Results 821-840 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: Murphy International is part of the giant Murphy group of companies that operates throughout Ireland, the UK and Canada generating €1.5 billion in revenues. It benefits from big State contracts here from local authorities, Irish Water etc. Last year, a group of workers in Limerick were sacked by Murphy International. They were members of Unite and one was a shop steward. Unite...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will meet next. [19145/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline the current situation in regard to the development of a national security strategy. [16421/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: Last year, the then Taoiseach, Deputy Micheál Martin, told the Dáil, "it is my view that there should be a citizens’ assembly in relation to all aspects of neutrality." In the aftermath of his comments, an Ipsos poll carried out on behalf of The Irish Times found that two thirds of respondents were opposed to jettisoning neutrality. Similar polls with similar results were...

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: First Stage (20 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to reduce rents to affordable levels by limiting them to a maximum of a quarter of monthly household incomes and to establish a National Rent Authority for this purpose. This Bill would make it law that rents be reduced to 25% of monthly median household incomes with immediate...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: Some 1,000 Indian nurses came to this State at the start of the year on two-year work permits to work in the health services. They work here not as nurses but as healthcare assistants in nursing homes and as home care assistants, overwhelmingly in the private sector. A real injustice is being done to these workers. The basic pay stipulated in the arrangement under which they came here is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: The cost issue can be-----

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: There are 166,000 vacant houses in the State, excluding holiday houses, according to the 2022 census. Approximately 50,000 of these have been idle for six years. Approximately 25,000 have been vacant for 11 years. This is at the same time as the country is in the middle of a housing emergency, the worst housing crisis in the history of the State. It is against this background that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Public Sector Reform Review (18 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: I want to raise the issue of the so-called broadcasting charge. In response to a parliamentary question I submitted, I was told on 22 March: Government agreed to establish a Technical Working Group to examine the necessary reform required of the current TV licence system to properly provide for the funding requirements of public service media in Ireland. The Group commenced its work in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: Good question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Public Sector Reform Review (18 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: 24. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings that have taken place of the Strategic Foresight and Strengthening Policy Development research project, jointly overseen by his Department. [16420/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: 18. To ask the Taoiseach how often every Cabinet committee meets, with particular reference to the committees on health, housing and education. [16419/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: Until yesterday the record for the number of patients admitted but without a bed at the Cork University Hospital was 90. This morning that record was broken when 92 patients were without a bed. Until this morning the record for patients admitted but without a bed at the Mercy University Hospital was 38. This morning that record was broken too. There were 40 patients at this hospital...

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

Mick Barry: At one point last week the RTÉ News website led with the following four so-called news stories: "High hopes for Biden selfie in front of Ballina mural"; "'Part of his soul' and DNA: How Irish is Joe Biden?"; "He comes as a pilgrim': Knock prepares Biden welcome"; and last but not least, "New business hopes Biden calls in for 'a cup of Joe'". The man variously described in the Irish...

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

Mick Barry: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of the United States. [15254/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: I understand the Minister for Transport raised the issue of congestion charges at Cabinet this morning. Congestion in our towns and cities needs to be tackled. We need more pedestrianised streets and car-free zones. We need free public transport, which the Government is opposing, but we do not need congestion charges, which are a bad idea on at least two fronts. First, they penalise...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (18 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: 113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the assistance that his Department has given to an Irish citizen (details supplied) imprisoned in Iran since October 2022 without charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16895/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (18 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: 801. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the incremental tenants purchase scheme and the Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 to allow those who were eligible prior to 1 February 2022 with less than ten years in receipt of social housing supports to apply for the scheme; if joint tenants, one of which has less than...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: 1393. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently reassess transgender healthcare; if he will consider the model of informed consent led by GPs in local communities; the consultations he has had with the trans community about trans affirming healthcare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16525/23]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Could I have clarification? Is the Garda obliged to take in a family with children, or-----