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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (10 May 2023)

Mick Barry: I have questions under a number of headings. I will ask them together and the Minister might reply to them together. I begin with European works councils. Ireland has a significant number, but the Commission has found our legislation, especially with respect to disputes, does not live up to the EU directive. Will the Government commit to ensuring our legislation meets EU standards and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (10 May 2023)

Mick Barry: We are not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (10 May 2023)

Mick Barry: My first point relates to grocery prices. There seems to have been a change in tone from the Government but not in the substance of its approach to this issue. As far back as February, the Taoiseach implored and pleaded with the sector for price cuts. What I described as the “pretty, pretty please” approach has not worked. The Minister told us he is not happy with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (10 May 2023)

Mick Barry: If I may-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (10 May 2023)

Mick Barry: I just wish to ask a question. I understand what measures the State might take that the Minister does not support. I am asking that if we do not see real progress in six weeks, will the Government ask again or will measures be taken where the State directly intervenes? It does not have to be that measure, though it is the one I would advocate for, but other tools are available. Will the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2023)

Mick Barry: Following a violent attack on an encampment of asylum seekers, with tents and belongings burnt out, many believe it is only a matter of time before Ireland's far right claims its first killing. The Government made asylum seekers an easy target by forcing them to sleep on the streets. It made 500 other asylum seekers do so as well. It ignored warnings that its sleep on the street policy...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2023)

Mick Barry: More than 70 residents of Beaumont Residential Care in Cork city face an uncertain future after the owners of the centre told relatives last week that they will exit the fair deal scheme at the end of May if the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, does not increase payments to them. Does the Minister agree that no resident should be evicted from any nursing home and that the State has a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (16 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on plans for the consultative forum on international security policy this summer; if his Department or the Defence Forces will be making submissions on the question of military non-alignment; which experts have been invited to participate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20857/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (16 May 2023)

Mick Barry: Will the Tánaiste report on plans for the consultative forum on international security policy this summer? Will his Department or the Defence Forces be making submissions on the question of military non-alignment? Which experts have been invited to participate in the event? Will he make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (16 May 2023)

Mick Barry: No predetermined outcomes - I believe the Tánaiste when thousands would not. I will start with a quote: An examination of these cases reveals that the United States had very good reasons to object to the governments of Chile, Cuba and Nicaragua. Their ideological orientation was inimical to its own, so it supported local groups that used whatever means were available to them to try...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (16 May 2023)

Mick Barry: The Tánaiste spoke of a citizens' assembly. He has decided to go ahead with an assembly but I note, as I think many other people will do, that he has taken the citizens out of the equation. A meeting of the chiefs of the European navies will take place in Cork tomorrow and on Thursday. Who will be in attendance? Any European Union or European NATO country that has a navy can send...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (10 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will supply a breakdown, by local authority, of the funding allocated and the funding drawdown under the Traveller caravan loan scheme for 2021 and 2022; the budget for 2023; if he will expand the scheme to cater for unmet demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21885/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (10 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the action she will take to ensure that the €200 cost-of-living payment that was due in April will be extended to State pension-qualified adults; if it is not to be extended, whether the disproportional impact on women has been factored in by her; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21883/23]

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)

Mick Barry: More than half of women in Irish society experience sexual violence in the course of their lifetime. That is a shocking statistic which speaks to an epidemic of sexual violence in Irish society. Education is a key tool in combating the misogyny and toxic masculinity which gives rise to so much of this violence. A recent poll in Australia found that 28% of teenage boys there look up to the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: A Vision for Change (17 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 60. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider changes to the work permit scheme to allow those coming to work as health care assistants to bring their spouses and children to live in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23382/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allowing those who are paying Class S PRSI to make additional voluntary contributions to allow them access to illness benefit, given the increased awareness and necessity for persons to isolate when ill from many illnesses, and the increasing number of persons in this group who are on low or middle...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2023)

Mick Barry: There was another fire this morning at one of the Stryker plants in Carrigtwohill. The building was evacuated and thankfully no one was injured. This follows another two fires at the site in April. The fire on 18 April, one month ago today, injured two workers, of whom one suffered serious burns. These fires were just the latest in a series of health and safety incidents at the plant....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [22480/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: Three-quarters of secondary schools report having teacher vacancies with zero applications. Teacher shortages are at a crisis point. Maths is being hit. Irish is being hit. Foreign languages are being hit. Woodwork, metal work and technical subjects are really being hit. Students are being forced to drop subjects. Students with special needs are disproportionately impacted as teachers...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [22481/23]