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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2024)

Mick Barry: Before I ask my supplementary question, I will just say that the points I am going to make apply to the Taoiseach and the representatives of the Government. They also apply to all parties in this House, however. In our view, no party in this House should attend a celebration with Joe Biden while this Israeli terror campaign is being waged. That applies to Sinn Féin as much as it...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2024)

Mick Barry: I want to talk to the Taoiseach about his planned visit to the United States next week. The World Health Organization was unable to visit hospitals in Gaza in November, December, January and part of February. Only recently has it been able to restart its work in this regard. To date, it has discovered that 15 children starved to death in those hospitals. The United Nations tells us that...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (5 Mar 2024)

Mick Barry: 214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in respect of the Cork Area Commuter Rail Programme, when works will begin in relation to each of the new rail stations of Blarney/Stoneview, Monard, Blackpool/Kilbarry, Tivoli, Dunkettle, Carrigtwohill West, Water-Rock, Ballynoe; when each will be opened and operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10833/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (5 Mar 2024)

Mick Barry: 249. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when fishers will be removed from the list of unapproved occupations for the general employment permit, thus permitting fishing vessel owners to legally recruit non-EEA fishers for the first time since late 2022, when the atypical work permit scheme for non-EEA fishers was abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (5 Mar 2024)

Mick Barry: 462. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department's representative sitting on the interdepartmental group overseeing the opening up of the general employment permit scheme to non-EEA fishers can engage with the representations made by an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10200/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (5 Mar 2024)

Mick Barry: 679. To ask the Minister for Health to supply information about the relationship between a public hospital, Connolly Hospital, and a private institution, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, which has a building in construction (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10191/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (5 Mar 2024)

Mick Barry: 680. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the relationship between Connolly Hospital's new laboratory and the RCSI; to report on what public funds were used for the development of this laboratory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10192/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: 135. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to report on his Department's dealings with residents in an IPAS centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9664/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: 148. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to report on measures his Department will take to improve access to public transport for the residents at an IPAS centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9665/24]

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: A lot of appreciation was shown for the-----

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: Can they do so within the next 30 days?

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: Can they claim jobseeker's payments as well?

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: I appreciate that.

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: This is a really relevant amendment and is particularly so tonight to workers across the country who work in The Body Shop. They have been told the Irish stores will be closed tomorrow. they are being closed by the new owners, Alma24. According to The Guardian, Alma24 has an owner and majority shareholder who is an executive with close links to Aurelius, a vulture fund that is well known...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (28 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [9342/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: Many of the groups which campaigned against marriage equality and appeal are the groups which lead the "No, No" campaign, including the Catholic Church hierarchy, the far right, and now Elon Musk, Conor McGregor, and all. I want to ask the Minister about the emergence of a "Yes, No" camp, which supports "Yes" to the family referendum and "No" to the care referendum. The criticisms raised...

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: Union busting is a term we associate with the United States of America, but it is an international practice and it is very much alive and well in the Republic of Ireland. In 2015, Tesco employed the union busting legal firm Eversheds Sutherland as it prepared its union busting strategy Project Black. Attacking union subscriptions and the check-off system was very much part of the project....

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: Recently the Children's Rights Alliance gave the Government an E for its performance on youth mental health. I wonder what it would have given the Government for youth mental health services in the Cork and Kerry region? At the end of September, there were 728 young people on the waiting list in our region. This is 16% of the total on the waiting list nationally with just 11% of the...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: We are discussing the series of arson attacks we have seen across the State over the past five years. Let us imagine that for the past five years there was, instead, a series of protests outside the holiday homes of the super rich and famous demanding that these homes be taken into the ownership of the State and used to accommodate homeless people. Let us imagine that two or three days...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Judgments (27 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: 346. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 512 of 7 March 2023, and a subsequent reply (details supplied), if she will report on progress on the payment of an ex-gratia payment to a person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8978/24]