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Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: The nursing home charges scandal is the latest in a long line of aggressive legal strategies employed by the State to deny justice to vulnerable people. It must now be added to a list that includes the CervicalCheck women, the hepatitis C women, the denial of disability payments for those in long-term care, the denial of redress to a large cohort of mother and baby homes survivors, and many...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: I want to talk about the mother and baby homes and the vaccine trials. According to reports, there were more than 1,000 babies and young children involved in these vaccine trials, that is 1,135 persons. Those babies and young children were taken from six mother and baby homes including Bessborough in Cork city. This happened between 1930 and 1973. There was no parental consent. The...

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

Mick Barry: ...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 be home by 10 p.m. Last weekend, journalist Mr. Martin Beanz Warde,...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Mick Barry: I am speaking to bring a socialist feminist analysis to this debate. Socialist feminism opposes cynical attempts to commercialise and make private profit out of the heartbreaking fertility issues prospective parents face. It opposes all attempts to profit from the systemic sexist and homophobic inequality rife in capitalist society. This includes recognising that infertility is a common...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (26 Jan 2022)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the investigation being carried out by the Secretary General of his Department into the leaking of details of the mother and baby homes commission of investigation final report in advance of its publication in 2021. [3615/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (2 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 115. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider revisions to the Mother and Baby Institutions payment scheme following the reaction of survivors and their families to the proposed details of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59775/21]

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: A game of divide and conquer is being played here and I believe it is entirely deliberate. There are 58,000 survivors of mother and baby homes in this State. The redress scheme will provide financial compensation for 34,000 of them. Thousands will receive no compensation whatsoever. These include the children who were boarded out and all those who left the homes before attaining the age...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence: Statements (6 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: Those who experience gender-based violence, mainly women, should get a big helping hand but instead the State stacks the odds against them. If you have rung 999 in recent years, the Garda might have cancelled your call and ignored your plea for help. If you try to leave the family home, you are confronted by a housing crisis and a shortage of refuge places. If you try to achieve financial...

Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: ...would give the right of all persons to a birth certificate, which would mean that adopted persons in this State would have the right to their birth certificates. That is clear, straightforward and reverses an injustice that has been visited upon people for many years. This legislation should be passed, and we will vote wholeheartedly in support of it. The other issue at stake today is...

Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2021)

Mick Barry: The mother and baby homes commission was ostensibly established to seek out truths and it should have been a help to survivors. To be clear, if the Government shoots down this motion and if it closes down the commission in four days' time, it will be doing it in the teeth of opposition from the very survivors the commission was meant to be helping. Sitting around the Cabinet table today...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: ...authors to disregard the witness testimonies in its conclusions was particularly galling. To state in the report that there was "very little evidence that children were forcibly taken from their mothers" or that the commission "accepts that the mothers did not have much choice but that is not the same as 'forced' adoption" is pretty grotesque when it is clear there was no informed...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: This was the Ireland that was presided over by the men whose pictures hang on the walls of the Taoiseach and Tánaiste. It was the Ireland of Eamon de Valera, Seán Lemass, Jack Lynch and Charlie Haughey, and the Ireland of W. T. Cosgrave, John A. Costello, Liam Cosgrave, Garret FitzGerald and John Bruton. "What upset me is Micheál Martin blaming us - society," states Galway...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: Last Wednesday afternoon at three minutes to two, baby Grace O'Leary, 6 lb 6 oz, was delivered at Cork University Maternity Hospital. Baby Grace is known in Cork as the picket line baby. Her mother, Claire, has been picketing for seven and a half months now at Debenhams. Many people, myself included, feel that it is a real sign of foot dragging on the part of the Government that the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 293. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when he plans to publish the final report of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36031/20]

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: There is something seriously wrong in this. The women who went through the abuse of the mother and baby homes experienced many horrors. The one thing they all had in common was that there were other people telling them what was best for them, what was supposedly in their best interests and making decisions for them. These people might have been the parents who drove or brought the young...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2019)

Mick Barry: I would like to start by extending sympathy to the family and friends of Timmy Hourihane. A sharp clash is looming between the interests of the church and the interests of the State in Cork city. I refer to the decision of the Sisters of Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary to withdraw from involvement at Bessborough by the end of the year, to attempt to sell the land there and to effectively...

Independent Clinical Review of Maternity Services at Portiuncula University Hospital: Statements (14 Jun 2018)

Mick Barry: ...with their concerns about maternity hospital services at PUH. I express to them the condolences of the Solidarity-People Before Profit group. The manner in which this State has treated women and children has been both a recurring theme and a major issue for Irish society. Indeed, the recent referendum was part of the overall debate within society about these matters. The neglect of...

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 May 2018)

Mick Barry: ...Act 2000 discriminates against young people. State-funded schools that are in receipt of taxpayers' money should not be controlled by religious institutions. They are paid for by the people and they should be controlled by the people. The State should control the schools and there should be no discrimination against any child on the basis of religion. That is our position. The...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: ...fundamentalist, misogynistic amendment was written into the Constitution. The year 1983 was 35 years ago. Since then 170,000 women have been forced to travel for abortions. For a new generation and those who can become pregnant today, it is a toxic legacy. It sits on their shoulders and haunts them, an unwanted ghost from a different century. I remember the X case in 1992. A 14...

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: An article in The Daily Telegraphin 2014 cited the words of Christy, who was adopted from the Bessborough mother and baby home in Cork.My arms and legs were very badly scarred. But when I asked my mum why, she basically said when you arrived your arms were very sore and they were bandaged. I didn't know anything about vaccination trials. I've since been to a few doctors and they said...