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Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: A committee was recently set up in Blarney in County Cork to make the place an autism-friendly town. There are nine parents on that committee. A majority cannot find suitable places for their children in local schools. Two have children who travel 16 km to a special class. One has a child who travels 22 km to a special school. One travels 29 km to a special school. Another travels 13 km...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: The motion reads: — the Nature Restoration Law aims to halt the decline of nature, work towards restoring habitats across the European Union (EU), whilst also targeting habitats that contribute most to the capture and storage of carbon; — the Nature Restoration Law will target 20 per cent of each EU Member States land area and, as Ireland comprises of 6.9 million hectares of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: There is a minimum wage in this country but the law allows an employer to pay below it if the worker in question is under the age of 20. It is legal to pay a 19-year-old 90% of the minimum wage, an 18-year-old 80% and those aged 17 and under just 70%. Yesterday, the Low Pay Commission unanimously recommended that the Government abolish these sub-minimum pay rates. Instead of embracing that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Northern Ireland will meet next. [25387/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: I want to send my support to junior doctors in Northern Ireland who are once again taking strike action this month. Their pay has, in effect, been cut by 30% over the past 15 years. The junior doctors strike is about pay, but it is about more than pay. It is about defence of the National Health Service. Low pay is combining with understaffing and underfunding to force many skilled staff...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Middle East (12 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: 15. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent phone conversation with the Israeli President. [25388/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Middle East (12 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: On 22 May, the Geneva International Peace Research Institute filed a complaint at the International Criminal Court against Ursula von der Leyen for complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity. The complaint read: Reasonable grounds exist to believe that the unconditional support of the President of the European Commission to Israel – ... economic, diplomatic and political...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (12 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the national reform programme 2024 published by his Department on 10 May 2024. [25389/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (12 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: Do I get an extra 30 seconds to explain? All I will say is that you should be very careful when dealing with sash windows. The Irish Examiner reviewed the Cork city north-west ward on May 31 and included in its report the line "Big issues also include housing and rents, and - surprisingly in a modern city - delivery of clean tap water." It certainly proved to be an issue in the election....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: The Women's Aid annual report is a chapter of horrors, with 40,000 disclosures of abuse against women and children, which is the highest recorded since the charity's inception 50 years ago. It is noteworthy that 86% of abuse was committed by a current or former male intimate partner. It is also interesting that 48% of women who reported abuse to An Garda found gardaí to be unhelpful....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: Can the Taoiseach tell us when the Government will make an announcement on the issue of funding for the Cork events centre? It is now nearly eight and a half years since a clatter of politicians, led by Enda Kenny and Simon Coveney, were photographed turning the sod in the run up to a general election and still to this day, not a single brick has been laid. Can the Taoiseach tell us what...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: Will it be before the summer?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [25588/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: An Associated Press investigation has identified at least 60 Palestinian families where 25 family members or more were killed by Israeli bombing between October and December. In some cases, four generations of one family were wiped out. Israeli bombing has destroyed homes, buildings and infrastructure to the point that there is now 37 million tonnes of rubble in Gaza. It is estimated that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (18 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: 13. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the programme for Government. [26071/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (18 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: I ask the Taoiseach about the issue of childcare in Ballincollig in Cork or, more precisely, the lack thereof. Cork City Council recently turned down planning permission for a crèche. Does the Taoiseach know how many disappointed parents had their names on the list for a place? The answer is 400. One of those 400 parents was on unpaid leave at the time. She will now have to quit her...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (18 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: It is 35 years this November since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Where are we 35 years on? There are 1,800 km of walls and fences built or being built on Europe's borders, the equivalent of 12 Berlin Walls. In Hungary, the European Union helped to build a steel fence, ringed with barbed wire between the border of Hungary, Croatia and Serbia, giving €22 million in funding. In Poland,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (18 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: 32. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on attempts to re-establish childcare and early learning facilities at a location in Churchfield, Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26300/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (18 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: I ask the Minister to provide an update on attempts to re-establish childcare and early learning facilities at the site of the old Before 5 Family Centre in Churchfield in Cork city.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (18 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: When the Before 5 Family Centre was closed suddenly last August, the community lost a facility it had enjoyed for 50 years. It lost a pre-school, an after-school service, childcare provision, play therapy and adult services. More than 100 parents lost out directly. More than 150 children lost out directly and 14 workers lost out directly. There are three other childcare providers in the...