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Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: What did the Government do this afternoon? It tweaked the system a little bit. It gave a few crumbs from the table but the rich will stay rich and the poor will stay poor. Many will die preventable deaths frozen in their homes this winter. Let us start with that. An extra €5 on the fuel allowance, which is payable for 28 weeks, means a total increase of €140. We know that,...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach told the Dáil today that new rent caps are on the way. The way things are going, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, will end up with more caps than Robbie Keane. First of all, it was a 0% cap, which was okay, then it was a 4% cap, then the cap was the rate of inflation, and now it will be something else again. Let me spell it out for the Minister of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [47971/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 24. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [50874/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: I am most definitely not Deputy Alan Kelly.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: I just want to put that on the record. When will the European Council set aside time to discuss an action plan to combat femicide? In Ireland, the death toll mounts. I refer to Nadine Lott, Anne Colomines and many others, including Katrina Rainey who was burned alive in her car in Derry last week. In Europe, in just 20 countries more than 1,000 femicides took place in 2018. There is a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: Nadim Hussain is a 34-year-old man from India. He is from a Muslim background. In 2018, both of his parents were killed in anti-Muslim violence. Nadim came to Ireland. He currently lives in Cork city, at the Kinsale Road direct provision centre. Nadim worked all the way through the pandemic. He worked in a hospital as a security worker. He paid his taxes. Last month, Nadim received a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: I want to restate the basic point that this man is on the sixth day of a hunger strike. Tomorrow is day seven of this hunger strike. The man's GP has expressed some serious concerns about the effect of this on him, particularly on his kidneys. He is not talking in terms of weeks but about the next number of days. I have requested that the Minister of State would contact the man directly...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: The Government kicked to touch in budget week on the issue of a Covid bonus for front-line workers but it cannot keep kicking to touch every week. Did the Taoiseach note The Irish Times/MRBI poll last week which showed 79% support for paying the bonus to public sector front-line workers and majority support for making a payment to private sector front-line workers too? What steps does the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 met last; and when it is next due to meet. [47972/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 met last; and when it is next due to meet. [50875/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination last met and will next meet. [47973/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: Yesterday Maynooth University published a report into the experience of non-EEA workers in the Irish fishing industry. This includes workers from countries such as Egypt, the Philippines and Ghana. Many who were surveyed were paid below our national minimum wage. Many reported work days of 15 hours and up to 20 hours. More than 50% of the workers surveyed had experienced racial verbal...

Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: I will start by saying a few words about femicide. In Northern Ireland, 11 women have been murdered since the lockdown in March 2020. Imagine if there had been 11 sectarian murders in the same period. It would be all over the news and, having been all over the news, the whole island would be talking about it. If it was because of which community you came from, it would be a significant...

Covid-19: Reframing the Challenge, Continuing our Recovery and Reconnecting: Statements (21 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: I will start by making a point on hospitality and the situation we will have tomorrow. In the past 24 to 48 hours, we have heard from the hotel industry, the restaurateurs and the publicans. The group we have not heard from very much in the media, and I challenge the media on this, is the workers in the hospitality industry. In some ways this is not surprising. Those workers are generally...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (21 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way the labour force survey of the Irish fishing fleet being conducted by a company (details supplied) on behalf of Bord Iascaigh Mhara will capture data relating to migrant fishers, both documented and undocumented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51710/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (21 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 7. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the banning of hare coursing given the cruel nature of the practice and the protected nature of the hare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51711/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (21 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider allowing asylum seekers to be granted residency after a number of years in the system given the undue delays assessing applications; if she will consider the case of a family (details supplied) for leave to remain; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51717/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (21 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for the scheme to regularise undocumented persons; when the scheme will be opened; if she will consider broadening the scheme to ensure all time living in Ireland will count towards eligibility to the scheme; if she will consider changes to citizenship law to allow for time being undocumented to count towards the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 154. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending access to free contraception to all persons that request it as per the recommendations of the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution; the forms of contraception that will be available under the scheme; if he will consider a choice of contraception and for the scheme to be introduced ahead of the August...