Results 1,061-1,080 of 5,216 for speaker:Mick Barry

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

Mick Barry: It froze again last night, and the cold snap is set to go on through the weekend. The cost of heating a home was high in October and November. In December, it looks like it might go through the roof. Many who have not yet faced the choice of heating or eating will face it now. On Tuesday, a reporter from a Cork radio station spent the day with the local charity, Penny Dinners. He counted...

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

Mick Barry: The State is taking steps, but are the steps sufficient? According to bruegel.org, the German state is spending 7.4% of its GDP on shielding households and businesses from the energy crisis; the Irish State is spending 0.9%. In Greece, most households will have 90% of the energy price increases covered by the State. Cold snaps can make or break governments. Forty years ago, a Fine...

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

Mick Barry: What about a forum for the Opposition?

Teacher Shortages: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: There is not a lack of teachers; it is full-time permanent teaching posts of which there is a lack. Why would a young teacher who is thinking of emigrating after Christmas stick around for a one-year contract? Why would a person who has already emigrated come back for a one-year contract? Teachers coming back to Dublin or Cork will be asked to pay €25,000 a year rent in one city and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (6 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: I am glad to see the Minister opposing, in effect, the position being argued by the Tánaiste. I want to make some points about tasers because this is part of the debate now. The Garda Representative Association, GRA, has supported arming gardaí with tasers. That would be a step in the wrong direction. In the United States, more than 1,000 people have been killed by police, the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (6 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: I might come back some other day to discuss the question of body cameras. I want to use my remaining time to ask about the killing of George Nkencho by gardaí two years ago now. George's family were given to understand by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, that every attempt would be made to complete that investigation within a year of the killing, which would...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (6 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: 2. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will support an alteration to the policy in relation to the arming of gardaí; if she will support more gardaí being armed with firearms or tasers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60564/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (6 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: What is the Minister's position on the arming of gardaí? What is her position as regards the idea of more gardaí being armed with firearms or tasers? I am coming from a position of opposing steps in that direction. It has been a matter of some public debate recently with the comments of the Tánaiste so I am interested in hearing the Minister's position.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (6 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: 31. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the publication of the review of the atypical work permit scheme for non-EEA fishers and resulting improved permit system that should accrue to those fishers who are currently documented in the atypical scheme and to those non-EEA fishers who may be employed in the future, if she will also consider offering to those...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (6 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: 37. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the scheme to regularise undocumented persons; if she will consider adjustments to the scheme to ensure those such as fishers who were in the atypical scheme can have a pathway to regularisation; if she will support other initiatives to allow those who are undocumented access to regularisation; and if she...

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Motion (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: I will focus on the proposed funding for the greyhound industry. The proposal before us provides €91 million to the horse and greyhound racing fund with €18.2 million of this to go to the greyhound industry. You cannot have a greyhound racing industry without animal cruelty. There is loads of information to back that up. Speakers have said that a minority is against the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: 36. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the recent US congressional delegation. [59317/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: Families across the country who lost loved ones in nursing homes in the course of the Covid pandemic are calling for a human rights-led public inquiry. Among them are constituents of mine who lost loved ones at the Ballynoe nursing home. These families are calling and campaigning for the introduction of safeguarding legislation that would cover all care settings. They are calling for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: 29. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met. [59316/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Risk Assessment (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the status of the national risk assessment 2021-2022. [59220/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: I express my solidarity and that of International Socialist Alternative with the young protestors in China. In the face of police repression, thousands of young people are protesting against the dictatorship of Xi Jinping by holding up blank A4 sheets of paper, as I am now doing. They are demanding freedom of speech, an end to a rigid and extreme Covid policy and democratic rights. China's...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: I was not going to speak about the bankers' pay cap and bankers' bonuses. I was going to focus on some of the finer details of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022. However, a discussion has kicked off here and the Minister has made some points so I will join the debate. I will start by asking him a question. The Taoiseach made the argument in the Dáil...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: I will come back on this.