Results 561-580 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of the Health and Safety Authority (25 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: I thank her.

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: Is the Minister of State saying that the letter was not sent? "Yes" or "No" will do.

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: I want to focus my contribution on the issue of the home help service. It was reported in the press at the weekend that the HSE had written to private home care providers directing that the home help package be reduced from one hour to 45 minutes. This cutback means, in effect, that home help workers throughout the country will have to call to the homes of elderly and vulnerable people,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: I hope the Taoiseach is going to speak out against the clampdown on public expressions of support for the Palestinian people that we have seen in certain EU countries when he is at the European Council this week. I am talking, for example, about the banning of pro-Palestinian protests in France and Germany and the use of tear gas and water cannon against protestors in France. Of course, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: You expelled Russian diplomats though.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: You expelled Russian diplomats.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (24 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: 19. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the economic policy unit of his Department. [45265/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [45264/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: I wish to raise the case of St. Killian's Special School, a primary school in Mayfield in my constituency. This school has 93 students and is set to expand to 120, making it, potentially, the largest special school in all of Munster. The school has students with severe dyslexia, severe dyspraxia, severe speech and language difficulties and a big majority of the students have autism and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [44962/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [46493/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (24 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: 366. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person’s disability allowance was cut off (details supplied); the reason there is no record of their subsequent appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46443/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (24 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: 488. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what measure he will take to close the gender pay gap, reported recently by the Central Statistics Office (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46627/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (24 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: 603. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline, in view of testimony to the Oireachtas Health Committee on 18 October 2023 (details supplied) that according to research women were actively obstructed by GPs in accessing abortion health care, the measures he will take to ensure that this practice is stopped as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46626/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: More rain fell in parts of County Cork in a few hours yesterday than would normally fall in a month. Midleton, Castlemartyr, Glanmire, Killeagh, Cloyne, Whitegate, Blackpool, west Waterford and other places all experienced devastation to one degree or another. In Midleton, patients had to be evacuated from a hospital and children had to be carried out of a childcare centre by parents via...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: Yes. If we are to be ahead of the curve here, and we see what is coming in terms of climate change, then in Cork city we need to be looking at options like a flood barrier. There are many experts, and I am referring to people who are qualified to speak on this subject and not lay people, who have said this is the way to go. I strongly urge the OPW and the Government to look at this...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: The Israeli ambassador has been expelled from Colombia; the Israeli ambassador should be expelled from Ireland too. Some 15,000 people across this island marched in protest last weekend. Let us see 150,000 this weekend. The Dunnes Stores workers boycotted apartheid goods from South Africa in the 1980s. Any Irish worker who boycotts goods from apartheid Israel during this invasion must...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: Does the Taoiseach not think it is strange that a state that organises a bloody occupation, cuts off water, food and electricity supplies to millions of people, organises the collective punishment of an entire people including bombing hospitals - plural - schools and civilian infrastructure and that plans an invasion that can only result in Palestinian deaths far greater than we have even...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: 33. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the UN General Assembly. [44964/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: 23. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economy and investment will next meet. [44963/23]