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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)

Mick Barry: Having listened to the Taoiseach earlier during Leaders' Questions, I put it to him that he is out of touch with the mood of the country on the issue of the national maternity hospital. He has had more than a week to make his case but polling still shows a majority against his plan. People want a State hospital on State land and 100% certainty that procedures opposed by the Catholic Church...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Mick Barry: 108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the engagement he has had at a European Union and United Nations level in relation to the war in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22971/22]

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Mick Barry: A headline in the Irish Independentlast Monday morning read, "Migrants from countries other than Ukraine adding to pressure on homeless supports, housing minister warns". Imagine if a few of the words in that were switched around in order that the headline stated, "Migrants from countries other than Ukraine adding to pressure on homeless supports, Le Pen warns". That would fit perfectly...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (5 May 2022)

Mick Barry: 85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will introduce emergency measures to lower rents in view of the increases in rents that have been recently announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22167/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (5 May 2022)

Mick Barry: 98. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if in the interests of work-life balance he will consider changes in legislation or in regulations to ensure that workers to receive the minimum notice for information regarding their shifts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22447/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (5 May 2022)

Mick Barry: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure that the criteria for the allocation of funding for traffic wardens is amended to ensure that all schools that require a warden will get access to funding; if her attention has been drawn to the situation in a school (details supplied) in relation to dangerous traffic in the vicinity of the school and their...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (5 May 2022)

Mick Barry: 203. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to a study published by the Irish Penal Reform Trust entitled Sometimes 'I'm Missing the Words’ which has identified that non-Irish nationals and people of colour tend to be sentenced to longer custodial sentences than average and which reported racism in the prison service; the steps...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (5 May 2022)

Mick Barry: 231. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that are on the waiting list to access treatment for autism following diagnosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22446/22]

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Mick Barry: High rents are driving many families into homelessness. Many of these families are ending up in emergency accommodation, including the family hubs. Some time ago, People Before Profit Councillor Hazel Norton reached out to families in one of these hubs in Dublin and was shocked to be told that residents were only allowed out three nights per month, had to ask in advance to do so and had to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 May 2022)

Mick Barry: Reliable sources working in homelessness services in Cork city tell me a significant influx of people from Cork county is currently in search of emergency accommodation. Bed and breakfast operators that previously catered for people are providing less and less accommodation, seemingly for two reasons. The first is that as we move towards the summer season, these operators are deciding to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 May 2022)

Mick Barry: Will the Taoiseach look into the issue that has arisen in Cork?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)

Mick Barry: An overturning of the Roe v. Wade judgment could open the door to abortion bans in half of all American states. The victims of such a counter-revolution would, in the main, be working-class women and poorer women and women of colour in particular. How many will be driven to the backstreets? How many will have their health endangered? How many will die? An overturning of Roe v. Wade could...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)

Mick Barry: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with the President of the United States. [21270/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 Apr 2022)

Mick Barry: 9. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will support measures to levy corporate landlords' profits to assist in funding social and affordable housing in view of the level of profits and the dominant position of corporate landlords; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12111/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 Apr 2022)

Mick Barry: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [21271/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 Apr 2022)

Mick Barry: On Friday week, 6 May, parents and children will take to the streets of Cork, Dublin and Enniscorthy to demand services for children with disabilities. A public meeting in Cork on this issue was recently told by a primary school principal that 60 therapists have been cut from Cork schools since the introduction of the State's seemingly misnamed progressing disability services scheme. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 Apr 2022)

Mick Barry: Last Sunday, an extreme right-wing and racist candidate won 42% of the vote for the French presidency. France is a nuclear power and the second most powerful nation in the European Union. There needs to be debate and reflection as to why this was the case. France is often portrayed as a society with a strong tradition of revolution and left-wing politics but it is also a country with a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 Apr 2022)

Mick Barry: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [21272/22]