Results 501-520 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (28 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will contact local and national Traveller organisations to assess the level of difficulty Travellers have in accessing social housing lists; if he will further initiate appropriate research to meet his Department’s outstanding commitment on this matter since 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (28 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 2 of 9 March 2023, if he can reconcile the response with the eventual diametrically opposite position taken by Bord Iascaigh Mhara in correspondence between the fishers and a representative of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52301/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (28 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 602. To ask the Minister for Health what measures he is taking to ensure that children who require treatment from a paediatric orthopaedic consultant in Temple Street will get the treatment they require; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52113/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 603. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider widening the eligibility for further Covid-19 vaccines to more age groups; if he will consider reinstating PCR testing for Covid-19; what steps he will take to ensure there is better data on the prevalence of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52115/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: When Irish Water was set up, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael promised the people that our water services would not be privatised. However, this is happening by stealth and some of the results are shocking. For more than a year now, large numbers of households in Cork city have had orange and brown discoloured water flowing from their taps. The discolouration comes from rust and sediment...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: It has been going on for more than a year.

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy Report: Statements (22 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: For six consecutive weekends now, tens of thousands of people have marched in Irish cities in solidarity with the Palestinian people and in opposition to Israeli state terror. I can think of no other event in my lifetime as an activist that has made that happen - not the water charges, the Iraq war or the Gulf War. It is pretty much unique. The protests, and the sentiment among the broad...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: I wish to start by making some comments about the so-called humanitarian pause. Before going into the Israeli cabinet meeting last night, Benjamin Netanyahu said: We are at war, and we will continue the war. We will continue until we achieve all our goals. It is clear that in the minds of Netanyahu and the Israeli cabinet, this is a short-term pause and when it is over, the killing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [49678/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: Some 19 femicides have taken place in this State since the murder of Ashling Murphy. I put it to the Taoiseach that if that number of people had been killed by a paramilitary organisation, the State would rightly be moving mountains to try and achieve change, but male violence against women seems to bring forth a less urgent response. GREVIO - I hope I pronounced it correctly - the Council...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: Has the Taoiseach read the report issued by Oxfam and others in the past days on the wealth divide in the context of carbon emissions? They tell us that the richest 1% in the world account for more carbon emissions than two thirds of the world's population. They tell us that someone who is in the poorest 99% of the world's population, which is the vastly overwhelming majority of humanity,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (21 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to increase awareness and resources in schools in relation to dealing with the use of cannabis-based vapes among students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50757/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Racism in Sport (21 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 280. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has allocated specific funds to ensure proper training and education against racism in sport; if so, the amount; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51017/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Racism in Sport (21 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 281. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on whether Sport Ireland is adequately funded to provide efficient anti-racist training and education; and whether there are plans to increase such funding in the aftermath of the racist incident during a Gymnastics Ireland event. [51018/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the report from an organisation (details supplied) that has reported that the charity dealt with 12,031 households that were at risk of homelessness; the measures he is taking to ensure that this level of households are not at risk of homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51019/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 462. To ask the Minister for Health what steps he is taking to ensure the safety of opioid drug users, given the reported deaths due to a highly potent synthetic opioid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50594/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: It is not unusual in rural areas for people to live 15 minutes away from a fire station, but it is practically unheard of in built-up urban areas. That is, unless they live in Ballincollig in Cork city, one of the State’s 25 largest population centres. Ballincollig fire station was closed two years ago in November 2021. Since then, Cork city has had its fourth fire pump reinstated,...

Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: I want to say at the outset that my office has received 13,000 emails to date urging support for this motion. Nearly half of them came in last night alone. It is a response that is unprecedented in my experience as a Deputy. The expulsion of the Israeli ambassador and the closing of the embassy is not just a symbolic action. It is a practical action because if Ireland was to be the first...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (15 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline his Department’s actions in exploring difficulties Travellers might have in opening and retaining social housing applications since 2017, as per the Department’s commitment in action 130 of the National Traveller & Roma Inclusion Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50136/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (15 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government regarding his Department’s circular (Housing 09/2023 - PL 01/2023) to all local authorities regarding the moratorium on Part 8 planning approvals, to outline the monitoring procedures has he put in place to ensure that this moratorium and its circular will be implemented by local authorities; to report on the number...