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Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: They would not have been called to account in nearly as effective a way on the issue of their scandalous attempt to try to deny the pandemic unemployment payment to unemployed people who are travelling. I will conclude on this point, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: This Government has been a shambles over the past few weeks.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: It has been a shambles-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: I will conclude on this point, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The Government has made a shambles-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: The Government has been a shambles on the pay increase for the junior Ministers.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: The Government has been a shambles on the attacks on people who avail of the pandemic unemployment payment, and it is a shambles here tonight.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: They are not going to get away with it.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: They are not going to get away with it.

Opening of Schools and Calculated Grades: Statements (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: Fifth year students, the leaving certificate class of 2021, lost close to three months of face-to-face teaching time this year. I know that the Government and the Minister accept that changes must be made to take account of that lost time. I was going to say that I had an exchange with the Minister earlier today but it was yesterday at this point. In that exchange, she indicated that the...

Opening of Schools and Calculated Grades: Statements (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: I want to be clear that I understand the answer. I think the Minister said that the students should know about the changes as soon as they go back to school. That implies that they will know in the first week that they go back. Is that the position? Could the Minister indicate if I have got that right with a "Yes" or "No" answer?

Opening of Schools and Calculated Grades: Statements (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: That is helpful; I thank the Minister. Earlier, I mentioned to the Minister that in an exchange I had during the week with the Taoiseach, he said there would be consultation with all of what he described as the stakeholders on the proposed changes in next year's leaving certificate about which the Minister has just spoken about. He laid particular emphasis on the fact that he considered it...

Opening of Schools and Calculated Grades: Statements (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: I am concerned by that answer and I think that many fifth year students who will be going into sixth year in September will also be concerned. The Minister said that the consultation has taken place. I am not sure if many of those students to whom I referred will agree with that. I know that there is a representative organisation and I respect the good work it has done. I understand that...

Opening of Schools and Calculated Grades: Statements (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: I will conclude by saying that it may well be the case that what the Minister says does not contradict the Taoiseach's line that there will be maximum consultation and a need for consent. It is possible that it will contradict that. If it does, the Minister will need to review that position. We will leave it at that.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Direct Provision System (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: I congratulate the asylum seekers at the Skellig Star hotel in Cahersiveen. They have been treated appallingly since the first day they were put in there in the middle of March. There were 110 people accommodated in 56 rooms. Imagine what that means in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic. When there was a boil water notice in the town, the residents were limited to 1 l of water per...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Direct Provision System (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: Did I hear the Minister correctly that she hopes to have everyone moved out by the end of the year? Is that correct?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Direct Provision System (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: The written statement we have here states that the process will be completed in a relatively short period, which is vague, and then in no more than a few months which is vague as well. That is not going to cut it with the asylum seekers or their supporters in the town. They welcome the fact that people are being moved out. Some people are being moved out this weekend. However, the idea...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: 28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place to expand the choice in exams in the leaving certificate 2021 in view of the loss in teaching time due to Covid-19; if the alternations will be carried out across subjects in a similar manner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19333/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Mick Barry: I have some questions for Mr. Reid. I would like to ask about the situation concerning schools, but first I will ask some questions about quarantine. The European Commissioner travelled to this State from a non-green list country. He has justified breaking the 14-day quarantine on the ground of having received a negative Covid-19 test result. I think the answer to this question is probably...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Mick Barry: My other point on that, before I get to my main points on the schools, is that The Irish Timesthis morning reports comments from two women who were in the K Club between-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Mick Barry: Let me put it this way. If someone were to be staying in a hotel complex with apartments within the timeframe of a 14-day quarantine, and they were to stay in that complex but to dine in a public restaurant and other public places within that complex, would that constitute a breach of the 14-day quarantine?