Results 3,961-3,980 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: The Taoiseach has not answered my question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: The Taoiseach has not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: That woman will not be evicted.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: The Taoiseach needs to clarify that, Chair.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit in his Department. [50365/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: About 25 minutes ago, the Taoiseach told Deputy O'Reilly that the Government was anxious to defend the employment regulation order in the security industry. This ERO would have ensured a minimum rate of pay for security workers of a mere €12.50 per hour but there is an injunction out against it. Is the Taoiseach aware that the Department of Transport recently gave the contract for...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: These are people who are trying to maintain poverty pay.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: It is poverty pay.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: 25. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [51691/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: I want to voice solidarity with Royal Mail postal workers in Northern Ireland and in Britain. Their employer has announced 10,000 redundancies but plans to recruit new staff at 20% below the current rate, as well as plans to sell off the profitable parcel service. Royal Mail made a £758 million profit last year, paying out more than half of this to shareholders. The workers who are...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: Privatising the buses.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: Did you listen to them opposing your privatisations?
- Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: I will kick off. Deputy Boyd Barrett may be here but we will see. Time will tell.
- Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: On 29 September, I asked the Tánaiste whether pay-as-you-go customers were included in the winter moratorium on electricity and gas disconnections. Effectively, he said "No". That question and answer opened this controversy and 19 days later the Government has failed to put the issue to bed. The Taoiseach said at first that people should engage with the Department of Social...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (18 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the measures that he intends to take to make student accommodation affordable given that it is a major barrier to people taking up college places; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51658/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Unions (18 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on any meetings with student unions in relation to the cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51657/22]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens' Assembly (18 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: 158. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline for the citizens’ assemblies committed to in the Programme for Government. [51689/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (19 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: 81. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she envisages that the media fund for local reporting, proposed in the Future of Media Commission’s report, will be established; the amount that will be allocated to the fund; the criteria for applying for funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52224/22]
- Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: I want to talk about the mother and baby homes and the vaccine trials. According to reports, there were more than 1,000 babies and young children involved in these vaccine trials, that is 1,135 persons. Those babies and young children were taken from six mother and baby homes including Bessborough in Cork city. This happened between 1930 and 1973. There was no parental consent. The...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)
Mick Barry: Friday week marks the tenth anniversary of the cruel and unnecessary death of Savita Halappanavar. I commend the organisers of the Savita anniversary march for health, equality and bodily autonomy, which will take place on Saturday, 29 October in Dublin. Initiated by ROSA, the socialist feminist organisation and supported by the National Women's Council, the Union of Students in Ireland and...