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Ballymurphy Inquest: Statements (18 May 2021)

Mick Barry: "His apology means nothing, we need him to go back to the MoD and tell them to tell the truth, tell our legal team the names of the soldiers who murdered our loved ones and ask them why." These are the words of Briege Voyle, whose mother, Joan Connolly, was murdered in Ballymurphy. She spoke in the immediate aftermath of the coroner's verdict, which made it clear that these were civilians...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2021)

Mick Barry: I wish to address the emergency legislation that will be considered tonight by the Cabinet. The Irish Timeshas posted a report that the Cabinet is considering the idea of increasing stamp duty to 10% on multiple purchases and that multiple purchases would be defined as the purchase of more than ten houses. In the case of a €250,000 house, the ordinary house buyer would pay stamp duty...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Marine Casualty Investigations Board (18 May 2021)

Mick Barry: 243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the terms of review of the performance of the Marine Casualty Investigation Board (details supplied) in relation to the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25703/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Trafficking (18 May 2021)

Mick Barry: 636. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress on the reforms to the national referral mechanism for suspected victims of human trafficking (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25702/21]

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Mick Barry: When the OECD recently said that Ireland should reintroduce water charges, the Taoiseach was very quick out of the traps to say that he ruled it out categorically. He did that for a couple of reasons. First, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael had their fingers badly burned in the past decade when there was a mass movement against water charges. Second, I believe and hope there is an...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 May 2021)

Mick Barry: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the President of the European Commission. [26141/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Mick Barry: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the policing reform implementation programme office based in his Department. [26519/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Mick Barry: Twenty years ago, Amnesty Ireland carried out what might have been the first large-scale survey of Ireland's black and ethnic minority communities. Some 54% polled said that they did not feel confident to report a racist incident to a garda. Twenty years on, how much has changed? The recent survey by Youth Against Racism and Inequality interviewed people of colour and Travellers. Some 35%...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 May 2021)

Mick Barry: 26. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [26520/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 May 2021)

Mick Barry: "A home is a home, whether it is an apartment or a house," said Ciarán Cuffe MEP of the Green Party. The only pity is that the Green Party says that but does not vote along the line that would follow from that. It is hot air. The Green Party has a chance to show us tonight that it can vote according to what was said. We will keep a close eye on that. What a concession the Taoiseach...

Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel: Statements (20 May 2021)

Mick Barry: Last week, I asked the Government to pass the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 and organise the boycott of goods produced in occupied Palestinian territories. These are goods stained with the blood of the Palestinian people. However, the Government has doubled down in opposition to taking such a step. It falls, therefore, to the organised workers' movement to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2021)

Mick Barry: Today is the third anniversary of the historic vote to repeal the eighth amendment. That huge pro-woman, pro-civil rights vote was a vote for choice and an end to hypocritical Irish solutions to Irish problems. There are many outstanding issues with the subsequent legislation, including the fact that only one in ten GPs and only half the maternity hospitals are providing for abortion while...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2021)

Mick Barry: What the Minister has just said is different from what has been said by representatives of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. To date, they have failed to give an absolute guarantee that this hospital will be 100% owned by the State and that abortion services will be fully and freely available to women there. The Minister is at odds with what his Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael colleagues are...

International Travel and Aviation: Statements (25 May 2021)

Mick Barry: Some 200 workers at Aer Lingus in Cork Airport will go to bed tonight fearful for the future of their jobs. Having been kept on the company books for the entire duration of the global pandemic, these workers have now been told that they will be laid off for a ten-week period between September and November when runway repairs are to be carried out. These workers have been forced to live...

Annexation of Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2021)

Mick Barry: We now have a ceasefire in the Middle East but there is no cessation of occupation, no cessation of oppression and no cessation of the forcible denial of the rights of the Palestinian people. In the past week, the Palestinian people will have clearly seen their allies and their enemies. The most obvious enemy is the Israeli capitalist state and its ruling class, which implement an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 May 2021)

Mick Barry: 334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify the discrepancy between the symptoms being used to advise Covid-19 self-isolation in schools among pupils and the advice being offered to the general public (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27528/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 May 2021)

Mick Barry: On Monday, the trial begins of 47 Hong Kong election candidates who dared to put their names forward for election primaries last year despite the election being banned under the repressive new national security laws. The 47 people involved include Leung Kwok-hung, also known as Long Hair, the veteran democracy campaigner and left activist who spent more than 15 years in the Hong Kong...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (26 May 2021)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the shared island unit of his Department. [27887/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (26 May 2021)

Mick Barry: We often talk in this House about sectarian division. I want to say a few words about the exact opposite. Some weeks ago, workers at the Hovis bakery in Belfast decided to take industrial action over the fact that they have been offered less than 2% of a wage increase this year. Catholics and Protestants stood united on the picket lines for the 12 days of the strike, after which they won...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 May 2021)

Mick Barry: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality last met; and when it will next meet. [27888/21]