Results 101-120 of 474 for cork speaker:Mick Barry

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: ...Drogheda cement plant, the Ballyconnell cement plant, the roads in Dublin, the Limerick cement plant, the Irving Oil refinery at Whitegate, Corrib, the Kinnegad cement plant, Shannon Airport and Cork Airport. Of those ten entities, seven are privately owned and operated on a for-profit basis and the other three are semi-State companies, but their emissions come in the main from...

Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: ...and electricity customers and whether they will be included in the moratorium on disconnections. The Taoiseach replied that there will be no energy cuts at Christmas. One of the articles in the Cork Evening Echotoday quoted the Taoiseach as saying, "People will not be cut off Christmas week." I did not get the chance to come back and quiz the Taoiseach on his reply so I am quizzing the...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: ...children are forced to spend Christmas in emergency accommodation, some for the second Christmas, some for the third and some even for the fourth. It costs €20,000 per year to rent a house in Cork city and €25,000 per year in Dublin. The price of a house has gone up by more in one year than the annual wage of many a young worker. A generation of young people cannot afford...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: Householders are burning through their €200 energy credits at a rate of knots in this cold snap. I spoke to a woman on the north side of Cork city last night living in a council house with a poor building energy rating, BER. She is spending €10 per day on electricity, €10 per day on gas and €7 per day on coal and blocks. She is a pay as you go customer and her...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: ...high in October and November. In December, it looks like it might go through the roof. Many who have not yet faced the choice of heating or eating will face it now. On Tuesday, a reporter from a Cork radio station spent the day with the local charity, Penny Dinners. He counted 900 food parcels being handed out between 9 a.m. and lunchtime at 12.45 p.m. to people from all walks of life,...

Teacher Shortages: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: ...is thinking of emigrating after Christmas stick around for a one-year contract? Why would a person who has already emigrated come back for a one-year contract? Teachers coming back to Dublin or Cork will be asked to pay €25,000 a year rent in one city and €20,000 a year in the other. The Government let the market set the price for the pay of chief executive officers of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: Parents of babies whose organs were sent abroad for incineration without their knowledge or consent received the long-awaited report into the scandal from Cork University Hospital on Friday. These parents should not have been forced to wait until the report's release to find out that their babies' organs had been incinerated in Denmark and not, as they previously had been told, in Belgium....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: ...militarily neutral. I wish to quote from an article in the journal.ieearlier this month: For decades Irish soldiers have trained on the high uplands of Kilworth ranges, located just off the old Cork to Dublin road between the towns of Fermoy and Mitchelstown. ... The laughs and banter of the Irish accents were mixed with foreign voices on the day The Journal visited. There are a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: What was NATO doing in Cork?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: What was NATO doing in Cork?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (24 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: ...him, so I will use my time to go back over that. The response he gave states that if push comes to shove, the State will pay statutory redundancy to the workers who have lost their jobs in Cork, Dungarvan and the midlands. However, I asked him not just about statutory or minimum redundancy but also what happens to the holiday pay and back pay due to these workers and what happens to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (24 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: ...’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021 - known as the Debenhams Bill - through the Houses of the Oireachtas? There has been an outpouring of sympathy and solidarity from the ordinary people of Cork to these workers. What has happened to these workers has rung alarm bells for other workers - and by the way, the shops that will close are not just the ones in Cork, they are in...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: ...Government Deputies and Ministers were not unaware of. This led them to realise that they would be in trouble if they did not go further than intended. I also believe the protests that took place in Cork on 17 September and in Dublin on 24 September were a factor in the Government's thinking. It is not that the Government saw 20,000 people on the streets and was terrified by this, but...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (23 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: A few minutes ago, the Taoiseach told Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan there would be a memo before the Cabinet next week on the issue of a new elective hospital for Cork. The Irish Examinerhas reported this morning that the hospital will be sited in Glanmire. Will the Taoiseach confirm that or does he wish to comment on it? Does he expect the Cabinet not just to receive a memo next week,...

Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: ...this Friday? The record of the Minister and the Government is a disaster. People need to get out on the streets on Saturday to raise the roof and protest, and the Minister and Government have to go. Cork is a black spot for teacher shortages, as are Dublin, Galway, Wicklow and Kildare. Some 91% of secondary school principals and deputy principals recently surveyed by unions said they...

Retained Firefighters: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: Cork City Fire Brigade has been operating at 75% strength for the past year. When the city boundary was extended in 2019, the civic fire service took on the station at Ballincollig, the retained staff there and an extra truck. Since then, the retained firefighters have been promoted to full-time positions and are based at the fire station headquarters on Anglesea Street in the city centre....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Provision (15 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: The eviction ban does not extend to emergency accommodation; it should. I recently came across a case which shows why. It involves a woman who is in emergency accommodation in Cork city. She attempted to get a diagnosis of autism through the State. She is in that process, which is very slow, and she does not have the finance to go private. She clearly feels herself that she has autism...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Transport (10 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: 2. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the BusConnects project in Cork; if he will confirm if the routes will be subject to tender for private operators; the guarantees he can give in terms of workers’ rights and service levels for outsourced routes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55832/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Transport (10 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: I ask the Minister to report on the BusConnects project in Cork. Will he confirm that the routes will be subject to tender for private operators? What guarantees can be given in terms of workers' rights and service levels for outsourced routes?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Transport (10 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: I strongly believe that Cork city needs to move towards having fewer cars, more public transport and more bicycles on the road. Key to making public transport more attractive is to slash fares, even going so far as to make fares entirely free. Given this, I am disturbed that the Minister's reply holds open the real possibility that 12 strategic transport corridors could go out to tender....