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

Mick Barry: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the President of the European Council. [35072/20]

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

Mick Barry: In the Taoiseach’s discussions with the President 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...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will next meet. [35073/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: On the issue of a Covid-19 vaccine, will the Taoiseach give us a guarantee that it will be supplied free of charge through the public health service? What steps does he plan to take to ensure that there will be no queue-jumping, with people using the power of the wallet to jump the queue? In this regard, I am referring to the private health sector. Can the Taoiseach give more information...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: The Halle Institute for Economic Research recently estimated that 1 million jobs could be lost as a result of a no-deal Brexit. Of these, 176,000 would be lost in Germany and 91,000 would be lost in China. However, per head of population, nowhere would more jobs be lost than in the Republic of Ireland where it predicted 35,000 job losses or almost 2% of the entire workforce. A large number...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Driver Test (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 10. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to ensure that all driving instructors will be given access to shelter and handwashing and toilet facilities at RSA driving test centres in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35520/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Driver Test (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: This question is to ask the Minister the steps that will be taken to ensure that all driving instructors will be given access to shelter and handwashing and toilet facilities at RSA driving test centres during the Covid-19 pandemic

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Driver Test (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: To be clear, the Minister of State indicated that some driving instructors are opposed to this. There are 2,000 driving instructors in the State. I am not in a position to say that every single one of them is opposed to this, but I am aware that the broad mass of those 2,000 driving instructors oppose what is going on here. It is not just some driving instructors - the Minister of State...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Driver Test (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: We are not asking that parents be allowed in to test centres to use the facilities. We are asking that instructors be allowed in. That is the issue here. The Minister of State indicated this is an operational matter for the RSA. The drivers have chosen to join a union. Whatever about wanting to talk to the RSA, the union wants to talk to the Minister of State. It has written to her on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if support will be given to the suspension of all check tests in driver tests during the course of the Covid-19 pandemic in the interests of ensuring the safety of driving instructors and others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35521/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fishing Industry (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of annual referrals made to the Marine Survey Office by the Workplace Relations Commission under the agreement made between those agencies on 3 April 2019; the number of referrals that led to inspections of fishing vessels by the office; the number of inspections that were unannounced; the number that involved a review by...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fishing Industry (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of unannounced inspections of Irish fishing vessels made by surveyors of the Marine Survey Office annually since 1 January 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36058/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Legislative Measures (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to amend the European Union (International Labour Organisation Work in Fishing Convention) (Working Hours) Regulations 2019 SI 672 of 2019 to include a method for calculating, in particular cases, the reference period for use in calculating average weekly hours as required by Council Directive (EU) 2017/159 of 19 December...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fishing Industry (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the Irish-flagged fishing vessels over 15 m in length that have been inspected by the Marine Survey Office annually since 1 January 2018; the number of vessels that had returned the official log book to the office as required by sections 239 to 242 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894, as amended; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 239. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated projections for the increased expenditure in order to participate in the European peace facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36121/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 293. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when he plans to publish the final report of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36031/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 311. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has issued permissions to reside and work in the State since 1 January 2020 to non-EEA, Swiss nationals on stamp 1 conditions subject to the general requirement that the person in question be in employment rather than the usual requirement that they be employed by a named employer; if so, the number of such...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 312. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of letters of notification sent in 2019 and to date in 2020 by her Department to participants in the atypical working scheme to non-EEA, Swiss crew in the fishing fleet here notifying them that their contract of employment has ceased and that they should furnish details of their new contract of employment under the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: On the issue of the taxation of pandemic unemployment payments, I would like to add my voice to the points that have been raised by Deputy Doherty. The payments were introduced under section 202 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act, which makes it clear that payments made under that section are to be exempt from taxation yet the Minister is asking us to agree to retrospectively tax those...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: I will comment on the line of argument that we are not talking about big sums of money here. I accept that for many people, €340 paid back over a period of four years is not going to break the bank. However, for a very significant number of people, €340, even if it is spread out over four years, is something they will feel and something that will hurt them. There are people...