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

Mick Barry: I expected the Ceann Comhairle to give me a few extra minutes as well.

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

Mick Barry: I welcome the parents in the Gallery who have been campaigning for change and justice on this issue. The current practice in respect of school admissions and the teaching of religion in schools is at odds with the views and aspirations of the majority of the population. According to a poll conducted on behalf of Equate, a total of 87% agreed that the State should ensure children do not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (28 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 21. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will end the position whereby new teachers are on lesser pay rates and conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18266/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (28 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has met with the Irish National Teachers' Organisation, the Teachers Union of Ireland and the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland on the issue of post-2011 entrants to teaching having a different pay rate to pre-2011 entrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18267/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 406. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can be offered an appointment at the earliest of opportunity. [18137/16]

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: Within hours of the announcement of the Brexit result, Sinn Féin's Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, issued a call for a Border poll, which was repeated by Deputies Adams and McDonald earlier in this debate. The Sinn Féin spokespersons are referring to a provision in the Good Friday Agreement whereby a poll on Irish unity can be called in Northern Ireland if there is reason...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Election of Chairman (23 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: It is useful at the start of the work programme of any committee to start with the terms of reference. When we are talking strategy, the terms of reference are particularly important. Our terms of reference include a reorientation from a hospital-based health service to a primary and community care service. Our terms of reference include moving towards a one-tier universal health care...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: The Government's approach to the Revised Estimates shows that despite the setback in its fortunes last February, which to a large degree can be attributed to its overblown claims of recovery, we still have all the cuts and impositions left in situ. Lessons have not been learned about the hardship being felt. Savage cuts in the one-parent family payment, which remain unaltered, were...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: Can we note that Ireland went into the lead in the course of my speech?

The Arts: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: A great play begins with the following scene:GALILEO: Put the milk on the table. But don't shut any of my books. ANDREA [the housekeeper's son]: Mother says we must pay the milkman. If we don't, he'll soon be making a circle round our house [...] GALILEO: The expression is: he will be describing a circle, Andrea. ANDREA: All right. If we don't pay, he'll be describing a circle round us,...

Topical Issue Debate: Library Services (22 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: Sometimes I come into this place and I wonder whether the English language has any real meaning at all in here. I listened carefully to the Minister of State's reply. He said he understands there are some concerns. The Minister of State is not talking about library workers going on their tea break and saying, on balance, they think there might be some issues with his proposals. Hundreds...

Topical Issue Debate: Library Services (22 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: What does the Government have against library services? They were severely hit by cuts, including staff numbers, during the austerity years. Now, when there is talk about an improvement in the economy, one would think major improvements for library services would be lined up and yet more attacks are taking place under the new Government. Library services are the responsibility of local...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: One could say a lot about the events of the last week. One thing one could say is that it has been a shambles from the point of view of the Government. The Minister, who is charged with responsibility for the housing emergency and who should be devoting every minute of every day to addressing it, has had to put it on the back burner and run around trying to sort out a crisis in respect of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 10. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the meeting of the last British-Irish Council. [17156/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: I note in the Taoiseach's comments on the British-Irish Council that he referred to the discussion on the referendum. Will the Taoiseach comment on the tenor of the debate? It has, rightly, come in for widespread criticism. It does not surprise me, given that one side is led by the leadership faction in the Conservative Party and the other side is led by the opposition faction in the...

Estimates for Public Services 2016 (16 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: Although I could probably speak on 20 different issues under this heading, given the time available I will speak on only one issue in more detail, namely, the rates for nurses in general and for young nurses in particular. Even from a young age, I have always found it telling how many capitalist societies force nurses, who save lives, to live on relatively low wages while paying handsome...

Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: Condolences to the friends and families of the Berkeley victims. I have two questions for the Tánaiste. The Government did not listen on the issue of water charges. Working class people, through the protest campaign, made it listen. The Government would be well advised to listen to the growing anger on the issue of bin charges. If it does not, working class people will again make it...

Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: Given the derisive response of people via text and Twitter in the past 30 minutes to the plan to send the Minister, Deputy Coveney, to meet the bin companies next week and the feeling that this is not good enough and is a shambles, I will give the Tánaiste another opportunity to answer the question of whether she is prepared to reverse before the weekend the legislation that opened the...

Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: There was a second question, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: Is the Tánaiste prepared to introduce legislation to reverse the privatisation, which has put these profiteers in charge of the industry?