Results 2,361-2,380 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Mick Barry: I would like an answer to the question. I am not naming any individual. I am saying that if someone were to be within a hotel complex or an apartment within a 14-day quarantine-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Mick Barry: On the “Six One" news last night, there was a news item about the return to school which featured a school in County Carlow. It showed an assembly where, I think, prayers were being conducted, with more than 150 students spaced about 1 m apart. Would the witnesses be prepared to comment on that situation, not with regard to that specific school, but in a general sense. Do they think...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Mick Barry: The new president of the ASTI went public the other day and said there was an issue which she described as an issue of life or death for some of her members, namely, people who are categorised according to the guidelines as high risk, including people who have had cancer, heart conditions, diabetes and so on, being denied the right to work from home and being asked to report for duty in the...

Nomination of Member of the Government: Motion (2 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach's Government is 67 days old today and here he is asking the Dáil for the third time to approve the nomination of a Minister with responsibility for agriculture. The Government may need to come to us again next week or the week after with another new Minister, perhaps one with responsibility for foreign affairs this time. Never before in the history of the State has this...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: Our proposal is to remove section 13 from the Bill in its entirety. Section 13 gives the power to the Minister to make regulations that carry criminal sanctions without reference to the Dáil. That is quite a blank cheque to give the Minister and we are not prepared to do it. We do not think the House should be prepared to do it either. No doubt the Minister will argue that no...

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: The Minister said in her opening remarks that the pupil-teacher ratio has been reduced in recent years. That is true, but the point is that it has not been reduced nearly enough. We have 100,000 students in classes of more than 30 according to the Irish National Teachers' Organisation, INTO. We have a pupil-teacher ratio of 25:1 in primary school when the European equivalent is 20:1....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: Today at 6.15 a.m., ex-workers from Debenhams stores at Mahon Point, St. Patrick's Street and Tralee occupied the St. Patrick's Street store in Cork city. At 7 a.m., workers and supporters occupied the store at Henry Street, Dublin. As the news broke on "Morning Ireland", I have no doubt but that working people across the country will have silently cheered. Everybody knows by now that this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach said the offer was not a Government offer. I never said it was.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: I said that the Taoiseach and his Government had sight of that offer before it was put on the table and the Taoiseach did not deny that was the case.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: His backbenchers were going around the picket lines for days previously giving the workers the broad outline of the offer. I ask the Taoiseach not to take people for fools. He was part and parcel of an insulting offer that was made to these workers. The workers the Taoiseach met in Government Buildings and whom he has just spoken about organised a rally outside the shop today at which...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: How was it that the Taoiseach's backbenchers were telling people to engage? How did they know?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: I will not withdraw it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach told me that-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: He is insulting them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach is insulting the workers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach now has a package that will not now fly.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (8 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 320. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of applicants for the executive officer competition underway; the number of positions available at the grade from the competition; his plans for further competitions for the Civil Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21661/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (8 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 457. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his engagement with the Ambassador of Morocco in 2019; the actions Ireland has taken in relation to the various well documented human rights abuses in Morocco (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21660/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Working Holiday Programmes (8 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 463. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the temporary suspension of the working holiday authorisation scheme will be lifted given the limited public health threats should entrants to the State comply with quarantine requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22506/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the gap between the publication of the leaving certificate results and the publication of the predicted grades by teachers; if the grades from teachers will be published at the same time or shortly after the results of the exam; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21846/20]