Results 5,141-5,160 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (14 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 313. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of assessments the chief medical officer conducted in 2015 under the disability allowance scheme and the illness benefit scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15709/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Subsidies (14 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 572. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the 13 cent State subsidy for each €1 in fares collected by Bus Éireann compares unfavourably with other EU 15 countries (details supplied); and the measures he proposes to improve the situation. [15691/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (14 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 573. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of plans to open a significant proportion of Dublin Bus routes to tender and if he accepts that private companies will try to compete for these routes on the basis of poorer pay and conditions for their staff. [15692/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Provision (14 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 574. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the opposition of Dublin City Council's elected members to the concept of an eastern bypass in the city, as manifested at their recent meetings on the Dublin City development plan. [15693/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Industrial Relations (14 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 580. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the pay claims by Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann workers, given that they have not received a pay rise in eight years. [15871/16]

Insurance Costs: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: I thank the Ceann Comhairle.Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen. Woody Guthrie might have been writing about the insurance industry in this country. Profits on car insurance were up 12% in 2014 and they were up 26.5% last year. According to Mr. Ken Thompson, the chief executive of Insurance...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Homeless Accommodation Provision (9 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 23. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the long-term effect of homelessness on children, their welfare and their educational attainment; the actions she has taken; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14847/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Industrial Relations (9 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 33. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to report on the industrial relations situation in Oberstown youth detention centre. [14846/16]

Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (2 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: That is correct.Yesterday one of the largest trade unions in the State published a very significant report on the issue of wage levels in this country. The report found that Ireland is now a low-wage economy. It found that there is a disproportionate percentage of people working in low-paying jobs. In effect, Ireland is now competing with Portugal to be the low-pay capital of Europe. We...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Safety (2 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 46. To ask the Minister for Health if personnel of the Health Service Executive will conduct the assessments under the proposed fit for work programme contained in the programme for Government or if it will outsource this work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13747/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pensions (2 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 103. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the closing of the defined benefit pension scheme of the Central Remedial Clinic, given that some of the persons affected were previously Health Service Executive employees who were forced to have their then pension fund transferred into that of the Central Remedial Clinic; and to address the possibility that the executive take over the pension...

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: I welcome the workers, trade union activists and trade union officials who are in the Visitors Gallery. Today, the union Unite published a report entitled The Truth About Irish Wages. The report shows that Ireland is a low-pay economy and has a high level of income inequality. It showed that low-paid employees constitute a disproportionate percentage of the Irish workforce compared to...

Health Care Committee Establishment: Motion (1 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: In 1948 a leaflet was delivered to every home in the United Kingdom. It stated:Your new National Health Service begins on 5th July. What is it? How do you get it? It will provide you with all medical, dental and nursing care. Everyone – rich or poor, man, woman or child - can use it or any part of it. There are no charges, except for a few special items. There are no insurance...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (1 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 139. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the permanent mission of Ireland to the United Nations at Geneva in Switzerland has received communication from the United Nations special rapporteur on the human right to water and sanitation, and from the United Nations special rapporteur on the human right to adequate housing and on the access to sanitation and housing in County...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Human Rights Issues (1 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: 192. To ask the Minister for Health the opportunities he had to raise the rights of the victims of symphysiotomy during the United Nations Human Rights Council. [10143/16]

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Mick Barry: This morning, The Irish Timesreported a briefing note prepared for the Minister, Deputy Leo Varadkar, suggests the qualifying age for disability allowance be raised from 16 years to 18 years. It states the reason for doing so is that young people with disabilities might be considered as a cohort in the broad definition of jobseekers. Last Saturday, the same newspaper reported on a briefing...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (31 May 2016)

Mick Barry: 64. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to expedite the restoration of pay and pay equality for public servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12993/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (31 May 2016)

Mick Barry: 69. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has consulted with Government Departments on the difficulties in recruiting and retaining certain types of public servants arising from the two-tier pay system and other pay reductions applied during the economic crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12994/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance (31 May 2016)

Mick Barry: 262. To ask the Minister for Finance to introduce a regulation obliging car insurance providers to take into account the safe driving record maintained by returning emigrants when they lived abroad who are currently being treated as new drivers when seeking insurance here with consequential high premiums. [13482/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (31 May 2016)

Mick Barry: 709. To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of the treatment of a person (details supplied) received at the hands of health and psychiatric professionals, if it will be arranged that they do not have to undergo a further three year wait for hormone therapy from an endocrinologist. [13215/16]