Results 101-120 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

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

Mick Barry: I add my voice to the call for a short debate on the situation with the NAS. These workers provide a vital service for people with disabilities. They have not had an increase in their basic rate of pay for more than a decade. They have been forced out on the picket lines because their employers, and standing behind their employers the Department of Social Protection, will not implement a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (9 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: 511. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of judges that have participated in special training in interacting with victims of sexual crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29271/24]

Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: Military spending in western and central Europe is now higher than it was in the last year of the Cold War. In 2022, military outlays globally rose for the eighth consecutive year, hitting $2.24 trillion. This was before the Gaza genocide. This arms race is the backdrop to these Government proposals. The network of logistics hubs in Europe and support for operations provides for...

Tackling All Forms of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (3 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: The Cathal Crotty case raises a number of issues and a number of things that need to change urgently. First is training of judges. The O'Malley report, published in the wake of the Belfast rape trial and the "I believe her" protests, recommended that judges, legal professionals and others whose professional work involves interaction with victims of sexual violence receive training. This...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economy and investment will next meet. [27945/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: I received the Taoiseach’s correspondence.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: Yes, with a reply attached from the chief executive officer of Uisce Éireann on the issue of discoloured water in Cork city, so I thank the Taoiseach for that. However, the correspondence does not include what the Taoiseach promised to get for me, that being, a timescale for the resolution of the problem. The correspondence names mid-November as a target date for the completion of a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent telephone conversation with President Biden. [27082/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: Real life is showing that the centre right acts as a handmaiden for the far right. In the US, the incompetence and policies of Biden and the Democrats is paving the way for Trump. In France, the policies of Macron have paved the way for Le Pen and the far right. There is now a real threat of a far right government by the end of this weekend. By adopting far right policy proposals, many...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: 3. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the informal leaders' meeting of the European Council on 17 June 2024. [27083/24]

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: Misogyny, toxic masculinity, far-right ideology and anti-transgender rhetoric are what researchers from Dublin City University's anti-bullying centre were fed back within two minutes of registering fake accounts as teenage boys with TikTok and YouTube Shorts. TikTok recommended 76% toxic content after being watched for an average of just two hours and 32 minutes. You would want to be very...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: The US medical devices company Stryker employs 1,500 people in Carrigtwohill, County Cork. A significant minority of this workforce has chosen to join the trade union SIPTU. The company refused to recognise the union, in contrast to the position at its other plants in Macroom and Limerick, where it purchased companies with pre-existing union recognition arrangements. Stryker states that it...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [26971/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [26970/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: After a revolt by disabled people forced the Government to scrap the hated Green Paper, the Taoiseach pledged to meet disabled persons organisations to discuss an alternative. On 8 May, the Taoiseach told me that, as Taoiseach, he intended to meet directly with disability groups and that he would be issuing invitations to engage more substantially with them. Having waited six weeks from...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: Let us talk about tomorrow. Tomorrow, representatives of Aer Lingus will walk into the Labour Court. This is a company which made €225 million profits last year and is part of an international group which made €3.5 billion in profit, and its representatives will sit across the table from pilots who have not had a pay increase in five years. Of course, I do not want to see a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: To oppose union busting?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: It is true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: It is possible that corporations made profits in excess of €300 billion in this State last year. Unfortunately, working people did not fare as well. Yes, most workers got pay increases but the majority of those pay increases did not match the rate of inflation and therefore were de facto pay cuts. Maybe this goes some way to explaining why a majority of people who expressed a view...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: "It made me feel sick. This person physically attacked me, raped me, invaded my body, then left me lying in a hedgerow like I was a piece of rubbish - and now he could read [my] personal, private and intimate thoughts". These are the words of Paula Doyle. Paula was referring to her counselling notes, which had been requested by the DPP. They were seen not only by the DPP but also by the...