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Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: ...representatives met before the announcement was made? Nursing Homes Ireland may promote the image of representing small, family businesses, and while I have no doubt there are small and medium-sized enterprises under its banner, the ESRI has pointed out that, increasingly, nursing homes are owned, at least in part, by big financial institutions. It seems the nursing homes were given a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: ...homes being increasingly owned by real estate investment trusts and operated by separate companies which are increasingly financed, at least in part, by means of private equity, according to the ESRI. The Minister of State did not meet with the representative body for the healthcare assistants, Migrant Nurses Ireland, despite its request for a meeting. He has now agreed to such a meeting...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: ...the new hospital in Cork. People on hospital waiting lists in Cork, and around the country, have waited long enough. Why are they being forced to wait even longer? Dr. Brendan Walsh of the ESRI tells us this morning that the State faces an immediate deficit of 1,000 hospital beds. The national development programme has a target of 260 beds per annum, a target which the ESRI says is too...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: ...of: "Me: Can I have a house? Government: As Seamus Heaney once said: "No"." I think he is also having a go at the abuse of the wonderful poetry of Seamus Heaney by Ministers who seem to quote him on every single occasion until they bore the population senseless. According to the ESRI, the housing crisis has combined with stagnant wages to leave young workers financially worse off than...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta) 2020: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: ...to deal with this issue, because it is not a situation that is going to wait until the general election. It is an issue very much in the pipeline now. What ideas can such a movement be built around? The ESRI stated this morning that the State needs to double investment to tackle the housing crisis, and that is at a minimum. It is a real sign of the scale of this crisis that an...

Housing Shared Equity Loan Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (3 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: ...-hand ones that were excluded from the scheme, was 3% per annum. The London School of Economics looked at the situation in London and said the scheme led to a 6% increase in house prices. The ESRI, the establishment's own semi-official think tank, came before the housing committee in the middle of February and said this scheme was likely to increase the price of housing. That is leaving...

Household Utility Bills Support: Motion [Private Members] (3 Feb 2021)

Mick Barry: ...households out of fuel poverty. That is the kind of initiative that is needed rather than the pitiful efforts in which the State is engaging. I will give an example of how the State is worsening the position. The ESRI said on 19 June last year, and this is a direct quote, "Carbon taxation is found to be regressive, with poorer households spending a greater proportion of their income on...

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: ...distribution site. These sites present huge opportunities for public housing on public land. The case for public housing on public land has been strengthened by Covid-19. In September last year the ESRI stated that the State should increase its investment in social and affordable housing now to offer future supply to deal with the supply shock caused by Covid. Residential property...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: ...it predicted 35,000 job losses or almost 2% of the entire workforce. A large number of these jobs would be in low-paid sectors such as agri-food. The Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, recently estimated that an increase in trade tariffs arising from a no-deal Brexit could increase the annual cost of a basket of goods here by between €892 and €1,360. It...

Mental Health: Statements (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

Mick Barry: ...people, the stresses on their lives etc. are a significant factor in the mental illness epidemic in this country. I read in the newspapers today about a report from the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, and Trinity College, stating that most 20 year olds still live with their parents and that they are preoccupied with the housing crisis. They ask if they will ever own a...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: ...must be addressed effectively. The carbon tax is a regressive tax. It will hit middle and lower income earners in society, namely, the poorer harder than the rest. Members need not take it from me; the ESRI has said so. There has been much commentary about how rural Ireland will be hit particularly hard by the carbon tax. I do not dispute that, but there is more to it than meets the...

Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (25 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: I have two questions. The ESRI recommended that in the event of there not being a no-deal Brexit, the Minister should go harder on carbon tax increases and property tax increases in the budget. I ask him to comment on that. I note the comments of Deputy Michael McGrath, reported in The Irish Times, that Fianna Fáil would not push for the traditional €5 increase in social welfare...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Mick Barry: ...about affordability as the underpinning strategy for all housing policy. That comment makes a great deal of sense. Is affordability defined according to income or to cost? It strikes me that the ESRI is trying to square the circle by saying it should be defined on the basis of cost but one needs to take into account whether someone can afford a certain basket of goods after paying out...

Brexit: Motion (21 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: ...represented the interests of working-class people. The interests of working-class people need to be represented now. The Minister for Finance indicates a hard Brexit could cost 40,000 jobs. The ESRI has indicated that wage cuts could be in the 5% to 10% range for workers in agrifood, tourism and manufacturing. The ESRI, the Nevin Economic Research Institute and the Department of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Housing Market: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: ...terms of the impact it will have on the housing crisis and the people affected by it. It is not entirely an unknown unknown. I note with interest that the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, and the Nevin Economic Research Institute, NERI, have laid emphasis on the fact that an important preparatory measure would be a significant ramping up of the State's investment in social...

Other Questions: European Semester Process (11 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: ...is a far cry from the promise made by a Minister who served in a Government in which the Minister served that there would be Scandinavian-style childcare for Irish parents at this stage. A recent ESRI report found that lone parents are being forced to take up work as a result of changes to the one-parent family payment and have suffered a fall in income. It pinpoints the lack of...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: ...arguments against it and those objections on the record. The Dáil will hear more from us with regard to this issue if that proposal is not put where it belongs, which is in the bin. I want to comment briefly on ESRI proposals to increase the pension age to 70. The pension age is already 68, or is in the pipeline to be 68 by 2028. The argument that is used to justify this is that...

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

Mick Barry: ...because already working people are being lined up to be the whipping boys. Yesterday's edition of The Sunday Business Postreports that major exporters have already made contingency plans for job losses. The ESRI has predicted that wage cuts can now come onto the agenda. It has raised the possibility of wage cuts in the region of 4% to 5% for up to 60,000 workers. This morning's edition...