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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (14 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene to ensure an improvement to the pay and conditions of security staff in airports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29121/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (14 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider a review to the upper age limits for taxi drivers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29122/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (14 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 487. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount in the capital budget as set out in table 11 of the Stability Programme Update 2022 that is designated for housing that is for building social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29163/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (14 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 488. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of providing family hubs for families experiencing homelessness in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29164/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 489. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of expanding the Housing First Programme to families experiencing homelessness including in that cost the provision of wraparound services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29165/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (14 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 582. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress that has been made on the allocation of further resources to reduce the processing times for applications to the foreign births register; the number of applications on the foreign births register system currently awaiting processing; the current processing time for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (14 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 947. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are given to help pre-school and primary school children whose first language is not English nor Irish or who are being raised bilingually with a language other than English or Irish to help them to learn and develop skills in their own language; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29166/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 1219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on the implementation of the SOLAS recommendations in the report SOLAS Response to the Findings of the Evaluation of the National Outreach Programme published in May 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29123/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 1907. To ask the Minister for Health the supports that will be available to people affected with long Covid; if this will include access to upskilled occupational therapists for post-Covid care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30774/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (14 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 1906. To ask the Minister for Health when the new eating disorder unit at Mount Carmel will be opened; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30773/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (14 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 1989. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the numbers of greyhounds that suffered injuries, died or were killed at official trials, unofficial trials and sales auctions in the past five years by date and location; the nature of the injuries and deaths; if the affected greyhounds were treated or killed on site or elsewhere; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (14 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 1995. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the greyhound track attendance figures for 2021 and to date in 2022 by track and a breakdown of the figures into paid entry, free entry and entry by adults and minors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31022/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (1 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: Approximately 50 households have been or are being evicted from the Shannon Arms apartment complex in Limerick city centre. The notices to quit were issued to households that include a woman who is eight months pregnant, a person with terminal cancer and a family with five kids. Several landlords are involved in issuing the totality of these notices to quit. One of them is the Supermac's...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (1 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: 17. To ask the Taoiseach the mechanism by which his Department will review progress made in implementing the programme for Government. [24936/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: More than 300 jobs were axed in Blanchardstown and Dundalk last week by PayPal, which plans to outsource work and relocate positions to low-wage economies. Did the Taoiseach know that the workers who participated in the redundancy negotiations were those who volunteered themselves but whose names were then picked from a laundry basket by a representative of company management? While PayPal...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: If the Tánaiste met the workers he could easily see the detail.

Adaption Grants for Older People and People with a Disability: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: On housing adaptation grants, 13% of the people who live in County Cork have at least one disability. This is an important issue, nationally and locally. Last year, 228 households in Cork city were on the local authority's waiting list for adaptations to private houses. Of those households, 142 were of people with disabilities, 44 were of people with mobility issues and 42 were of elderly...

Rising Food Prices: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 May 2022)

Mick Barry: I will start with some questions. Will the cost-of-living crisis lead to an increase in the number of people who steal food from shops in order to eat or provide for their families? If so, how will the law react? Will people be prosecuted? In Britain, there is public debate around this question. Why is there no such debate here? Earlier this month, the new chief inspector of the...

Rising Food Prices: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 May 2022)

Mick Barry: That is right.

Transport, Accelerating Sustainable Mobility: Statements (31 May 2022)

Mick Barry: A debate is under way in Cork city on the issue of the proposals for BusConnects Cork and the shape the final plan might take. I will use this opportunity to state my views on the matter. The BusConnects proposals have many positive elements I fully support, including more bus lanes and cycle lanes and a significant cut to bus travel times. I have some concerns about the prospect of plans...