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Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (8 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: Reports are emerging from Gaza of medics having to perform amputations of limbs without anaesthetic. Yesterday, the Taoiseach disagreed with my proposal that the Israeli ambassador be expelled. That is not an issue that will go away. It will come up again and again as this situation worsens. I will leave it aside for today, however. In his response to me yesterday, the Taoiseach failed...

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (8 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: That is not action.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (7 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools with a religious ethos are not permitted to ask for certificates showing training in particular religious ideologies, such as the certificate in religious studies, when seeking to employ teachers; her views on whether this practice discriminates against people of different religious ideas and backgrounds to the school in which they...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Protection (7 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 891. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he would consider a ban on the use of snares in light of the impact they are having on the protected badger population and other wildlife; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47383/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (7 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 951. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 453 of 26 September 2023, if, now that the process of payments to the owners of fishing vessels being decommissioned under the Bord Iascaigh Mhara permanent cessation scheme is complete, he can provide the list, by vessel name, owner, size and quota and amount of compensation per vessel as...

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: The ruling classes and governments of the world have almost without exception either supported Israel's war or limited criticism to mere words. Because of this, Palestinian trade unionists made the following appeal, "[We] call on our counterparts internationally and all people of conscience to end all forms of complicity with Israel’s crimes - most urgently halting the arms trade with...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Middle East (14 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will take measures to ensure that no arms are transported to Israel through Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49508/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Middle East (14 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 166. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of licences for dual use items issued for trade with Israel in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49502/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 423. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth who IPAS have contracted for the management and operation of International Protection Services at Kilbride Army Camp, Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49503/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 426. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if management at Kilbride International Protection Centre have informed IPAS in writing of potential health issues or potential medical requirements at the centre due to the refusal of food by residents seeking to highlight their situation to management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49506/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 427. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with regard to Kilbride International Protection Accommodation Centre, to report on how many men are currently at the camp and how long they have been there; how much funding has been received to date by the management company at Kilbride International Protection Accommodation Centre; where responsibility lies...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 424. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a list of all international protection accommodation services and the contracted companies that are involved in the management of each facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49504/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 425. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth who is responsible for the training of staff working in international protection accommodation centres, and what the guidelines and standards are that should be implemented for that training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49505/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Trade Unions (14 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 460. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will be supporting a campaign (details supplied) launched by a number of trade unions for improved workplace supports concerning menstruation and the menopause; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49800/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (14 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 562. To ask the Minister for Health to assist in resolving the difficult situation a stage 4 COPD and dementia patient (details supplied) being refused care by at least three nursing homes, including at least one with a dementia bed, on the grounds of their "psychiatric needs being too great". [49799/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (14 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 563. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the upward trend noted by the INMO's 'Trolley Watch' (details supplied) in the last week; what measures his Department is taking to significantly reduce the numbers of patients being cared for on trolleys, chairs and corridors in our hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49801/23]

Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: I want to say at the outset that my office has received 13,000 emails to date urging support for this motion. Nearly half of them came in last night alone. It is a response that is unprecedented in my experience as a Deputy. The expulsion of the Israeli ambassador and the closing of the embassy is not just a symbolic action. It is a practical action because if Ireland was to be the first...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: It is not unusual in rural areas for people to live 15 minutes away from a fire station, but it is practically unheard of in built-up urban areas. That is, unless they live in Ballincollig in Cork city, one of the State’s 25 largest population centres. Ballincollig fire station was closed two years ago in November 2021. Since then, Cork city has had its fourth fire pump reinstated,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (15 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline his Department’s actions in exploring difficulties Travellers might have in opening and retaining social housing applications since 2017, as per the Department’s commitment in action 130 of the National Traveller & Roma Inclusion Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50136/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (15 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government regarding his Department’s circular (Housing 09/2023 - PL 01/2023) to all local authorities regarding the moratorium on Part 8 planning approvals, to outline the monitoring procedures has he put in place to ensure that this moratorium and its circular will be implemented by local authorities; to report on the number...