Results 121-140 of 199 for long speaker:Mick Barry

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Land Development Agency (2 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: ...people hear of the establishment of an agency that has a remit to deliver 150,000 houses over a 20-year period, they will probably think it is an opportunity. Maybe they will think 20 years is a long time to deliver 150,000 houses and the time should be more compressed, but they will still view this as an opportunity. When they hear that 60% of the houses are likely to be done on the...

Public Service Pay Commission Report on the Permanent Defence Force: Statements (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Mick Barry: ...only 96 cent per day before tax.The seagoing allowance is to increase but by only €2.50 per day. A day in the Naval Service, however, is not seven and a half or eight hours. In some cases, it means 24 hours, long days indeed. Duty allowance is to be restored for Saturdays and Sundays, at €70 and €80 per day, respectively. That is to be welcomed but what about duty...

Special Educational Needs: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2019)

Mick Barry: ...for SNAs if extra responsibilities are to be taken on and there must be a renegotiation of pay rates. If SNAs take on extra responsibilities, they must be paid fully and properly for same. There has been an unfortunately long history of SNAs being treated poorly in their job security, wages and conditions in the workplace. I encourage every SNA to stand up for himself or herself, as so...

Cork Mail Centre: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2019)

Mick Barry: ...loss of 240 jobs; — the devastating effect this decision will have on the workers concerned and their families; and — the negative effect this will have on the local economy in the short-, medium-, and long-term;further notes:— the Government’s Project Ireland 2040 and National Development Plan targets to make Cork the fastest growing city in Ireland for the...

Defence Forces: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: ...it. This is because the cost of living has increased. In some respects it has skyrocketed over the course of the past ten years. This includes the cost of transport for Defence Forces personnel who have to travel long distances to get to work. In some cases this is because their division has been moved halfway across the country. The cost of accommodation has skyrocketed. This has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 2) Regulations 2019: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (29 May 2019)

Mick Barry: ...Airbnb website in respect of a given town and at daft.iein respect of the same place in order to show that the number of properties advertised for short-term let outnumber those being offered for long-term rental lease. Sometimes, it is not even close and the ratio is 2:1 or even 3:1. The stated purpose of the Bill is to tackle that situation. According to the associated frequently...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)

Mick Barry: ...and to public safety. I do not want that and the paramedics do not want that, but if it happens, the responsibility will lie at the feet of the Government, a Government which has been playing hardball for a long time with a group of key front-line workers who provide a vital service and who are merely demanding a basic democratic right. On the picket lines throughout the country, the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2019)

Mick Barry: ...pay cuts. Some 69% of National Ambulance Service personnel had experienced bullying, harassment or both in the previous two years. These are key workers, they do a stressful job and they work long hours. Many people call them ambulance drivers but they are a lot more than that. They are paramedics, advanced paramedics and emergency medical technicians. They are lifesavers and they...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Eligibility (26 Mar 2019)

Mick Barry: 1253. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that although fibromyalgia is a life-long debilitating condition that effects the ability to work it is not listed as a disability and thus creates difficulties for sufferers in accessing social welfare in the cases in which they cannot work or cannot afford medical expenses of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018 and Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Discussion (20 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: ...the fact that an increasing number of people are living permanently in the private rented sector. An April 2018 survey of tenants by Threshold found that 70% have been renting for five years or longer. In other words, families are repeatedly being uprooted and forced to move. This insecurity of tenure is especially sharp for housing assistance payment, HAP, rental accommodation scheme,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018 and Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Discussion (20 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: I do not think any reasonable person would argue that someone who refuses to pay their rent over a long and sustained period of time should have an automatic right to keep their tenancy.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (31 Jan 2019)

Mick Barry: ...funding. According to the PNA, as of last summer, there were 500 vacancies for psychiatric nurses in the health service but the total number of additional nurses needed to implement the Government's long-term strategy, A Vision for Change, is closer to 2,000. The number of mental health beds was cut from 12,484 in 1984 to 1,002 in 2016. We need a major reversal of the cuts and increased...

Government's Brexit Preparedness: Statements (17 Jan 2019)

Mick Barry: ...question is in two parts. Are Aer Lingus and Ryanair currently majority-owned and controlled by EU legal or natural persons? If not, and we have a crash-out Brexit in the short-term, how long will they have to put their house in order? Do they have a matter of weeks, months or years? Can the Tánaiste give the House information on that? This is a matter of major concern to huge...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (18 Dec 2018)

Mick Barry: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports in place for applicants for the special rate of postgraduate grant awarded via SUSI who are long-term unemployed but had a short period of temporary employment in the year of assessment; the options available to a student who is only informed he or she has not qualified for a special rate grant after the course has begun and first...

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Mick Barry: ...illegal evictions of this type. The provision relating to banks and receivers will be of particular interest to tenants in the 12,732 buy-to-let properties identified by the Central Bank as being in long-term mortgage arrears of two years or more. As regards students being accorded tenant rights, this will apply to both privately-owned and publicly-owned student accommodation and will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protections) Bill 2018: Discussion (22 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: ...has the right to take a dispute before the RTB? Crucially, were the landlord or owner of the complex to turn around and increase the rent by 18%, which is an example we were given in Galway not so long ago or by 27%, which was noted on the north side of Dublin recently and were that student accommodation provider based in a rent pressure zone, would that provider have massively...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: What about long-term accommodation funded from local authorities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation: Traveller Accommodation Expert Group (6 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: ...a 6 m gap between mobile homes, caravans and buildings. There is overcrowding on Traveller sites in this State and in the city where I am a public representative, and the 6 m gap is not met by a long shot. If we look at the halting site in Spring Lane in Ballyvolane on the north side of Cork city, if anything the overcrowding situation there is worse than it was a couple of years ago....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Mick Barry: ...Old Whitechurch Road, as an example of public lands in Cork? Why would we not assign 100% of that site and similar sites to public housing, that is, council housing and genuinely affordable houses? A long list of sites was provided by the speakers from Cork City Council, belonging to the HSE, ESB, Iarnród Éireann, the Port of Cork, Bord na Móna and the Department of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Mick Barry: ...State and during that time he had been offered accommodation under the housing assistance payment, HAP, scheme. The HAP accommodation was unsuitable from the point of view of location. It is a long story but it was a totally unsuitable location for the family. Nobody in authority told him that there was a penalty for refusing an offer of accommodation, so he refused in the hope of...