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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector Remuneration (31 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the continuation of the bankers' pay cap; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17193/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector Remuneration (31 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: What are the Minister's views on the continuation of the bankers' pay cap? Will he make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector Remuneration (31 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: In the Minister's exchange with Deputy Doherty earlier, he made the point that Goodbody was not covered by the cap, that the State had no control over the remuneration it paid its top executives and that he was not proposing any change to the cap for AIB executives. However, what he did not deal with was the fact that if AIB takes control of Goodbody, then AIB executives can transfer over to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector Remuneration (31 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: Unfortunately, the Minister’s very weak position on this issue is encouraging other senior bankers who want to drive a coach and four through the banking cap and find a way around it. At the Oireachtas finance committee recently, the CEO of Bank of Ireland, Ms Francesca McDonagh, was not prepared to discuss her bank's interest in Davy and what would happen if it was to purchase Davy,...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Cabinet committee dealing with economic affairs. [13299/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (31 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: 698. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will support the relocation of at least 400 asylum seekers who are currently on Lesvos Island, Greece, and undergoing particular hardship due to the six-month lockdown in the Moria camp; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16694/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Data (31 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: 802. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who were naturalised in 2020; the number awaiting a ceremony; the steps being taken to ensure there is no further undue delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16695/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (31 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: 970. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will take to urgently ensure that all those facing diagnoses of fatal foetal abnormality will not have to travel to access a termination of the pregnancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16696/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: 971. To ask the Minister for Health the names of the companies that have been awarded contracts to manage detention centres related to mandatory Covid-19 quarantine; the cost of these contracts to the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16698/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: 972. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he has taken to ensure that those who are subjected to mandatory quarantine under the Covid-19 quarantine regulations will have access to consular assistance, legal services and medical services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16699/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: 973. To ask the Minister for Health the training that those working in the detention facilities related to Covid-19 quarantine will be obliged to undertake; if there will be an obligation for human rights training, cultural awareness training and mental health awareness training; if a certain cohort of the staff will have medical training and language skills; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: 974. To ask the Minister for Health if he will oblige the managers of Covid-19 quarantine detention centres to report on occasions when they refuse access to medical treatment for a detainee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16701/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: 1205. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on measures his Department and the HSE have taken to investigate the factors behind the number of deaths due to Covid-19 in HSE run nursing homes and residential care services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17549/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: 1206. To ask the Minister for Health the number of deaths in nursing homes and other residential care settings run by the HSE in the past year; the main causes of deaths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17550/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: 1207. To ask the Minister for Health the specific measures or set of measures that the HSE brought in in advance of the third wave of Covid-19 that demonstrably reduced in the third wave mortality rate compared to the mortality rates seen in each of the first two waves in nursing homes and other residential care units runs by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17551/21]

Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: I have a question for the Minister about level 5, following the events last night in Blanchardstown. Four trucks arrived at the Blanchardstown shopping centre just after midnight. Debenhams workers had a tip-off that they were going to come to remove stock and they had to go there from their beds. There was a stand-off for five hours between the drivers of the trucks and the workers, who...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: I read somewhere recently that the Minister is working his way again through listening again to all the Beatles' songs. The song I have in the back of my head is one George Harrison wrote in the mid-1960s, "Taxman". I want to ask the Minister about a Covid solidarity tax. It is an issue that has been discussed and debated more or less since the beginning of the pandemic but one which has...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: That is fine. I have asked my question and I got my answer. I will leave it at that.

Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: First Stage (21 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: I move: That leave be granted to introduced a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Companies Act 2014 to provide for preferential creditor status to employees in collective redundancy situations; to provide for recognition of redundancy payments in a winding up; and to provide for related matters. In the interests of full disclosure, this Bill was inspired by the actions of one group of...

Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: First Stage (21 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."