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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (26 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 109. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the publication of a report from the Commission on Housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3577/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (26 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider an extension of the eviction ban given the high levels of homelessness and the lack of availability of affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3578/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (26 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will take steps to ensure that additional funds are allocated to improve the pay and conditions of retained firefighters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2253/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. [1183/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent engagements with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. [3279/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: The Saudi state is trying to persuade many European universities to set up campuses in the new King Abdullah Economic City. In June last year representatives of the city met those of several Irish universities and of Enterprise Ireland to this end. The meeting came just three months after the Saudi state executed 81 prisoners, mainly by beheading, in one day. Many were political prisoners...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: I want to voice my strong opposition to the deal between Coillte and the UK-based asset management fund Gresham House. This is a deal which is bad for the environment, PAYE taxpayers and rural Ireland. Coillte will purchase and plant the land and manage the forest. Taxpayers' money will go into that. The asset management fund will put in cash, and will own all of the land and draw down...

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Second Stage (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: I have one or two specific questions regarding the Bill. In early 2020, babies' organs stored at CUMH were sent to Denmark for incineration. This was done without any consultation whatsoever with parents of those babies. The truth came out in the wash, not from above so to speak, but through various pressures from below. This was a real scandal. It was highlighted in an "RTÉ...

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: Did the Minister inform the Taoiseach before his appointment?

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: But you knew there was a controversy brewing.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: You accepted a Minister's position without informing the Taoiseach.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: Minister, you may well have put-----

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: The Minister is talking down the clock and I wish to speak. The Minister may well have put a new phrase into the Irish political lexicon this afternoon, which is the "inadvertent" corporate donation. To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune but to lose both looks like carelessness. I wonder what the bould Oscar might say about this debate tonight. To fail to disclose election...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 23. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [1184/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: The Tánaiste that told the Dáil that the situation in our child and adolescent mental health services was unacceptable. A couple of weeks ago the Taoiseach pronounced that the situation in our emergency departments was unacceptable. I put it to him that it is time for him and his Government to own their mistakes and disasters. They are not bystanders casually viewing these crises...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 19. To ask the Taoiseach to provide details of the climate action plan progress report published by his Department. [3280/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: I ask the Taoiseach to comment on two pieces of climate news we have received since the start of the year. The first is on the issue of climate criminals. We have now learned that ExxonMobil scientists in the 1970s mapped out with extraordinary exactitude what would happen if we continued using fossil fuels with respect to global temperatures. This information, however, was not released...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing last met. [60885/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [1182/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [3278/23]