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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (27 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: 408. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can give assurances that transport issues (details supplied) at Kilbride Army Base International Protection Centre will be resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8635/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (27 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: 409. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to give particular attention to IPAS applicants at Kilbride Army Base who have been accommodated at the isolated site for almost ten months since 20 May 2023; and process the request (details supplied) for a transfer to a more suitable location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8636/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (21 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: 5. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his engagements at the special meeting of the European Council on Ukraine and the EU budget. [7451/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland: Chairperson Designate (21 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: I want to talk about job losses in the tech sector. What has been happening internationally has been described by some as a jobs massacre. I believe that more than 30,000 jobs have been lost globally in the first six weeks of this year. I want to talk about how this impacts the area I represent, as a Deputy for Cork North-Central, the Cork city area. We are expecting details in the next...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland: Chairperson Designate (21 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: Mr. O'Rourke is hopeful, and that is fair enough, but this situation will depend on the nuts and bolts and active intervention, with a prioritisation of jobs and investment. There is a particular scenario when that number of people in an area come onto the jobs market at the one time. People can handle being out of work for a couple of weeks or months, but mortgage and finance pressures...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (20 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: Seán Lemass did not go. Neither did Jack Lynch, and neither for that matter did Liam Cosgrave, Charlie Haughey, Garret FitzGerald, Albert Reynolds, John Bruton, Bertie Ahern or Enda Kenny. However, the Taoiseach went, the first Taoiseach to go to the Munich Security Conference, mixing and mingling with the generals and admirals, the NATO heads and the representatives of imperialism at...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: More than 100 workers at Activision Blizzard in Blackpool in Cork city face redundancy within the next couple of weeks. Their company was purchased late last year by Microsoft for $75 billion, which is the largest video game acquisition transaction volume in history. Microsoft is arguably the largest company in the world with gross annual profits last year of $146 billion. It plans to gut...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos. [2898/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: 7. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos. [5335/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: Adult education tutors in education and training boards from across the State will protest outside the Dáil at lunchtime tomorrow. They want to know why the Government is making an offer that falls short of equality with other post-primary teachers. Why is the Government not offering equal pay for work of equal value? Teachers in this country progress up the pay scale based on years...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (13 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: .... Last August, a very long-standing and much-loved childcare and community centre, Before 5, closed suddenly. All other childcare providers in this area have waiting lists. The urgent hope is that a new childcare facility will open at the old location this September. However, for that to happen, approximately €366,000 worth of works need to be done and for them to be done in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (13 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: 596. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a nursing home (details supplied) following HIQA's findings in respect of fire safety issues at the building; if alternative accommodation has been secured for the current residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6530/24]

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: The Minister of State may guess which topic I will raise. I once again raise the issues of healthcare assistants from outside the European Economic Area, EEA, many of whom come here from India and play a vital role in our health service doing stressful work away from their families. They do not reach the minimum income threshold of €30,000. People who came here last year and the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: Three hundred and sixty-four jobs are due to be cut at VMware in Ballincollig, Cork city, in the near future, possibly as early as next month. I expect this to have a big impact on what, for want of a better phrase, I will call the tech ecosystem in Cork. It will have considerable knock-on effects. The Minister for enterprise, Deputy Coveney, and the IDA need to make replacement investment...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: There is a water crisis in Cork city. The issue is dirty, discoloured water - brown and orange - coming from the taps. It is coming from the showers. It surges into washing machines and dishwashers. It does not effect every home but there is no question that it has affected many thousands of homes. Uisce Éireann statistics indicate that on nine separate weeks in the past 18 months,...

Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: The Bill is not premature; it is way overdue. The majority of people in Irish society, of young people, know that that is the case. In any event, we will move on and debate some of the issues here. We are debating a very modest proposal, which is to decriminalise possession of cannabis for personal use. We are talking about small amounts. The Bill stipulates 7 g of cannabis or 2.5 g...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: The International Court of Justice, ICJ, should have ruled in favour of immediate ceasefire but despite its failure to do so, its ruling is a clear defeat for the Israeli regime. The court has found that it has a case to answer for genocide. The Irish Government must now get off the fence and join the South African action without further hesitation. Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to defy...

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: 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...