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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 May 2021)

Mick Barry: Monday's report from the Office of the Ombudsman for Children on conditions at a Traveller halting site in Cork city found that 66 children at the site were forced to live in conditions that were filthy, overcrowded, damp and rat-infested. The report, undertaken on foot of a complaint submitted by the Cork Traveller Women's Network and the Cork Traveller Visibility Group as a last resort...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 May 2021)

Mick Barry: I find myself with a little extra time, which is always enjoyable. I will focus on the issue of emergency powers and the right to protest. If I have time, and I probably do, I will make some points about mandatory hotel quarantine. When these powers were introduced last year I spoke out against them. I made the point that in a capitalist society the State would use these powers to curb...

Health (Amendment) Act 2021: Motion (27 May 2021)

Mick Barry: I will be voting against the extension of mandatory hotel quarantine. I share the opposition of Deputy Paul Murphy to the privatised model of mandatory hotel quarantine that the Government has introduced. I also share his opposition to this quarantine system which has no human rights oversight, certainly none worth talking about. Even if these issues were to be addressed, I would still...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Projects (1 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the resource efficiency action plan for 2021 of his Department. [27889/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: Some employers are using the pandemic to launch a one-sided class war against their workforce. One such employer is Aer Lingus. It has given its workers a deadline of today to respond to proposals which include, a five-year pay freeze, pay cuts, lower starting rates for new staff, cuts to duty allowances, cuts to sick pay arrangements and more. For those who are interested in knowing what...

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: Last Tuesday, 25 May, under questioning from me on Leaders' Questions, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, stated the new national maternity hospital "will be operated by two separate voluntary hospitals". He did not mention the identities of the two separate voluntary hospitals and I can only presume they comprise the boards of the current...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the national reform programme. [29773/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international and European Union division of his Department. [29772/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: The Chinese regime wants to erase the memory of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Hong Kong has been the only Chinese city where public commemoration events have been held and not banned; for example, 180,000 people attended the event in 2019. This year, the event has been banned by the Hong Kong authorities, acting on behalf of the Chinese regime. Those who dare to attend face five years in...

National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Statements (2 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: I will deal with two issues: training and what is happening at Aer Lingus. On training, the plan refers to 50,000 places in education and training, with a focus on digital and green jobs. It refers to 10,000 placements in workplaces through a job experience programme. Many people who will be pushed towards training could be provided with jobs and we need jobs based on direct State-led...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (3 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: Does the Tánaiste envisage introducing a mandatory sick pay scheme before the end of the Covid-19 pandemic? I ask him to make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (3 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: I looked at some of those 118 submissions to the public consultation in November and December. There seemed to be a high level of resistance from employers to the concept of any kind of real fund. I will give an example of some of the correspondence submitted. One employer stated that the rate of pay should be the current illness benefit and then topped up by the employer if they so wish....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (3 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: The Tánaiste is quite correct in saying that it is not the Soviet Union and it is a democracy. For workers, it feels like a dictatorship in the workplace. He can ask the childcare workers, 84% of whom do not have do not have an employer who pays in any sick pay, or the meat plant workers, 90% of whom, according to Migrant Rights Centre Ireland, do not have an employer who pays in any...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health and Safety (3 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: What actions are being taken by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment to protect workers' health and safety in view of the reopening of the hospitality sector?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health and Safety (3 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: I was coming into this place this morning and listening to the radio news. The invitation was being put out for 43-year-olds to contact the HSE about arranging vaccination. The next item was about hospitality. It struck me that a majority - probably a vast majority - of people going back to work in hospitality are under the age of 43 and will go back to work unvaccinated. This is at a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health and Safety (3 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: The majority of hospitality workers will be vaccinated later in the year, hopefully later in the summer. However, hospitality is opening now, when the vast majority of those workers have not been vaccinated. That puts a strong onus on ensuring that quality health and safety provisions are in place. How many of the labour inspectors – we were told earlier on that 53 out of a target...

Mental Health During and Post Covid-19: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: The leaving certificate exams begin next Wednesday. This is the most stressful set of exams done by second level students, by young adults, anywhere in Europe. I challenge any Deputy in the House to dispute that assertion. It is all the more difficult when young people have been forced to prepare for those exams, and now sit them, during a global pandemic. I am certain there are hundreds...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta) 2020: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: I took a walk around Gurranabraher the Saturday before last and took the opportunity to give out some leaflets. When I was walking down the road, three young fellas were standing around a car. One of them said, "Good morning, Deputy". I kicked myself for not having given him a leaflet. I should of course have done that. I gave a leaflet to him and to his friends as well. One of them...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: 29. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will support the request for a waiver of intellectual property rights under the TRIPS for Covid-19 vaccines; the contact he has had with the Irish Permanent Representatives in Geneva on the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24138/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: The climate Bill debate should not be guillotined. Amendments should not be ruled out in the way they have been. I say that despite the fact many of the amendments are from right-wing opponents of climate progress. More time should be allowed for a debate on this key issue. Time should also be provided for brief statements alongside the moving of the writ for the Dublin Bay South...