Results 441-460 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Postal Voting (12 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: 448. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the right to a postal vote to voters that will be in late stage of pregnancy (or early stage after birth) in time for the upcoming referenda on care and definition of the family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55258/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (12 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: 679. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 424 of 14 November 2023, the reason his Department was unable to provide the name of the management company or responsible people contracted to provide services at Kilbride Army Camp; whether he is now in a position to provide that information; and, if he is not, to explain...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (12 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: 680. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline, regarding Kilbride Army Camp in Wicklow, who is responsible for the organisation of transport to and from the camp; to provide contact details for a relevant person in his Department who may be contacted regarding transport services for the 120 residents; whether funding will be made available to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (12 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: 681. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to report, regarding the visit by IPAS customer services and resident welfare teams to Kilbride on 7 November 2023, on the specific conclusions the teams reached about conditions at the camp and what steps will be taken to improve same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54740/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (12 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: 682. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what arrangements are in place to ensure the right to association and to have visitors at Kilbride International Protection Centre, given it is an important element of mental well-being; if he will communicate this to all International Protection Centres and ensure these rights are upheld; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: Any time I have gone to hospital, the first person to help has been a clerical or administrative worker. Anyone who knows how hospitals work knows their contribution is vital and that the system would collapse in a matter of hours without them. The Government has decided to pick a fight with those workers by freezing recruitment. The Government has called it a "pause" but that is playing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: 91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure there will be a guarantee that no claimant will receive less under the new pay-related jobseeker’s benefit than he or she would currently receive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54132/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: Will the Minister of State ensure there will be a guarantee that no claimant will receive less under the new pay-related jobseeker's benefit than he or she currently receives?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: I asked for a guarantee but I did not get it. The Government has made much of the increased payments that will be made to higher paid workers but it has not been so loud about the fact that those on the lowest pay will be worse off. A worker on €400 a week with two years of contributions will be €20 a week worse off under the Government's proposal, a worker on €300 a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: I note the fact that the Minister of State has spoken about a floor of €125 per week. Other Ministers have said that what we are doing is catching up with the EU in pulling ourselves up to the EU norm. I do not think that stands up to scrutiny. In France, pay-related benefits last for two years, between 57% and 75% of a person's income is paid, and there is a floor of €212...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: We do not bring arsonists to a firefighting convention, unless it is COP28. How many fossil fuel lobbyists have access to these climate negotiations? The answer is 2,456. That is four times the number of oil and gas industry representatives who were at COP27, which itself was a record. How many fossil fuel lobbyists are attending in comparison with representatives of indigenous...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: The budget made no provision for our four new elective hospitals including the new hospital in Cork. People on hospital waiting lists in Cork, and around the country, have waited long enough. Why are they being forced to wait even longer? Dr. Brendan Walsh of the ESRI tells us this morning that the State faces an immediate deficit of 1,000 hospital beds. The national development programme...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: How many of them are democracies?

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [53404/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: 12. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the parliamentary liaison unit in his Department. [52325/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: Yesterday, the Taoiseach took umbrage when I said I thought he was washing his hands on the issue of the genocide in Gaza. To be clear, the Government has made strong criticisms of the Israeli Government and it voted the right way at the United Nations but Israel has ignored that United Nations vote so more must now be done. However, the Government is not doing more. Action must be taken...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [53403/23]

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: "Ireland, we are at war." That was the tweet from Conor McGregor after the conviction of Ashling Murphy's killer. McGregor has 1.7 million followers on X, formerly Twitter, very many of them young men. McGregor has been demanding that immigrants who commit crimes should be deported. If enforced in the United States, by the way, this would lead to the deportation of McGregor himself. In...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: It is a matter of public record. I will move on. What image does McGregor promote to his young male followers? It is an ultra-macho image and an image of toxic masculinity. It is bad news for women, for LGBTQ people and for society. It is also bad news for young men, imprisoning them in a rigid gender stereotype. The multimillionaire tweeter, who told his huge young male following that...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: The day before the riots, Deputy Mattie McGrath told the Dáil there was a quiet invasion taking place.