Results 181-200 of 2,903 for speaker:Mick Barry in 'Dáil debates'
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: The Minister of State, Deputy Neale Richmond, met the employers' organisation Nursing Homes Ireland earlier this month and agreed to its request to defer increases to minimum pay rates for healthcare assistants and home care workers from outside of the European Economic Area who hold work permits. This concession to employers was made despite nursing homes being increasingly owned by real...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: 5. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his Department’s new publication entitled Government Response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2023. [55232/23]
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: It is contracted to private companies.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: Backed up by the banks.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: When will this be solved?
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: You are waffling.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: It has been a year and a half now.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: That is not what we are looking for.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: When are my constituents going to be able to turn on their taps and not be fearful that orange water will come out? When are my constituents going to be able to turn on their taps and there not be a good chance that brown, discoloured, or dirty water will come out? When is Uisce Éireann going to stop making excuses about this situation and set out a plan for solving this problem? When...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: On 8 January, a motion was put to Cork City Council calling on the Government to abolish Uisce Éireann and to return control of water services to the local authorities. That motion was passed by 13 votes to 9, with even some Government councillors voting for it. Privatisation of water services has proved to be a disaster in Cork city. Uisce Éireann allowed a private company to...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: It is contracting out to private, for-profit, contractors.
- Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: That is very patronising.
- Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: What is the way forward for Irish society? Is it housing for people or housing for profit? The Government's answer is clear. It is for housing for profit. If you want to see what that has led to, all you have to do is go to Belcamp Manor in Balgriffin in Dublin, where a vulture fund has snapped up 46 of the 54 new builds in that estate. The vulture fund is the DWS Group, an €800...
- An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: There is a proposal to delete from the Constitution the infamous woman-in-the-home clause, a backward, reactionary, sexist, archaic piece of nonsense. Everyone who wants progress in this country will support the deletion of that clause without question. It has been in the Constitution for 87 years. It has taken Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael 87 years to catch up and delete that backward...
- An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: Not the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, but the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond. Migrant Nurses Ireland asked the Minister for a meeting. Did it get a meeting with the Minister? It asked for a meeting with the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, on the work permit issue but it has not had a meeting with him to date.
- An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: However, the Minister of State had a meeting with the bosses, the representatives of the for-profit nursing homes. Therefore, the attitude towards the businesses is quite clear. The attitude to the women workers who do crucial, stressful work in our society is also clear. They cannot bring their spouses to this country because they are not on €30,000 per year. They were promised...
- An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: Clearly, there are provisions in this amendment that represent a step forward on the current position. There is a move away from the very rigid view of what constitutes a family that is embedded in the 1937 Constitution and that very directly reflects Catholic Church teaching, and that is the way it should be. It allows for the potential – only the potential but potential nonetheless...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: So it is a "No".
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: Some 10,000 people-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Mick Barry: -----have been killed since the Dáil last debated this issue.