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Wed, 13 Jun 2018
oral
Adoption Registration
Mick Barry
24. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason no audit or action was taken in view of the report submitted by the Adoption Authority of Ireland on illegal registrations in 2011 and which again reported the issue in 2013. [25613/18]
Wed, 13 Jun 2018
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Illegal Adoptions
Mick Barry
46. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of cases of illegal registrations and or illegal adoptions that have been reported to her Department by Tusla since 2014; and the number reported by the HSE prior to 2014. [25614/18]
Wed, 13 Jun 2018
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Sports Organisations
Mick Barry
173. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which his Department responded to representations made regarding complaints of bullying at a club (details supplied) and failures of process at club and GAA county board level in responding to these complaints; if this matter was brought to the attention of Sports Ireland by his Department. [25909/18]
Wed, 13 Jun 2018
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Bullying of Children
Mick Barry
189. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which her Department responded to representations made to it regarding complaints of systematic bullying of young persons at a club (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25910/18]
Tue, 12 Jun 2018
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Public Transport Fares
Mick Barry
84. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in Estonia there are plans to make public transport free at the point of use (details supplied); and if his Department will conduct a cost-benefit analysis to carry out same here. [25392/18]
Tue, 12 Jun 2018
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Córas Iompair Éireann
Mick Barry
115. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on his comments at the recent public transport round-table event regarding the possibility of an employee share ownership scheme being introduced in the CIÉ group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25391/18]
Tue, 12 Jun 2018
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Schools Building Projects
Mick Barry
437. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Education and Skills if officials from his Department will agree to meet the board of management of a school (details supplied) to discuss its request for a new school building. [25620/18]
Tue, 12 Jun 2018
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Health Services Provision
Mick Barry
648. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health if a group has been established in his Department to examine the provision of free contraception; if the group has formulated a comprehensive response to the development of a free contraception service; the funding to be allocated to the development of this service for 2018, 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24508/18]
Tue, 12 Jun 2018
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Medicinal Products Availability
Mick Barry
659. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss failings in the market access system for obtaining drugs for the condition. [24558/18]
Tue, 12 Jun 2018
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Transport of Animals
Mick Barry
995. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if violations (details supplied) involving Irish trucks can be investigated. [25430/18]
Tue, 12 Jun 2018
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Employment Rights
Mick Barry
1109. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Workplace Relations Commission at hearings held on the 29 May 2017 and 17 June 2017 concerning working conditions on the merchant marine fleet and fishing fleet, respectively that an adjudicator ruled that vessel owners were not required to provide medical cover for crew; and if legislation can be brought forward to make medical cover obligatory. [25429/18]
Tue, 12 Jun 2018
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Mick Barry
1258. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the expenses received by elected city and county councillors as distinct from their salary is reckonable as income when means testing a cohabiting couple in circumstances in which one partner is a councillor. [25427/18]
Tue, 12 Jun 2018
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Disability Allowance Eligibility
Mick Barry
1259. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the disability allowance. [25428/18]
Tue, 29 May 2018
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Tax Code
Mick Barry
185. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Finance the position regarding a scenario (details supplied). [23363/18]
Wed, 23 May 2018
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Human Trafficking
Mick Barry
102. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason he has not responded to correspondence from the International Transport Federation of 29 March 2018 and 26 April 2018 regarding the trafficking of fishers in the Irish fishing fleet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22767/18]
Tue, 22 May 2018
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Inland Fisheries Regulation
Mick Barry
479. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to issue by-laws governing the fishing of pike in advance of the completion of a review by Inland Fisheries Ireland; if so, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22568/18]
Thu, 17 May 2018
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Defence Forces Allowances
Mick Barry
41. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a case (details supplied) is the only instance during the lifetime of the Government in which the official side has refused to honour the findings of an adjudication process administered by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; if his Department will reconsider its position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21776/18]
Thu, 17 May 2018
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Defence Forces Allowances
Mick Barry
42. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on correspondence sent by his Department to an organisation (details supplied) on 14 December 2016 in which it indicates its refusal to honour the arbitration outcome citing FEMPI and section 5.3 of the Lansdowne Road agreement despite the fact that these grounds for not paying the allowance were cited during the adjudication process and rejected by the adjudicator; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21778/18]
Tue, 15 May 2018
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Commissions of Inquiry
Mick Barry
300. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will initiate a commission of investigation arising from the claim that a member of the clergy encouraged a minor to destroy a document that would have been germane to the then inquest into the circumstances of a death further to an interview published in a newspaper (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21031/18]
Tue, 15 May 2018
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Commissions of Inquiry
Mick Barry
301. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if a file on the Garda investigation into the circumstances of a person (details supplied) exists, either an original or the copy sent to the coroner's inquest; if so, the statements that were collected by An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21032/18]