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Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Services Provision (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: 11. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the implementation of the recommendation by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution for the availability of free contraception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41358/19]

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Services Provision (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: I heard the Minister mention earlier that he would have a contraception report in the next few days and perhaps it is timely to ask him to report on the implementation of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Eight Amendment of the Constitution for the availability of free contraception. I look forward to hearing his comments on that matter.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Services Provision (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: The Minister stated that the report will be published in the month of October. I would have liked to seen it published before the announcement of budget rather than after it, which brings me to my first supplementary question. Has the Minister made provision in the budget arrangements for 2020 to provide the funding necessary to provide free contraception for all in this State in the year...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Services Provision (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: My view is that it would have been best if we had free contraception available in 2020. I take it from the Minister's reply that is not the intention of the Government. He seemed to indicate it is his intention for 2021. Specifically, is the Minister saying that he aims to see the introduction of free contraception in this State in 2021? I ask him to comment on that. Currently, in terms...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: It is a choice.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: The Tánaiste should answer the questions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: Did the Government poverty-proof the budget?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: Back in the day there was a vicious form of corporal punishment known as birching. We heard about a new form of it today. AIB has a project named Project Birch. It is a plan to sell in early 2020 thousands of distressed mortgages secured on family homes. This is a majority State-owned bank. Does the Government stand over this plan? It should stop the sale. Vulture funds should be kept...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: 65. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on progress on legislation for safety zones around services that provide for the termination of pregnancy and related information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41356/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: 70. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the opening of a HIV clinic in Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41355/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Access (10 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: 75. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the availability of hormone treatment for transgender persons through the health service; his engagement with the transgender community on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41357/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: I would like to start by extending sympathy to the family and friends of Timmy Hourihane. A sharp clash is looming between the interests of the church and the interests of the State in Cork city. I refer to the decision of the Sisters of Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary to withdraw from involvement at Bessborough by the end of the year, to attempt to sell the land there and to effectively...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: This is a test case. Religious orders are selling up not just in Bessborough but in other locations across the country, selling lands and buildings, which is having a detrimental impact on State funded services. We have another example if this at St. Vincent's Convent on the north side of Cork. Therefore, this is a litmus test for the Government. Will it stand up for the interests of our...

Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: The Minister made play tonight of the fact that the Government is not going to cancel the minimum wage increase in the event of a no-deal Brexit but instead it will defer it. Do not expect any thanks from the lowest-paid workers in this country for that clarification. The decision is pretty much the same as saying the Government will not kick these people with two feet but rather with one...

Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: I will speak in support of it.

Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: Thank you. Our amendment proposes that €12.30 would be the national minimum wage and that would be merely a step on the road to a rate of €15 per hour, which is what a real living wage would be in this country. That is what is needed to live, not simply to exist. I stood on picket lines today with English language teachers at the Delfin English School in Parnell Square. They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Chairperson Designate (15 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: I have a short and simple question. Has Mr. Dunne ever had the experience of being a tenant and paying rent to a landlord? Has he ever had the experience of being a landlord and collecting rent from a tenant? If he has had either of those experiences, how did he find it?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: Play was made earlier of the fact that the numbers on CAMHS waiting lists were down, but there are 2,500 children and adolescents currently on those waiting lists. Social isolation, poverty, inequality, unemployment, oppression and alienation have not gone away, but where is the funding that is necessary to get to grips with this situation? The €39 million that has been mentioned...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: What of the €39 million?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Inspections (22 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: 482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a fully qualified veterinarian is present at each sports information services greyhound race at tracks here; if drug testing is performed on the racing greyhounds at these events; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43524/19]