Results 1,441-1,460 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

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

Mick Barry: 208. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the Housing for All programme. [22301/22]

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

Mick Barry: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent on housing assistance payment and other subsidies to those renting in the private sector; if a cost benefit analysis of HAP in relation to investment in direct built social housing has been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33192/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 197. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider extending the special leave with pay scheme for public service staff; the measures that he will take to ensure those with long-Covid will not face cuts in income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33367/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (23 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 387. 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 pending the conclusion of a case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33258/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Welfare (22 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider not issuing a licence for the capture of hares for hare coursing given the stress caused to the hares and the risk of spreading of disease among the hares; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33077/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (21 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: The Minister has been let off the hook. I am opposed to debating anyone's human rights. I am in favour of more discussion on gender identity issues. I am also in favour of asking hard questions like why, for example, the gender identity adolescent clinic at Crumlin hospital has not been operational for nearly 18 months. Why is there a waiting list of more than six years at the national...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (21 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 2. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on the engagement she has had with two organisations (details supplied) following the ending of their partnership last week; the measures she will take to ensure that trans people are respected and their rights are upheld in the media; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32759/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (21 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: I wish to ask the Minister to report on the engagement she has had with RTÉ and Dublin Pride following the ending of their partnership last week, the measures she intends to take to ensure that trans people are respected and their rights upheld in the media, and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (21 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: Hateful, divisive, manufactured so-called debate has now been imported to this country from the US and the UK. Two weeks of targeted abuse of the LGBT community in general, and the transgender community in particular, has been the result. Shamefully, the national broadcaster has been central to the whole thing. We have heard a lot about the freedom to discuss in the past two weeks and I...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: On 3 June, the Tánaiste, Deputy Varadkar, said: A decision to join a European Defence can only be made by the Irish people in a referendum. I believe Ireland should be at the table so that we can influence and shape it and find a place for Ireland in shared security. On 8 June, the Taoiseach, Deputy Micheál Martin, said: We need to reflect on military non-alignment in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: For young people with diabetes, moving from multiple daily injections to an insulin pump is such a step forward. It is a life-changer. Some 554 children and young adults are serviced by the paediatric diabetic department at Cork University Hospital, CUH, but as of two weeks ago, only 198 of them, 36%, had a pump. As of two weeks ago, 24 under the age of six were being forced to wait for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (21 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 947 of 14 June 2022, if the State gives support for children to learn and develop their language skills in their first language and not just assistance with English; if this is not provided, if he will consider this is provided given the large numbers of children in the State of various backgrounds that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Travel Documents (21 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 707. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is permissible for seafarers who obtain transit visas from the UK authorities to cross the Border on this island and board vessels in ports in this State without any prior notification of the relevant authorities in this State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32652/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Travel Documents (21 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 708. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will consider the findings of a recent report (details supplied) on the abuse of UK transit visas in the engagement of migrant fishers and citations with it that fishers who have been engaged on these visas have subsequently been engaged to work in this State as opposed to in the UK; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (21 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 709. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an application by a person (details supplied) for a refund for a Irish residence permit card will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32658/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Housing Policy (16 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 113. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures he will take to ensure that developers engaged to construct social and affordable housing will not leave contracts with local authorities due to rising costs in construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22168/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the international unit of his Department. [26198/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (14 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 144. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the economic policy unit of his Department. [26543/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Priorities (14 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 145. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Well-Being Framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [26544/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (14 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 146. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, the agency under the aegis of his Department. [26545/22]