Results 101-112 of 112 for garda speaker:Mick Barry

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: ..., with an injunction. There is also a bias against the left in the Judiciary. I will give examples regarding my own party. In July 2015, one of our councillors, Councillor Mick Murphy, applied for a permit from the local Garda chief superintendent to collect funds in the run up to an election, to use for election purposes. This man is of good character and has never been convicted of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regulation of Rickshaws: Discussion (30 May 2018)

Mick Barry: ...thus far that rickshaws are only being operated in Dublin but that is not the case. For example, rickshaws are being operated in Cork. Earlier this year, 19 rickshaws were seized as part of a Garda operation, conducted jointly with the Revenue Commissioners. There are three options open to us: first, we can allow the current situation to continue; second, we can heavily regulate the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Mick Barry: ...affecting him, his wife and their two children. The children are twins aged ten months old. At this point, the choice for this family was to spend a night sleeping on the streets of Cork or in a Garda station. Thankfully, following some engagement with homeless services the family got a stay of execution, so to speak. Will this Bill deter homeless services making a decision to cut off...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (23 Apr 2020)

Mick Barry: ...the representatives of the workers and, at the very least, pay a decent redundancy package from the company's profits and resources. I want to ask the Taoiseach about the use of emergency powers by gardaí to disperse a disciplined, socially distanced protest by Debenhams' workers in Henry Street, Dublin on Tuesday. Not only did gardaí instruct the workers to disperse and to take...

Public Service Pay Commission Report on the Permanent Defence Force: Statements (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Mick Barry: ...such conditions that the Minister of State's suite of measures must be assessed. They must also be assessed in the context of the €10 million increase in the Defence Forces' pay, given that the Garda overtime for the visit of Donald Trump to this country for a couple of days was also €10 million. It needs to be measured against the fact that the Department of Defence's pay...

Covid-19 (Measures to Protect Victims of Domestic Violence): Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Mick Barry: ...in this State. It was an epidemic before the pandemic, so to speak. Now, however, the WHO tells us that emergency calls increased 60% globally during the pandemic and by 33% in Europe. The Garda tells us that calls increased here by 25% in April and May this year compared with the same months last year. I want to look at this issue under the headings of funding protection, social...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: ...it must be decent training, with decent pay and a job at the end of it. There must be a programme of State investment in jobs for young people. There is no doubt in my mind that there is a significant increase in Garda harassment of young people throughout the country, especially in working-class communities. Whatever needs to be done to ensure that is knocked on the head must be done....

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Mick Barry: ...needs to start now. I will just make a brief point on this. I believe that protests in the current period have to be organised with stewarding, social distancing, masks and other safety measures, but I am opposed to the decision of the Garda to launch a criminal investigation into the organisers of last weekend's demonstration. One of the reasons for doing this so publicly was to...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: ...witnesses in a trial are all impinged. There is also a lengthening of the time a person can be detained after arrest, a shift in the burden of proof, and the provision that the mere opinion of a Garda be treated as evidence. The Socialist Party and Solidarity oppose these so-called emergency measures. We have opposed them since their inception in 1998 and we will vote against their...

Companies (Protection of Employees' Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 May 2021)

Mick Barry: ...shown in that attitude. It is a generosity of spirit that should be recognised by this Dáil by way of the passage of this legislation tonight without any deferral or delay. On Tuesday morning at 4 a.m., 40 gardaí, some of them from the Garda public order unit, backed up by police vans physically removed Debenhams workers from the picket line in Waterford to pave the way for...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: ...be put in place for them. The second weakness is that the review had an unnecessarily defensive tone to it. For example, dozens of cases of having been trafficked into this country have been reported to An Garda Síochána by non-EEA fishers. The report says that those claims were shown to be without foundation by the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP. The DPP never said...

An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála Eile Ar Mhaithe Le Leas an Phobail), 2020: An Dara Céim - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Second Stage (19 Mar 2020)

Mick Barry: ...with the Offences Against the State Act, which has been used not just against terrorism but against trade unionists, student activists and other campaigners. I am particularly concerned about the establishment of a full-time Garda public order unit, with one of its responsibilities, according to the RTÉ website, being to "deal with protests". In France and other countries,...