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

Mick Barry: I wish to make some comments on the proposed change to the national minimum wage. There has been insufficient commentary on this in the past 24 hours. The proposal is to increase the minimum wage from €9.15 per hour to €9.25 per hour, an increase of a miserable 10 cent per hour. For me and, I am sure, hundreds of thousands of low-paid workers, it was disgusting to see one of...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (11 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: The Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit will be opposing this motion. We agree entirely that tobacco products and cigarettes are harmful and damaging, they cause cancer and heart disease and they kill. However, while the price is undoubtedly a factor in whether someone buys a pack of cigarettes, the fact that people are addicted leads to price inelasticity and not many people give...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (11 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: 36. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to when she spoke at the UN summit on refugees and migrants in New York when she indicated the Government will have resettled 870 migrants by the end of 2016, the reason for the disparity between this figure and the Government's commitment to accept 4,000 people from Syria; and the way the figure of 4,000 can be both achieved and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (11 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: 565. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps his Department will take to ensure broadband services will be provided in an area in correspondence (details supplied). [29707/16]

Topical Issue Debate: Consular Services Provision (6 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: On the Duterte regime, in another statement this President made recently he encouraged civilians to kill addicts, and he has said he will not prosecute police for extra judicial executions. Eanna is on bail and in hiding. He is in the most horrible position imaginable. I believe his passport, which is the Minister's property, is missing. Have we demanded the return of the passport? What...

Topical Issue Debate: Consular Services Provision (6 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: Eanna Ó Cochláin is a 55 year old Corkman. He is a nurse and is married to a Filipino woman and was arrested at an airport in the Philippines in 2013. It was claimed that the reason for his arrest was the discovery of a small quantity of marijuana in a packet of cigarettes, which he credibly claims was planted on him. He was imprisoned and asked for money to prevent him from...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: My questions relate to the housing (miscellaneous provisions) Bill and the landlord and tenant law reform Bill. In light of the report published yesterday by the Simon Community which showed that the rent cap increases introduced in July have had a very limited effect, will the aforementioned legislation include real rent controls, which will not just freeze rents but slash them? When will...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Agencies (6 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: 23. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the work of an agency (details supplied) on behalf of his Department; if he has studied the equivalent role this agency plays in the UK.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28789/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pensions (6 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: 46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the establishment of a universal single-tier State pension rather than the existing two-tier structure, which gives a lower rate for those who have been out of work caring for family members or in training for a longer period in their working life; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28788/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (6 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale behind the charging of VAT on the public service obligation item on utility bills; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29067/16]

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: I am sharing my time with Deputy Gino Kenny.

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: I will start by extending a welcome to the campaigners in the Public Gallery and indicating that we will be voting for the motion. On 7 May this year, 120,000 people gathered at various locations throughout the State at 4.15 in the morning. They walked and ran five kilometres, crossing the finishing lines of the Darkness Into Light events as the sun came up, raising money for the suicide...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: My question relates to corporation tax rates. After the Brexit referendum, the former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced plans to slash the UK corporation tax rate from 20% to below 15%. On BBC Radio Ulster on 5 July 2016, the Minister of Finance, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, referred to this in light of the plans by the Northern Ireland Executive to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: I will not say much about the Dublin Bus dispute except briefly to congratulate the workers on achieving the 3% offer. However, the Minister's failure to increase the State subvention has complicated the ballot because workers are asking where the money to fund the claim will come from. There is a concern that if it is not funded from the State, workers will be made to pay through the back...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: Can the Minister clarify his position on the plans to cut the wages and conditions now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: There is an outstanding question. Bus Éireann management has made it clear that it plans to slash the wages and conditions of the workforce. Will the Minister comment on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: Is that 15% or 50%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: My first question is to Mr. Franks from Iarnród Éireann. The State subsidy has been halved over the past nine years from €195 million to €98 million. In his opening statement he said the balance sheet will not sustain further losses past 2016 without compromising safety. He has just said if safety was compromised Iarnród Éireann would have to cease...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: What are the areas in which you envisage this occurring in the future?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: Will it affect operations in 2018?