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

Mick Barry: ...an average age of between 65 and 100. Decades of sediment were torn away. The dirt only had one place to go, which was into the water supply. The orange and brown water poured out of the taps, ruined washes, destroyed dishwashers and damaged washing machines. Uisce Éireann urged householders to let the water run clear, said the clear water was safe to drink and added that both the...

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: ...ill patients. Doctors Without Borders states that its staff are trapped inside that hospital, along with 850 patients and thousands of displaced people. This is a key part of the genocide: to destroy health infrastructure and kill masses of people while doing it. It is another reason the Government should join the South African case. Given all its hesitations in that regard, it is a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: ...childcare centre by parents via piggyback. In Glanmire, Sarsfields GAA club allowed its pitch to flood to protect the wider community. The pitch, the drainage, the offices and the walls were all destroyed. We won a county. We lost a pitch but, hopefully, saved part of the community. The Taoiseach is due to arrive in Midleton in 20 minutes' time. He will don the raincoat and...

Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)

Mick Barry: I want to express my solidarity with the people of Ukraine. We have watched our television screens in horror as their country has been invaded, their cities attacked, homes destroyed and their lives taken or shattered. I state my support for the right of the ordinary Ukrainian people to defend themselves and resist, arms in hand, the invaders who threaten their homes and lives. It is for...

Pyrite and Mica Redress Issues: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: ...place on earth just like The homes of Donegal he was referring to the famous warmth and welcome offered by the people of Donegal. He was not to know about the infamous mica and what it would do to destroy so many of the homes in Donegal. Of course, it is not just mica. It is a system that puts profit first and before people. It is profits for the manufacturers of the concrete...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: ...;I wish I could abort my government”. When the protests were taken into the churches to challenge priests who were preaching against women’s rights, the leader of the Law and Justice Party addressed the nation accusing the protesters of wanting to destroy Poland and calling for the churches to be defended at any cost. The address was made against a backdrop of Polish flags...

European Council Meeting: Statements (6 May 2020)

Mick Barry: Last week, the International Labour Organization stated that 50% of the global workforce are in immediate danger of having their living standards destroyed by the coronavirus. "Destroyed" was its word, not mine. In some ways, that statement is only half correct because to be fully correct, it would state that those people's living standards will be destroyed by the coronavirus in the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commissions of Inquiry (15 May 2018)

Mick Barry: 300. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will initiate a commission of investigation arising from the claim that a member of the clergy encouraged a minor to destroy a document that would have been germane to the then inquest into the circumstances of a death further to an interview published in a newspaper (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: ...and she must regularly travel to Birmingham for treatment. Thankfully, she is in remission but she still needs to travel regularly. Storm Ophelia was a disaster for that family because it destroyed the roof of their caravan in which they still live. They also do not have a replacement portaloo. The council will not act because the family live unofficially on the site. I can confirm...

Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)

Mick Barry: ...housing for one in five households, but the policies of successive Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil-led Governments to privatise the social housing stock and slash new social house building has destroyed the availability of social and affordable housing. Neoliberal policies have been designed to and have succeeded in turning housing in Ireland into just another asset class to be invested in...

Report of the Fennelly Commission: Statements (12 Apr 2017)

Mick Barry: ...The murder investigation team was based at the Garda station in Bandon. Their phone calls were recorded without their knowledge. The Fennelly report tells us that all bar a few of the tapes were destroyed in a flood at the station in November 2009. I wish to read into the record of the House part of what Mr. Justice Fennelly states about this issue in his report:It is of serious concern...

European Council: Statements (25 Jan 2017)

Mick Barry: ...to gain support in the so-called rust belt of the United States. These states are made up of de-industrialised communities in places like Michigan, Ohio etc., whose manufacturing jobs have been destroyed by globalisation and neoliberal capitalism over the past four decades. The Minister of State might want to pay attention to some of these points. By cynically posing as an...