Results 1-20 of 198 for long speaker:Mick Barry

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 May 2024)

Mick Barry: ...Ballincollig have been let down badly by the State and the Government? I know of 21 straight off the bat. They are the boys who attend the Scoil Eoin primary school, who are forced to struggle along in mainstream classes when special classes are what they need. This was recognised three years ago by the National Council for Special Education, which gave the green light for three special...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Mick Barry: ...of benefits. Number one, it would be a big improvement on the current dilapidated, 40-year old building on the CUH campus. Number two, it would increase capacity for treatment at a time of long and growing waiting lists. Uimhir a trí, it would increase capacity for more graduates at a time when they are badly needed. Number four, it would free up space at an increasingly crowded...

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

Mick Barry: ...in the back. Yesterday, we learnt that the garda who shot him will not stand trial. George's grieving mother, his sisters and brothers, a working class migrant family, will now have to fight a long and hard battle for justice - even for basic information - as many others have had to in the past. On Tuesday, the State apologised to the Stardust families. The House rose in standing...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: ...Disability in Ireland" the estimated cost of living with a disability was between €8,700 - €12,300 per year, accounting for inflation this would now be between €9,822 and €13,886 per year; — one in five who are unable to work due to long-standing health problems live in consistent poverty and one in two in deprivation; — due to ableist and...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: ...I mistakenly said that the shortest-serving Taoiseach in the history of the State was John Bruton at 924 days. It was actually the Tánaiste, Deputy Micheál Martin, at 904 days. Maybe it just seemed longer. A couple of weeks ago, Deputy Michael Ring made the comment that Fine Gael has been too left for too long. If he decides to join his 11 Fine Gael colleagues and exit...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: ...at the time. On Easter Sunday last, the Government cut the pay of public health workers, many of them nurses who had contracted Covid in those times and who have suffer to this day from the effects of long Covid. Leo Varadkar was Taoiseach on the day their pay was cut. Deputy Harris will be Taoiseach by this afternoon. Is he going to reverse that pay cut or is he going to let it stand?...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Offices (20 Mar 2024)

Mick Barry: I wish to speak up on behalf of 118 workers whose pay will be slashed on 31 March by the Government. They are public health services staff who are out sick with long Covid and have been on full pay as part of a dedicated scheme which the Government plans to scrap on 31 March. Many of them are nurses. They were on the front line and risked their health for us before vaccines were available...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Mick Barry: ...women it would back up these workers. An example of how it is not doing this is evident in its unwillingness to extend the arrangements for special leave with pay to those who have contracted long Covid. Among these are more than 150 nurses who are overwhelmingly women. They are workers who were on the front lines during Covid, often without PPE. I spoke to one such nurse in my own...

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: ...major change, by far and away not the only one but the major change, is that there must be increased investment to hire more staff and cut waiting times. This is a scandal that has gone on for too long.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: ...defend a situation where a huge American corporation can buy up a company with a base in Ireland, announce life-changing changes for its workforce and refuse to talk to the union chosen by long-standing workers in that company to represent them?

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: ...must be no household rate increases, no increase in student fees and no attacks on free transport passes or any other anti-working class policies of that kind. The working class of Northern Ireland have suffered for long enough under this Tory Government. There must be no more suffering heaped on them from Stormont.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (13 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: There are more than 300 children aged four or under in the Churchfield area on the northside of Cork city. Last August, a very long-standing and much-loved childcare and community centre, Before 5, closed suddenly. All other childcare providers in this area have waiting lists. The urgent hope is that a new childcare facility will open at the old location this September. However, for that...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: ...health service. I ask the Minister of State for clarification as to whether he met Nursing Homes Ireland before the announcement was made about the deferral of the €30,000 rate for healthcare assistants. I ask him to clarify how long the deferral lasts. I thought it was a year but I would be happy to learn it is less.

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: ...very tight. The Irish are one of the biggest minorities in the US. If the Taoiseach were to pick up the phone to the US President and relay the message that a St. Patrick's Day visit cannot go ahead as long as the US is supporting genocide, would this be a point of pressure, yes or no? Clearly, the answer is "Yes". It should be done. I am not sure if a case would be in the process...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: ...duties in the home." It is widely believed by historians that Article 41 of the Constitution was written by the Catholic archbishop, John McQuaid. The deletion of the woman-in-the-home clause has long been a demand of progressives in Irish society, starting with the Irish Women Workers' Union which demanded its deletion from the get-go in 1937. It is incredible that it has taken Fianna...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: The budget made no provision for our four new elective hospitals including the new hospital in Cork. People on hospital waiting lists in Cork, and around the country, have waited long enough. Why are they being forced to wait even longer? Dr. Brendan Walsh of the ESRI tells us this morning that the State faces an immediate deficit of 1,000 hospital beds. The national development programme...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: ...county told a gathering in Fermoy this month that he would have no problem joining a blockade of asylum seekers due to be provided with accommodation in the town. He made the statement while standing alongside a far-right agitator with a long track record of anti-immigrant rhetoric and activity. The mayor has since made what I consider to be a mealy-mouthed apology for his comments. He...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: ...Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with regard to Kilbride International Protection Accommodation Centre, to report on how many men are currently at the camp and how long they have been there; how much funding has been received to date by the management company at Kilbride International Protection Accommodation Centre; where responsibility lies for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (7 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: ...for wearing the scarf; hundreds have been. In Britain, attempts have been made in universities to ban groups that show solidarity with Palestine. These are groups that oppose racism, and that have a long history of campaigning against antisemitism, yet they face bans. The Prime Minister has said that if next Saturday's Palestinian solidarity demonstration were to go ahead it would be...

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: ..., "While there was not a consensus on this point, the preponderance of views, especially among the experts and practitioners, is that it is time for a reconsideration of the Triple Lock as it is no longer fit for purpose." These arguments themselves, however, have been weakened by the events of the past two and a half weeks in the Middle East. The very states and institutions this...