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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 there Chairman. I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: I will be brief. I have two questions for the Minister. Before I pose them, I want to make it clear - the Minister is aware of this - that I am an opponent of this property tax. I believe that it is wrongly named and that it could be more accurately described as a tax on the family home. I have no issue with real property taxes such as, for example, a tax on the owners of multiple...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: I would like to put a brief supplementary question on the Minister's response to the first question regarding pending increases. The Minister has indicated that approximately 30% of households will face an increase. The figure I have, which is taken from reports and the media, is 36%, which is closer to 40% than 30%. The Minister might confirm that that is the case. On statistics, the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (9 Sep 2021)

Mick Barry: 43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the microgeneration scheme will be opened for households to allow them to share excess energy to the national grid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41737/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (9 Sep 2021)

Mick Barry: 413. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the foreign births register will be reopened; the estimated backlog in applications; if he will consider reviewing the way the register is managed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41738/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2021)

Mick Barry: 526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she will take to protect women in early pregnancy who cannot receive a Covid-19 vaccine in workplaces that involve being exposed to large numbers of persons such as teaching; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41986/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2021)

Mick Barry: 527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take measures to safeguard the health and safety of teachers who are in early pregnancy and cannot avail of a Covid-19 vaccine yet will be in classrooms with large numbers of unvaccinated persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41987/21]

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

Mick Barry: It is good to be back. The big dark cave up on the Liffey kind of suited the Government. There are fewer places to hide in here. No. 16 on the Order Paper is the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA. It gives power to corporations to sue governments for progressive policies. CETA must not go to a vote in this House without a proper prior debate on the floor of the House....

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

Mick Barry: Fifteen minutes ago, the Taoiseach told the Dáil we do not want students living in hotel rooms. However, the Government has failed to stop students being forced to do precisely that. It is not just hotel rooms. In Cork city, 100 students are living in one hostel on Wellington Road at the moment. Officers of the student union in UCC tell us that more than 1,000 students have no proper...

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

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach seems to have swanned off on his summer holidays without taking action until it hit him straight in the face, and all he can say now is the dog ate his homework. What is he going to do, not in 2030 or next year but now?

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

Mick Barry: There is a crisis right across the country.

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

Mick Barry: What is the Taoiseach going to do now? There is a crisis now.

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

Mick Barry: What is the Taoiseach going to do now, this week?

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Mick Barry: The Zappone affair cannot be explained simply by the sense of entitlement felt by merchant princes. Fine Gael has been in power for more than ten years now. Its Ministers believe that power is theirs by right. The Varadkar leaks affair showed that last year; the Zappone affair shows it this year. As well as being the Minister most caught up in the lobbying, cronyism and deception of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2021)

Mick Barry: 49. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he will take to ensure the maximum possible engagement with workers and their representatives in the process of the return to work with the easing of Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43779/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2021)

Mick Barry: I ask the Tánaiste what measures he will take to ensure the maximum possible engagement with workers and their representatives in the process of the return to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2021)

Mick Barry: On the issue of health and safety and maximum consultation, the Government decided to implement 100% capacity on public transport at short notice the week that schools went back. No opinion was sought from NPHET. There was no consultation with public transport workers who, by the way, played a key role in guiding society through the pandemic. However, the workers rejected the Government's...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2021)

Mick Barry: While workers will be back to work on 20 September, the teachers went back to work three weeks ago. The employer, the State, did not set a very good example in this regard either. Best practice ordains that every classroom should have a filter and a carbon dioxide monitor. Proper mitigation measures, according to Professor Orla Hegarty, would cost €10 per child. They were not put...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2021)

Mick Barry: The question was whether the Minister of State will join me in making a call to the companies to say that under no circumstances should pay cuts of the kind in question be implemented here. I would appreciate an answer to that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2021)

Mick Barry: No clear call from the Minister of State.