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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (30 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will increase the SUSI grants to take account of the increase in rents and living expenses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58654/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (30 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider the demands raised by a union (details supplied) in its recent demonstrations in relation to the abolition of the student contribution charge given the increase in living costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58653/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (30 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he can provide assurances that Youthreach staff and their employers and boards of management are not in breach of legislation in circumstances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58711/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Work Permits (30 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 486. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of individual fishers who have received letters of approval since the inception of the atypical work permit scheme for non-EEA fishers; the number of occasions on which a fisher managed to extract themselves from a contract with a vessel owner and locate an alternative vessel owner to engage them under the terms of...

Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: We are 20 months into a global pandemic and the Government has introduced zero legislation on improving air quality or combating air pollution indoors. The Government has introduced CO2 monitors into schools in a half-arsed way as it shares them between the classes. No HEPA filters have been installed as a matter of course and there has been no legislation on them. This is despite the fact...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach comes from a family with a tradition of boxing. I believe he has a couple of years on me but, like myself, he will remember the greats of the 1970s and how they would manoeuvre their opponents onto the ropes and punish them with a seemingly never-ending barrage of body blows. Ordinary people are being punished with a seemingly never-ending barrage of financial body blows in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: When older people are freezing in their homes this winter, will the Taoiseach knock on the door and tell them that it is all right because the European Central Bank says the spike is only temporary? He should get real. There is a need for action. He has said that this is a Europe-wide crisis and it is. Is the Taoiseach aware of the fact that, under massive pressure from their populations,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: Those who are under the age of 25 normally receive a reduced rate of jobseeker's allowance. However, those who are deemed to be living independently receive the full amount of €203 as opposed to €112.70. Those who are deemed to be living independently would include those who access the housing assistance payment, HAP, the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, council housing and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [58667/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: What is the Government's vision for the development of our cities? Is it a vision in which the agenda is dictated by developers and by speculators, or is it one where the agenda is the needs of ordinary people? We have already seen a real debate open up in Dublin on the issue of Dublin docklands and the question of gentrification. I believe we also need a debate around what is to happen to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the public conversation on the well-being framework for Ireland. [59073/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress made on the economic recovery plan published by his Department in May 2021 [59074/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 24. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [59075/21]

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 2: In page 10, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “Reports 3. Within three months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay a report before the Dáil, on the cost to the exchequer of abolishing the USC and replacing it with a High Income Social Charge of 10 per cent on all earnings over €90,000.”.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: I will make a brief point and ask the Minister a question. We support the amendment. Renters have been hammered from pillar to post in recent years. I will not go back over all the points. They have been debated here many times. There is a clear need, in our opinion, for, at the very minimum, a national rent freeze. Many renters would say we need to go further than that and find a way...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: The Minister spent quite a bit of time going on a big attack against Opposition Deputies, but he did not answer the question that I put to him, so I will put the question to him again. Can he clarify, in relation to the Government's new housing legislation, that it is indeed the case that landlords who did not increase the rent last year or in previous years will be permitted, under this...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 10: In page 20, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: "Reports 16.Within three months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay a report before the Dáil, on the abolition of the Special Assignee Relief Programme on tax justice grounds.". Not too long ago, I was listening to the radio in the morning and heard the Minister for Health talking...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the practice of third-level institutions passing on student debt arising from unpaid fees to debt collectors; if he will introduce regulations to prevent the practice and to prevent the selling on of such debt to third-parties;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59213/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 185. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether there is an urgent need to increase the number of neurology nurses in the State in order to bring the numbers up to international standards (details supplied); if he will provide funding for at least an additional 16 neurology nurses for Cork University Hospital as part of 100 additional neurology nurses across the State;; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 186. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to put the infrastructure in place to administer a third dose of Covid-19 vaccines to all age groups following the advice of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on third doses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59215/21]