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Priority Questions: Bus Éireann (8 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: 32. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the unfolding crisis at Bus Éireann and the case for an increased subsidy from his Department. [6356/17]

Priority Questions: Bus Éireann (8 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: What is the Minister's views on the unfolding crisis at Bus Éireann and will he comment on the case for his Department allocating an increased subsidy to the company?

Priority Questions: Bus Éireann (8 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: The Minister is the sole shareholder in Bus Éireann. We are 12 days away from a national bus strike which could spill over into a national public transport strike. The Minister said the same sterile mantras 12 days ago that he has repeated in the Dáil today. Will he be saying them in 12 days' time when a national bus strike will kick off? We need more than that. I understand...

Priority Questions: Bus Éireann (8 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: Bus Éireann now runs its Cork-Dublin services along the motorway. The towns that lost out between Portlaoise and Cashel are now served by private operators who are paid €440,000 a year for that work. Bus Éireann services from Dublin to Galway and Dublin to Waterford do not travel only on the motorway. If they travelled exclusively on it, it would cost the State between...

Pensions (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: Hi Mick,I am an employee of Pfizer, Ringaskiddy, for 22 years. The proposed changes to the pension that the company is trying to bring in would lead me to have a shortfall of approximately €286,338. I am 51 years old, and to maintain the current value I have on defined benefit, an outlay of €15,849 would be my cost per annum. I have managed to save for my kids' college fees...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: The Minister read from a prepared script and did not answer the questions. Did the Minister know about these secret waiting lists? If he did not, why not? How much of the delay in access to treatment for public patients is due to private patients being taken ahead of them? Is it the case that if one cannot pay one suffers, even if one is a child and that if one can pay one can go ahead...

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (7 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: Since taking power, Mr. Trump has given the go-ahead to the Keystone XL and Dakota pipelines, forbidden scientists from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, from speaking to the media and is insisting they must submit their work to the White House for review before it is published, and removed all reference to climate change from the White House website. His choice of...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: We found out last night that there are two secret waiting lists in the health service. The HSE fiddled the figures and, in so doing, made the official lists look not as bad as they really are. Who benefited from that fiddling? The HSE did and so, too, did the Department of Health. In addition, successive Ministers for Health benefited from the fiddling of the figures, including the...

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (7 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: 47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department has estimated the potential impact on the environment of the promised withdrawal by President Trump from the Paris Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5800/17]

Bus Éireann: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 2: To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following:“recognises that:— Bus Éireann’s financially parlous state arises in large measure from the legacy of a cut to the State subsidy which in 2016 was still €12 million less than 2009 levels; — this has been further compounded by a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: "Rural Ireland is a top priority". That was last night. "The NTA will ensure that there is no negative impact on the connectivity of rural communities" was today. That is a rather vague formulation, so let us pin it down. There is a village. Let us call it Ballykissangel. Six Bus Éireann buses pass through it every day. As a result of current events, that service is axed. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: I am not asking the Minister to. Connectivity will be maintained. I got that. I gave the Minister an example of six connections. Even if they are reduced to two or one, there is still a connection, but the service has been slashed. Will the Minister give a commitment that the level of service will be maintained 100% for each town and village? Yes or no?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: The Minister will not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: Fair enough. We only have ten minutes. Let us leave aside the question of individual routes. We will not get into that level of micro detail. If one combines the individual routes, one gets a national picture. Instead of six in one village, there are 2,000 throughout the country, for argument's sake. Is the Minister giving the commitment that the level of service will still be 2,000 or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: I am not asking the Minister to do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: As I note that the Minister has not made a commitment to the level of service to be provided, I will move on. The acting CEO confirmed in the statement made to the committee that nothing he had said or issued in recent weeks constituted preconditions. One can argue that what is stated in the letter does not constitute preconditions but a negotiating position, if one stretches it a little....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: The Minister has come before the committee and recommended that the two sides sit down together with a blank sheet of paper. However, those involved on one side will have it hanging over their heads that if they do not agree to pay cuts of up to €7,000 a year for some of the workers, it it will happen unilaterally within 18 days. The Minister does not think it would be in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: The Minister's "no comment" speaks volumes. I want to ask him about the insolvency of Bus Éireann. Mr. Hernan has said that within a year the company could reach a crunch. He has also indicated that the board will be unable to sign off on reports at the end of March unless a plan is put in place. He has talked about making unilateral cuts within 19 days, which means, as we all know,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: A rough figure would do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: Does the Minister have a rough figure?