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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the staff grade for Youthreach is pro-rata teacher grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37353/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will engage with a union (details supplied) in relation to co-ordinators and resource person grades in Youthreach being allowed to convert to pro-rata teacher grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37354/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the co-ordinators workload in Youthreach is on a par with a principal's and that a resource person's workload is on a par with an assistant principals in second-level schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37355/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 543. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1135 of 15 June 2021, the breakdown by nationality of the 133 renewed approvals for the atypical work permit scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37340/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 544. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown by nationality of the atypical work permit approvals that expired without renewal from December 2019 to date. [37341/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 545. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vessel owners since the atypical work permit scheme for non-EEA fishers commenced that have been barred from availing of the scheme arising from detected infringements on their part of the terms of the scheme or of the applicable rules of employment law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37345/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 546. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is the policy of her Department to issue foreign nationals present in the State for five years on foot of permissions on stamp 1 conditions granted under the atypical working scheme for non-EEA crew in the Irish fishing fleet with permissions on stamp 4 conditions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37351/21]

Mandatory Hotel Quarantine Extension: Motion (14 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: Currently, there are 61 countries on the red list. The vast majority are from Africa, Asia and Latin America. The only European countries are Turkey and Russia. As the richer countries get their people vaccinated, the mandatory hotel quarantine system impacts more heavily on those from poorer countries and, while certainly not exclusively, on people of colour. As time goes on this will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with justice issues will next meet. [36304/21]

Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: On Monday, the secretariat of the English-language education working group within the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science emailed all the English-language schools, giving them the power to reopen next Monday, 19 July. English-language students are, generally speaking, between the ages of 20 and 40. The overwhelming majority are unvaccinated. Many...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 372. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have entered mandatory hotel quarantine; the number of those who have done so as a result of not having a PCR test; the number of those who have tested positive for Covid-19 from all those entering hotel quarantine; the number of those who have tested positive for Covid-19 from among those entering hotel quarantine for not having a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 373. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons entering hotel quarantine who have submitted an appeal to their detention; the number of those who were successful in their appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31210/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: 374. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons appealing their detention in mandatory hotel quarantine on the basis of compassionate grounds; the numbers of such appeals that are a success for the travellers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31211/21]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Minister for Finance (14 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: I have questions for the Minister on three issues, namely, double taxation agreements, the OECD position on corporation tax rates and, briefly, the summer economic statement. On double tax agreements, many people are of the view that if someone is working in two countries, he or she cannot be paying tax in both and that there is a need for an arrangement to be put in place as a result. In...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Minister for Finance (14 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: I will move on to the issue of the OECD position on corporation tax rates. The Minister mentioned in his reply to Deputy Doherty that Ireland is not alone on this issue and is putting its case alongside other small and medium-sized economies. The reports I read indicate eight states currently are strongly opposed to the 15% proposals. Those states are Estonia, Kenya, Nigeria, Peru, Sri...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Minister for Finance (14 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: It is early in the process but at this early stage the Minister's Government and the State are standing alongside renowned tax havens like St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Barbados in arguing against these proposals. Does that make the Minister in any way uneasy or embarrassed?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Minister for Finance (14 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Barbados are tax havens. A comprehensive Zucman study in 2018 stated Ireland was the world’s number one tax haven with an effective tax rate of 4%. What is the Minister’s opinion as to what the effective corporation tax rate is in this State? Zucman stated it is 4%, Deloitte, Matheson and Grant Thornton have all marketed themselves as...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Minister for Finance (14 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: I will leave it at that. Many observers would raise an eyebrow at it being claimed our effective tax is between 10% and 11% but in any case I will park that one. On the issue of the summer economic statement, we are given to understand from press reports this morning that the issue at stake at Cabinet is the question of the public spend on housing. People are currently experiencing the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Minister for Finance (14 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: I hear what the Minister is saying. He is supportive of increasing public spending on housing but the reports we are hearing is there is a difference of opinion in Cabinet as to the extent of the increase that would be put into housing by the State. Is it not the case the Minister is arguing for a lesser amount than some of his Cabinet colleagues?