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Mick Barry TD
- Solidarity TD for Cork North Central
- Entered the Dáil on 27 February 2016 — General election
- Email me whenever Mick Barry speaks (no more than once per day)
Voting record
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Committees and topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Covid-19 Pandemic, Work Permits, Fishing Industry, Workplace Relations Commission, Departmental Contracts
(based on written questions asked by Mick Barry and answered by departments)
Most recent appearances in parliament
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 May 2024)
“The Minister of State used a lot of statistics in his reply. I am not going to use statistics. I am going to give him the words of a parent in the form of an extract taken from a letter that was sent. This parent had to move her child out to another school. She wrote that her family is being literally ripped apart and that instead of dropping her three children to school, she is now only...”
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 May 2024)
“How many children with autism in the town of Ballincollig have been let down badly by the State and the Government? I know of 21 straight off the bat. They are the boys who attend the Scoil Eoin primary school, who are forced to struggle along in mainstream classes when special classes are what they need. This was recognised three years ago by the National Council for Special Education,...”
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)
“Yesterday, Mr. Fintan Hourihan, chief executive of the Irish Dental Association told the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health that he found it profoundly worrying that a decision was made to cancel the building of a new dental school and dental hospital in Cork. A new dental school and hospital would bring a multiplicity of benefits. Number one, it would be a big improvement on the current...”
Numerology
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- Has spoken in 151 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
- Has received answers to 168 written questions in the last year — average among TDs.
- People have made 1 comment on this TD's speeches — average among TDs.
- This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 15–16 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
- 23 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Mick Barry speaks.
- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 813 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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