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Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: By the Minister's own comments-----

Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: The Minister is condemned by her own comments. The Minister hides behind the fact that her Department has not yet produced a system for calculating the amount of GDP spent on the arts. The European average is 0.6% but it is 0.1% here. If the Minister wants to challenge that figure, she should produce statistics. We are waiting. When will we get them?

Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: The Minister does, indeed.

Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the Government is committed to increasing the budget for the arts to at least the European Union average of 0.6% of gross domestic product; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31142/16]

Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: Deputy Humphreys is the Minister with responsibility for the arts and she is the Minister who has cut the arts budget in terms of €188.5 million last year and €158.3 million last week, which is a cut of 16%. How does she account for herself? Let us not have any excuses about the 1916 centenary celebrations. The budget was cut, this Minister cut it and I ask her to account for it.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: 46. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her reasons for not retaining funding into 2017 in view of the positive experience of a modestly increased arts and culture budget for 2016 and in view of the lower than European average funding the State gives to the arts and culture; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31143/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: Forty-three years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: I thank Professor Reynolds-Feighan for her interesting presentation. My questions are as follows: can she give us a breakdown, in terms of transportation within Ireland, of the percentage that would be bus and rail and the percentage by car? How does that compare with the European norm and other European countries? What knock-on effects will that have in terms of congestion and carbon...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: There was a question about fares. What is the European experience of cuts in fares resulting in an increase in usage? Have those initiatives worked?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: I can see the headlines now, “Senator threatens extreme riots”.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: My first question relates to Iarnród Éireann. Mr. Noone put before the committee information that is shocking. It shows that the Irish Rail subvention has been cut from a little over €180 million to €98 million in seven years. That is a cut of almost 50%. Mr. O'Leary stated, "The safety of rail is second to none but in future years, we will only avoid catastrophe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: Was that an Ernst & Young or a Deloitte report?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Labour Employer Economic Forum (19 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: 34. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the matters discussed at the Labour Employer Economic Forum which he chaired on 5 October 2016. [30638/16]

Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: I will refer to the issues of pay rates for new entrant teachers and big business funding for third level institutions. I will start with the latter. In his speech to the Dáil on budget day, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, stated that "Ensuring education remains the linchpin of our economic success requires an intensified focus on a sustainable long-term...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (18 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: 63. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the budget announcement that 1,000 additional nurses will be recruited to the health care system will be achieved in the context that many graduate nurses are leaving the country citing pay and conditions. [30297/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: 98. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the Economist Intelligence Unit's mental health integration index which shows Ireland lying in 11th position out of the EU 15 and 14th overall of the 30 countries studied (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30619/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Legal Services (18 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: 312. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 446 of 27 September 2016, if he will reconcile the reply he provided with a claim subsequently made to this Deputy's office via social media, that Scope has been legally represented by the Chief State Solicitor's Office and a person (details supplied) in at least one previous appeal similar to the one...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (13 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: 25. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to plans by the owners of Ashbourne House direct provision centre in County Cork to develop the centre into apartments which would lead to the displacement of the residents of the centre; if she will provide the end date of the current contract between the Reception and Integration Agency of her Department and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (13 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when plans to restore the capitation grant to schools as set out in the Action Plan for Education 2016-2019 will be realised and if the restoration will include a prohibition on the practice of schools seeking so-called voluntary contributions from parents (details supplied). [30187/16]

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: It would still be the same as in the Netherlands, Austria and Denmark, where there is plenty of corporate investment, and it would be less than in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, the United States, Malta, Portugal and Sweden. I could go on. Deputy Aylward said that some companies would leave. Some would leave but they would overwhelmingly be the ones that...