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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: ..., the Low Pay Commission unanimously recommended that the Government abolish these sub-minimum pay rates. Instead of embracing that proposal, the Minister for enterprise said he would have to apply the SME test before making recommendations to the Cabinet. The Taoiseach's comments earlier on this matter were not satisfactory. There are no circumstances that justify paying an 18-year-old...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: ...; — the Nature Restoration Law will target 20 per cent of each EU Member States land area and, as Ireland comprises of 6.9 million hectares of land, the Nature Restoration Law will potentially be applied to 1.38 million hectares. Notwithstanding the nods to the rhetoric of just transition, I see the motion as an attempt to water down an already severely watered-down nature...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: ...or boarded out as children. They are fairly damning criticisms. The survivors are correct. This Bill falls far short of what is needed. Many survivors have been excluded. Many of them applied for the redress scheme thinking it related to only sexual abuse and not to other forms of abuse. We must reach out to those who did not apply and include them in the arrangements. Only...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: ...and Social Protection if she will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) to ensure that the person involved will have access to a social protection payment that will allow them to apply for social housing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13889/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2024)

Mick Barry: Before I ask my supplementary question, I will just say that the points I am going to make apply to the Taoiseach and the representatives of the Government. They also apply to all parties in this House, however. In our view, no party in this House should attend a celebration with Joe Biden while this Israeli terror campaign is being waged. That applies to Sinn Féin as much as it...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: ...representatives of employers before the decision was announced. Will the Minister clarify the position? On 17 January, The Irish Timesreported: The new minimum rates, up from €27,000 to €30,000, were intended to apply to applications or renewals submitted from Wednesday, but after a meeting between Minister of State at the Department for employment and enterprise, Neale...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: ...name and I am confident in saying he cannot do it in the names of hundreds of thousands, at the very least, of other people in this country. I must say to the movers of tonight's motion that what applies to the Government must also apply to them. Sinn Féin representatives should not go to the White House on 17 March for a celebration - and it is a celebration, by the way, and...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: ...engage. Israel would not be able to prosecute its war into next month were it not for the support, political, diplomatic, financial and military, it gets from the US. Ireland should do whatever it can to apply pressure for a change in US policy. This is an election year in the US. All the polls show that the race will be very tight. The Irish are one of the biggest minorities in the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (6 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: 130. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the review taking place in relation to the income thresholds at which people can apply for family reunification; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54088/23]

European Parliament Directive on Victims of Crime: Motion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: ...sexual assault. While the female complainant was in the witness box facing cross-examination, she became upset and asked for permission to take a break. After consultations with the doctor, the State applied to the court to allow the woman to continue her evidence via video link. The application was refused. The following day, the State entered a nolle prosequion each of the counts...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: ...1,000 qualified Indian nurses as healthcare assistants to perform vital and stressful work in our health service. However they are paid at rates so low that they are not at the minimum level needed to apply for the right for their partners to be here, let alone their kids. It is a policy of organised cruelty, given the stress that they are under. It is not even possible to make a phone...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (4 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: ...Nenagh in County Tipperary. The funny thing is that the Carey Glass plant in Nenagh is unionised. SIPTU union recognition is in place. What does the Taoiseach say about an Irish company which applies such a blatant double standard - union recognition of the South but no union recognition whatsoever - union busting in fact - in the North? What does he say about such a company,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: ...One small example tells a tale. Last year, the moratorium on gas and electricity disconnections lasted for four months. This year, it has been cut back to two months and, once again, it will not apply to people with prepaid meters. Electricity and gas prices are still way above the normal prices we would have been used to. The cost-of-living crisis has not gone away - not by a million...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: ...By the way, in the absence of the reinstatement of the of the eviction ban, I understand Cork City Council so far has done three deals on tenant in situ. This really needs to be stepped up, but it should apply the tenant in situscheme and purchase that building to stop people being evicted into homelessness and also to take into public ownership an historic building which was built in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Childcare Services (20 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: ...so that the situation that pertains in primary education, where we do not have a crisis every August and September over a primary school being up in a heap but there is continuity of service, will apply to preschool as well. However, I cannot let the Minister of State off the hook. The State has a responsibility here and Government TDs in particular will be watched very carefully by...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: ...International Protection Accommodation Services, IPAS, stating that they are to be transferred to a disused Army camp in County Wicklow. These residents are asylum seekers who have successfully applied for asylum. They now have their papers but have to date been, understandably, unable to source new accommodation because of the housing crisis. Other residents have received a different...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (27 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: ...during the existence of the atypical work permit scheme for non-EEA fishers whereby no more than 50% of the crew of an eligible fishing vessel should have consisted of non-EEA nationals still applies in the context of non-EEA nationals currently in the fleet being stamp-4 visa holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19979/23]

Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (26 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: ...in Catholic communities but with only 34% support in Protestant communities. The lesson of the old unionist regime is that a minority cannot be coerced into a state against its will. The same applies today. The Protestant minority on the island were not coerced into a united Ireland by bullets, nor will they be coerced today by ballots in the form of a border poll. The Catholic...

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: ...gone way beyond even the idea of a simple freeze. What is needed are rent cuts of a dramatic character. This Bill would make it law that the maximum rent would be 25% of median domestic household income. That would apply immediately for new builds and new tenancies, while for existing tenancies that would have to be implemented within the space of one year, and there should be a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (18 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: ...the Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 to allow those who were eligible prior to 1 February 2022 with less than ten years in receipt of social housing supports to apply for the scheme; if joint tenants, one of which has less than ten years in receipt of social housing support, can be eligible; if he can allow local authorities some scope to set their own...