Parliamentary questions

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Programme for Government Initiatives

Mick Barry

49. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of places which he will provide on the fit-for-work programme and the criteria for eligibility. [11843/16]

Irish Water Data

Mick Barry

49. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to request Irish Water to publicise its payment figures for water charges for the past two billing periods. [11570/16]

Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility

Mick Barry

54. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to direct local authorities to accept social housing applications from victims of domestic violence who have fled their homes but who are ineligible if they retain joint ownership of the home occupied by their abusive partners. [11571/16]

Schools Building Projects

Mick Barry

84. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Education and Skills when he will make a permanent school building available for Abacas in Kilbarrack, in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10770/16]

School Transport

Mick Barry

85. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a school bus system to pupils, particularly at emergency accommodation locations where there is no alternative public bus route, for example, at the Clayton Hotel on the R139, given disruption many homeless children face in their schooling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10771/16]

Waste Management

Mick Barry

109. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to consider a waiver system for those with illnesses that give rise to above average household waste, for example incontinence, given the introduction of compulsory pay-by-weight refuse collection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10773/16]

Rent Supplement Scheme

Mick Barry

115. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Social Protection the penalties in place for landlords who refuse to accept rent supplement or the housing assistance payment as a form of payment. [10772/16]

Mental Health Services

Mick Barry

152. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health to make special arrangements to permit persons committed to mental health institutions not to be prohibited from leaving the building to smoke. [10774/16]

Direct Provision System

Mick Barry

33. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to end direct provision following the United Nations Universal Periodic Review. [10142/16]

Animal Welfare

Mick Barry

176. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the controversy surrounding the recent Belly Wien circus, which has been banned in a number of other jurisdictions, and recently toured here, if he will introduce legislation to effect a ban on the use of animals in circuses, and in any other performance capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8466/16]

Ambulance Service

Mick Barry

346. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health if he will request the Health Service Executive to reconsider its decision to transfer the Mallow intermediate care vehicle to Cork city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8462/16]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board

Mick Barry

414. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the reports of delays in payments and poor treatment, in respect of the Caranua redress scheme, experienced by survivors of abuse (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8463/16]

Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme

Mick Barry

421. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if she will effect a policy change to permit local partnerships to provide course funding assistance in a situation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8465/16]

Roads Maintenance

Mick Barry

490. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when funding will be provided to complete the repairs on the Fota Road, Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8464/16]