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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]
Wed, 25 May 2016
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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]
Tue, 24 May 2016
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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]
Tue, 24 May 2016
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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]
Wed, 18 May 2016
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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]
Wed, 18 May 2016
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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]
Wed, 18 May 2016
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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]
Wed, 18 May 2016
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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]
Wed, 18 May 2016
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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]
Tue, 17 May 2016
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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]
Tue, 26 Apr 2016
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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]
Tue, 26 Apr 2016
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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]