Results 61-80 of 84 for going forward speaker:Mick Barry

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: I wish to deal with the issues of the PUP, training and internships and make a point about the Debenhams situation. Before I do so, I point out that the Government has taken a Keynesian turn in the budget. There is significantly increased State intervention in the economy and society. In taking these actions, the Government is in lockstep with capitalist governments globally which are...

Bus Éireann: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2017)

Mick Barry: On three occasions since January 2015, Bus Éireann brought forward plans to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport which sought to address the issue of losses within the company, specifically within its Expressway operations. On each occasion, the Department delayed taking action. It is hardly a coincidence that the Department delayed action in 2015, in the run-up to the...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Feb 2021)

Mick Barry: The Government relented to the retail and hospitality lobby and opened up in the run-up to Christmas. This created a perfect storm for the virus with deadly consequences. We need a radically different approach to that of bending to the will of business interests. Instead, we need an approach that will put the interests of public health first. We need to go after this virus and repress it...

Multi-Party Actions Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: ...Bill 2017, which would allow a form of class action and allow people to band together to take a joint case against the likes of a bank or powerful institution is a progressive reform. It is a step forward. It is something that Solidarity-People Before Profit will support going to the next Stage. It is not a magic wand. The legal system is very biased against the ordinary man and woman....

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage. (27 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: ...class bias which exists in the Judiciary and which is a major feature thereof. Deputy Boyd Barrett mentioned King's Inns and went back to the days of Henry VIII in that regard. I do not intend to go back several centuries but will deal with the present. To study for one year at the King's Inns, one would have to fork out €12,560, which is a very significant sum for a year's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: ...and see that Mr. Barry was involved in €3 billion of private investment in roads through public private partnerships. We have a very particular situation in Bus Éireann at the moment and I am going to concentrate in my comments on that. We have a ballot for strike action if the company tries to implement unilateral changes to rosters from next Sunday. This is an immediate...

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: ...primary school children to show that was a mistake and one that needs to be fully and completely rectified. As I have only a short time to speak, I will comment on two issues we will need to deal with going forward, namely, the wearing of masks at primary level and vaccination at primary level. Mask wearing operates in primary schools in France. It seems to work quite well, but seems...

Defence Forces: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: ...made a recommendation. The Minister of State is aware of its details, as are his Cabinet colleagues. The Minister of State has not revealed the details of the recommendation to the Dáil. He and the Government are keeping their cards very close to their chests on this one. According to press reports, there is a nervousness around Cabinet about the reaction of Defence Forces...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation: Traveller Accommodation Expert Group (6 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: ...by a long shot. If we look at the halting site in Spring Lane in Ballyvolane on the north side of Cork city, if anything the overcrowding situation there is worse than it was a couple of years ago. The fire safety precautions that were meant to be implemented nationally in the wake of the tragedy do not come close to applying in daily practice on the site. Is it the only site in the...

Regional Transport Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: ...about public transport in Cork. The transport news that has dominated today has been the news of the delays in key public transport initiatives in Dublin. It is in sharp contrast with what the Government said last week at COP26 and at the launch of the climate action plan that there are delays in key public transport initiatives. A key public transport initiative in Cork is the plan for...

Services for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (27 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: ...of 2016, unemployment among people with disabilities and chronic illnesses stood at 26.3%, more than double the rate for the population as a whole, which stood at 12.9%. The Government still refuses people going back to work in those circumstances automatic access to a medical card. My colleague, Deputy Boyd Barrett, asked me to raise on the floor of the Dáil tonight that he met...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: ...mistake. Working people are being forced out of the city centre, forced to move miles out into the county to find affordable housing, and they become commuters. We will see what happens with the Government's proposals for public transport, but at the moment being a commuter, more often than not, means travelling to work by car. The next big crisis, the climate change crisis, which we...

National Minimum Wage: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: ...in the economy, and an increase in the minimum wage would have a positive knock-on effect throughout the economy and serve to increase wages generally for all workers; and — workers in other states have won beyond inflation pay rises through taking industrial action or organising for industrial action; and calls on the Government to: — immediately initiate an emergency...

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: ...When rent is included, 50% of single parents and their households are at risk of poverty. Skyrocketing rents are causing young people to stay at home with their parents for far longer than most would wish. Ten years ago, the average age for leaving home was 19 whereas today it is 28, and people are being forced to stay at home with their parents into their 30s. That has to cramp the...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Mick Barry: A report by the United Nations published one year ago said: "Housing and urban real estate have become the commodity of choice for corporate finance, a safety deposit box for the wealthy, a repository of capital and excess liquidity." That report showed that US $163 trillion is now invested in residential real estate worldwide, which is more than twice the size of the entire gross domestic...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: Six years ago, Deputy Joan Collins put forward the water in public ownership Bill, which calls for a referendum to ensure that water services remain in public ownership. Yesterday, the Taoiseach was asked when this referendum would be held and when a date for it would be announced. He replied that the Minister " is working on it" and that "We will get a timeline when we are ready for it."...

Agriculture and Fisheries Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Mick Barry: ...Government, Phil Hogan, who now occupies the position of EU Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner of Agriculture, promoted with some fanfare last year the lifting of milk quotas and put forward a perspective that small and medium-sized dairy farms in Ireland could now upscale in an era where the sky would be the limit. However, the weak predictive powers he had on display when he...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: ...Minister. He gave us examples of people on €49,000 a year or less and €75,000 a year. Even with the extreme example he gave of a €26,000 bonus for a person on €75,000, 99.95% of the people in the categories mentioned would be covered in a scenario such as that which I have explained. As for the issue of variable pay, I am open to a discussion about it but...

European Council: Statements (25 Jan 2017)

Mick Barry: ...presidential election has brought into sharp focus the scale of the political crisis facing the capitalist establishment internationally. Trump is clearly a racist, misogynist, multi-billionaire bigot but he is not trusted or supported by large sections of the ruling class in the US, including important sections of the Republican Party in the recent election. Such opposition flows from...