot. Before Christmas, I tabled a parliamentary question which took his Department until the middle of February to answer. It concerned the number of days' leave entitlement surrendered by members of the armed forces because those on tours of duty could not carry over untaken leave. A...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the Government's response to the application being taken to the European Committee of Social Rights by EUROMIL on behalf of PDFORRA seeking enhanced employee and representative rights for the Defence Forces akin to that won by the Garda organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15538/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: I thank Deputy Lisa Chambers for allowing me to leapfrog with the taking of my Question No. 3 before her Question No. 4. An application is being taken to the European Committee of Social Rights by EUROMIL on behalf of PDFORRA seeking enhanced employee and representative rights for the Defence Forces akin to those won by the Garda organisations. Will the Minister of State indicate his views...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: Does the Minister appreciate that a head of steam is building up in the ranks of the armed forces and their families over a litany of grievances that I have raised with him both in oral and written questions during the past few months? It is not just a question of grievances, of which there are many, on the issues of pay, pension rights, the theft by this State of annual leave entitlement...