Results 1-13 of 13 for other and baby speaker:Mick Barry

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...

European Parliament and Council Directive on Protecting Persons who engage in Public Participation: Motion (6 Jul 2022)

Mick Barry: A SLAPP is a groundless or exaggerated lawsuit or other form of legal intimidation initiated by state organs, businesses and corporations, and individuals with power and money etc. against weaker parties, including journalists, civil society organisations, human rights defenders and others that transmit messages that are uncomfortable to those with the power and money. The aim of the SLAPP...

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Mick Barry: ...families are ending up in emergency accommodation, including the family hubs. Some time ago, People Before Profit Councillor Hazel Norton reached out to families in one of these hubs in Dublin and was shocked to be told that residents were only allowed out three nights per month, had to ask in advance to do so and had to be home by 10 p.m. Last weekend, journalist Mr. Martin Beanz Warde,...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Mick Barry: I am speaking to bring a socialist feminist analysis to this debate. Socialist feminism opposes cynical attempts to commercialise and make private profit out of the heartbreaking fertility issues prospective parents face. It opposes all attempts to profit from the systemic sexist and homophobic inequality rife in capitalist society. This includes recognising that infertility is a common...

Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: ...would give the right of all persons to a birth certificate, which would mean that adopted persons in this State would have the right to their birth certificates. That is clear, straightforward and reverses an injustice that has been visited upon people for many years. This legislation should be passed, and we will vote wholeheartedly in support of it. The other issue at stake today is...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: ...authors to disregard the witness testimonies in its conclusions was particularly galling. To state in the report that there was "very little evidence that children were forcibly taken from their mothers" or that the commission "accepts that the mothers did not have much choice but that is not the same as 'forced' adoption" is pretty grotesque when it is clear there was no informed...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: Last Wednesday afternoon at three minutes to two, baby Grace O'Leary, 6 lb 6 oz, was delivered at Cork University Maternity Hospital. Baby Grace is known in Cork as the picket line baby. Her mother, Claire, has been picketing for seven and a half months now at Debenhams. Many people, myself included, feel that it is a real sign of foot dragging on the part of the Government that the...

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

Mick Barry: ...of the European Council, has the issue of the denial of women’s rights in some EU countries been part of these? As the Taoiseach will be aware there has been a magnificent mass movement of women and young people on the streets of Poland for abortion rights in recent weeks. These protests were provoked when Poland’s constitutional court, stacked with conservative judges,...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: There is something seriously wrong in this. The women who went through the abuse of the mother and baby homes experienced many horrors. The one thing they all had in common was that there were other people telling them what was best for them, what was supposedly in their best interests and making decisions for them. These people might have been the parents who drove or brought the young...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Mick Barry: We will support this Bill which, while limited, is nonetheless a step forward. I would like to speak about cases I have dealt with over the past three months and how the Bill might affect them or raise questions in terms of how they might be affected. The case of Ms Keely Jones in Cork is well known. Ms Jones chose to go public to highlight her situation. She has nine children. She was...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Mick Barry: ...fundamentalist, misogynistic amendment was written into the Constitution. The year 1983 was 35 years ago. Since then 170,000 women have been forced to travel for abortions. For a new generation and those who can become pregnant today, it is a toxic legacy. It sits on their shoulders and haunts them, an unwanted ghost from a different century. I remember the X case in 1992. A 14...

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: An article in The Daily Telegraphin 2014 cited the words of Christy, who was adopted from the Bessborough mother and baby home in Cork.My arms and legs were very badly scarred. But when I asked my mum why, she basically said when you arrived your arms were very sore and they were bandaged. I didn't know anything about vaccination trials. I've since been to a few doctors and they said...

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: In 2011 the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus discontinued its adoption service and gave the registers from its mother and baby home at Bessborough in Cork to the HSE. In 2012 senior HSE personnel who were concerned at what was contained therein sent a report to the Department of Health and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs on the number of deaths that had occurred at...