Results 741-760 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Mick Barry: I wish to raise the case of 44 workers in Cork city and the race to the bottom in terms of workers' jobs, wages and conditions. The case in question is that of workers at the Irish headquarters of the Canadian corporation Telus in Mahon - a customer experience centre that manages accounts for corporate clients worldwide. These workers have been working on Telus's Airbnb account but it now...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [25547/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 542. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of suspected crimes reported to each Garda station in the Cork city area for 2020, 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26220/23]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Mick Barry: A referendum had to be wrenched from Ireland's political establishment by a loud and boisterous movement of women, youth and LGBTQ and working-class people, in particular over the previous five years, 2013 to 2018. I agree with the words of my Socialist Party colleague, Ruth Coppinger, one of the foremost advocates for repeal and for abortion rights in this State: the political establishment...

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Mick Barry: Planet Earth is undergoing its sixth mass extinction event. Biodiversity has dropped 68% globally since 1970, 50% of species that remain are seeing a decline in their population size, while less than 3% are seeing an increase in population size. Dr. Jonas Hein and Dr. Jean Carlo Rodríguez of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability said late last year, "Without...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2023)

Mick Barry: Why did gardaí allow the organisers of anti-asylum seeker roadblocks in County Clare go onto buses, count the number of asylum seekers leaving the area and count the number of asylum seekers coming back into the area, and film vulnerable people without their permission? Why did gardaí fail to prevent the burning of the tents and possessions of asylum seekers at Sandwith Street,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [22805/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (24 May 2023)

Mick Barry: The socialist left does not accept the framing of the prebudget debate as an either-or between public spending increases and tax cuts for middle-income workers. We say that both should be done at the expense of higher taxes on high earners and profits. I want to ask about proposed the €1,000 tax that will be put back in workers' pockets at budget time. I suspect that Fine Gael is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (24 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the strategic goals of his Department's Strategy Statement 2021-2023; and if he plans to update same. [22804/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (24 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the high-level steering board, chaired by the Secretary General of his Department, to oversee the implementation of the high-level action plan for the report of the Commission on the Defence Forces. [22803/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (24 May 2023)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach says he does not want to join NATO; public opinion would not allow him to. However, I think he does want to achieve a de facto associate membership of NATO by drawing ever closer and advancing integration into its structure without formally joining in the short term. I am against that because NATO is an imperialist military alliance led by the United States that does not and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employee Experiences of Technological Surveillance in the Financial Services Sector: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Mick Barry: This is an interesting subject. Some of the report's conclusions are dynamite. I would support progressing legislation on this matter but I note the point that has been made about consent where there is a major power imbalance. People have to sign the contracts to get these jobs, so if they do not consent, they do not get the jobs. This points towards the need for workers to organise and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employee Experiences of Technological Surveillance in the Financial Services Sector: Discussion (24 May 2023)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employee Experiences of Technological Surveillance in the Financial Services Sector: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Mick Barry: I will ask a short tranche of questions before making my final point. Do we have any sense as to whether this is mainly affecting people working at home or in an office environment? Will Dr. O'Sullivan take us through the different forms of surveillance? She mentioned that there was not major webcam surveillance currently, but can there be a situation where someone is working at home and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employee Experiences of Technological Surveillance in the Financial Services Sector: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Mick Barry: I will make a brief point. I was interested in what Dr. O'Sullivan said about Germany. It is not only a country that has a comparatively strong trade union movement. It is also a country which, at a certain point in the 20th century, was under a dictatorship. Then the east of the country experienced communism and the Stasi. There is a real sensitivity about these issues in Germany. It...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 30. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on a humanitarian response to Ukraine will next meet. [22482/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [22481/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: I live in Blackpool, on the north side of Cork city. Two miles from my house is the European headquarters of Apple, in Hollyhill. Hollyhill is high above the city, as the name suggests. From it, you can look out over the city and see hospitals that are in the headlines every second week because of overcrowding. You can see schools that only get over the line at the end of the year thanks...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [22480/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: Three-quarters of secondary schools report having teacher vacancies with zero applications. Teacher shortages are at a crisis point. Maths is being hit. Irish is being hit. Foreign languages are being hit. Woodwork, metal work and technical subjects are really being hit. Students are being forced to drop subjects. Students with special needs are disproportionately impacted as teachers...