Results 961-980 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [7266/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: A 16-year-old transgender girl, Brianna Ghey, was stabbed to death in Warrington in England on 11 February. Huge crowds attended vigils for her, including on this island, in Belfast, Derry, Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Kilkenny and elsewhere. I express my sympathy and solidarity with her family and friends, the trans community and all who feel less safe after her tragic murder. Two 15-year-olds...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: Hear, hear.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: Kay McShane grew up on Spike Island in Cork Harbour. She survived polio in her youth and went on to win a silver medal for Ireland in the marathon at the 1984 Paralympics, and two bronze medals in 1988 as well. She died aged 70 in 2019. The Cork County Council-owned Spike Island Development Company planned an exhibition on her extraordinary life and achievements for this summer but the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: The big hoteliers will be popping the champagne corks tonight and no doubt toasting the Minister for Finance, Deputy McGrath. Meanwhile, ordinary householders will be forced to work out which items they will now have to drop from the weekly shop. A €225 million gift for the hospitality industry and a bi-monthly €200 electricity credit cut for the others. At the same time,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 629. To ask the Minister for Health if public adult ADHD services will be available in the CHO 4 area in Cork; if he will report on waiting lists for public ADHD assessments in CHO 4 and nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8340/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (15 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee that deals with a humanitarian response to Ukraine will next meet. [7265/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (15 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: "It felt like they were treating us like animals. It didn't feel fair. It felt like they were violating our privacy." Workers at JD Sports in Patrick's Street in Cork have, in the last week, highlighted the fact that they are regularly asked to lift their tops and show their bare stomach area to store managers. The store says the policy is part of its campaign against shop lifting. It...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (15 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the public service, justice and police reform division of his Department. [6920/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given the issues faced by many second level schools in filling reaching posts if she will consider collating information on the number of unfilled posts in second level schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7597/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (15 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 180. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the establishment of the community neuro rehabilitation team in each of the CHO areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7595/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (15 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 181. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline a timeline for the further progressing of the review to the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7596/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fishing Industry (14 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: Is it not an embarrassment to the State that the ITF's fisheries representative in Ireland has to go to his colleagues in Spain, which has ratified ILO 188, and the flag state, Germany, to work on having questions of unpaid wages and illicit double contracts acted upon? One cannot help but draw the conclusion that there is a greater premium being placed on fish stocks in our territorial...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fishing Industry (14 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: On the back of years of campaigning, principally by the International Transport Workers Federation, ITF, the situation for non-European migrant fishers working on Irish-flagged fishing vessels has improved in recent months. A highly restrictive atypical work permit scheme has been abolished and all documented fishers and a significant cohort of undocumented fishers have obtained stamp 4...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: The cost-of-living crisis continues to bear down hard on working people and their families. Barnardos told us last week that one in ten of those surveyed had been forced to go to a food bank in order to provide. Nearly three in ten were skipping meals to ensure their children could eat. The following day, we were told by Kantar that grocery bills are set to rise by nearly €1,200, on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: The Daft.iereport published yesterday shows that it now costs way more than €20,000 to rent for a year in Cork city. A generation that could not afford to buy its own homes now cannot afford to rent. After the publication of the report, Ronan Lyons said that "among the worst affected cohorts are younger adults, with the median adult age of leaving the parental home having grown...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 23. To ask the Taoiseach when the Housing for All progress report for quarter 4 2022 will be published. [6919/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: The crackdown on asylum seekers announced at the EU summit last week was based solely on the narrative of the far right. These are not my words or the words of any radical socialist; instead, they are the words of a colleague of the Taoiseach, Fianna Fáil MEP, Barry Andrews, and he is right. When I made the point in this House last week that the Government's failures on housing were a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on European Union and international affairs will next meet. [6918/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 80. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures he is taking to improve living conditions for international protection applicants at his Department’s Citywest facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6137/23]