Results 4,541-4,560 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Consultations (27 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: 150. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost of hosting the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy; the costs of travel and accommodation for its participants; the cost of hiring rooms; the cost of AV equipment and any other costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30861/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Consultations (27 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: 151. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the criteria for deciding the topics of the different sessions of the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy; the criteria for inviting speakers; where the decisions were made in deciding the topics and the speakers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30862/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (28 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: 131. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has a policy of offering alternative accommodation to those who have a right to reside in the State after having been through the international protection process but are still living in the direct provision system that is far from their current residence (details supplied); if he will ensure...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Jul 2023)

Mick Barry: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will meet next. [32130/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Jul 2023)

Mick Barry: A constituent of mine recently received correspondence from Cork University Hospital informing him that he had been placed on a waiting list for cataract surgery. He rang the eye department at the hospital to ask what date he had been given for this surgery. The lady on the other end of the line gave him the date. She said it will be in July 2031. My constituent is 82 years of age. He...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Transport Policy (4 Jul 2023)

Mick Barry: 15. To ask the Taoiseach the policy in his Department regarding the use of the Government jet. [32131/23]

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Mick Barry: The State will have a hard job collecting the television licence fee in 2023. People are asking where the money goes to. They have seen €345,000 in secret payments for Ryan Tubridy, and nearly €250,000 going on Irish Rugby Football Union, IRFU, Rugby World Cup tickets for corporate clients and so on. In the best of times, the television licence was always a regressive tax in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fisheries Protection (4 Jul 2023)

Mick Barry: 202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how many three-yearly inspections of ships have taken place under section 5(3) of SI 376/2014 since that Instrument came into force; how many non-compliances were detected; and to provide these inspections and detected non-compliances, by category, in a tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32409/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fisheries Protection (4 Jul 2023)

Mick Barry: 203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on Ireland's progress towards ratification of the Work in Fishing Convention ILO 188; whether it is intended to make the Marine Survey Office the sole agency for the enforcement of the provisions of the Convention on Foreign Flagged Fishing Vessels in operating in Irish territorial waters or whether the WRC inspectorate is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (4 Jul 2023)

Mick Barry: 205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will sanction a cost-of-living increase in the CIÉ pension; when that increase will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32597/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (4 Jul 2023)

Mick Barry: 229. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will support changes to regulations in relation to travel insurance to ensure that children who were born with congenital heart defects can obtain cover; his views as to whether he will contact a company (details supplied) who despite sponsoring charities that aid children with congenital heart defects, reject their applications for travel insurance...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (4 Jul 2023)

Mick Barry: 265. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he envisages his Department will make a decision on permitting the owners of Irish flagged fishing vessels to employ non-EEA fishers under one of its work permit schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32411/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (4 Jul 2023)

Mick Barry: 269. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline how much in IDA grants and supports have been awarded to a company (details supplied) since 1997; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32595/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (4 Jul 2023)

Mick Barry: 364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if given the biodiversity crisis, the pressure on the Irish hare and due to animal welfare issues if he will refuse to issue 2023-2024 hare coursing licences and a remove of the species from the Open Season Order; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32404/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (4 Jul 2023)

Mick Barry: 456. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and breakdown by sex of all non-coursing greyhound deaths registered on Greyhound Racing Ireland Traceability System per year between 1 January 2021 and 30 June 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32405/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (4 Jul 2023)

Mick Barry: 457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that Greyhound Racing Ireland's Drug Sampling Metrics has not been published since December 2022, their Control Committee Reports have not been published since August 2022 and the National Greyhound Laboratory (NGL) accredited by the Irish National Accreditation Board (INAB) under ISO 17025 was shut down in January...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (4 Jul 2023)

Mick Barry: 458. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of unnamed non-coursing greyhounds born in 2021 registered as dead in Greyhound Racing Ireland's traceability system to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32407/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (4 Jul 2023)

Mick Barry: 474. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what measures will be taken to better protect young people in State care from sexual exploitation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32631/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (4 Jul 2023)

Mick Barry: 522. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what measures his Department will take to better resource the State care system to protect minors in State care from sexual exploitation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32632/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Jul 2023)

Mick Barry: Jenin in July 2023 needs to be added to the list of the Israeli state's war crimes. At least 12 Palestinians were killed, at least 100 were hospitalised and 3,000 people were evacuated. The Israel Defense Forces may have withdrawn but Netanyahu holds out the threat of more, stating: "I can say that our extensive activity in Jenin is not a one-time operation". The US Administration has...