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Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the role of his Department in preparing the national economic recovery plan. [33211/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: Bank profits and the interests of bankers should not be allowed to dictate access to housing in this country, yet that is the direction in which the Government is going. The announcement this morning that the Government plans to sell off the State's remaining shares in Bank of Ireland means that the bottom line will become an even greater focus within that bank and that profit will be the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: 24. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [33548/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach needs to ban LNG projects. All such projects are meant to be frozen pending an energy supply review. That decision came about under pressure from environmental campaigners and as a result of the growing awareness of the link between LNG and fracked gas and the extreme danger posed to our environment by fracking. However, the wheels have not stopped turning. We learned last...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: I first want to congratulate all of the students across the country who challenged the refusal of landlords, in the main corporate landlords, to refund the large rents paid by them last year before Covid hit and they had to up sticks and go home. This includes students from University College Cork who highlighted the particularly scandalous situation at Amnis House on the Western Road where...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (23 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: We will call a division on this motion and vote against it. It has been renewed every year since 1998. Recently, there is a new part of the equation because with the onset of the Covid crisis, we had the introduction of the most draconian powers seen in the history of the State. Those powers are still in place and the Minister is proposing to introduce this legislation alongside them. Not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (24 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: 160. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contacts he has with the Government of Hungary in relation to its recent passing of homophobic laws in that state; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33876/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: A story in today's edition of The Irish Times tells us that more than 3,000 999 calls reporting domestic violence were cancelled by the Garda in 2019 and 2020. There is talk of disciplinary action. Would the Tánaiste agree that the number of cancelled calls speaks to something more than sloppy policing by particular members of the Garda? At best, it speaks to me of a failure on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (24 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: 68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he will take to minimise the number of evictions due as Covid-19 protections expire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33891/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: 37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will examine planning laws and practices to identify areas of the law that encourages gentrification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33892/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Anti-Racism Measures (24 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: 116. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the gestures and statements and international events against racism and discrimination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33877/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (24 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the impact for local authorities of the changes to the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31777/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: 449. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the advertisement for seven unpaid assistant psychologist roles in the health service (details supplied); his views on the readvertising of these positions as paid positions; the way many assistant psychologists are currently working in a voluntary capacity within HSE services; his views on the extension of the current...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Workplace Relations Commission (29 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: 132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 15 June 2021, if investigations have ensued on foot of referrals (details supplied); if so, the outcomes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34847/21]

Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: Before I take up some of the points made by the Minister of State, will a copy of his speech be distributed to the Deputies in the House in order that we can look at it before the close of the debate itself? A key point the Minister of State tried to make was that there are various interest groups involved, namely, employers on the one hand and employees on the other. He then introduced...

Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: The dogs on the street know these things anyway.

Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: Let us leave names out of it and mention a figure instead. The figure I will mention is the €10 million paid out in political pensions in 2018 alone. It is one rule for Ministers and Deputies and another rule for the pensioners in question. The retired workers in question are the people who have played a key role in and contributed more to the building of this country. I challenge...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe last met; and when it will next meet. [33549/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: Budapest Pride began on Friday night. I offer solidarity to the LGBTQ activists and their supporters organising the event in the teeth of the Viktor Orbán hate campaign. It is interesting to note that the organisers report that there is no big corporate sponsor and that there has not been for ten years. The rainbow capitalists are fair-weather friends it seems. I understand that...