Results 421-440 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Remuneration (24 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: 29. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the part played by his Department in the negotiations with the Garda representative associations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36543/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (24 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: 37. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the contacts his Department has had with other Departments on the issue of public sector pay restoration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36544/16]

Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: It relates to the Order of Business for the week, so the Leas-Cheann Comhairle can take it now or later. I do not mind.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: There are more leaks coming from the expert water commission than can be found in the entire water system for the country.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: The question that I wish to ask is this.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: Given the level of leaking that is taking place and given the level of public concern at what is being said, can we agree that the Business Committee would discuss on Thursday the idea of setting aside time next week for a full discussion in the House on the water charges issue?

Flood Insurance Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: I did not think I would be speaking for another ten minutes, but it seems that we do not have a Labour Party speaker for this debate. The Anti-Austerity Alliance–People Before Profit group will support this Bill. While we believe it has some weaknesses, we think it has significant merit and we will be casting our votes in support of it. I salute the campaigners in the Gallery who...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (30 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: 24. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether fishermen who are undocumented and whose employers are not engaging in the regularisation scheme should be given the right to a work visa here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37686/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (30 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: 32. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received a report from the Workplace Relations Commission on the raids that have been carried out on fishing ports in an effort to uncover abuses of migrant fisherman; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37688/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (30 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: 38. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the low take up of work permits for the regularisation of atypical non-EEA fishermen; his further views on the apparent continued exploitation of non-EEA workers in the industry; the representations he has had with the industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37685/16]

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: I have two questions. Our data show that we are doing more emergency and fewer elective procedures each year. If these trends continue all work will be emergency work and we will be unable to accommodate elective work. When do we reach that point? Will Mr. O'Brien indicate whether it will be next year or in five to ten years' time? I am concerned about the amount of money available...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: How does that play out? Mr. O'Brien pinpointed a period of four to five years.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: Mr. O'Brien also cited specific examples of ambulances, X-ray machines and MRI equipment and indicated that the HSE had significantly less than the two thirds of the budget that he believed it needed just to maintain those, not improve them. Does that mean that the HSE will spend all of the money in the first two to three years, when everything is grand, only to fall off a cliff unless there...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: Problems will start kicking in as early as next year on that front.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: What kind of equipment?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: I thank Mr. O'Brien.

Cannabis for Medicinal Use (Regulations) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2016)

Mick Barry: I will start by saluting all those in the Visitors Gallery who have come to listen to this debate. I also salute those in the audio-visual room which, I understand, is absolutely packed. On 2 November a woman left her house in Aghabullogue, County Cork to set off on a 300 km walk to Dublin. She had her coat, a phone, a bottle of water and a couple of pears. She has put her hand over...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Remuneration (1 Dec 2016)

Mick Barry: 56. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has studied the potential benefits to the public health care system that could arise if the demands of the INMO, Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, and the IMO, Irish Medical Organisation, for improvements in pay and working conditions were met from the point of view of retaining in the public health care system more of the doctors and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (1 Dec 2016)

Mick Barry: 87. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to alleviate the overcrowding crisis at Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37993/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (1 Dec 2016)

Mick Barry: 129. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the approach that has been made to the French Government in order to locate the unaccompanied migrant children previously situated at the Calais camp and bring them here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38233/16]