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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (9 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: 1677. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to implement and direct Youthreach centres to deliver QQI modules that are work experience focused and guidelines on work placement for students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13624/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (9 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: 1678. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will acknowledge that in Youthreach Centres students are allowed "movement breaks" as advocated by the National Council for Special Education NCSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13625/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (9 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: 1679. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he accepts that students in Youthreach require midterm pedagogical breaks at least every six to seven weeks, as is the case in second level schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13626/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (9 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: 1680. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what actions he intends to take to address the massive imbalance in days of attendance (208) for Youthreach students in comparison to student attendance (166) in upper secondary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13627/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (9 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: 1681. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the findings of the Youthreach Wellbeing Report 2022; the steps he will take to address the staff retention issues identified in the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13628/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [12452/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will next meet. [8206/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: We are told that we are living in the bright, shiny Ireland of the 2020s. Turn on many a tap in Cork city today and you might think that you had been transported back to the 1920s. Why? It is because of what is coming out of those taps. It is brown water, orange water, dirty and discoloured with sediment from the inside of water pipes that are more than 100 years old in some cases. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent Munich Security Conference. [12451/24]

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that the Department of Social Protection's Green Paper on Disability Reform: — proposes to introduce three "tiers" of payments depending on a person's supposed ability to work; — was published with no consultation with disabled people, and is opposed by a wide range of disabled people and their organisations; - will do nothing to...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: I wish to make some summing up remarks on the debate we have just had. Many of the contributions from the various Deputies centred on the issue of the Green Paper. It is clear that a wide variety of Deputies in this House are pleased about the fact that the Green Paper has been scrapped, thanks to the pressure the Government was put under by the disability campaigners first and foremost....

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: There is huge concern about the increased number of deaths on our roads with many of those who have died being young. Is it a issue of individual responsibility or of society not doing what could and should be done? Important issues of personal responsibility are involved. No one is denying that, but if I read the comments made by some Ministers in recent days carefully, I see an attempt...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: Last week, the Taoiseach promised a new era for special education and appointed a Minister of State to deliver progress. This week, in Glanmire in Cork city, we see the National Council for Special Education break a promise to give a second special education class to the Brooklodge National School for this September. In Ballincollig, parents are being forced to take children with autism out...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: What of Ballincollig?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: What of Ballincollig?

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: After 43 years, there is at last some measure of justice. What a massive vindication for the families who refused to take no for an answer and refused to be ground down by the system. Everybody knows that the verdict is down to their steadfast campaigning on behalf of their loved ones. Everybody knows that the political and judicial establishments put every obstacle possible in the way of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: Access to safe, clean water and sanitation is a human right. It is a right that has been compromised for thousands of Cork city households. For the best part of two years now, brown and orange, dirty, discoloured water has poured from those taps. Eight days ago, the Tánaiste asked Uisce Éireann for a clear timeline for solving this problem. The public has heard from Uisce...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach mentioned Uisce Éireann's new task force, which came about under pressure from below. It is there now, however. It seems to operate in quite a closed and secretive way. I have asked, as have campaigners, that a representative from one of the affected communities be appointed to the task force. We asked that an experienced water worker representative also be appointed to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: Harvey Sherrat has been on the urgent list for a scoliosis procedure more than two years now. The Taoiseach's broken promise, that no child would have to wait for more than four months for such a procedure, amounts to a betrayal of Harvey and his family. In recent days, Harvey's mother was shocked to see an image of her son online, accompanied by a racist post saying that resources are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: George Nkencho was shot dead by an armed garda in his family's front garden on 30 December 2020. He was shot five times - twice in the back. Yesterday, we learnt that the garda who shot him will not stand trial. George's grieving mother, his sisters and brothers, a working class migrant family, will now have to fight a long and hard battle for justice - even for basic information - as many...