Parliamentary questions

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Tax Code

Mick Barry

185. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Finance the position regarding a scenario (details supplied). [23363/18]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Lansdowne Road Agreement

Mick Barry

131. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for backdating the restitution of the settlement reached between his Department and an organisation (details supplied) over past denial of appropriate incremental credit for persons working in Youthreach resources to 1 June 2016 as opposed to full backdated restitution (details supplied). [18628/18]

School Staff

Mick Barry

143. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the application by a school (details supplied) for additional teachers has been refused in view of its growth and reduced pupil-teacher ratio. [18742/18]

Workplace Relations Commission

Mick Barry

200. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Workplace Relations Commission fishing boat inspections that took place from 1 September to 31 December 2017. [18648/18]

Workplace Relations Commission

Mick Barry

201. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Workplace Relations Commission fishing boat inspections that took place from 1 January to 31 March 2018. [18649/18]

Disability Allowance Applications

Mick Barry

420. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 588 of 27 March 2018, if her response will be reviewed in view of the fact that the house co-owned by a person (details supplied) is occupied by members of their extended family so they cannot divest their interest in it or profit from the rental income. [18741/18]

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland

Mick Barry

21. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland will begin its review of the ownership and control policy of media companies; if he will make a submission to the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18302/18]

Foreign Policy

Mick Barry

66. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the continuance of democratic rights in Hong Kong. [14223/18]

Foreign Policy

Mick Barry

86. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise the need for full democratic rights in Hong Kong with the Chinese authorities. [14224/18]

Court Judgments

Mick Barry

227. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 273 of 29 November 2017, if he will instruct the Office of the Chief State Solicitor to make an appropriate payment in view of the conclusion of a High Court case (details supplied). [13224/18]

Health Services Provision

Mick Barry

266. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health if health-related residential accommodation will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13225/18]

New Communities Unit

Mick Barry

991. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of homeless non-Irish citizens from the European Economic Area or a country outside Europe who have been seen by the new communities unit, by month, since January 2015; the number of these who have been provided with emergency accommodation; and the form this accommodation takes. [12817/18]

Tax Code

Mick Barry

51. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Finance if he will direct the Revenue Commissioners to respond to the past four letters sent to them by PDFORRA regarding the status of flat rate expenses. [11386/18]