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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the further measures that will be required regarding the adaptions which provide more choice in exam questions to the 2021 leaving and junior certificates should the 2020/2021 academic year be disrupted due to further Covid-19 related restrictions; the contingency measures for the leaving and junior certificates 2021 in such a scenario; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stakeholders who were consulted on the adaptions to the 2021 leaving certificate and junior certificate examinations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21848/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIV-AIDS Programmes (8 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 1305. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide information regarding PrEP and U=U in information campaigns on HIV prevention including television and billboard advertising; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22047/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIV-AIDS Programmes (8 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 1306. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the clinic hours and range of services to facilitate greater access to appointments for those in work in relation to the HIV clinic at Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22048/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIV-AIDS Programmes (8 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 1307. To ask the Minister for Health when PrEP and the necessary follow-up tests will be available free of charge in Cork city and the southern region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22049/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Garda Reform (10 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 2. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will reverse the decision to transfer the powers to hire and promote gardaí from the Policing Authority to the Garda Commissioner in view of the recommendation from the Smithwick tribunal to remove this power from the Commissioner given its potential to discourage whistleblowing; and if she will make a statement on...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: The Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, and the Mandate trade union have sent proposals to the Government for a State-run scheme to fund enhanced redundancies in the event of liquidation and to be paid for by increased employer social insurance contributions. It has been suggested that were such a scheme to be agreed in principle an advance payment might be made to resolve the Debenhams...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: It is a matter of concern to me that anti-face mask protests have been organised across the country in recent weeks. I believe that those who are anti-masks and organising these marches are anti-workers because wearing a mask protects the worker behind the counter in the shop, the driver on the bus and so on. These marches, in most cases, have been organised by the far right. They have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: Can the Taoiseach report on any initiatives from the Cabinet sub-committee in terms of promoting face masks? I believe there needs to be a mass campaign of worker activists on the left to challenge this development.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: Many Aer Lingus workers have been reduced from 50% to 30% of their wages and are unable to claim social welfare payments. People with families and mortgages have been left to survive on between €100 and €200 a week. Can the Taoiseach imagine the resulting stress and the toll on people's mental health? Uproar followed and the Government has now assured workers that payments...

Taxi Industry: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: Was yesterday's taxi protest the largest in the history of the State? If it was not, it was certainly the largest taxi protest seen in this country this century. Why would it not be? Nearly one taxi driver in four is disqualified from the Covid payment on the grounds of age. The Government has refused to put together a proper package to assist drivers to go back to work. How many...

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: Where is the Minister?

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: Where is the Minister?

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: I want to know where the Minister is. The Debenhams workers would like to know where is the Minister.

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: We have been saying that for months.

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: The Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Mandate trade union recently made a proposal to the Government. It was a proposal which had the potential to resolve the five-month long Debenhams dispute. The gist of it was one, increasing employer social insurance contributions and two, making a pool of money available to the State from which enhanced redundancy agreements could be honoured in...

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: At the start of the Covid crisis we were told that there was a need for national unity and that we were all in this together. The treatment of the Debenhams workers shows that we are not all in this together. In the words of the United Irishman leader, Henry Joy McCracken, "The rich will always betray the poor." Debenhams is not the only employer using Covid as cover to promote a race to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Certificates (16 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases in which naturalisation has been granted using section 16(a) of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24230/20]

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (Resumed) (17 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: A Cheann Comhairle, what day is it today?

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (Resumed) (17 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: It is Thursday. It is also the day the Government is cutting the pandemic unemployment payment by €50 per week for many people and €100 for many other people. It is not a small adjustment, not a few bob here or a few bob there, but a cut of €100 or €50 per week for tens of thousands of people who do not have the option of going back to work. It is not possible...