Results 1-20 of 472 for cork speaker:Mick Barry

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Mick Barry: ...Dental Association told the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health that he found it profoundly worrying that a decision was made to cancel the building of a new dental school and dental hospital in Cork. A new dental school and hospital would bring a multiplicity of benefits. Number one, it would be a big improvement on the current dilapidated, 40-year old building on the CUH campus....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: For the third week in a row, I raise the issue of water in Cork city. The privatisation of water has proved disastrous in the UK. Creeping privatisation is proving disastrous here now. When Cork City Council was responsible for supplying water to households, the water, as a general rule, was clean and safe. When Uisce Éireann took over and hired a private company to design, build...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: There are currently delays of up to four or five months to obtain an appointment for an Irish residence permit at the Cork city immigration office at the Anglesea Street Garda station. This is causing havoc for people from outside the European Economic Area, including problems with employers and landlords and with opening bank accounts. For some, it makes it impossible to travel home for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: Access to safe, clean water and sanitation is a human right. It is a right that has been compromised for thousands of Cork city households. For the best part of two years now, brown and orange, dirty, discoloured water has poured from those taps. Eight days ago, the Tánaiste asked Uisce Éireann for a clear timeline for solving this problem. The public has heard from Uisce...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: Last week, the Taoiseach promised a new era for special education and appointed a Minister of State to deliver progress. This week, in Glanmire in Cork city, we see the National Council for Special Education break a promise to give a second special education class to the Brooklodge National School for this September. In Ballincollig, parents are being forced to take children with autism out...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: ...children's disability network team, with a waiting list for treatment of over 110,000”. How much human misery is stored up within those statistics? Of course, that is without mentioning the large number of parents of children with autism who still do not know whether their child will have a place in school this September. On 7 May, the High Court will hear a case taken by two...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: We are told that we are living in the bright, shiny Ireland of the 2020s. Turn on many a tap in Cork city today and you might think that you had been transported back to the 1920s. Why? It is because of what is coming out of those taps. It is brown water, orange water, dirty and discoloured with sediment from the inside of water pipes that are more than 100 years old in some cases. I...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (20 Mar 2024)

Mick Barry: 826. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to publish the waiting times for the renewal of IRP cards at the immigration office in Anglesea Street Garda station, Cork; if she will consider measures to speed up renewal applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12068/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Mick Barry: I want to ask about Government and State neglect of the health needs of people with eating disorders. This issue was highlighted on Saturday, with protests taking place in Cork, Limerick and Dublin. Despite the fact that the HSE identifies eating disorders as resulting in the highest morbidity and mortality within the mental health sector, there are only three beds for adults with eating...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (5 Mar 2024)

Mick Barry: 214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in respect of the Cork Area Commuter Rail Programme, when works will begin in relation to each of the new rail stations of Blarney/Stoneview, Monard, Blackpool/Kilbarry, Tivoli, Dunkettle, Carrigtwohill West, Water-Rock, Ballynoe; when each will be opened and operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10833/24]

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: ...Today, a bombshell was dropped on those workers. They were told they will not be paid for any or all work they performed between 11 and 28 February. They are also owed money for holidays. In the Cork shop, which I contacted this afternoon, five workers are employed and the owners owe those five workers more than €10,000. One staff member is owed more than €4,000. One of...

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: ...the worst of employers, and against workers and worker organisation. While we are discussing trade union matters, I will make two other comments. I express my support for the housekeeping staff at Cork University Hospital, who have been threatened with having their annual leave denied with the recruitment freeze used as a pretext. That is wrong. It needs to be reversed and they will...

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

Mick Barry: Recently the 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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland: Chairperson Designate (21 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: ...as a jobs massacre. I believe that more than 30,000 jobs have been lost globally in the first six weeks of this year. I want to talk about how this impacts the area I represent, as a Deputy for Cork North-Central, the Cork city area. We are expecting details in the next week of job losses at VMware in Ballincollig and Blizzard in Blackpool. This affects 364 jobs in Ballincollig and 164...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland: Chairperson Designate (21 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: ...time. People can handle being out of work for a couple of weeks or months, but mortgage and finance pressures start kicking in by the third or fourth month. I wish to pinpoint that as an issue in Cork in the coming period.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: More than 100 workers at Activision Blizzard in Blackpool in Cork city face redundancy within the next couple of weeks. Their company was purchased late last year by Microsoft for $75 billion, which is the largest video game acquisition transaction volume in history. Microsoft is arguably the largest company in the world with gross annual profits last year of $146 billion. It plans to gut...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (13 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: There are more than 300 children aged four or under in the Churchfield area on the northside of Cork city. Last August, a very long-standing and much-loved childcare and community centre, Before 5, closed suddenly. All other childcare providers in this area have waiting lists. The urgent hope is that a new childcare facility will open at the old location this September. However, for that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: Three hundred and sixty-four jobs are due to be cut at VMware in Ballincollig, Cork city, in the near future, possibly as early as next month. I expect this to have a big impact on what, for want of a better phrase, I will call the tech ecosystem in Cork. It will have considerable knock-on effects. The Minister for enterprise, Deputy Coveney, and the IDA need to make replacement investment...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: There is a water crisis in Cork city. The issue is dirty, discoloured water - brown and orange - coming from the taps. It is coming from the showers. It surges into washing machines and dishwashers. It does not effect every home but there is no question that it has affected many thousands of homes. Uisce Éireann statistics indicate that on nine separate weeks in the past 18 months,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: ...now and say that it is completely unacceptable. Second, will he say that Uisce Éireann must now outline a plan - not firefighting or flushing - to resolve the problem, explain it clearly to the people of Cork and explain a timeframe for doing it? Those are my two simple requests. On privatisation, yes, the Government did not privatise Uisce Éireann, but it is going with so...