Results 4,661-4,680 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of the Health and Safety Authority (25 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: I notice from the introduction that the lowest fatality rate since the establishment of the authority in 1989 was recorded in 2022. That is welcome. I also note the increase in injuries, which obviously needs much attention. One worker who died this year is a man named John Murphy. John died in June, two months after he sustained burn industries in a preventable industrial accident at one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of the Health and Safety Authority (25 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: I will just say that John was a husband and father of three children. There have been several fires across the site since that fatal accident. Four have resulted in evacuations. Many workers at the site will say that health and safety improvements and investment are going on but they are not the expensive fixes. They are the smaller jobs rather than the more expensive fixes. For example,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of the Health and Safety Authority (25 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: If Ms Byron could send me the statistics, I would appreciate it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of the Health and Safety Authority (25 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: I thank her.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (7 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any recent meetings he has had with the British Prime Minister. [47663/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (7 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: I want to raise the issue of the repression of expressions of solidarity with the Palestinian people. In Germany, we have seen school students who wear the Palestinian scarf threatened with school discipline. In Paris, people can be fined €135 for wearing the scarf; hundreds have been. In Britain, attempts have been made in universities to ban groups that show solidarity with...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (7 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 10. To ask the Taoiseach his views on the recently published annual report of his Department. [46494/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (7 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: WCNSF is the new acronym being used by medics tending to victims of Israel's bombs. It stands for "wounded child, no surviving family." More than 4,000 children have died as a result of that bombing campaign. More than that number will need surgery repeatedly throughout the course of their lives. Criticisms of the Israeli assault have been raised in recent days by the Taoiseach and the...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: An Irish national teachers' organisation poll of 1,300 of its members, conducted before the summer holidays, found that 98% of teachers who were renting agreed that it was "very difficult" to secure new accommodation in their area. A recent Irish National Teachers Organisation, INTO, survey of 1,000 schools, this time in conjunction with the Irish Primary Principals Network and the Catholic...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: Sorry lads, if you do not mind, I am trying to speak. She stated: I think it is a systemic issue. It would be very much related to the housing shortage in terms of both rental and getting properties to buy. It's difficult if you want to teach in Dublin and if you are from outside the area you can't get accommodation. It is not just a Dublin problem, it is very much a Cork issue as...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: A Cheann Comhairle, if you would not mind, I am trying to speak with this going on in the corner. He gave up after two months of house hunting, as there was nothing affordable within a reasonable distance by public transport from work. He could not secure preschool places for the kids, as they had no permanent address. The man returned to Greece disheartened. In conclusion, the housing...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Workplace Discrimination (7 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: I do not need to wax lyrical about the role of migrant nurses in our health service, and I do not need to wax lyrical about the role of migrant workers more generally in our health service. We all know their role is critical and that, without their contribution, some say the service would collapse within a matter of days. I suspect it would actually collapse within a matter of hours. Irish...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Workplace Discrimination (7 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: I, too, fear this is not an isolated case. I have to wonder, if allegations such as this can be brought forward by more than a score of nurses in a public sector workplace, which is a unionised workplace, what is going on in some private sector workplaces with vulnerable workers who do not have trade union protection and who are in fact employed in places that are not just non-union but...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Workplace Discrimination (7 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: Are they mandatory?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [46495/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [47664/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: I have an urgent issue to raise concerning a hunger strike. Asylum seekers currently accommodated at the Kilbride Army camp on the Dublin-Wicklow border will march to Government offices tomorrow to seek a meeting with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman. I ask the Taoiseach to request the Minister to meet with these men's representatives....

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (8 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his participation in the extraordinary European Council meeting on 17 October 2023. [47665/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (8 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 16. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any meetings or communication he has with the Israeli Government. [48577/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (8 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: I will fit them into one minute.