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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: I am not sure if I will use all of my seven minutes. I came mainly with the intention of listening and learning rather than using my mouth. However, one question has crossed my mind in the course of the discussion so far. By the way, I apologise because I will have to leave afterwards. I have to be somewhere at 11 a.m. This has been informative and interesting. A certain amount of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: Are we seen as a soft touch on the AI front at present?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Sector Pensions (21 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: 49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he intends to approve the pension increase due to An Post pensioners this year; his views on whether it now needs to match the rate of inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29920/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (21 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider extending the time available for students with dyslexia and other conditions in the leaving certificate examinations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29944/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: Young people were to the fore in the protest at UCC this morning. That is not surprising. Young people have the most to lose from the militarisation of the world that the Government wants to join in with. Despite being pushed and dragged out the doors of UCC by gardaí, despite only one speaker out of 80 at this forum being from Generation Z, despite the tut-tutting in Oireachtas...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: The Minister knows precisely the point I am making.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: My voters do not tut-tut young people.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: It is a rigged debate.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: It is a stacked debate.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: The Minister asked me to reflect on my comments so I would like to clarify -----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: My supporters do not tut-tut young people.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: 12. To ask the Taoiseach his intention to establish additional units or divisions in his Department to those outlined in the programme for Government. [31141/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: Cork’s first-ever trans pride march will take place through the city this Saturday. The march will assemble at 2 p.m. at the Cork City Library. It is a defiant choice of venue, given it has been the scene of anti-LGBTQ+ protests, including the ripping-up of books by far-right activists this year. This march is a protest. It is first and foremost a protest against the increase in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: 19. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any recent discussions he has had with the British Prime Minister. [31143/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: In the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher banned teaching about gay relationships in schools. Thatcher's section 28 laws are infamous today, a symbol of darker times. However, is Rishi Sunak about to turn back the clock? According to The Observer, Sunak is now considering instructing teachers not to use a new name or pronoun at a pupil's request until parental consent has been obtained; instructing...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: I know why Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are voting to renew the Offences against the State Act. Both parties are long-time supporters of non-jury courts and a range of other repressive measures. The Green Party is voting against its declared principles. Nothing new there. What about Sinn Féin, though? The Sinn Féin justice spokesperson was, I believe, silent in his...

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: I will speak to one issue only in the time available to me, namely, the crisis at Beaumont Residential Care in Cork. As has been said, we have 56 people who are residents of Beaumont Residential Care, who are there on the fair deal scheme and who are facing, to put it mildly, an uncertain and precarious situation. Not all of these residents, although many of them, are people who are frail,...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Control of Exports Bill 2023: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: I would have liked Deputy O'Reilly to have kept her amendment down because I would have voted for it. I will take this opportunity to register some issues and concerns about the Bill. I noted the comments of Jan Pie, head of the AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe, who last November stated, "I would like to congratulate Ireland for the increased interest on the defence...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Control of Exports Bill 2023: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: On that, I would support the implementation of regulations on dual-use items. The problem I am highlighting here is that the Government and the State plan not just to increase exports of dual-use items but see that as a growth industry and something to be promoted in a serious way. Because of precisely the points that have been highlighted by Deputy O'Reilly in her original amendments, I...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: I understand that the European Council will again be discussing migration and there are some points on this subject I want to bring to the attention of the House. Some residents of the direct provision centre at the Kinsale Road in Cork have recently received correspondence from International Protection Accommodation Services, IPAS, stating that they are to be transferred to a disused Army...