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Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: I live in Blackpool, on the north side of Cork city. Two miles from my house is the European headquarters of Apple, in Hollyhill. Hollyhill is high above the city, as the name suggests. From it, you can look out over the city and see hospitals that are in the headlines every second week because of overcrowding. You can see schools that only get over the line at the end of the year thanks...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 30. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on a humanitarian response to Ukraine will next meet. [22482/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Work Permits (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: It is only a matter of time and it will be in a socialist government but that is another matter. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, has responsibility for mental health and yet-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Work Permits (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: The Minister of State with responsibility for mental health is here and the Government’s policy is putting these Indian nurses through a mental health ringer. Deputy Joan Collins mentioned that there were 3,000, mainly Indian, nurses working here as healthcare assistants. Some 1,000 came over at the start of the year on two-year work permits. They are working in private nursing...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Work Permits (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: The Indian nurses work here as healthcare assistants in private nursing homes for two years. At the end of the two years, they have to do the QQI level 5 qualification. That takes another eight months. These are nurses. They are qualified way above QQI level 5. They have already done that, and way more, so why force them to jump through that particular hoop? Then, to add insult to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Work Permits (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: The Minister of State is reading a speech. He should reply to the points that have been put to him.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Work Permits (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: You are not answering the questions that the Indian nurses are asking.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (24 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the high-level steering board, chaired by the Secretary General of his Department, to oversee the implementation of the high-level action plan for the report of the Commission on the Defence Forces. [22803/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (24 May 2023)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach says he does not want to join NATO; public opinion would not allow him to. However, I think he does want to achieve a de facto associate membership of NATO by drawing ever closer and advancing integration into its structure without formally joining in the short term. I am against that because NATO is an imperialist military alliance led by the United States that does not and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (24 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the strategic goals of his Department's Strategy Statement 2021-2023; and if he plans to update same. [22804/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (24 May 2023)

Mick Barry: The socialist left does not accept the framing of the prebudget debate as an either-or between public spending increases and tax cuts for middle-income workers. We say that both should be done at the expense of higher taxes on high earners and profits. I want to ask about proposed the €1,000 tax that will be put back in workers' pockets at budget time. I suspect that Fine Gael is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [22805/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2023)

Mick Barry: Why did gardaí allow the organisers of anti-asylum seeker roadblocks in County Clare go onto buses, count the number of asylum seekers leaving the area and count the number of asylum seekers coming back into the area, and film vulnerable people without their permission? Why did gardaí fail to prevent the burning of the tents and possessions of asylum seekers at Sandwith Street,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employee Experiences of Technological Surveillance in the Financial Services Sector: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Mick Barry: This is an interesting subject. Some of the report's conclusions are dynamite. I would support progressing legislation on this matter but I note the point that has been made about consent where there is a major power imbalance. People have to sign the contracts to get these jobs, so if they do not consent, they do not get the jobs. This points towards the need for workers to organise and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employee Experiences of Technological Surveillance in the Financial Services Sector: Discussion (24 May 2023)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employee Experiences of Technological Surveillance in the Financial Services Sector: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Mick Barry: I will ask a short tranche of questions before making my final point. Do we have any sense as to whether this is mainly affecting people working at home or in an office environment? Will Dr. O'Sullivan take us through the different forms of surveillance? She mentioned that there was not major webcam surveillance currently, but can there be a situation where someone is working at home and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employee Experiences of Technological Surveillance in the Financial Services Sector: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Mick Barry: I will make a brief point. I was interested in what Dr. O'Sullivan said about Germany. It is not only a country that has a comparatively strong trade union movement. It is also a country which, at a certain point in the 20th century, was under a dictatorship. Then the east of the country experienced communism and the Stasi. There is a real sensitivity about these issues in Germany. It...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (16 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment in light of the cost-of-living crisis, if he is aware that various waste collection companies have substantially increased their fees; if he has considered how this will impact low- and middle-income households; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23102/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (16 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the cost of electric cars in the State makes them accessible to lower and middle-income families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23101/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Service Executive (16 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 551. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will instruct the HSE to sanction additional nursing support in order that children with complex medical issues can attend school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23124/23]