Results 4,601-4,620 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: There are seven days to go now. I see the Minister for Finance is out of the House, no doubt doing his sums. We need a budget for the millions, not the millionaires. We need real change, not spare change. It is clear, however, and becoming clearer by the day that the Government plans to give less than last year and is trying to lower public expectations. One small example tells a tale....
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: -----and demand a better deal. I will conclude on this, a Cheann Comhairle.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: I appeal to people to join the national cost-of-living protest in Dublin this Saturday.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (3 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [42484/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (3 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: A large quantity of toxic algae has bloomed on Lough Neagh, which is the largest freshwater lake on this island. This is the result of pollution from sewage and from farm run-off combining with hot temperatures. It has been estimated that 200,000 tonnes of sewage is discharged into the lake every year. The poisonous algae has killed pets and killed wildlife. Dead fish are washing ashore...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination last met. [42485/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: When will work on the Cork event centre commence? What will the overall cost be? What will be the bill for the private investors and what will be the bill for the taxpayer? Last, but not least, and there will be plenty of people in Cork listening in on this answer, when will that centre be opened? I remember being a councillor in Cork City Hall in 2014 when we were told that the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (3 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: 18. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the child poverty and well-being unit. [42486/23]
- School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: Ireland is not a poor, backward country, not by any manner or means, yet we cannot get significant numbers of our kids to school in the morning. The Government has serious questions to answer on that. I wish to bring to the attention of the Dáil the situation facing the people of Glenville in my constituency of Cork North-Central. In particular, I wish to raise the situation facing 12...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: 135. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent meeting with the President of the United States. [41729/23]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: 136. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. [41730/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (4 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: 5. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of his Department's shared island unit. [42617/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (4 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: Workers at Vista Therm, a glass manufacturing company in County Armagh, have been on strike now for 12 weeks. This mainly migrant workforce has been forced into taking this action for their basic demands of trade union recognition and a pay increase. The company refused to engage with the union of the workers choice, which is Unite the Union. It has suspended the shop stewards and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (4 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: 11. To ask the Taoiseach for a report on the National Risk Assessment 2023. [42618/23]
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: Are we not next?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: Where are we on the list?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: I want clarity on this.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: Where are we on the list?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: We have been waiting for far longer.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)
Mick Barry: I am sharing time with Deputy Bríd Smith. We are debating and discussing a change to the law. Where has the pressure for this change come from? It has come from below. It came from the repeal movement, the Me Too movement, and from the sentiment for I Believe Her in the aftermath of the Belfast rape trial. Insofar as this legislation is a reflection of the aspirations and the...