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Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: ...Children's Rights Alliance gave the Government an E for its performance on youth mental health. I wonder what it would have given the Government for youth mental health services in the Cork and Kerry region? At the end of September, there were 728 young people on the waiting list in our region. This is 16% of the total on the waiting list nationally with just 11% of the population....

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: The same day, Deputy Danny Healy-Rae, referring to male asylum seekers in Kerry, said "they have landed now" and that women and girls who used to walk the Muckross Road, morning, noon and night will all stop doing that because they are worried about their safety. There are people of colour who are too afraid to come into town to work after those riots. There are LGBTQ people who are keeping...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (1 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Next week will be the 100th anniversary of four massacres that took place during the Civil War in County Kerry. The first was carried out by anti-treaty IRA troops at Knocknagashel on 6 March resulting in five people dead. The other three were carried out by the Free State Army at Ballyseedy, Killarney and near Cahirsiveen on 7, 8 and 12 March. In total, 17 prisoners of the Free State were...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: ...which have been undermined by stagnant pay rates and which face a crisis of recruitment and retention. Tomorrow, strikes will take place in the west of Ireland and, on Friday, in both Cork and Kerry. All in all, 1,000 workers will be included in the action. The Minister cannot credibly pass the buck to the direct employers. These are section 39 health and social care workers and the...

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Mick Barry: I was reading some of the online debate about the situation with CAMHS in south Kerry. One comment struck me as if I had been punched on the nose. The person said that if anybody had listened to the teenagers subjected to CAMHS, this would have been discovered years ago. There was significant harm to 46 children. The harm included putting on a lot of weight, increased blood pressure, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: ...by any of the Government's rent controls. How can the Taoiseach justify this? When is he going to extend rent controls to the county as a whole and, more than that, to the country as a whole? Kerry and Clare had some of the highest rent increases. Furthermore, how can the Taoiseach explain so many vacant local authority houses throughout the country in the middle of the worst...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (20 per cent Provision of Social and Affordable Housing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Sep 2021)

Mick Barry: ...with parents and commuting not ten, 15 or 20 miles, but really long distances, to college. Many students are trekking to Bishopstown every day from west Cork and other counties, including Kilkenny, Kerry, Tipperary and Waterford, spending three, four or five hours per day in cars because of the housing crisis for which Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are responsible. I wonder if the...

Companies (Protection of Employees' Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 May 2021)

Mick Barry: ...in Waterford to pave the way for scab trucks removing disputed stock. There were more gardaí there than strikers. Similar events happened in recent weeks in Blanchardstown in Dublin, Henry Street, Dublin and Tralee, Kerry. Why such an overwhelming show of force to remove stock that the State says is of little value? It is because the State wants to defeat the Debenhams workers for...

Covid-19, Mental Health and Older People: Statements (29 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: ...be good to hear what she has to say on this matter. During the third wave, almost 1,000 nursing home residents died as a result of Covid in the space of 100 days. In my area, namely, the Cork-Kerry area, 190 died, which was the highest of all of the regions in the State. There are some who are scratching their heads and asking how it can be that almost as many nursing home residents died...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: SouthDoc is paid €7 million annually by the HSE to provide out-of-hours GP care for public patients. Despite this, their centres in Blackpool on Cork's north side and Listowel in County Kerry are shut. The Blackpool centre has been shut for over a year. The HSE has expressed grave concern about this situation. The health needs of the people of the north side must not be shoved to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: ...affordable. Will young people and people on low and even average incomes be locked out of the market? I saw an interesting snippet on the RTÉ news recently. A company in Castleisland, County Kerry, built 70 houses. As the company had difficulty retaining a workforce in the area, it sold 20 of these houses to its workers at cost price. This cost of €150,000 was reckoned to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (10 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: ...deal with the situation. Someone without a car who faces an emergency with a young child must spend €40 on a taxi. That is completely and totally unacceptable. I note that in reply to Cork Kerry Community Healthcare, SouthDoc has stated that this is temporary. The question is how temporary it is. Can we have a guarantee that if and when facilities are reinstated, this will...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Mick Barry: ...underfunding. For example, in the child and adult mental health service, CAMHS, there are 2,200 on the waiting list according to the last figures we have, which are from 2019. In my area, Cork–Kerry, there are 162 who have been waiting for the services for a year or even more. Are our mental health services fit for purpose? I do not mean in any way to question the work of the...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Mick Barry: ...hampers. Each week they have to serve 2,000 meals, a twentyfold increase in the past decade. They serve meals to families with small children. More than 200 children are homeless now in the Cork-Kerry area alone. They serve food to people with jobs. Cork’s homeless community now includes members of the working poor. Damningly, Penny Dinners, relatively recently had to keep its...

Mental Health: Statements (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

Mick Barry: .... The waiting times have been long. I am not the first Deputy who has raised the point on the numbers on the child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, waiting lists in the Cork and Kerry area. The figure is more than 400, more than 100 of whom have been waiting in excess of 12 months. One idea that we have raised on the doorsteps is the idea that there should be 24-7...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures: An Post (17 Sep 2019)

Mick Barry: .... McRedmond about parcels and re-employment, but before I do, let us talk about what will be travelling on the road infrastructure. I understand that the position is that a letter posted in County Kerry or County Cork will not go to the Cork mail centre for sorting but will go to Athlone or Portlaoise. If that letter was posted to someone across the road or town or 20 miles down the road,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Mick Barry: ...the history of the State to be in office when the number of homeless persons is approaching 10,000. Since he took office, the number has increased by more than 2,000 or 25%. In my area, the Cork-Kerry region, the number has passed the 500 mark for the first time ever. All of the information we have available tells us that the main source of homelessness is people exiting the private...

Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2019)

Mick Barry: ...process, but incredibly these workers have now been suspended for eight months. Is it an accident that both are members of NASRA and that one of them is the NASRA representative for the Cork and Kerry region? This management bullying culture in the ambulance service must end. The union chosen by hundreds of ambulance staff must be recognised and the service must get proper investment....

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: 3 o’clock Concerns have been raised in Cork, and I am sure in Kerry also, in respect of the Technological Universities Bill 2015 and the proposed merger of the Cork Institute of Technology and the Institute of Technology Tralee to form the Munster technical university. Workers in these colleges are expecting job losses, and I believe they are probably right to expect job losses....