Results 861-880 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Two weeks ago, Ministers scattered to the four corners of the earth for St. Patrick's Day. We all saw the pictures from New York and Washington, but I want to refer to some visits that received rather less media attention. I am interested in, for example, the visit of the Minister of State, Deputy Josepha Madigan, to Qatar, a country where homosexuality is illegal under threat of sentence...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the international division of his Department. [14882/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet Committee on a Humanitarian Response to Ukraine took place. [14881/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Teaching English as a second language is a key task and challenge for our infant and primary schools, given the increased levels of immigration, but the policy of the Department of Education - the Taoiseach's Government policy - is making the task of the schools far more difficult and has the potential to prove very divisive. Until recently, the norm has been for children to be entitled to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: The Department of Health signed up to the Safe Staffing Framework, a data-driven, evidence-based system which can pinpoint the staffing levels needed to provide safe staffing in every hospital ward in the State. Cork University Hospital is one of the State's flagship hospitals, yet, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, only four of the 21 wards at that hospital meet...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet committee on health took place. [14880/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 249. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will intervene with the insurance sector to ensure that steps are taken to ensure that motorcycle clubs are able to have their events insured, which is essential for the sport to continue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15329/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify the eligibility for English as an Additional Language (EAL) supports in primary school, in particular to clarify if Circular 6/23 means that children whose parents have been in the State for more than two years are excluded from eligibility to EAL supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15360/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a prospective student (details supplied) who is resident in Ireland, and whose deceased stepfather was an Irish citizen, satisfies the nationality condition for eligibility for the "free fees" scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15258/23]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Karl Marx once said that France was the country where the class struggle was most usually fought to a finish. It is early days but what held true in the 19th century may well turn out to be the case in this century too. Tomorrow will be the eighth national mobilisation in France against attacks on workers' pension rights by the Macron Government, which is trying to increase the pension age...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: What about the Ballynoe inquiry?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: What about nursing homes?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [11398/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Twenty-four people died in a 51-bed nursing home at Ballynoe in Cork in the third wave of Covid-19 at the start of 2021. "Prime Time" recently revealed that the HSE was notified of the outbreak on 8 January but did not visit the home until 16 February. A HIQA visit, after 22 people were already dead, found nine unreported deaths, multiple violations of infection control regulations and no...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is to commence a ballot for industrial action of its members in the coronary care unit of Cork University Hospital. These front-line workers have been forced to work with unsafe staffing levels for far too long. They have also been forced to work with an inappropriate skills mix in their team. If these workers decide to take industrial action, I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach said he does not feel there is an acceptable level of homelessness. He cannot have it both ways. He cannot say that on one hand and come in here at 4.40 p.m. and vote to lift an eviction ban which he knows will put significant numbers of people, including children, into homelessness. He cannot have it both ways. The Taoiseach does feel that there is an acceptable level of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Here are a few things we know. We know that children living in emergency accommodation, such as hotel rooms, learn to crawl later and learn to walk later than children living in homes with any bit of space. We know that some children living in homeless accommodation start speaking at a later age than other children due to the trauma of losing their homes. We know that thousands of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Thanks to you.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Broadcasting Charge (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 112. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has plans to propose a broadcasting charge on all households; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14119/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has policies in relation to private companies paying for wages of school staff in primary schools; if her Department has policies in relation to private companies providing classes to pupils in primary schools; if issues relating to the relationship between the private company (details supplied) and a school has been brought...