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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: In 2024, Ireland is not the land and Dublin is not the city of 100,000 welcomes for migrants or people of colour. A racist riot shook the city last November. A migrant was killed some weeks ago for speaking his own language. What message does a decision not to even send this case for trial send------

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Mick Barry: ...they would be working on UK flagged vessels and were issued UK deckhands contracts promising €1,300 per month. This enabled them to receive a UK seafarers transit visa. However, once they landed in Belfast, they were put working illegally on an Irish flagged vessel. The ITF has reported these and other matters this morning to An Garda Síochána, the Workplace Relations...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: The same day, Deputy Danny Healy-Rae, referring to male asylum seekers in Kerry, said "they have landed now" and that women and girls who used to walk the Muckross Road, morning, noon and night will all stop doing that because they are worried about their safety. There are people of colour who are too afraid to come into town to work after those riots. There are LGBTQ people who are keeping...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: ...Gaza and go to southern Gaza. It has been made clear that after the pause, Israel will go into southern Gaza. It is saying the population should move west to Al-Mawasi which is a tiny strip of land where, by the way, there are zero hospitals. That would be an incredible disaster. Gallant spoke about "the entire strip". I wonder if that was a slip of the tongue. When the Taoiseach met...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: ...needed is not a humanitarian pause but a complete and total ceasefire, as well as an end to the root cause of the cycle of violence, which is a brutal, unjust and racist occupation of Palestinian lands. In the five minutes remaining to me, I will make some points about Shannon Airport. More than 3 million US troops have passed through Shannon since 2002. This has happened under...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Workplace Discrimination (7 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: ..., CUH. One nurse with more than a decade's experience in nursing claimed that a manager said to a group of nurses there: You only move here to steal our benefits; you get pregnant as soon as you land, have three or four babies and take everything from us; you smell, don’t wash your hands after using the toilet and spread Covid in our country; you kill Irish patients. Another...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: ...;naiste can keep a low profile over the weekend and thereby avoid embarrassment. However, its priority - to use the Minister of State's word - is not the tenants but the market. Its priority is the landlords. Its priority is not the tenants. At the moment in Fine Gael circles with an election coming up, its Members probably feel they have lost the dressing room with the tenants at this...

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Mick Barry: ...experts, they place the burden of blame on the capitalist mode of production and its permanent need for expansion. They do not have faith in market-driven initiatives to tackle the crisis. Here in Ireland, the rewetting of bogland must be a key part of the State's sustainability campaign. The Guardianreports, "Peatlands are the superheroes of ecosystems: purifying water, sometimes...

Comóradh Sheachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (9 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: ...community and to the summer colleges, which are a cornerstone of the Gaeltacht economy. This Government has the power to extend the remit of Údarás na Gaeltachta to build public housing on public land. Will it do this?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (1 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider amending the draft Planning and Development Bill 2022 to ensure local authorities are obliged to reserve land for allotments and community gardens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10406/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: ...lists about a dozen such groups and remarks that many have adopted the great replacement conspiracy theory which argues that white populations are being deliberately displaced from their homelands as part of a plot often blamed on Jews or globalists. Hardcore racists in some of these groups have tried to promote the racist myth of a link between black and brown men and the incidence of...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: I want to voice my strong opposition to the deal between Coillte and the UK-based asset management fund Gresham House. This is a deal which is bad for the environment, PAYE taxpayers and rural Ireland. Coillte will purchase and plant the land and manage the forest. Taxpayers' money will go into that. The asset management fund will put in cash, and will own all of the land and draw down...

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: ...the Minister receive assistance of this kind from Michael Stone in the general elections in 2007 or 2011? Did the then Minister, Eoghan Murphy, before appointing Michael Stone to the board of the Land Development Agency, ask the opinion of the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, or canvass his thoughts on that matter? He was aware of these problems before he was appointed Minister for Public...

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: The Land Development Agency is one of the most important State agencies in the State's history. This is because it was set up in the middle of the greatest housing crisis in the history of the State and has the wherewithal to make a real difference in that crisis. However, instead or pursuing an aggressive policy of building public houses on public land, it is instead tending to organise a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: ..., for Mr. James, I am interested in his point about hard costs and soft costs. Take a house that would go to market in the range of €250,000 to €350,000. If one were to strip out the cost for land, if these houses were built on public land and gifted by the State, if one were to take out taxes that were to be waived by the State in the interests of affordable housing, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: Let us take land in Dublin, so. Let us presume that the land is in Dublin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: I will conclude by saying that I will look forward to seeing those data when it is published but it would seem to me that if one operated on the basis of no charge on the land, the State waiving the taxes in the interest of affordable housing and it operating on a not-for-profit basis, one could say that the prices would be reduced quite considerably. We will come back to the specific detail.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)

Mick Barry: ...country on the issue of the national maternity hospital. He has had more than a week to make his case but polling still shows a majority against his plan. People want a State hospital on State land and 100% certainty that procedures opposed by the Catholic Church will be available there. They will be making their views very clear outside the gates of Leinster House at 2 p.m. on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: Why did the State agree to sell 22 acres of Coillte land at Ballymartle Forest in Riverstick, County Cork to private interests? Does the Taoiseach accept that the State needs to rapidly expand its forest lands, rather than selling them off to the private sector? I congratulate the local campaigners whose highlighting of this issue has persuaded Coillte to pause the sale to allow for more...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and New Decade, New Approach: Statements (1 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: ...F may provide some form of justice and closure for the victims' families, as might prosecution of individual paramilitaries for heinous sectarian acts, such as those at Kingsmill and Loughinisland, for others. However, for genuine truth and justice to more fully prevail, investigation must be made into the role of those higher up the chain of command in the British state, such as General...