Results 161-180 of 474 for cork speaker:Mick Barry

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: Last Saturday night in Cork, a young woman was assaulted and hospitalised. On Tuesday, not five minutes' walk from here, on St. Stephen's Green, a 50-year-old woman was assaulted and hospitalised. I send solidarity to all who will assemble at Custom House Quay tonight to mark the one-year anniversary of the death by violence of Ms Urantsetseg Tserendorj. I hope I have correctly pronounced...

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: There is a shortfall of 15 neurology nurses at Cork University Hospital, CUH, which is the State's number two neurology centre according to the neurology clinical programme. The programme made a request last year that the HSE would fund posts for at least two new neurology nurses at CUH this year. The HSE decided not do so. This underfunding impacts negatively on the lives of people...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: A developer was told by Deloitte last year that an apartment project in Cork city would only be viable, or, in other words, profitable, if rents of €2,800 per month were charged for two-bedroom apartments. Perhaps the most famous apartment project in Cork, the Elysium, was left half-empty due to extortionate rents. Why does the Government persist with promoting this build-to-rent...

Leaving Certificate: Motion (25 Jan 2022)

Mick Barry: Last week, 500 school students in Cork, Dublin, Galway, Waterford, Wexford and Roscommon held a joint protest to demand that there be no traditional leaving certificate examination this year. I understand students are discussing the possibility of protests on a bigger scale. I sincerely hope such protests will not prove necessary. However, if the Minister and the Government choose not to...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: ...to build communities when people are moved on again and again by landlords, with short notices, in an attempt to maximise profit? A recent report by Deloitte showed that apartment development in Cork city is profitable only if rents are 21% above the market rate, that is, €2,800 for a two-bedroom apartment. The Government policy of build-to-rent is proving disastrous in Dublin,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: ...have already seen a real debate open up in Dublin on the issue of Dublin docklands and the question of gentrification. I believe we also need a debate around what is to happen to the docklands in Cork. Last week there was announcement on the plan to develop on the South Docks. The highlighted key points were three office blocks of nine to 12 storeys high, a private hospital and apartment...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: ...number of neurology nurses in the State in order to bring the numbers up to international standards (details supplied); if he will provide funding for at least an additional 16 neurology nurses for Cork University Hospital as part of 100 additional neurology nurses across the State;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59214/21]

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: ...of the corporate media. I do know that in many hard-pressed working-class communities across the State this will be seen as an important issue being debated. For example, in my constituency, Cork North-Central, thousands of people's lives have been improved by the quiet and painstaking work of local employment services and job club workers down through the years. It is not an...

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: ...in schools. We have 600 teachers who tested positive for Covid in the first two weeks of November and 10,000 primary students absent from school for Covid-related reasons. In fact, one school in Cork has 100 students who have contracted Covid since mid-term out of a school population of just 765. Why? It is clear that the Government moved to reopen society too quickly and bowed again...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: ...more antigen testing is done, the better it is from a public health point of view, and that more testing is likely to happen in the event of the tests being made free? No PCR tests are available in Cork today or tomorrow for anyone applying now. It is the same in 13 other counties. The HSE says that 210,000 tests were done last week. I understand that the laboratories and the test and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (23 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: ...much on the rise. We have had the pandemic and we have had the shadow pandemic of gender-based violence. Does the Taoiseach feel any degree of shame at the fact that in the city and county of Cork there are currently a mere nine permanent refuge units available for the victims of gender-based violence? Does he feel any degree of shame at fact that the workers at the Cuanlee refuge, who...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: ...few of them. ROSA, the socialist feminist organisation, is organising what it is describing as a Walk With Women. It is asking people to show solidarity and to walk with women in Dublin city centre, Dublin west and Cork. I think this is a very valuable initiative and I would appeal to people to support these and other initiatives and to participate in these initiatives. They are...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: A protest took place last week outside the Glanmire Community College in Cork. As I understand it, the protest was organised by students who felt that racist attitudes were not being taken sufficiently seriously by the school authorities. I also understand that the protest took place following the suspension of two students who had vocalised this point of view. The protest was, I...

National Standards Authority of Ireland (Carbon Footprint Labelling) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: ...programme to retrofit homes, a four-day working week with a 32-hour maximum, a massive State programme for green jobs and green energy, and a ban on new fossil fuel projects, including LNG in east Cork and at Shannon. The weekend before last, I travelled to Glasgow to take part in the magnificent COP protests. Inside the conference hall, there were more than 500 accredited visitors...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: There have been several ambulance crashes in Cork in recent months. Deputy Sherlock gave one example of an ambulance that had been on a 600 km journey. The standard of driving in the service is high, so we must ask what factors are at play. Could it be the case that fatigue might have been a factor in the other cases? It is not at all unusual for there to be overruns in the schedule for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: Rents went up 14.6% in Cork county from the end of September 2020 to the end of September 2021, according to Daft.ie. Huge parts of Cork county are not designated as rent pressure zones, nor are they covered 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...

Regional Transport Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: I want to make a few points about public transport in Cork. The transport news that has dominated today has been the news of the delays in key public transport initiatives in Dublin. It is in sharp contrast with what the Government said last week at COP26 and at the launch of the climate action plan that there are delays in key public transport initiatives. A key public transport...