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Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: The Minister of State said "There is no shortage of will or determination... to deal with the issue of homelessness. It remains our top priority." If that were true, it would not say too much for the effectiveness of the Government, would it? Since it lifted the eviction ban, the number of people forced to live in emergency accommodation goes up month after month. The Minister of State...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: Do you? Were you ever evicted?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: In the Taoiseach's own constituency of Dublin West, 30 schools had 110 unfilled teaching posts last year, according to the Dublin West education coalition, which organised a comprehensive survey. Some 75% of schools received no applications and 81% ended up using unqualified teachers. The reasons for this crisis are many and varied. They include cuts in teachers' pay and allowances, and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (26 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: I raise the case of 15 Cork-based nurses who are being denied the €1,000 Covid bonus. These nurses are members of the SouthDoc community intervention team. They administer intravenous injections of fluids, antibiotics and so on to patients who have been discharged from hospital back to their homes and communities. All 15 of these nurses were patient-facing during the Covid...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with culture, arts and the audiovisual sector will next meet. [34046/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: The Tánaiste nailed his colours to the mast at the end of August when he voiced his support for a new universal household charge, based on devices, to replace the television licence. Such a charge would hit more households than the TV licence, would represent a new charge in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis and would be every bit as regressive as the TV licence. We are in the...

Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: I bring before the House the issue of mass evictions due to take place in Cork city this Christmas. The evictions are taking place at Chorister's House in Dean Street on Cork's south side, beside St. Fin Barre's Cathedral. Ironically, the evictions take place right next door to the constituency of Cork South-Central, which hosts three Government Ministers who voted to lift the eviction ban....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (21 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: 5. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that issues of overcrowding at Cork University Hospital are addressed as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40911/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (21 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: 51. To ask the Minister for Health to what extent hospital wards are mixed gender due to over-capacity in the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31340/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Childcare Services (20 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: The key sentences in the Minister of State's reply are, "However, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth does not own or operate early learning and childcare services. These services are privately operated." In reality, the Minister of State is saying we have a significant crisis on the northside of Cork, 100 families have been left without childcare, people...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Childcare Services (20 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: The Before 5 Family Centre in Churchfield, Cork, closed at the end of August and went into liquidation. The centre provided preschool, crèche facilities, after-school and homework facilities, play therapy and adult courses. Approximately 170 children lost out as a result of the closure. More than 100 families were affected and 14 workers, some of whom have been there for 28 years and...

Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: There have been ten ECB interest hikes. It has gone from 0% to 4.5%. Before this latest increase, some 20% of mortgage holders are estimated to lose €3,000 this year. A further 20% are estimated to lose €5,700 a year. Mortgage holders are being put on a rack and stretched. At the same time the banks make combined profits of more than €5 billion. This Government has...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Job Creation (20 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: 1. To ask the Taoiseach how many new jobs were created in Cork during the period 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2022. [33642/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: More than 100 families on the north side of Cork city were told yesterday they will have to wait until at least next year for early learning and crèche places to be put in place for their children at the old Before 5 family centre in Churchfield. The fault lies not with the company taking over the running of the services on the Churchfield site following the liquidation of Before 5; it...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: The Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, is in New York. He does not need to take a bite out of the Big Apple at this moment in time. He needs to be back here. He needs to be in this Dáil tomorrow to make a statement and take questions about the spinal surgery scandal.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: Will the Government abolish the USC?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: The Government is planning on providing people with less assistance than it did last year. Despite its little spat with the financial advisory council, the Government, the council and the entire bourgeoisie are united in telling people to lower expectations and to prepare for another drop in living standards. Listen to what the Minister for Finance said yesterday. Here is a final point,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: I will start with a few simple budget-related questions. The Minister's starter, for five points: who said, in March 2017, that Ireland will achieve its target of ending reliance on hotels and bed and breakfast accommodation for long-term accommodation for homeless families by July 2017? That was the Minister, Deputy Coveney. The next question for ten: who said in 2016 that Fine Gael in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Jul 2023)

Mick Barry: 291. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering changing the VAT thresholds in Budget 2024; if he will consider reforms that consider ability to pay or that is graduated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34975/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (13 Jul 2023)

Mick Barry: 359. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline how much in IDA grants and supports have been awarded to a company (details supplied) for their sites at Tullagreen and Springhill since 1997; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35399/23]