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Tue, 14 Jun 2016
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Public Transport Subsidies
Mick Barry
572. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the 13 cent State subsidy for each €1 in fares collected by Bus Éireann compares unfavourably with other EU 15 countries (details supplied); and the measures he proposes to improve the situation. [15691/16]
Tue, 14 Jun 2016
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Public Transport
Mick Barry
573. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of plans to open a significant proportion of Dublin Bus routes to tender and if he accepts that private companies will try to compete for these routes on the basis of poorer pay and conditions for their staff. [15692/16]
Tue, 14 Jun 2016
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Transport Infrastructure Provision
Mick Barry
574. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the opposition of Dublin City Council's elected members to the concept of an eastern bypass in the city, as manifested at their recent meetings on the Dublin city development plan. [15693/16]
Tue, 14 Jun 2016
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Industrial Relations
Mick Barry
580. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the pay claims by Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann workers, given that they have not received a pay rise in eight years. [15871/16]
Thu, 9 Jun 2016
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Homeless Accommodation Provision
Mick Barry
23. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the long-term effect of homelessness on children, their welfare and their educational attainment; the actions she has taken; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14847/16]
Thu, 9 Jun 2016
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Industrial Relations
Mick Barry
33. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to report on the industrial relations situation in Oberstown youth detention centre. [14846/16]
Thu, 2 Jun 2016
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Health and Safety
Mick Barry
46. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health if personnel of the Health Service Executive will conduct the assessments under the proposed fit for work programme contained in the programme for Government or if it will outsource this work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13747/16]
Thu, 2 Jun 2016
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Public Sector Pensions
Mick Barry
103. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health his views on the closing of the defined benefit pension scheme of the Central Remedial Clinic, given that some of the persons affected were previously Health Service Executive employees who were forced to have their then pension fund transferred into that of the Central Remedial Clinic; and to address the possibility that the executive take over the pension liability. [13678/16]
Wed, 1 Jun 2016
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Human Rights
Mick Barry
139. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the permanent mission of Ireland to the United Nations at Geneva in Switzerland has received communication from the United Nations special rapporteur on the human right to water and sanitation, and from the United Nations special rapporteur on the human right to adequate housing and on the access to sanitation and housing in County Cork; if he will reply to the special rapporteurs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13973/16]
Wed, 1 Jun 2016
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Human Rights
Mick Barry
192. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health the opportunities he had to raise the rights of the victims of symphysiotomy during the United Nations Human Rights Council. [10143/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Public Sector Staff Remuneration
Mick Barry
64. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to expedite the restoration of pay and pay equality for public servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12993/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Public Sector Staff Recruitment
Mick Barry
69. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has consulted with Government Departments on the difficulties in recruiting and retaining certain types of public servants arising from the two-tier pay system and other pay reductions applied during the economic crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12994/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Motor Insurance
Mick Barry
262. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Finance to introduce a regulation obliging car insurance providers to take into account the safe driving record maintained by returning emigrants when they lived abroad who are currently being treated as new drivers when seeking insurance here with consequential high premiums. [13482/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Health Services Provision
Mick Barry
709. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health if, in view of the treatment of a person (details supplied) received at the hands of health and psychiatric professionals, if it will be arranged that they do not have to undergo a further three-year wait for hormone therapy from an endocrinologist. [13215/16]
Thu, 26 May 2016
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Foreign Policy
Mick Barry
14. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has received a briefing from the Irish ambassador in France on the Nuit Debout movement of young persons and trade unionists which has emerged in response to the attempt by the President of France, Mr. François Hollande, to change the country's labour laws; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11951/16]
Thu, 26 May 2016
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Consular Services Provision
Mick Barry
18. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has received a briefing from his ambassador in Brazil regarding the suspension of the President of Brazil, Ms Dilma Rousseff, and the subsequent withdrawal of a number of Latin American ambassadors from Brazil. [11950/16]
Thu, 26 May 2016
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Direct Provision System
Mick Barry
35. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 33 of 17 May 2016, to provide the paragraph numbers and text of the 90 recommendations of the McMahon report which have been implemented fully and of the 26 recommendations which are in the process of being implemented and the status of the remaining 57 recommendations in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12255/16]
Thu, 26 May 2016
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Local Authority Housing Provision
Mick Barry
112. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will extend the order of his predecessor, which expired in April 2016, to the four Dublin local authorities that half of all housing units that become available to them to house social housing applicants be made available to those on the various priority lists, including homeless priority [12449/16]
Thu, 26 May 2016
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Health Services Staff Recruitment
Mick Barry
220. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health if he will fill on schedule the posts of two senior dieticians and one diabetes nurse specialist to support the diabetes community in counties Cork and Kerry, given that the 2016 Health Service Executive plan sanctioned 36 posts nationally to support the implementation of the type-2 diabetes cycle of care initiative, which commenced in October 2015. [12495/16]
Wed, 25 May 2016
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Programme for Government Initiatives
Mick Barry
46. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department has carried out research on schemes similar to the fit-for-work programme operating in other countries, particularly in Britain. [11842/16]