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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (5 Jul 2022)

Mick Barry: 36. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she can give commitments to reach the number of refuge places for those leaving domestic violence situations that would bring Ireland in line with the Istanbul Convention; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35986/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (5 Jul 2022)

Mick Barry: 49. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extra resources that will be made available to implement the proposals outlined in the recently announced Government strategy on domestic, sexual and gender based violence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35987/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (5 Jul 2022)

Mick Barry: 313. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any contact with his Spanish, Moroccan or European Union counterparts in relation to the death of migrants in Melilla; if he will support an independent investigation into the deaths; if he has concerns about human rights abuses on both sides of the Spanish-Moroccan border; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: Mr. John Paul Ricken is a constituent of mine. He lost his wife, Susan, to bowel cancer. He is campaigning for improved bowel cancer screening programmes. I support his campaign. Around 2,800 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer in Ireland every year and about 1,000 people die from it here each year. Early screening can prevent cancer from forming in the first place. In France and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (30 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reforms in the relationships and sex education curriculum she will make to ensure issues relating to trans people and gender identity are fully covered in the curriculum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34943/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (30 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has had any dealings with school patrons regarding the content of the relationships and sex education curriculum; her views on objective sex education that deals with consent, intimate partner violence, contraception, LGBTQI issues, gender identity and other issues across all schools regardless of ethos; and if she will make a statement...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: Vótáil.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: I am opposed to extending the powers of the Offences against the State Act. I agree with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, Amnesty International and the United Nations Human Rights Committee that the Special Criminal Court should be abolished. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has stated: There is no jury at the Special Criminal...

Autism Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: I wish to use the time allocated to me to raise concerns relating to autism and the housing crisis. Those concerns arise from a case in Cork city with which I am dealing. It involves a woman who has been living in emergency accommodation for about a year. She has been offered alternative accommodation in the form of a one-bedroom apartment. She self-identifies as autistic, however, and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gender Recognition (29 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that all third level institutions will be requested not to charge fees for the change of names or gender identities by students on records kept by the institution; if he will request all third level institutions to allow for names to be changed after graduation in order that academic records and qualification certificates can...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gender Recognition (29 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 134. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider waiving the stamp duty for the registration of deed polls to change names in the interest of supporting trans people and others; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34598/22]

Emergency Budget: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: The Minister is effectively saying to struggling families that there will be nothing extra done for them next month or the month after that when they are preparing for children going back to school, and nor will anything be done for them in September. They must wait until October. They say a week is a long time in politics. For a family going under in this cost-of-living crisis, three...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (28 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: Yes, but there is the money message.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (28 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with church leaders. [26200/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (28 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with church leaders. [30713/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (28 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: A huge number of people came out on the streets of Dublin at the weekend to participate in Pride. It was a real celebration but it was also a protest against those who try to limit the progress of this community, including the progress of our transgender community. I put it to the Taoiseach that a society whose capital can host an event like that, a society that repealed the eighth...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the French President since his re-election. [26199/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Projects (28 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: Many workers and trade unionists in this country have been liking the spirited words of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers leader in Britain, Mick Lynch. Mick said last week there are more rich people than there has ever been and they have never been wealthier, and while they have full employment in Britain, they have falling real wages, which has to be addressed. He...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (28 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 696. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will consent to giving a person (details supplied) a visa that will permit them to work and survive pending the conclusion of the pending Labour Court case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33661/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures that he will take to expand social and affordable housing given the increase in homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33193/22]