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Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2023: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: On my walks these days it is common enough to see people out walking with graceful animals - greyhounds. The dogs are invariably rescue dogs, but where have they been rescued from? They have been rescued from abandonment. They have been rescued from a greyhound industry which is scandal ridden and cruel. It was cruel, it is cruel and it will always will be cruel because, when it is run for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: ...an important point. It is significant that while the Government is talking about putting on the agenda facial recognition technology, water cannon, stronger pepper spray, more riot police and more dogs - in other words more State repression - it is failing to deal with the social crisis in society. It is failing to deal with the issue of asylum seekers that I have raised and is failing...

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)

Mick Barry: ...were broadly similar. To get a taste of Tate's ugly messaging, consider the following: "You can’t be responsible for something that doesn’t listen to you. You can’t be responsible for a dog if it doesn’t obey you ... or a woman that doesn’t obey you". This man is under house arrest in Romania for sexual assault and human trafficking, but he has nearly...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: ...would know, or have a pretty good idea at the very least, what the headline was going to be. Given that he is careful with his language, will the Taoiseach admit to the House that this was a dog-whistle?

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2021: Motion (30 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: It was 6,000 dogs.

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2021: Motion (30 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: .... Both Deputies have voiced their support for animal welfare but ignore the fact that animal cruelty is at the heart of the greyhound industry in this country. If the average age of a racing dog is two and a half to three years, what happens when the dog is too old? What happens if it is injured or if it is too slow? "RTÉ Investigates" answered those questions in its programme....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (9 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: A woman in her 50s was attacked on Sunday evening in Fermoy while out walking her dog. A man in his 20s or 30s approached her and struck her to the ground without warning and sexually assaulted her. He fled when two witnesses answered her cries. The Garda says it would have been far more serious had gardaí not arrived. The woman was taken to hospital. This is just one of the latest...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: ...such industry. Private hospitals are another. A levy of 4% on those two sectors would raise €800 million. I have not seen it myself, but I have been told there is a programme on Netflix that has become enormously popular called "Squid Game", which is set in Korea. It is about a dog eat dog society where people are forced to face off against each other and compete over scarce...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2021)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach seems to have swanned off on his summer holidays without taking action until it hit him straight in the face, and all he can say now is the dog ate his homework. What is he going to do, not in 2030 or next year but now?

Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: The dogs on the street know these things anyway.

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2020: Motion (1 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: ...and Greyhound Fund. One fifth of that money goes to the greyhound industry, which is a little over €19 million. This industry cannot be separated in its format from cruelty to animals. Some 6,000 dogs are culled every year because they are not able to race at the level which the owners want them to and it is not therefore profitable. I understand that all but eight countries...

Mental Health: Statements (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

Mick Barry: ...I say, an agenda of precarity, inequality and discrimination. In pushing back against capitalism, people who are a part of that pushback are also part of the pushback to defend and to improve mental health in this dog-eat-dog society.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: -----but I note the fact that she did not distance herself one iota from the dog whistle politics that the Taoiseach demonstrated on the floor yesterday. I note her points on affordable homes but everyone should note the comments of the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government earlier when he repeated his claim that €320,000 falls within the remit of affordable housing as...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach did not have to finish the sentence. A dog whistle is a dog whistle, half sentence or full. When Fintan O'Toole wrote last week in The Irish Timesaccusing the Government of supporting an ideology, which contains "a profound class prejudice against social housing", he hit the mark. The Taoiseach made that attack when criticising comments I had made suggesting that public land...

Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)

Mick Barry: Sorry, it is my question. On 6 December the Minister did not give that answer to the House. The Minister did not say that the dogs on the street and every Deputy in the House - presumably including the Minister - knew that this was where it was going to go. The Minister said that there was a whole menu of options. That is very different from the information the Minister provided to the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dog Breeding Industry (1 Feb 2018)

Mick Barry: 313. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which is it possible for an unregistered dog breeding enterprise (details supplied) to operate without planning permission unimpeded by either his Department or the local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5286/18]

Order of Business (14 Jun 2016)

Mick Barry: ...which, unfortunately, affects all societies be stepped up in a serious way. I refer to the export of Irish greyhounds to Macau. It continues apace and is a virtual death sentence for the dogs. In Macau dogs that are not winners and that get injured are put down. As a result of the death sentence on them, the Australian state recently banned the export of its dogs there. As the...