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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: The final question that I want to ask the Taoiseach-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: The context of the article was the correspondent making the point that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, seemed keen to register the need to rein in public spending. The article referred to troika-style spending reviews for Departments and the need for a special Cabinet meeting. We will note the fact that the Taoiseach has indicated that there is no...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: The proposition before the Dáil at the moment is simple. The idea is that if a student cannot take up the place he or she has rented for public health reasons, whether he or she is ill, has to isolate or is unable to travel, the rents and related charges should be returned. The vast majority of people would say that is basic common sense. It is, however, a common sense with which the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [20334/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: More than 3,000 people died from Covid in just one day in India yesterday. More than 360,000 were infected in the same day. The images on our television screens are ones of horror, showing a shortage of oxygen, car parks converted to crematoriums and a shortage of wood for funeral pyres. Meanwhile the Financial Timesreports: "As industry lobbying has escalated in Washington, companies have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (28 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: 14. To ask the Taoiseach the expected running order of citizens’ assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [21878/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (28 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: The Citizens' Assembly on gender equality has recommended a slew of changes. I will concentrate on the call by the assembly to amend the notoriously sexist Article 41.2, which states that mothers have duties within the home. This was part of the Constitution in order to give constitutional status to the social teachings of the Catholic Church. It is backward, sexist and sectarian and it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his engagements with the President of the United States of America. [20335/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (28 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: 273. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce regulations or take steps to prevent insurers denying cover or loading premia for those who are type 1 diabetic and who are managing their condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21443/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (28 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: 504. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised the recent announcement of deportations of Syrian and other asylum seekers from Denmark to detention centres outside the EU with his Danish counterpart, the Danish Ambassador or within the EU institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21312/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (28 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: 694. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will bring forward legislation on banning so-called conversion therapy aimed at LGBTQ persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21311/21]

Covid-19, Mental Health and Older People: Statements (29 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: I want to raise the issue of nursing homes. The four-visits-per-week rule comes into force next Tuesday. Under the restrictions in place for the last while, two visits per week were permitted. The organisation, Care Champions, says it is aware that at least 70 of the 580 nursing homes in this State, more than 10%, have not applied the two-visits-per-week rule. In many cases, this was not...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: Five hundred ESB network technicians are on strike today. They are striking over plans to outsource their jobs to private contractors and are making a stand against creeping privatisation. The company refuses to recognise their union, the Independent Workers Union, or to meet it at the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, to try to sort out the differences. Instead, it is threatening to...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: I want to express my support for the open letter published recently by more than 400 academics researching climate and environmental change protesting the worldwide attempts to criminalise non-violent climate protest. The letter states that those who put their voices and bodies on the line to raise the alarm are being threatened and silenced by the very countries they seek to protect. I...

Private Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2021)

Mick Barry: The Minister lifted the blanket ban on rent increases and evictions. He bowed to the landlord lobby when he did so. He was warned on the floor of this Dáil of what the consequences of his actions would be and, unfortunately, we are beginning to see the consequences of those actions already. Last Friday the Inner City Helping Homeless group reported the case of a healthcare worker who...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Mick Barry: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change last met; and when it will next meet. [21880/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Mick Barry: Massive investment in new ways of generating electricity from renewable sources will be necessary for the transition to a zero-carbon society. Essential to this drive will be investment in the electricity network. ESB network technicians will be key workers, helping to shape the nation's green energy future. When preparing for battle, a good general will pay particularly close attention...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Mick Barry: For information -----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Mick Barry: There are hundreds of ESB network technicians who are waiting for an answer from the Taoiseach and they have heard nothing from him. It is very disappointing.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (5 May 2021)

Mick Barry: 31. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the planned affordable housing scheme in view of the impact of the scheme on increasing house prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23275/21]