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Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out: Statements (2 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: Last night's "RTÉ Investigates" provided shocking insights into the treatment of elderly citizens in some of our nursing homes during the pandemic. I again support, loudly and clearly, the call for a national inquiry into nursing home care and nursing home deaths in the time of Covid. The case for that is now unanswerable. I will address the issue of the vaccination of people aged...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 31. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on plans to restructure the leaving certificate examinations given the substantial loss in face to face teaching time in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34792/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (1 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider not reducing the pandemic unemployment payment given the level of poverty experienced by those on social protection payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34794/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Unemployment (1 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she will take to tackle the crisis of youth unemployment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34795/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Government Co-ordination will next meet. [34650/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Government Co-ordination will next meet. [36565/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: We were told by the Department of Social Protection at the start of June that the State's new work experience programme would be unveiled by the end of June. We are now a week into July and the Department is saying that it will give the details in July. I do not think I am the only one who suspects that the Government might be holding back on the details until after 15 July and the summer...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the new social dialogue unit of his Department will next meet. [34651/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the new social dialogue unit of his Department will next meet. [36305/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the new social dialogue unit of his Department will next meet. [36566/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: Can the Taoiseach confirm that the Government will meet the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and SIPTU this week to discuss issues relating to aviation? Can he confirm that the issue of the planned lay-off of hundreds of workers in Cork in September is on the agenda? Does he agree that Aer Lingus and other airport employers should not receive bucketloads of State cash to keep workers on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: Did you discuss the people working on the boats?

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence: Statements (6 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: Those who experience gender-based violence, mainly women, should get a big helping hand but instead the State stacks the odds against them. If you have rung 999 in recent years, the Garda might have cancelled your call and ignored your plea for help. If you try to leave the family home, you are confronted by a housing crisis and a shortage of refuge places. If you try to achieve financial...

Ban on Rent Increases Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: It has become fashionable in recent times for opponents of a rent freeze to say we should a look at what happened when they tried to freeze rents in Berlin. I am going to do precisely that. Under the old neoliberal market status quobefore the rent freeze in Berlin, rent had increased by 100% in the period 2009 to 2019. Under pressure from below, from a mass movement of tenants, the Berlin...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Traveller Community (6 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 66. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on engagement with Travellers and their organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36289/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: Tonight, the Dáil will vote on a proposal to freeze rents for a period of three years. The Government has proposed an amendment to delay progressing the Bill for another 12 months. The Government is adopting the Johnny Logan approach to rent increases - what's another year? For tenants, another year could mean the fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh year in a row that their rents will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with housing will next meet. [34652/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with housing will next meet. [36567/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: Is the Taoiseach's climbdown on the vulture funds the most spectacular in the lifetime of this Dáil? If climbdowns and U-turns comprised an Olympic sport, I suspect Paddy Power would have the Taoiseach at short odds for a medal at Tokyo. Just nine weeks ago, the Taoiseach voiced strong opposition to local authority leasebacks from vulture funds. He said the message should go out loud...

CervicalCheck Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: The Minister needs to listen and take on board the concerns of women and those of the 221+ group. They want a non-adversarial approach in this tribunal and a tribunal that will not oblige women to fight the laboratories. They want they right for a woman to return to the tribunal if her cancer recurs. They want the statute of limitations to be extended as well as other reasonable, modest...