Results 121-140 of 474 for cork speaker:Mick Barry

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

Mick Barry: The Minister cites Dublin as an example. Dublin certainly is an example that people in Cork need to look at very carefully. What percentage of the routes have been privatised in Dublin? Go-Ahead Ireland has control of 10% of the routes, I think. Fines were announced the other day for falling down on service provision. Dublin Bus was fined €1.5 million and Go-Ahead Ireland was...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Amalgamation (8 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: ...only is there no consent in this case, there is, in fact, strong and active opposition, as was seen with the march of more than 300 people from the school yard of St. Vincent's Secondary School to Cork city centre last Saturday. To be clear, I am a supporter of mixed education. I believe that for school to be a proper preparation for life, it should be in a mixed setting. I am also...

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: ...an alternative approach. I support the proposal in this motion. It is an important proposal for the establishment of a State construction company. If one looks at the local authority housing estates in Cork city such as Ballyphehane, Garranabraher or Knocknaheeny, there are many successes there. Yes, there are some issues but there are many successes without a doubt. This was public...

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

Mick Barry: ...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 babies and young children were tested in these trials for vaccines relating to diphtheria, measles and...

Community and Voluntary Sector Workers: Motion [Private Members] (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: ...to. On the last strike day, the Irish Examiner quoted the words of Gerald Madigan. Gerald is a social care worker for people with disabilities at the St. Joseph's foundation in Charleville, County Cork. Gerald said that they did not want to go on strike again but that they would have to if a pay linkage with the HSE on section 48 workers was not formed. His words show the determination...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: Does the Minister know how many staff were lost to the Cork Life Centre this summer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: I understand that. Does the Minister know how many staff were lost to the Cork Life Centre this summer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: Sure. It is interesting that the Deputy mentioned 8.5 teaching posts because eight staff were lost to the Cork Life Centre this summer alone. They were all senior staff. All of them had worked there for a minimum of six years. Some of them had worked there for 12 or 13 years. There was an inevitability to the Cork Life Centre losing staff this summer. The director had warned in advance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: I will conclude with one very brief comment. It is very clear that the resources that have been put at the disposal of Cork Life Centre are not nearly enough. What speaks to that more clearly than anything that has been said in the committee today, with respect, is the fact that eight staff were lost from Cork Life Centre, which does such vital work in Cork city and beyond. That is eight...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: ...house in her estate uses the pay-as-you-go system. For the purposes of this contribution, I am going to call this constituent Noreen. It is not her real name. Noreen lives on the north side of Cork city with her husband and three kids. She is spending €100 a week on electricity, gas and heating her home. She spends €20 a week on blocks and briquettes for the stove. She...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: ...this year. Three of them left earlier today. What does the Government offer this generation? There is a €500 tax credit for renters, which would not even pay ten days of rent over a year in Cork city and which may well end up in the pockets of landlords because of the Government's refusal to freeze rents. It has offered an increase in the minimum wage, which will be totally...

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

Mick Barry: Today in Cork city and county, workers who provide key community services at the Irish Wheelchair Association, EmployAbility and St. Joseph's Foundation are striking for one day. These are section 39 workers, most of whom have not received a pay increase in 14 years. These workers are demanding a pay increase and restoration of the link with public sector pay. In so doing, they are acting...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: ...of the country's 3,000 water workers on the naming of a date for a referendum before the end of the year should be taken seriously by the Minister. From the contact I have had with water workers in my own Cork city and county area and the feedback they receive around the county, water workers are deadly serious about this issue. They are not messing about. They are prepared to fight to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: ...who is on €11.30 an hour cannot live a decent life? This increase would not feed the pigeons. I want to invite the Taoiseach to come down to the Grand Parade this Saturday to observe the Cork cost-of-living demonstration. He will see thousands of people who are anxious about heating their homes this winter, who are discontented about the lack of action from his Government and who...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Mick Barry: ...a huge lack of respect” are the words of Michaela Willis, the author of the State’s 2009 Retained Organs Audit. She is describing the endless delays around the release of a report into the export of babies organs from Cork University Maternity Hospital, CUMH, to Belgium for incineration without parental consent. The South-South-West Hospital Group originally stated that...

Autism Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: I wish to use the time allocated to me to raise concerns relating to autism and the housing crisis. Those concerns arise from a case in Cork city with which I am dealing. It involves a woman who has been living in emergency accommodation for about a year. She has been offered alternative accommodation in the form of a one-bedroom apartment. She self-identifies as autistic, however, and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: ..., moving from multiple daily injections to an insulin pump is such a step forward. It is a life-changer. Some 554 children and young adults are serviced by the paediatric diabetic department at Cork University Hospital, CUH, but as of two weeks ago, only 198 of them, 36%, had a pump. As of two weeks ago, 24 under the age of six were being forced to wait for pump therapy. Due to...

Adaption Grants for Older People and People with a Disability: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jun 2022)

Mick Barry: On housing adaptation grants, 13% of the people who live in County Cork have at least one disability. This is an important issue, nationally and locally. Last year, 228 households in Cork city were on the local authority's waiting list for adaptations to private houses. Of those households, 142 were of people with disabilities, 44 were of people with mobility issues and 42 were of elderly...

Rising Food Prices: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 May 2022)

Mick Barry: ...form of mass protest. I hope people take to the streets in large numbers to demand a €15 minimum wage, a freeze on food prices and legislation to cut rents. They will have opportunities in Dublin, Cork and around the country on 18 June. I hope workers put in claims for pay increases that match inflation and back that up with ballots for industrial action. Inflation is class...