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Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: 18 January was a day to remember in Northern Ireland. That was the day of the general strike in Northern Ireland's public sector. Transport workers, health service workers and teachers were on strike. More than 170,000 workers overall were on strike in defence of pay, which had lagged way behind inflation, and in defence of the people's public services. It clearly showed the most powerful...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: More than 100 workers at Activision Blizzard in Blackpool in Cork city face redundancy within the next couple of weeks. Their company was purchased late last year by Microsoft for $75 billion, which is the largest video game acquisition transaction volume in history. Microsoft is arguably the largest company in the world with gross annual profits last year of $146 billion. It plans to gut...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: Should the company talk to the union?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland: Chairperson Designate (21 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: I want to talk about job losses in the tech sector. What has been happening internationally has been described by some as a jobs massacre. I believe that more than 30,000 jobs have been lost globally in the first six weeks of this year. I want to talk about how this impacts the area I represent, as a Deputy for Cork North-Central, the Cork city area. We are expecting details in the next...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland: Chairperson Designate (21 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: Mr. O'Rourke is hopeful, and that is fair enough, but this situation will depend on the nuts and bolts and active intervention, with a prioritisation of jobs and investment. There is a particular scenario when that number of people in an area come onto the jobs market at the one time. People can handle being out of work for a couple of weeks or months, but mortgage and finance pressures...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland: Chairperson Designate (21 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: We will keep a close eye on it. These companies have benefited from IDA grant aid and taxpayers' money. VMware has received more than €4 million since 2005. Microsoft, which has taken over Blizzard and is in the driving seat there, received €1.75 million in 2017 alone. A specific issue I wish to raise relates to companies that come in, take over a company based in Ireland...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland: Chairperson Designate (21 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: I will leave it there.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (20 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: Seán Lemass did not go. Neither did Jack Lynch, and neither for that matter did Liam Cosgrave, Charlie Haughey, Garret FitzGerald, Albert Reynolds, John Bruton, Bertie Ahern or Enda Kenny. However, the Taoiseach went, the first Taoiseach to go to the Munich Security Conference, mixing and mingling with the generals and admirals, the NATO heads and the representatives of imperialism at...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [5336/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: Israeli war cabinet minister, Benny Gantz, said on Sunday, "If by Ramadan our hostages are not home, the fighting will continue to the Rafah area". Ramadan begins this year on 10 March. That is the start of the week in which the Taoiseach presses his shirts and packs his bags to fly off to the United States for a celebration with President Joe Biden. Has the Taoiseach considered the fact...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (20 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: 20. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent discussion with the UK Prime Minister. [7449/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (21 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the extent to which he expects to develop the shared island initiative in the context of the resumption of the Assembly. [7450/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (21 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: 5. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his engagements at the special meeting of the European Council on Ukraine and the EU budget. [7451/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (20 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: 132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has estimated how much in deposits charged on cans and bottles under the deposit return scheme will not be refunded to customers; if his Department has estimated how many bottles and cans under the scheme will be recycled through green bins and therefore not see a refund to the customer; what...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: We are discussing the series of arson attacks we have seen across the State over the past five years. Let us imagine that for the past five years there was, instead, a series of protests outside the holiday homes of the super rich and famous demanding that these homes be taken into the ownership of the State and used to accommodate homeless people. Let us imagine that two or three days...

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: Recently the Children's Rights Alliance gave the Government an E for its performance on youth mental health. I wonder what it would have given the Government for youth mental health services in the Cork and Kerry region? At the end of September, there were 728 young people on the waiting list in our region. This is 16% of the total on the waiting list nationally with just 11% of the...

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: Union busting is a term we associate with the United States of America, but it is an international practice and it is very much alive and well in the Republic of Ireland. In 2015, Tesco employed the union busting legal firm Eversheds Sutherland as it prepared its union busting strategy Project Black. Attacking union subscriptions and the check-off system was very much part of the project....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: Many of the groups which campaigned against marriage equality and appeal are the groups which lead the "No, No" campaign, including the Catholic Church hierarchy, the far right, and now Elon Musk, Conor McGregor, and all. I want to ask the Minister about the emergence of a "Yes, No" camp, which supports "Yes" to the family referendum and "No" to the care referendum. The criticisms raised...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (28 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [9342/24]

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: This is a really relevant amendment and is particularly so tonight to workers across the country who work in The Body Shop. They have been told the Irish stores will be closed tomorrow. they are being closed by the new owners, Alma24. According to The Guardian, Alma24 has an owner and majority shareholder who is an executive with close links to Aurelius, a vulture fund that is well known...