Results 121-140 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (26 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: What is the legacy of the outgoing Minister, Michael McGrath? It is an Ireland where banks and financial institutions made profits of €5 billion plus last year while mortgage holders were stretched on the rack of consecutive interest rate rises. It is an Ireland where a privatised airline can make profits of €225 million but is prepared to bring the country to the brink of...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: "There is no jury at the Special Criminal Court and it accepts secret evidence from gardaí. This is in violation of our right to a fair trial, our right to trial by jury and our right to equality before the law." Those are the words of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, ICCL, which is far from the only human rights organisation that has criticised the Offences against the State...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: 19. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent engagement with the Palestinian state's representative to Ireland. [25589/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: "It is incredibly disappointing to know that in the university I’ve been attending for years that the research of peers is potentially being used to promote and assist in a genocide". Those are the words of UCC student Ainsley-Kay Rucker after the UCC boycott divestment sanctions group discovered links between UCC's Tyndall Institute and the Israeli war machine. Tyndall is part of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: According to Daft.ie, the average price of a house in Cork city is now €364,000. This is an increase of 9% since last year. In other words, the average price of a house in Cork city has increased by €30,000 in the space of one year. There are many thousands of young people with good jobs in Cork who do not take home more than €30,000 a year. How are these young people...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet again. [26073/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [26969/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [26072/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: Two weeks ago the Taoiseach gave me two commitments, the first being that he would personally contact the chief executive of Uisce Éireann to request a timeline for the resolution of the dirty water issue in Cork city. The second commitment was that he would discuss the matter with the Tánaiste. They say that a week is a long time in politics but it is a longer time again when one...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (25 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: 125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the TFI proposed changes to train services. [27069/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the senior cycle programme for students with additional needs will be ready; if her Department will attend to this as a matter of urgency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27067/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: 191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is no senior cycle available for pupils with additional needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27068/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (25 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: 401. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the possibility of testing for chagas disease in bone marrow donations in order to facilitate those from Latin America to make donations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26871/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (19 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: 23. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make steps to ensure that CIÉ pensioners are paid a cost-of-living increase in their pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26376/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (19 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: 40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the facilities in a school (details supplied); to provide a timeline as to when it can move to appropriately sized facilities that are safe for staff and pupils; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26384/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (18 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: 32. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on attempts to re-establish childcare and early learning facilities at a location in Churchfield, Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26300/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (18 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: I ask the Minister to provide an update on attempts to re-establish childcare and early learning facilities at the site of the old Before 5 Family Centre in Churchfield in Cork city.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (18 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: When the Before 5 Family Centre was closed suddenly last August, the community lost a facility it had enjoyed for 50 years. It lost a pre-school, an after-school service, childcare provision, play therapy and adult services. More than 100 parents lost out directly. More than 150 children lost out directly and 14 workers lost out directly. There are three other childcare providers in the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (18 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: I suggest that the Minister ask the parents in the area whether they think things are moving at a snail's pace or not. I do not think the Minister would be too surprised by the reply he would get. The delays in this case are unforgivable. The family centre was shut last year at the end of August. That should have been the signal for urgency in organising a replacement. On 6 February, the...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (18 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: It is 35 years this November since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Where are we 35 years on? There are 1,800 km of walls and fences built or being built on Europe's borders, the equivalent of 12 Berlin Walls. In Hungary, the European Union helped to build a steel fence, ringed with barbed wire between the border of Hungary, Croatia and Serbia, giving €22 million in funding. In Poland,...