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Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Change Negotiations (24 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference. [57285/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Change Negotiations (24 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: Yesterday, the Commission for Regulation of Utilities outlined new rules for data centres that want to connect to the electricity grid. I do not believe these changes would have come through if the issue had not been highlighted and campaigned on by climate campaigners. However, I also do not believe that the commission has gone nearly far enough. One condition is that centres must provide...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [57286/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: The Tánaiste has now raised the possibility that the Government decision on antigen testing might be delayed until the Cabinet meeting next Tuesday. Does the Taoiseach think this is an acceptable delay? It is 20 months into the pandemic, with more than 5,000 cases on some days, yet there is no action from the Government on this issue. Can the Taoiseach argue with my contention that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach did not answer my question with regard to the announcement on the elective hospitals.

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: This Bill arises from a case taken against Ireland by the EU Commission arising from an incontestable observation that the system for investigating marine accidents in Irish waters was flagrantly lacking in independence and grossly under-resourced. Ireland lost the case in July of last year. The heads of this Bill were presented late last year and discussed at the Oireachtas transport...

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: It is the data centres.

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: I will focus my comments on the situation in schools. We have 600 teachers who tested positive for Covid in the first two weeks of November and 10,000 primary students absent from school for Covid-related reasons. In fact, one school in Cork has 100 students who have contracted Covid since mid-term out of a school population of just 765. Why? It is clear that the Government moved to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department ensures that all those working in schools have racial sensitivity training; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57288/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (23 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 323. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 413 of 9 September 2021, if he will report on the progress on allocation of further resources to reduce the processing times for applications to the foreign births register; the number of applications on the foreign births register system currently awaiting processing; the current processing time for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fishing Industry (25 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider permitting the regularisation of fishers in the atypical scheme for non-EEA workers on stamp 4 equivalent status given the fact that those who are undocumented in the sector may be able to avail of a stamp 4 status through a scheme to regularise undocumented status; and if she will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fishing Industry (25 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: Will the Minister for Justice consider permitting the regularisation of fishers in the atypical scheme for non-EEA workers on stamp 4 equivalent status, given the fact that those who are undocumented in the sector may be able to avail of a stamp 4 status through a scheme to regularise undocumented status will she make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fishing Industry (25 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: There are thousands of undocumented workers who have been on the edge of their seats all year since the scheme was flagged, hoping there was a path that might improve their situation. The fact that the Department did not announce the details as promised in September, and has still not announced the details, has only added to the anxiety. My question focuses on a likely unfair anomaly in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fishing Industry (25 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: Given that the publication of the scheme is a bit down the road yet, let us make sure that the anomalies are dealt with. Anomaly number two is the patent unfairness of a situation whereby an undocumented fisher potentially has a clear path to avail of the scheme and obtain the visa stamp 4 that comes with it, freeing that person to work for any employer in any sector, a crew mate who is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (25 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 15. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that the full pandemic unemployment payment is made available for workers losing work as a result of recent Covid-19 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57936/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will take measures to ensure that those who are homeless, living independently of their parents and under 25 years of age will be eligible for full unemployment payments in line with those in a similar situation but availing of the housing assistance payment or local authority housing; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (25 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on progress on a scheme to regularise undocumented persons; if she will consider time while documented as reckonable time to be eligible for the scheme; if the scheme will be subject to ministerial discretion for regularisation of individual applications or be given as a right if criteria are met; if time...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: I would like to let Deputy Farrell speak before me because she has to leave to speak in the Chamber.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: There was some very interesting breaking news this morning about corporation profits. The insurance industry reported that it had €163 million in operating profits last year, the highest figure in more than a decade. The report stated that you would have to go back to 2009 at least to see a higher figure. It could be even further than that. Last year, there was a 26% decline in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: I would like a chance to reply to some of the points that the Minister made.