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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: Irrespective of the date.

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: Yes.

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: Yes. I will give the Minister some rough figures.

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 State would lose €59 million in payroll taxes. If 2,500 workers were to claim social welfare payments at the minimum rate for a single person, it would cost the State €26 million, but the final amount would be way more. The figure for redundancy payments, with a minimum of two weeks' statutory payments, would be €124 million, but the redundancy packages would be...

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: To clarify, it is down by €9 million on the figure for 2009. The sum is the exact equivalent of the cut. Is that correct?

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: Is the PSO figure down by €9 million since 2009?

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 said he felt Deputy Troy was totally honourable. I am sure he thinks every member of the committee is totally honourable.

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: Of course. Can the Minister share the report he is about to share with Deputy Troy with all the committee members?

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: Very good.

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. [2758/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Industrial Disputes (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: 44. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the possibility of industrial action by nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4545/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Barry: 115. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the level of spare capacity in terms of acute beds in the private hospital system; if he has considered taking private hospitals into public ownership to address the crisis in the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4510/17]

Bus Éireann: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2017)

Mick Barry: On three occasions since January 2015, Bus Éireann brought forward plans to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport which sought to address the issue of losses within the company, specifically within its Expressway operations. On each occasion, the Department delayed taking action. It is hardly a coincidence that the Department delayed action in 2015, in the run-up to the...

Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (31 Jan 2017)

Mick Barry: The UN convention moves towards a rights-based model for those with disabilities. We welcome the Bill as a step forward in the ratification of the convention. Disability campaigners have been seeking ratification for almost ten years. The only reason we are here now is because of their work which involved dragging successive reluctant Governments along the road. While the Bill is to be...

Other Questions: Rural Development Plan (31 Jan 2017)

Mick Barry: The action plan was launched with great fanfare, which conjured up the image of an interventionist Government. How does the Minister of State square this promised interventionist approach by the Government to revive rural life in the coming years with the simultaneous threat being posed to the future of Bus Éireann in a matter of a few short weeks? Transport was mentioned three times...

Other Questions: Rural Development Plan (31 Jan 2017)

Mick Barry: I raised some of these questions with the Taoiseach last week under promised legislation and he said, rather contemptuously, that it was never the intention that every single town and village in the entire country would be provided with transport. He also said, however, that the Government would endeavour to ensure that where there is connectivity at the moment with Bus Éireann, such...

Other Questions: Rural Development Plan (31 Jan 2017)

Mick Barry: 48. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will be introducing legislation to give effect to the objectives set out in the Action Plan for Rural Development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4137/17]

Other Questions: Rural Development Plan (31 Jan 2017)

Mick Barry: Will the Minister of State's Department be introducing legislation to give effect to the objectives set out in the Action Plan for Rural Development, and will he make a statement on this matter?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Mick Barry: 349. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the Israeli Defence Force raid and demolition of the Palestinian Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran on 18 January 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3829/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts (26 Jan 2017)

Mick Barry: 14. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will instruct all Departments to ensure that when tendering for construction projects that they favour bids that are based on direct employment of labour and observance of agreed sectorial rates of pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3424/17]