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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 149. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the distribution of a Covid-19 vaccine when it is available including the procurement of refrigeration equipment, the training of staff and administration support; the policies of prioritisation for the vaccine that will be implemented; if the vaccine will be delivered exclusively by the public sector; if private patients will be able to pay...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (3 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 329. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider waiving or reducing fees for the renewal of a five-year taxi licence and the annual PSV licences in view of the difficulties faced by the taxi industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33090/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (3 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 335. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures in place to ensure that those who have had driver theory tests cancelled due to level 5 restriction can have a new appointment at the earliest available opportunity; the policy for rebooking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33198/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (3 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 348. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the RSA is asking driver test applicants who are booking a driver test during the level 5 Covid-19 restrictions if they are essential workers under those restrictions; if RSA testers or the RSA will be liable for a breach of the regulations if they carry out a driver test with a non-essential worker; if driver instructors will be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 909. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the pandemic unemployment payment to workers in an airline that are out of work due to the Covid-19 pandemic but are receiving a standard €203 weekly payment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33124/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: Donald Trump tweeted this morning that "they are trying to STEAL the Election". Of course, the man trying to steal the election is the candidate of the far right, Donald Trump. He now wants to go to the Supreme Court to stop the counting of ballots. I have no faith that Joe Biden or the Democratic Party can stop this election from being stolen. It was their dreadful pro-big business,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (4 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [33501/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (4 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: Five homeless people died in the State in the seven days to the end of October. There needs to be a bit of anger and a bit of outrage in this Chamber about what is happening. This is an absolute scandal. There used to be the time when if a homeless person died on the streets it would be national headlines and a national talking point. Now we have a situation, as was rightly said, on the...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: I refer to the proposal in the Bill to tax people who have received the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP. The maximum rate for the PUP was €350 per week. Many people who were on that rate had already taken a big hit to their income. People who were on €600, €700 or €800 per week saw their wages halved. The proposal is to tax them on that. That is wrong. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Duffy Cahill Report: Discussion (4 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: I welcome our witnesses. I am trying to get my head around some of the proposals to get an idea of where they might apply and where they might not apply. Let us suppose we had a situation where we had a company that struck an agreement with its workers for enhanced redundancy and standard redundancy within that company. Let us suppose there had actually been a redundancy situation in that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Duffy Cahill Report: Discussion (4 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: I appreciate that. That is a helpful answer. My next question refers to a situation if a company were to have a section of the business, for example, an online section, which was valuable, perhaps valued in terms of tens of millions of euro in terms of what its profits would be on an annual basis. Let us suppose it was registered in an Irish city, the company was to go into liquidation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Duffy Cahill Report: Discussion (4 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: Would Mr. Duffy like to respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Duffy Cahill Report: Discussion (4 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: I have a one-sentence comment, not a long question. It seems to me that on the basis of the answers given to the questions, in particular the first question I asked, that the comment of the Tánaiste that the Duffy Cahill report does not apply in the case of the Debenhams dispute is well wide of the mark. I will leave it at that.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: Sixth-year students in our secondary schools have lost a lot of teaching time. The Minister for Education has made some changes to leaving certificate 2021 to try to take account of this. Coming off the back of the mid-term break, it is fair to say that there is a growing feeling among students that the Minister's changes do not go far enough. An Instagram poll that I recently organised...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: If the Tánaiste survives tonight's vote, it will be thanks in large measure to Fianna Fáil and Green Party Deputies whose votes will be noted with disapproval by some-----

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: -----and with disgust by many others. He will also survive thanks to the support of the corporate media, which has refused to frame this scandal as a matter that might require resignation. They recognise the Tánaiste as a skilful and capable representative of the capitalist establishment and as a man who can play an important role for the system when he takes the reins again as...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Company Liquidations (10 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 64. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will report on the convening of a multi-stakeholder forum on the issues regarding employee's rights in the cases of liquidation of companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35070/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 91. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the measures in place to ensure that companies availing of Covid-19 subsidies and schemes are using the funds to protect the income and rights of their employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35071/20]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 158. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with education will next meet. [35075/20]

Regional Airports: Motion [Private Members] (11 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: When news broke of a breakthrough on the vaccine front, the share values of the airlines rose the following day on the New York Stock Exchange. International airlines increased in value. The group that owns Aer Lingus was up 39%, Easyjet was up 30% and Ryanair was up 16%. There is a long way to go and it is only light at the end of the tunnel but we have begun to see improvements for...