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- Questions on Proposed Legislation (27 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: I raise the issue of legislation relating to public services. What does the world see this morning as it looks through the window and into the Irish State? It sees young teachers having to strike to achieve the basic right to equal pay for equal work.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (27 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: The Government should hang its head in shame in that regard.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (27 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: Does the Government plan to amend legislation on the public service pay commission to extend its remit to include making definite the restoration of equal pay for equal work?
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Employment Rights (27 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: 17. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine regarding the raids conducted by gardaí and Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, staff on fishing vessels, as reported in the media on 5 October 2016, if the Marine Survey Office shares intelligence with the Garda Síochána and the WRC regarding the optimum manner in which to target their raids in order to best uncover...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: I strongly suspect there may be more nonsense spoken on this subject than perhaps any other subject that is debated in Irish society. Much of it relates to the so-called independence of the Judiciary. I will start by making a couple of points on this. To illustrate the point, I will take a couple of quotes from members of the Judiciary. In 2012, when he was the head of the Association of...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: Wow.
- European Council: Statements (26 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: Last week, five Kurdish migrants were found in a shipping container in Wexford. One of them was a three year old girl. They had made an 18 hour journey from Cherbourg in a sealed container containing perishable goods. The migrant camp at Calais currently being dismantled contains 1,300 unaccompanied children according to some estimates. As my colleague has explained, these children are at...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: I have three questions. Before putting them, it has been interesting to listen to the witnesses. I note the points that have been strongly made about elder care. My first question is about morale. I am picking up different threads from what has been said. Mr. Liam Doran mentioned the issue of low pay. Another issue mentioned by Mr. Eamonn Donnelly is the lack of buy-in when people do...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: It was questioned in detail.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy, trade and jobs last met. [31819/16]
- An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tOchtú Leasú a Aisghairm) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: What criticisms does the Minister of State accept?
- An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tOchtú Leasú a Aisghairm) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: What criticisms does the Minister of State accept?
- An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tOchtú Leasú a Aisghairm) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: I will start by acknowledging the campaigners for women's rights in the Gallery this evening. The Government may dither and delay and cover itself in shame, to be frank about it, but the campaigners in the Gallery are part of a mass movement in Irish society, which has not only put this issue on the agenda but which will sweep away the eighth amendment and get the job done. If we lived in a...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: The Taoiseach is criminalising protest.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: That is incredible.
- Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: I am blinded by the spin.
- Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: I am absolutely blinded by the spin. Let us have a look at it. The Minister secured an extra €5 million for the Arts Council. Is she aware the Arts Council received €83 million in 2007 but this year is receiving €65 million, a cut of more than 20%? Is she aware it is only now at the level it was six years ago in 2011? She said the majority of the 1916 money had been...
- Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: As I said, it is spin.
- Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: Jo Mangan from the National Campaign for the Arts said "There is strong disappointment coming from members" with regard to the budget. She said that her members' responses on social media were despair, anger and disbelief. That contrasts with the self-satisfied tone that emanates from the Minister in the House today. I am glad the Minister has accepted that the point I made about the 1916...
- Other Questions: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Mick Barry: It is spin. It is not the majority of the money; it is a tiny minority.