Results 761-780 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Work Permits (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: The Indian nurses work here as healthcare assistants in private nursing homes for two years. At the end of the two years, they have to do the QQI level 5 qualification. That takes another eight months. These are nurses. They are qualified way above QQI level 5. They have already done that, and way more, so why force them to jump through that particular hoop? Then, to add insult to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Work Permits (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: The Minister of State is reading a speech. He should reply to the points that have been put to him.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Work Permits (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: You are not answering the questions that the Indian nurses are asking.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Work Permits (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: It is only a matter of time and it will be in a socialist government but that is another matter. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, has responsibility for mental health and yet-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Work Permits (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: The Minister of State with responsibility for mental health is here and the Government’s policy is putting these Indian nurses through a mental health ringer. Deputy Joan Collins mentioned that there were 3,000, mainly Indian, nurses working here as healthcare assistants. Some 1,000 came over at the start of the year on two-year work permits. They are working in private nursing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take into account the wishes of career guidance and counsellor teachers in Cork city and not move their counselling supervision meetings to a Tuesday due to the impact this will have, including on availability to teach other subjects, and costs to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24986/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 439. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount in the capital budget as set out in table 13 of the Stability Programme Update 2023 that is designated for building social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24799/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 440. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of providing family hubs for the 1,639 families currently accessing emergency homeless accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24800/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 441. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of expanding the Housing First programme to the 1,639 families currently accessing emergency homeless accommodation, including the provision of wraparound services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24801/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 548. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if citizenship applications are continuing to be processed in chronological order; the number of applications from 2021 and 2022 that are still being processed; the number of applications for 2023 to date that have been processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24397/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Employment Schemes (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 577. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider changes to general employment permits to allow those coming to work as health care assistants to bring their spouses and children to live in the State by amending income criteria in line with the wage rate in private nursing homes; if he will consider waiving the need for qualified nurses to undertake QQI...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 830. To ask the Minister for Health the amount in the capital budget as set out in table 13 of the Stability Programme Update 2023 that is designated for infrastructure to support Community Healthcare Networks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24802/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 831. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing 20 additional dedicated children's beds for psychiatric care to stop the practice of using beds in adult psychiatric services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24803/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 832. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of implementing the Connecting for Life suicide prevention programme in a full year. [24804/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 833. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of implementing the Sharing the Vision strategy in a full year. [24805/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2023)

Mick Barry: There was another fire this morning at one of the Stryker plants in Carrigtwohill. The building was evacuated and thankfully no one was injured. This follows another two fires at the site in April. The fire on 18 April, one month ago today, injured two workers, of whom one suffered serious burns. These fires were just the latest in a series of health and safety incidents at the plant....

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)

Mick Barry: More than half of women in Irish society experience sexual violence in the course of their lifetime. That is a shocking statistic which speaks to an epidemic of sexual violence in Irish society. Education is a key tool in combating the misogyny and toxic masculinity which gives rise to so much of this violence. A recent poll in Australia found that 28% of teenage boys there look up to the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: A Vision for Change (17 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 60. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider changes to the work permit scheme to allow those coming to work as health care assistants to bring their spouses and children to live in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23382/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allowing those who are paying Class S PRSI to make additional voluntary contributions to allow them access to illness benefit, given the increased awareness and necessity for persons to isolate when ill from many illnesses, and the increasing number of persons in this group who are on low or middle...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (16 May 2023)

Mick Barry: No predetermined outcomes - I believe the Tánaiste when thousands would not. I will start with a quote: An examination of these cases reveals that the United States had very good reasons to object to the governments of Chile, Cuba and Nicaragua. Their ideological orientation was inimical to its own, so it supported local groups that used whatever means were available to them to try...