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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Broadcasting Charge (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 112. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has plans to propose a broadcasting charge on all households; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14119/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has policies in relation to private companies paying for wages of school staff in primary schools; if her Department has policies in relation to private companies providing classes to pupils in primary schools; if issues relating to the relationship between the private company (details supplied) and a school has been brought...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has plans to reinstate CSPE as a subject that could be taken as an exam subject for the junior cycle; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14184/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person for the purposes of qualifying for the 'free fees' scheme who is not a EEA/UK/Swiss citizen but has a stamp 4 visa and is under 21 years of age and a dependent child of a spouse of an Irish citizen satisfies the nationality condition, if that person would satisfy the nationality condition if the EU citizen spouse of their parent...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 253. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will take to improve the diagnosis and treatment for endometriosis; if he will consider the proposal for the establishment of a dedicated multidisciplinary centre to improve diagnosis, better coordinate care, develop expertise and to improve outcomes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14228/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (21 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 1039. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current average processing times for citizenship applications are; the measures that are being taken to bring this time below nine months; to confirm if applications are processed in chronological order; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14117/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (21 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 1058. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times checkpoints were carried out to check the immigration status of people in 2022; the number of persons that were asked for identification under which legislation these checkpoints were carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12637/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet committee on health took place. [14880/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: The Department of Health signed up to the Safe Staffing Framework, a data-driven, evidence-based system which can pinpoint the staffing levels needed to provide safe staffing in every hospital ward in the State. Cork University Hospital is one of the State's flagship hospitals, yet, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, only four of the 21 wards at that hospital meet...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet Committee on a Humanitarian Response to Ukraine took place. [14881/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Teaching English as a second language is a key task and challenge for our infant and primary schools, given the increased levels of immigration, but the policy of the Department of Education - the Taoiseach's Government policy - is making the task of the schools far more difficult and has the potential to prove very divisive. Until recently, the norm has been for children to be entitled to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the international division of his Department. [14882/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Two weeks ago, Ministers scattered to the four corners of the earth for St. Patrick's Day. We all saw the pictures from New York and Washington, but I want to refer to some visits that received rather less media attention. I am interested in, for example, the visit of the Minister of State, Deputy Josepha Madigan, to Qatar, a country where homosexuality is illegal under threat of sentence...

Annual Emission Allocation Units Purchase Agreement: Motion (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Can the Minister of State confirm that he or the senior Minister signed this contract with Slovakia last month? Can he confirm that the decision was made without any reference to this Dáil debate and that what is happening here is merely a rubber-stamping exercise? The top ten carbon emitters in Ireland are almost without exception private business interests, including no less than...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: There are 3,000 households with notices to quit against their names. The Government has fired the starting gun for those evictions to begin this weekend. Where are people going to go? Nobody knows for certain. The Taoiseach wore a cloak of certainty when he said last week that the majority of people will not knock on the door of homeless services for emergency accommodation. I suspect he...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: There are some things in life you do not really recover from. Will Smith was the "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and went on to star in some decent movies but he is probably not going to be remembered for any of that. Instead, he will probably be remembered as the guy who charged onto the stage at the Oscars ceremony and socked the presenter on the jaw in front of millions of people. Governments...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Only two of the children were under the age of 17, is that correct?

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [15252/23]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: The eviction ban will be lifted at the weekend. Where will people go? Let us break it down. Some people will find alternative rental accommodation; they will be a small minority. Others will crash with family, in the hope it will only be for a couple of weeks rather than stretching out into months. Other people will beg for a place to stay with friends. Some will go to homeless...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Allow the Taoiseach some extra time.