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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Trade Fairs (7 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 351. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if representatives of the Defence Forces or his Department participated in the recent IDEX 2023 arms fair in Abu Dhabi, UAE; if so, the meetings any delegation participated in; if any contracts were made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11168/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Judgments (7 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 512. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 273 of 29 November 2017, if he will provide an update (details supplied). [11172/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (9 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 2. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine noting the deadline for decommissioning of the vessels under the Bord Iascaigh Mhara decommissioning scheme expires in April 2023, and the entitlement of crew to avail of a share of compensation if they have worked 90 days on the vessel that is due to be decommissioned in the course of 2020 and 2021, if that entitlement is lost if...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (9 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for her indulgence this morning, and the indulgence of her staff. At the time when I was meant to be walking here to ask this question I ended up on the phone with Áine Lawlor. That does not happen very often. My question is, noting that the deadline for decommissioning of the vessels under the Bord Iascaigh Mhara decommissioning scheme begins in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (9 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Since last year the International Transport Workers Federation has been trying, unsuccessfully, to obtain answers from BIM on behalf of migrant crew members who are unsure of their entitlements under this provision. For example if crew members served those minimum 90 days in 2020 and 2021 and perhaps years before but left the boat post-2021, are they included or excluded from a share in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (9 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: There are significant questions outstanding in regard to migrant fishers. The fact we still do not have clear answers either from the Department or from BIM is incredible, given how far advanced we are in this process. To describe the provision for crew who worked on these vessels to be decommissioned as an afterthought on the part of BIM would not be inaccurate. The International...

Comóradh Sheachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (9 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: To be able to use Irish is a gift coveted by many and possessed by few. Rather than apologise for my own lack of Irish, I would express a degree of regret. It is a feeling shared by many but something for which they should not apologise. The century-old State and the one that preceded it bear the greater responsibility in this regard. The State has failed on two accounts. It has failed...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [12648/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 13. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the climate action delivery board, co-chaired by his Department, that have taken place to date in 2023. [12649/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Strategies (21 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework. [12650/23]

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: From time to time, a Government will make a decision so cruel and wrong that it will be remembered for many years to come. The decision of the Cumann na nGaedheal Government and its Minister for Finance, Ernest Blythe, to cut a shilling from the old age pension in the 1920s was one such decision. Another was the attempt by a Fine Gael-led Government and its Minister for Finance, John...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Thanks to you.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Here are a few things we know. We know that children living in emergency accommodation, such as hotel rooms, learn to crawl later and learn to walk later than children living in homes with any bit of space. We know that some children living in homeless accommodation start speaking at a later age than other children due to the trauma of losing their homes. We know that thousands of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach said he does not feel there is an acceptable level of homelessness. He cannot have it both ways. He cannot say that on one hand and come in here at 4.40 p.m. and vote to lift an eviction ban which he knows will put significant numbers of people, including children, into homelessness. He cannot have it both ways. The Taoiseach does feel that there is an acceptable level of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is to commence a ballot for industrial action of its members in the coronary care unit of Cork University Hospital. These front-line workers have been forced to work with unsafe staffing levels for far too long. They have also been forced to work with an inappropriate skills mix in their team. If these workers decide to take industrial action, I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [11398/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Twenty-four people died in a 51-bed nursing home at Ballynoe in Cork in the third wave of Covid-19 at the start of 2021. "Prime Time" recently revealed that the HSE was notified of the outbreak on 8 January but did not visit the home until 16 February. A HIQA visit, after 22 people were already dead, found nine unreported deaths, multiple violations of infection control regulations and no...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: What about the Ballynoe inquiry?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: What about nursing homes?

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Karl Marx once said that France was the country where the class struggle was most usually fought to a finish. It is early days but what held true in the 19th century may well turn out to be the case in this century too. Tomorrow will be the eighth national mobilisation in France against attacks on workers' pension rights by the Macron Government, which is trying to increase the pension age...