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Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (16 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 730. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of any advice from the National Gender Service to GPs not to provide blood testing facilities or to administer HRT therapies to people accessing gender affirming care; if he will confirm that the administration of HRT therapies to patients is a matter for them and their doctor; if he will meet with grassroots groups that campaign for the...

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Mick Barry: Planet Earth is undergoing its sixth mass extinction event. Biodiversity has dropped 68% globally since 1970, 50% of species that remain are seeing a decline in their population size, while less than 3% are seeing an increase in population size. Dr. Jonas Hein and Dr. Jean Carlo Rodríguez of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability said late last year, "Without...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Mick Barry: A referendum had to be wrenched from Ireland's political establishment by a loud and boisterous movement of women, youth and LGBTQ and working-class people, in particular over the previous five years, 2013 to 2018. I agree with the words of my Socialist Party colleague, Ruth Coppinger, one of the foremost advocates for repeal and for abortion rights in this State: the political establishment...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [25547/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Mick Barry: I wish to raise the case of 44 workers in Cork city and the race to the bottom in terms of workers' jobs, wages and conditions. The case in question is that of workers at the Irish headquarters of the Canadian corporation Telus in Mahon - a customer experience centre that manages accounts for corporate clients worldwide. These workers have been working on Telus's Airbnb account but it now...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (30 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 11. To ask the Taoiseach the extent to which his Department plays a role in ensuring climate action is a key priority across all Departments. [25548/23]

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Mick Barry: Young people cannot afford to buy and cannot afford to rent. The Government is forcing young people out of the housing market and out of the rental market. They are forced to live at home with parents or forced to emigrate. The Central Statistics Office told us in February that the average price of a house in Cork county was €304,000. The average price of a house in Cork city was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take into account the wishes of career guidance and counsellor teachers in Cork city and not move their counselling supervision meetings to a Tuesday due to the impact this will have, including on availability to teach other subjects, and costs to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24986/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 439. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount in the capital budget as set out in table 13 of the Stability Programme Update 2023 that is designated for building social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24799/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 440. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of providing family hubs for the 1,639 families currently accessing emergency homeless accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24800/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 441. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of expanding the Housing First programme to the 1,639 families currently accessing emergency homeless accommodation, including the provision of wraparound services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24801/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 548. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if citizenship applications are continuing to be processed in chronological order; the number of applications from 2021 and 2022 that are still being processed; the number of applications for 2023 to date that have been processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24397/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Employment Schemes (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 577. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider changes to general employment permits to allow those coming to work as health care assistants to bring their spouses and children to live in the State by amending income criteria in line with the wage rate in private nursing homes; if he will consider waiving the need for qualified nurses to undertake QQI...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 830. To ask the Minister for Health the amount in the capital budget as set out in table 13 of the Stability Programme Update 2023 that is designated for infrastructure to support Community Healthcare Networks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24802/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 831. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing 20 additional dedicated children's beds for psychiatric care to stop the practice of using beds in adult psychiatric services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24803/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 832. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of implementing the Connecting for Life suicide prevention programme in a full year. [24804/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 833. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of implementing the Sharing the Vision strategy in a full year. [24805/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 542. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of suspected crimes reported to each Garda station in the Cork city area for 2020, 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26220/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (31 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 18. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason (details supplied) in Cork Harbour has been sanctioned despite two of the rivers flowing into the harbour are not meeting their conservation limits; if he would review this decision, given the risk to fish being caught in the nets and the precautionary principle; his views on whether the sanctioning of draft...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (31 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 19. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a draft net fishery has been sanctioned in Castlemaine Harbour given one of the rivers flowing into the common embayment area, the Behy river, is closed to angling for several years and the harbour is a mix stock fishery; if he will endorse scientific monitoring samples from intercepted fish in the Behy...