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Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: -----who are working alongside older colleagues who started work before this legislation came in. They are doing the same work in the same workplace.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: They are doing the same work-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: -----in the same workplace-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: -----yet one group of workers is being paid less.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: It is total discrimination in that regard.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: Does the Minister not accept that it is totally discriminatory against young people?

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: My final question a Cheann Comhairle-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: In a sneaky way this legislation is to be placed in the Library and that is considered sufficient that it is passed by the House without having had an opportunity to debate the matter. Does the Minister not agree that it is totally undemocratic?

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: We are keen to add our voice to points raised on the need for a far more urgent approach and urgent action in respect of the case of Ibrahim Halawa. The main issue that I wish to raise is the issue of the renewal of the financial emergency legislation. It is somewhat strange that financial emergency legislation is being renewed at a time when there is no financial emergency in the State....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Programme for Government Initiatives (30 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 25. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will implement the fit-to-work scheme contained in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18794/16]

National Asset Management Agency: Motion [Private Members] (29 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: Does the discount obtained by Cerberus for the 850 properties and the murky circumstances around the £6 million success fee require an investigation? It does, absolutely. However, there is a bigger picture in the sense of how NAMA has operated. By the time it concludes its business, a total of 772 developers will have received write-downs amounting to a staggering €40 billion....

Other Questions: Irish Water (29 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: I note with interest the comment of the Minister that he expects Irish Water to take what he describes as a pragmatic approach. In reality, he is saying that Irish Water is likely to back off where there is strong community resistance to the installation of water meters. I hope all the activists and campaigners in those communities listen carefully to the point the Minister has made, draw...

Other Questions: Irish Water (29 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: I do not imagine the Minister has ever been at a community based anti-water meter protest. Therefore, I will give him some flavour of what it is like. It is a community event. It is not like a bill coming into one's letterbox, it is like Irish Water crews coming into one's community. Discussion starts in the community and members of it begin to get organised. Cars are driven around...

Other Questions: Irish Water (29 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: The Minister spoke about the number of meters that have been installed. The Irish Water target is for somewhere between 1 million and 1.1 million. Irish Water has said that approximately 850,000 have been installed so far. The bulk of the areas where the meters have yet to be installed are the working class communities where people have organised to resist their installation, areas such as...

Other Questions: Irish Water (29 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: Does the Minister mean that they will back off?

Other Questions: Irish Water (29 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: I think he is saying that they are going to back off.

Other Questions: Irish Water (29 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 7. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has instructed Irish Water to discontinue with the installation of water meters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18477/16]

Other Questions: Irish Water (29 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: The Minister has effectively been forced to suspend water charges. Will he take the logical next step and suspend water metering also? Will he instruct Irish Water to do so or will it be like a bad B movie?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Arrears (29 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 30. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if arrears will be written-off in the event of water charges being abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18478/16]

Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: The Government has used the Constitution as an excuse for the lack of action on this issue. It contends that the State is obliged to maintain a situation whereby the interests of religious institutions are placed ahead of the right of freedom of religion, the right to access education and the right to opt out of religious instruction. We do not agree with this interpretation of the...