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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (11 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: 312. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the reopening of a service in Churchfield, County Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30539/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (11 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: 419. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take steps to implement the recommendation of the expert review body on nursing and midwifery that the CNM2 salary scale would be extended by the addition of one further scale point, and the introduction of a long-service increment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30818/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: I must put on the record my disgust at the bombing of the children's hospital in Ukraine. It shows the true face of Russian imperialism once again. Ordinary people around the world will feel nothing but disgust for that, and have deep sympathy for the victims. This has nothing in common with the weasel words coming out of the NATO summit from people who are arming a state that is bombing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: 7. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his two-day attendance at the European Council on 27 and 28 June 2024. [29221/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (10 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the British-Irish Council summit in the Isle of Man on 21 June 2024. [29220/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (10 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: It is goodbye to Jacob Rees-Mogg, Liz Truss and all the other Tories, and good riddance. It was a landslide but, as one commentator said, it was a loveless landslide. There seems to be little or no enthusiasm for Starmer's Government. It is true that it win 9.6 million votes compared that with the 13.8 million and 10.2 million won under Corbyn in 2017 and 2019. The vote for Reform UK is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: There seems to be an assumption that a young worker is not very productive or skilful. Yesterday evening, I watched a young worker at work and thought they did a good job. I asked my colleague what age the person was and was told they were 16. They were worth a hell of a lot more than €8.89 per hour. I am sure that Lamine Yamal, who plays on the right wing for Spain, will have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: The point has been made that the sub-minimum rates do not affect a large number of people. They apply to one in every 140 people in the workforce, but 15,000 people is not a small number. I wonder whether the number is increasing, as there has been a lot of talk about full employment. In full employment, employers are looking around left, right and centre for people to do work. I suspect...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: That is interesting. A lot of points have been raised in this discussion about small and medium-sized businesses. I want to raise a point about big businesses. I would like to get an idea as to what extent big businesses are profiting from exploitative, sub minimum wage rates for under-20s. It was mentioned earlier that Applegreen is one company that employs people at sub-minimum wage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: Are there any big retail companies that are paying sub-minimum wage rates?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: I am a fan of the ideas of Marx and Engels. One of those companies might have a name that sounds a bit like that but I will not name it. I will finish with these two points. The State was written to by the Commission to state that the sub-minimum wage rates are a breach of its labour rights obligations under the European Social Charter. Does Mr. Caffrey have the details of when that was?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: But it was some time ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: Was the Low Pay Commission recommendation to abolish a unanimous recommendation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: Okay.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the peace summit he attended in Switzerland. [29219/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the work of the shared island initiative of his Department. [27947/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: If you do not have the right bus ticket in Belfast, you will be fined £50 by Translink. Yesterday, a Belfast court ruled that a young man had to pay £50 to his former partner for repeated horrifying assaults that included punching, headbutting and holding a knife to her throat. The sentence was suspended and a two-year restraining order was put in place. Just weeks after...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (9 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: I would like to talk about the right to housing. Rickets, anaemia, faltering growth, extreme tooth decay and scabies are just some of the extreme health conditions now being reported by medical professionals regarding children living in emergency accommodation across this State. There are now 4,316 kids living in emergency accommodation. Ten years ago, the figure was just 700. With Fine...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (9 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [27946/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: For autistic kids, early intervention is key. That is what all the experts say. The Disability Act places a legal obligation upon the State to determine within three months whether assessment is appropriate and then to assess within a further three months. I have here a letter sent last week by the HSE to the parents of a child living in Cork city who is just under two years of age. The...