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Wed, 11 Jul 2018
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State Aid Investigations
Mick Barry
83. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Finance the amount spent defending a tax judgment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30962/18]
Tue, 10 Jul 2018
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Industrial Disputes
Mick Barry
80. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her views on an industrial dispute (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30631/18]
Tue, 10 Jul 2018
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Direct Provision System
Mick Barry
315. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to a notice (details supplied) issued to residents at a direct provision centre in Newbridge; and if he will intervene to have the notice rescinded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30606/18]
Wed, 4 Jul 2018
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State Examinations
Mick Barry
67. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the issue of non-teachers marking leaving certificate examination papers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29329/18]
Wed, 4 Jul 2018
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Legislative Measures
Mick Barry
110. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the progression to Committee Stage of the Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018 will be discussed at Cabinet (details supplied). [29330/18]
Wed, 4 Jul 2018
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Defence Forces Personnel
Mick Barry
146. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason Defence Forces Regulation A.11 paragraph 16 was altered; if he will engage with the representative organisations in contravention of paragraph 24(2) of Defence Forces Regulation S.6; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29516/18]
Wed, 4 Jul 2018
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Defence Forces Personnel
Mick Barry
147. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of cases settled by his Department with members of the Defence Forces who have taken court cases for infringements of the working time directive; the amount the legal fees and settlements will ultimately cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29517/18]
Wed, 4 Jul 2018
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Defence Forces Representative Organisations
Mick Barry
148. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the legislative and procedural changes he plans to introduce to settle outstanding grievances with the Defence Forces representative organisations in view of the breach of the European Charter of Fundamental Human Rights (details supplied). [29518/18]
Wed, 4 Jul 2018
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Gambling Legislation
Mick Barry
249. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce leglislation to enable problem gamblers to voluntarily self-exclude from locations in which gambling takes place as exists in other jurisdictions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29519/18]
Wed, 4 Jul 2018
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Industrial Relations
Mick Barry
257. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department will investigate the colleague representative committee in a company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29520/18]
Wed, 4 Jul 2018
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Housing Assistance Payment Data
Mick Barry
344. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of persons who have received the HAP, both homeless HAP and regular HAP, since its inception; and the number of those who have subsequently presented again as homeless to their local authorities when their HAP tenancies expired. [29521/18]
Tue, 3 Jul 2018
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Public Sector Pay
Mick Barry
8. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of eliminating all forms of two-tier pay discrimination in the public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29101/18]
Tue, 3 Jul 2018
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Budget Consultation Process
Mick Barry
30. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the engagements his Department will have with the public sector committee of an organisation (details supplied) between now and budget 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29100/18]
Tue, 3 Jul 2018
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Public Private Partnerships
Mick Barry
31. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the public private partnership model of funding public projects has been reappraised in view of the winding up of a company (details supplied) which had publicly funded projects sub-contracted to it from another company which has also gone into liquidation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29099/18]
Tue, 3 Jul 2018
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External Service Delivery
Mick Barry
32. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a cost-benefit analysis will be conducted into the outsourcing of public service work to private agencies across Departments and State bodies versus the creation of directly employed public service posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29102/18]
Thu, 28 Jun 2018
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Dietician Service Provision
Mick Barry
29. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the availability of ketogenic diets for children with particular reference to availability in Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28325/18]
Thu, 28 Jun 2018
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Cannabis for Medicinal Use
Mick Barry
64. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health his views on the continued requirement for children to travel to other European states to avail of medicinal cannabis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28326/18]
Wed, 27 Jun 2018
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Human Rights
Mick Barry
38. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the increased repression in Spain, in particular the increased state repression against migrants and their supporters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28060/18]
Tue, 26 Jun 2018
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EU Budgets
Mick Barry
40. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the proposal by the European Commission to increase funding to PESCO and other military spending in the draft multi-annual financial framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27729/18]
Wed, 20 Jun 2018
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Rental Sector
Mick Barry
35. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if legislation will be introduced to protect residents at a location (details supplied) who face eviction by a vulture fund and other tenants that find themselves in similar situations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26807/18]
Wed, 20 Jun 2018
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Rental Sector Strategy
Mick Barry
61. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the expert group report on a company (details supplied) will be finalised; his views on the way in which the company's lettings are proliferating at the expense of traditional lettings in city centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26808/18]
Tue, 19 Jun 2018
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Zero-hour Contracts
Mick Barry
43. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she envisages a ban will be introduced on zero-hour contracts, and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26578/18]
Tue, 19 Jun 2018
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Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
Mick Barry
74. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will introduce legislation to ensure private companies cannot unilaterally downgrade their employees' pension schemes from defined benefit to defined contribution or close defined contribution schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26579/18]
Wed, 13 Jun 2018
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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]
Tue, 15 May 2018
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Workplace Relations Commission
Mick Barry
325. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 200 and 201 of 1 May 2018, the amount of wages recovered in regard to the 281 Marine Survey Office inspections; the category of payments, for example, basic pay, holiday pay, sick pay and overtime; and the amount recovered in each of the years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018. [21374/18]
Tue, 15 May 2018
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Redundancy Payments
Mick Barry
563. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 8 May 2018, if a person (details supplied) can seek statutory redundancy from the insolvency fund. [21373/18]
Tue, 8 May 2018
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Rental Sector
Mick Barry
59. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if legislation to outlaw so-called renovictions (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19839/18]
Tue, 8 May 2018
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Homeless Persons Data
Mick Barry
61. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the breakdown of the recently claimed overstatement of homelessness of 600, by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19838/18]
Tue, 8 May 2018
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Unfair Dismissals
Mick Barry
210. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the recourse available in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20045/18]
Tue, 8 May 2018
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Health Services Provision
Mick Barry
351. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health if the ketogenic diet will be available from Cork University Hospital to persons who could benefit from it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20046/18]
Wed, 2 May 2018
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Planning Issues
Mick Barry
102. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department's observation made to An Bord Pleanála regarding the planning permission sought to build housing on the land adjacent to a school (details supplied) used as a sports facility by students was submitted with his prior knowledge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19319/18]