Results 1,021-1,040 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: I want to see a constitutional referendum on the right to housing, not because it will resolve the housing crisis, which it will not do, and not because it is a substitute for our housing campaigns or housing protest, which it is not. I want to see it because it would improve, at least somewhat, the rights of those who need housing and add, at least somewhat, to pressure on the State to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: Matthew Healy was killed in a violent attack in Mercy University Hospital in Cork in the early hours of Sunday morning. I want to extend sympathy to his family and friends. In the past five years, there have been more than 50,000 assaults on staff alone in our hospitals according to the HSE, of which 274 were sexual assaults. The last time there was a security audit across the hospital...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 228. To ask the Minister for Finance if tenants in the private rented sector and those renting under a rent-a-room scheme can claim the rent tax credit where their landlord is not registered with the Residential Tenancies Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2749/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a review of the minimum requirement of a leaving certificate O4 grade in mathematics to enter primary teacher training colleges; if she will consider allowing for other methods to allow students to meet the level of mathematics required in tandem with studying primary teaching; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Costs (19 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 38. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is exploring the impact of implementing a policy of free public transport fares; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2251/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Costs (19 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on any information that he has in relation to increased passenger numbers during the period of the reduced fares on public transport; the number of student Leap and young adult Leap cards that have been issued in the same timeframe; if he will consider the abolition of public transport fares given the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (19 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 164. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has considered revisiting the current public sector pay, given the real difficulties that are faced in staff retention issues, which is having an impact on public services, particularly in health and education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2252/23]

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: The INMO is consulting its membership on the issue of industrial action in support of staffing levels that would be underpinned by legislation. Should the nurses decide to take action they will deserve the support of every health service worker, patient and relative who has had a loved one in a hospital and everyone who either looked on in horror or shook their head in sadness at the...

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: The Land Development Agency is one of the most important State agencies in the State's history. This is because it was set up in the middle of the greatest housing crisis in the history of the State and has the wherewithal to make a real difference in that crisis. However, instead or pursuing an aggressive policy of building public houses on public land, it is instead tending to organise a...

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: I express solidarity with the tens of thousands of climate activists in Germany protesting the demolition of a village to make way for a coal mine. They have taken this stance despite the mobilisation of thousands of riot police against them and the detention and arrest of activists, including Greta Thunberg. The Minister of State might comment on the fact the Green Party's sister party is...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (18 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 31. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department will provide the necessary details of the process of the atypical work permit scheme for non-EEA fishers and the recommendation of a public consultation process and stakeholder engagement on pages 3 and 59 of the review document to a person (details supplied) in order that a submission can be made on behalf of the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (18 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 32. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a non-EEA fisher who holds an unexpired atypical work permit scheme contract, who has been continuously employed on a vessel for two years or more and loses his or her employment arising from a decommissioning, is entitled to redundancy pay separate and distinct from the compensation for crew provided for by the terms of the Bord...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (18 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 325. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will investigate the taxation of HVO in home heating boilers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1064/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (18 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 610. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised the matter of protesters in Iran facing long-term imprisonment and death sentences with the Iranian authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1065/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (18 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 654. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the medical standards for recruits to the Naval Service in relation to epilepsy; if those standards allow for those who have had partial epilepsy that is deemed to have been resolved, to serve in the Naval Service; if he will outline the appeals process for those who have been rejected for a position in the Naval Reserve on medical grounds;...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 931. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider reviewing the benefits available for those paying class S PRSI; if access to illness benefit will be extended to this group given the increased awareness and necessity for persons to isolate when ill from many illnesses and the increasing number of persons in this group who are on low or middle incomes;...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Irish Sign Language (18 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 964. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the timeline for the publication of the operation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017; if he will establish the voucher scheme system for the funding of interpretation on a permanent basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63740/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Reviews (18 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 974. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider a review of the Equal Status Acts 2000 to 2015 to ensure that trans persons and all members of the LGBTQ+ community are covered under protections in the legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1063/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (18 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 1712. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reviewing the reimbursement of the anti-nausea drug pyridoxine, doxylamine commonly known by the brand name cariban for those who are pregnant; if he will consider making it available for non-consultant doctors to prescribe to any pregnant persons suffering nausea; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2315/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Employment Rights (18 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 1828. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an employer (details supplied) still has an obligation to fully compensate crew for all their service on a vessel, in cases in which the vessel changed ownership subsequent to the completion of 90-days by the fisher in 2020 and 2021; if the current employer still has an obligation to pay the compensation to the fisher; and if...