Results 361-380 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: Last week, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel has a case to answer on a charge of genocide. Who is the individual, outside of Israel itself, who has by far the greatest responsibility for funding and arming that Israeli assault? It is the man the Taoiseach intends to hand a bowl of shamrock on 17 March - President Joe Biden. Will his hand tremble when he hands over that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: Vacancy and dereliction are a curse across our cities, towns and villages. A study by the Revenue Commissioners two years ago put the number of vacant buildings at more than 57,000. There is plenty of potential for housing there. One of those buildings was probably the old Central Hotel in Mallow, County Cork. The building has been put onto the derelict sites register. It will have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: Is there any comment on the recruitment freeze in Cork University Hospital?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: 19. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an update on Housing for All. [3711/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: A total of 71 people were on trolleys in Cork University Hospital, CUH, this morning. It was the second most overcrowded hospital in the State last year, with 12,582 patients admitted without a bed. Already this year, the numbers presenting to the hospital's adult emergency department are up by one third on last year. This morning, the hospital's clinical director of emergency and acute...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [3710/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (30 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: 285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will extend the in-school counselling pilot programme to all schools, in light of the increasing need for counselling for young people. [4159/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (30 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: 557. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the Budget 2024 requirement to cease recruitment for approved development posts and to make a statement on any planned further cessation of recruitment by his Department. [4158/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: Sonya Cashman and her family live in Blackpool in Cork city. Their household has been plagued with dirty, discoloured water for 18 months. John Mulcahy lives in Ballyvolane with his family, which includes two-year-old twins. Their household has been plagued with dirty, discoloured water for three years. Sonya and John will be speaking at a public community meeting tonight organised for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: International Agreements (25 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: 194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, as previously indicated, Ireland remains on course in 2024 to ratify ILO C188 Work in Fishing Convention 2007, and what if any part of relevant EU Directives that arose from this convention remains to be transposed into Irish law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3536/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (24 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: I will ask about the European directive on combating violence against women, specifically the inclusion of rape in the directive. Every year, more than 100,000 rapes are recorded in the European Union. Backward laws prevent many more from coming forward and prevent many who do so from getting justice. I say shame on France, the Netherlands and Germany for trying to block a more...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (24 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the December European Union Council meeting. [2897/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: I wish to raise an issue about women's rights in the workplace. A woman worker at VMware in Ballincollig working off her contract would get six months' full pay during maternity leave, but the new contract put in front of her on Monday by the new owners would cut that to 12 weeks' full pay during maternity leave. There is a company restructuring taking place and there are mass redundancies...

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: The best quote of the year so far was a tweet from Dr. Panti Bliss-Cabrera: I keep thinking about only a couple months ago and all the fury and outrage and furious tweeting and angry articles provoked by *any* suggestion that Israel had bombed a single hospital - and then Israel went ahead and openly bombed *every* hospital. She put the word "every" in inverted commas but meant virtually...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: I will start by checking on some statistics that were raised Mr. Reidy in his introduction. They related to the level of support for collective bargaining among the supporters of various political parties. I want to check I have those statistics right. Fine Gael is at 69%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: That is 69% of Fine Gael voters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: The Fianna Fáil percentage is 72%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: Is some party on 80%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: What is the percentage for the Labour Party?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: People Before Profit-Solidarity shows 96% support.