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

Mick Barry: Many maternity hospitals do not provide abortion services. Abortion pills are not provided by 90% of GP services. Hundreds of women are still being forced to travel abroad for abortion care every year and many of these are in cases of foetal anomaly. Pregnant people are still forced to endure a paternalistic three-day wait-----

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

Mick Barry: -----before securing access to the abortion pill. When will the abortion review be complete and will the Taoiseach support the call for a permanent memorial to Savita in this State?

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (19 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [52019/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (19 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: There seems to be a lot of leaking going on in the Dáil today but I will ask my question in any case. I asked the Taoiseach yesterday about the case of, say, a woman who is faced with a choice this winter of heating, eating or paying full rent, and who decides to put the interests of her children first, ahead of the interests of her landlord, and to pay some but not all of the rent. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the UN General Assembly. [52020/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the UN General Assembly. [53551/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: There are 60,000 political prisoners behind bars in Egypt. One of them, Abd el-Fattah, whose collection of prison writings was published earlier this year, has been on a 100 calories per day hunger strike since the start of April. The Egyptian dictatorship, having organised a military coup in 2013, now wants to organise a greenwashing publicity coup in 2022 by hosting the United Nations...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [53212/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. The Government's target is to retrofit 500,000 homes by 2030, or 62,500 homes a year, but so far this year only 681 homes have been approved and only 89 retrofits completed. It is safe to say the Government is about a million miles off target at this point and that is no surprise. If people are asked under the scheme to fork out €10,000,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the international unit of his Department. [52021/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: I want to condemn in the strongest terms the vicious attacks on the right to strike being carried out in France by the Macron Government. The notorious CRS riot police have been unleashed against striking workers who have been threatened with six months in prison or €10,000 fines if they do not return to work. These are workers at TotalEnergies and Exxon Mobil who dared to strike for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: Will the Taoiseach answer my question?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: What about my question on the situation in France?

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: Under fierce pressure from below, the Government is implementing a temporary ban on evictions. That is interesting because we were previously told that a ban on evictions would be unconstitutional. Then Covid came and, under pressure, the Government brought in a ban. It said there were exceptional circumstances and, due to the restrictions on movement for public health reasons, it was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland (26 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the shared island dialogue All-Island Women's Forum civic initiative. [53213/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland (26 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: Last week, I asked the Taoiseach about the review into the State's abortion legislation, which is a matter of concern for women both north and south. He told me two pieces of research have been conducted, one by Dr. Catherine Conlon of Trinity College into the experience of women who have accessed abortion services here and a second carried out by Manchester Metropolitan University into the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [53214/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Common Travel Area (25 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 346. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised with his UK counterpart the need to amend common travel area arrangements to ensure that persons who are resident in Ireland or the UK but who are not citizens of those states will be able to avail of freedom of travel rights; if the Irish State will consider allowing freedom of travel for these persons from the UK; and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Visa Agreements (25 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 347. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made recent representations to his UK counterparts in relation to proposals to introduce a visa waiver programme which would require non-Irish and UK nationals resident here apply for a visa waiver; if he opposes at EU level, UK nationals being part of the EUs visa waiver programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (25 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 563. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions for human trafficking for labour exploitation that have occurred since that offence first appeared on the statute books and the number of convictions that have occurred to date. [53222/22]