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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to Finland and Estonia. [23441/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Mick Barry: Supporters of the militarisation of Europe were in full voice at the recent Conference on the Future of Europe. Emmanuel Macron, Ursula von der Leyen and others linked what they saw as the need to militarise with changes to the European treaties, including an end to unanimity clauses. Where is the Government in this debate? Will the Taoiseach support a two-tier Europe and if so, which tier...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Mick Barry: Talk to Mr. Macron.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 May 2022)

Mick Barry: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit of his Department. [24529/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 May 2022)

Mick Barry: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [24530/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 May 2022)

Mick Barry: When the pandemic raged, bus drivers kept society on the move, risking their health day after day as key front-line workers. How are they being repaid? They are being repaid with a kick in the teeth. Bus Éireann is threatening to freeze their wages, not just for 2022 but for next year as well. While prices continually increase, this represents a massive pay cut. What does the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 May 2022)

Mick Barry: Bus Éireann is proposing it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Mick Barry: 28. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the public service, justice and policing reform division of his Department. [24531/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Mick Barry: I want to raise again the case of George Nkencho. It is my understanding that the inquest into the death of George Nkencho is due to reconvene in June. However, it is also my understanding that the inquest cannot properly reconvene until such time as the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, investigation into his death is complete. That investigation is not yet complete....

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Mick Barry: The chair of the St. Vincent's Hospital Group, Mr. James Menton, told the Joint Committee on Health yesterday that the St. Vincent's Hospital Group is a secular organisation. This is the St. Vincent's Hospital Group still has St. Vincent in its name. Does it not still have religious statues and icons in its grounds and in its hospital? At the same time as that contribution was being made,...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Mick Barry: Ah yes, the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan. Abraham Lincoln once said: "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” I hope I have that right but the Deputy knows the quote to which I refer. Fine Gael jumped on the Repeal bandwagon very late in the day but it will be lot clearer to the people...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the new Cabinet subcommittee that is dealing with Ukrainian refugees will next meet. [24935/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Mick Barry: It is right and proper that urgent action is taken to support the victims of this war who have fled to this country. It is also right and proper that this country takes action to support other victims of the war. I want to urgently raise the case of Javid Mamedov, a Russian anti-war activist and socialist who is now in prison after being arrested for a third time for his anti-war stance....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Mick Barry: I will do.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 May 2022)

Mick Barry: After the events of last night, the Government has only a paper-thin majority and is significantly more vulnerable to pressure. I am of the view that pressure will grow from working people hard-hit by the cost of living crisis. Bus Éireann workers have been threatened with a two-year pay freeze and are not going to wear it. Medical scientists have been underpaid for years and they are...

Short-term Lettings Enforcement Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 May 2022)

Mick Barry: I am sharing time with Deputy Boyd Barrett. Staggering profits are being made from short-term letting in the midst of the greatest housing crisis in the history of the State. According to the online publication, Tripe + Drisheen, citing the AirDNA website, a five bedroom house on the south side of Cork city yielded €71,400 income through Airbnb last year. According to the same...

Strike Action by the Medical Laboratory Scientists Association: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2022)

Mick Barry: What is this dispute about? It is about equal pay for equal work. Medical scientists and biochemists do the same work in the same laboratories in the same public hospitals. More than 20 years ago, it was agreed there would be pay parity and, more than 20 years on, there is still no pay parity. Medical scientists are paid at least 8% less. In the National Health Service in the UK,...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (25 May 2022)

Mick Barry: I will just have time to comment on a few issues here. I will comment on the Tories' legacy Bill and two of the industrial disputes currently taking place in Northern Ireland, and then I will see as to whether I might squeeze in another point. The legacy Bill was well summed up by Suzanne Breen, writing in the Belfast Telegraph, when she wrote: The Tories bill includes not only an...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (24 May 2022)

Mick Barry: 532. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications that her Department has received to date for the regularisation scheme for long-term undocumented migrants; the number of applications that have been rejected; the number of instances where rejections have occurred due to the applicant, despite being currently undocumented and having resided in the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 May 2022)

Mick Barry: Good afternoon Tánaiste. He is back from the luxury ski resort. I am sure he did not do a Eugene Murphy and sleep in the back of a car, so I am curious to know how much the rooms cost in Davos this year and what was the all-in price of the trip. For some time the Tánaiste has been solemnly warning about the dangers of a wage-price spiral. It seems his analysis is up to serious...