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Annexation of Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2021)

Mick Barry: We now have a ceasefire in the Middle East but there is no cessation of occupation, no cessation of oppression and no cessation of the forcible denial of the rights of the Palestinian people. In the past week, the Palestinian people will have clearly seen their allies and their enemies. The most obvious enemy is the Israeli capitalist state and its ruling class, which implement an...

International Travel and Aviation: Statements (25 May 2021)

Mick Barry: Some 200 workers at Aer Lingus in Cork Airport will go to bed tonight fearful for the future of their jobs. Having been kept on the company books for the entire duration of the global pandemic, these workers have now been told that they will be laid off for a ten-week period between September and November when runway repairs are to be carried out. These workers have been forced to live...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2021)

Mick Barry: What the Minister has just said is different from what has been said by representatives of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. To date, they have failed to give an absolute guarantee that this hospital will be 100% owned by the State and that abortion services will be fully and freely available to women there. The Minister is at odds with what his Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael colleagues are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2021)

Mick Barry: Today is the third anniversary of the historic vote to repeal the eighth amendment. That huge pro-woman, pro-civil rights vote was a vote for choice and an end to hypocritical Irish solutions to Irish problems. There are many outstanding issues with the subsequent legislation, including the fact that only one in ten GPs and only half the maternity hospitals are providing for abortion while...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 May 2021)

Mick Barry: 334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify the discrepancy between the symptoms being used to advise Covid-19 self-isolation in schools among pupils and the advice being offered to the general public (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27528/21]

Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel: Statements (20 May 2021)

Mick Barry: Last week, I asked the Government to pass the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 and organise the boycott of goods produced in occupied Palestinian territories. These are goods stained with the blood of the Palestinian people. However, the Government has doubled down in opposition to taking such a step. It falls, therefore, to the organised workers' movement to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 May 2021)

Mick Barry: "A home is a home, whether it is an apartment or a house," said Ciarán Cuffe MEP of the Green Party. The only pity is that the Green Party says that but does not vote along the line that would follow from that. It is hot air. The Green Party has a chance to show us tonight that it can vote according to what was said. We will keep a close eye on that. What a concession the Taoiseach...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 May 2021)

Mick Barry: 26. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [26520/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Mick Barry: Twenty years ago, Amnesty Ireland carried out what might have been the first large-scale survey of Ireland's black and ethnic minority communities. Some 54% polled said that they did not feel confident to report a racist incident to a garda. Twenty years on, how much has changed? The recent survey by Youth Against Racism and Inequality interviewed people of colour and Travellers. Some 35%...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Mick Barry: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the policing reform implementation programme office based in his Department. [26519/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 May 2021)

Mick Barry: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the President of the European Commission. [26141/21]

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Mick Barry: When the OECD recently said that Ireland should reintroduce water charges, the Taoiseach was very quick out of the traps to say that he ruled it out categorically. He did that for a couple of reasons. First, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael had their fingers badly burned in the past decade when there was a mass movement against water charges. Second, I believe and hope there is an...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2021)

Mick Barry: I wish to address the emergency legislation that will be considered tonight by the Cabinet. The Irish Timeshas posted a report that the Cabinet is considering the idea of increasing stamp duty to 10% on multiple purchases and that multiple purchases would be defined as the purchase of more than ten houses. In the case of a €250,000 house, the ordinary house buyer would pay stamp duty...

Ballymurphy Inquest: Statements (18 May 2021)

Mick Barry: "His apology means nothing, we need him to go back to the MoD and tell them to tell the truth, tell our legal team the names of the soldiers who murdered our loved ones and ask them why." These are the words of Briege Voyle, whose mother, Joan Connolly, was murdered in Ballymurphy. She spoke in the immediate aftermath of the coroner's verdict, which made it clear that these were civilians...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Vaccination Programme (18 May 2021)

Mick Barry: A young man left mandatory hotel quarantine in Dublin yesterday. He is an Irish student at the University of Pittsburgh. He got a second vaccination in the US on Monday, 3 May, but was taken into quarantine when he arrived home to Ireland on Thursday, 6 May. He was told by the authorities that he should have waited seven days after his second vaccination before travelling. This means that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 May 2021)

Mick Barry: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with church leaders. [26140/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Vaccination Programme (18 May 2021)

Mick Barry: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the membership and terms of reference of the vaccine roll-out group chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [26139/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (18 May 2021)

Mick Barry: Last night in Limerick more than 70 gardaí, including 20 members of the public order unit, were mobilised to try to help strike-breakers to pass picket lines organised by Debenhams workers. The gardaí sealed off two entire blocks of the city centre street and unsuccessfully attempted to kettle the workers and their supporters. They also pulled a worker with more than 40 years of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (18 May 2021)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the programme for Government. [26518/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Marine Casualty Investigations Board (18 May 2021)

Mick Barry: 243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the terms of review of the performance of the Marine Casualty Investigation Board (details supplied) in relation to the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25703/21]