Results 21-40 of 198 for long speaker:Mick Barry

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Mick Barry: ...reflection of the aspirations and demands of those movements, it does not go far enough and the process of putting the changes before the Dáil has been very slow. It has been five years, which is too long but it is here now so we will debate some of the issues at stake. On the issue of consent, it is currently a defence in a rape trial to say "I thought there was consent" or...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2023)

Mick Barry: ...-related questions. The Minister's starter, for five points: who said, in March 2017, that Ireland will achieve its target of ending reliance on hotels and bed and breakfast accommodation for long-term accommodation for homeless families by July 2017? That was the Minister, Deputy Coveney. The next question for ten: who said in 2016 that Fine Gael in government would abolish the...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: I know why Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are voting to renew the Offences against the State Act. Both parties are long-time supporters of non-jury courts and a range of other repressive measures. The Green Party is voting against its declared principles. Nothing new there. What about Sinn Féin, though? The Sinn Féin justice spokesperson was, I believe, silent in his...

Youth Justice Strategy: Statements (21 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: ...that a file has been sent to the DPP. Mr. Nkencho's family feel a sense of relief about the fact that has happened. However, I will register the point that two and a half years was far too long a wait for a family who had to deal with the grief and trauma of the killing of their son and brother. I express the hope that the DPP can now process the case with a degree of urgency. Due to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: .... He mentioned Roger Cole, who is with the Peace and Neutrality Alliance. A representative of one NGO has been chosen to speak. I challenge the Tánaiste to name one, two or three people from the long list he has in front of him who will present an alternative point of view in a broad sense.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Mick Barry: ...The 14-year jail sentence, that penalty, needs to be scrapped and abortion needs to be completely decriminalised. It is not acceptable that there is only one GP in Monaghan and only one GP in Longford providing abortion services. The HSE needs to step up to the plate and actively recruit GPs in these areas who are prepared to offer the service. Nor is it acceptable that eight of the...

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Mick Barry: ...for just one day in ten in the course of a year is also exempted. The Government's approach to encroaching on the right of private property is craven. In Scotland, there are compulsory sales orders for long-term vacant properties. In Barcelona and Amsterdam, properties vacant for more than six months are subject to compulsory rental orders. In France, the vacant homes tax is set at...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: ...rather than stretching out into months. Other people will beg for a place to stay with friends. Some will go to homeless services, and some of those people will get emergency accommodation. How long will they be stuck there for? With 17 out of 31 local authorities saying they are full, undoubtedly some people who will go to homeless services will not be accommodated. Where do they go?...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: ...in other places they will not. Some 17 out of 31 councils have said they are full up. This issue is not going to go away. It is going to drag on and re-emerge. We are going to see a situation long before the summertime of families, including those with children, presenting to Garda stations and asking to be put up for the night as they have nowhere to go. I want to make three points...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: ...a ballot for industrial action of its members in the coronary care unit of Cork University Hospital. These front-line workers have been forced to work with unsafe staffing levels for far too long. They have also been forced to work with an inappropriate skills mix in their team. If these workers decide to take industrial action, I believe they deserve the support of the Cork public and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: ...but it is clear that the Taoiseach and his Government believe that there is an acceptable level of homelessness and of damage that can be done to these children. The left in Irish politics has long argued that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are Ireland’s Tory parties. These parties have equally long denied this but at 4.40 p.m. today, or shortly after, it will be clear for all to...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: ...they can try to spin it for their own ends. I do not have time for my final point. I will only say that it should be ten, not five, days' domestic violence leave and 100% pay with no cut. Long live International Women's Day.

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: ...was forced upon the Government by a public health emergency and pressures from these benches, as well, I would add. That was the first eviction ban. The second ban has not been in place for so long that we are able to look at it in an overview in the same way as the first, but nevertheless it offers up some information and evidence. In November of last year, the numbers forced to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: ...death. Transphobia is now being investigated as a possible motive for the murder. Anyone involved in stirring up transphobia online, in the media, in politics or among their peers needs to take a long, hard look at themselves. Those ideas have real-life consequences. A recent study by the Trinity College Dublin school of nursing and midwifery shows that conversion therapy practices are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: The nursing home charges scandal is the latest in a long line of aggressive legal strategies employed by the State to deny justice to vulnerable people. It must now be added to a list that includes the CervicalCheck women, the hepatitis C women, the denial of disability payments for those in long-term care, the denial of redress to a large cohort of mother and baby homes survivors, and many...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: ...better. I put it to the Taoiseach that a better way to phrase that would be to say that in this country we are doing less badly than the EU. There should be no pats on the back here. There is a long way to go. In this country, a key contributor to the gap is the State's grossly inadequate and expensive system of childcare, which forces many women to take a longer break from work...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (24 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: ...using fossil fuels with respect to global temperatures. This information, however, was not released to the public. It was covered up and that company was involved in climate denialism for a long period after that. I seek the Taoiseach’s observations on that matter. The other matter is the claim that is being made by some scientists now that if we have an El Niño event...

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: ...department overcrowding? There was a fire in the emergency department at Cork University Hospital a week ago. Thankfully, it was put out relatively rapidly by a quick-thinking paramedic. How long will it take before a fire tragedy might take place in an emergency department somewhere in the State? This is an issue that needs to be taken very seriously. We should take the events at...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (18 Jan 2023)

Mick Barry: 610. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised the matter of protesters in Iran facing long-term imprisonment and death sentences with the Iranian authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1065/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: ...for a far greater number of households? No one is saying that the Dáil should meet on Christmas week, but does the Tánaiste agree that in those circumstances a break of a full month is far too long?