Results 981-1,000 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

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

Mick Barry: 82. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of international protection applicants who have not been provided with accommodation and have been directed to homeless services; if he will end this policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6138/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: The nursing home charges scandal is the latest in a long line of aggressive legal strategies employed by the State to deny justice to vulnerable people. It must now be added to a list that includes the CervicalCheck women, the hepatitis C women, the denial of disability payments for those in long-term care, the denial of redress to a large cohort of mother and baby homes survivors, and many...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government. [5796/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: The progress being made on closing the gender pay gap globally is glacial. At the current rate, it will take 257 years to close this gap fully. In his contribution at the start, the Taoiseach said a gender pay gap in Ireland of 11.2% compared with an EU average of 13% showed this State was doing better. I put it to the Taoiseach that a better way to phrase that would be to say that in this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: What we need here, and I will conclude on this, is a totally new approach. We need to treat childcare and early learning like primary and secondary education, being universal, public and free at the point of use.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the gender pay gap report from his Department. [5795/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: Barnardos is telling us that in January 2022, one household in 25 was forced to go to a food bank, but by November that figure had risen to one in ten. The situation seems set to worsen. Kantar told us yesterday that the average household will spend nearly an extra €1,200 on groceries in 2023. Why then is the Government considering the scrapping of at least some of the cost of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: Well said.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: I never make excuses for them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: I can assure the Taoiseach I am very careful in what I say and I am very clear on my message that refugees are welcome here - all refugees - including the 130 people that this State deported in the past month alone. Does the housing crisis add to the crisis of racism in Irish society? Without any question, it does. Of course, they will blame everything. However, the housing crisis is a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: I send my sympathy and solidarity to the peoples of Kurdistan, Türkiye and Syria. If you go online, open the newspaper or turn on the radio, you cannot do any of those things these days without reading or hearing about the far right. They have come to prominence through their organisational support for anti-refugee protests, but who are they? The largest such party is the National...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacancies for home economics teachers in secondary schools; if she will extend the financial supports for those upskilling in mathematics, physics and Spanish to home economics teachers; the criteria used to extend supports to mathematics, physics and Spanish and not to other subjects with large vacancies such as home economics;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if steps will be taken to ensure there is a qualified Spanish teacher provided for all years in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5692/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the shortage of language teachers in secondary schools; the number of unfilled vacancies for foreign language teachers; the number of students unable to avail of a foreign language class as a result of unfilled vacancies; the measures she intends to take to fill these vacancies; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken to improve the learning of foreign languages in secondary school given Eurostat figures, which show Ireland to have the second lowest level of foreign language learning in the EU and a decline since 2013 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5694/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 493. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures being taken by his Department to assist farmers with the transition to increased TB testing; if he will honour a 1990 agreement with farming organisations to fund increased mandatory testing for a period of two years as a transition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5911/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a commitment will be given that a school (details supplied) will be relocated to the old horology site in Blanchardstown; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5182/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (1 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the capitation funding for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5184/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (1 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide funding to a school (details supplied) to allow for the creation of a walking deputy principal role; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5185/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (1 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if DEIS status will be given to a school (details supplied); if funding for food for pupils will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5186/23]