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Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Covid-19 and health unit of his Department. [8387/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: The National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, meets tomorrow to discuss its advice to Government regarding schools. I want to ask the Taoiseach whether he and his Minister for Education intend to fully consult with workers in the schools, including the teachers, before they make decisions on these issues. Covid is far from a done deal in the schools. In fact, there were 14,390 teachers...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: 24. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality will next meet. [8388/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: Why did the State agree to sell 22 acres of Coillte land at Ballymartle Forest in Riverstick, County Cork to private interests? Does the Taoiseach accept that the State needs to rapidly expand its forest lands, rather than selling them off to the private sector? I congratulate the local campaigners whose highlighting of this issue has persuaded Coillte to pause the sale to allow for more...

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: The report's level of ambition option 3 states, "As part of a national Air Defence Plan, the Air Corps would develop an air combat and intercept capability through the acquisition of a squadron of jet combat aircraft". This is total madness. A squadron is made up of between 12 and 24 aircraft. The average procurement cost of a single fighter aircraft in the NATO area is €99 million....

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: The report recommends that we consider it as an option, if the Minister would not mind stopping interrupting. Deputy Coveney is very jumpy in this discussion, if he does not mind me making the observation. It is the Minister's fifth intervention in the space of 15 minutes. I will continue.

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: The Minister will get a serious debate-----

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: -----not the kind of soft points that he has got from his backbenchers. The Minister will get a real debate from these benches.

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: What is the price for our environment? Just three missions from one F-35 fighter jet would result in more carbon emissions than that of the entire fleet of Bus Éireann for a year. I did not hear the Green Party raise any points about this in the debate. That is what I mean when I talked about soft points. This is the price that the Minister, Deputy Coveney, would ask us to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take measures to ensure that a student (details supplied) who is taking physical education as a leaving certificate examination subject as an external candidate can be assessed for their performance assessment and physical activity project even though they have not carried these out in a school setting due to complications during...

Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (22 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: There is a citizens' assembly for 2022 to elect a mayor for Dublin but no citizens' assembly for the drug issue. It shows how out of touch the Government is. In my constituency, Cork North-Central, we have communities absolutely plagued by drug-dealing. We have people whose lives have been wrecked or even lost due to drug misuse. The war on drugs strategy has clearly failed. There is a...

Carbon Tax: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: To listen to the Government speak about the cost-of-living crisis, we would swear it was an act of God and it did not have any hand, act or part in it itself. The reality is it is adding to the cost-of-living crisis by increasing carbon tax on home heating oil on 1 May and taxes on auto fuel on 12 October. The €200 credit on electricity bills will be severely eaten into and in some...

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach is reported in the press this morning as saying families should brace themselves for the pain. The stand-off between NATO and the Putin regime brings more bad news for hard-pressed households. The price of European wholesale gas was up 10% yesterday. Commodity economists in London are saying crude oil could reach $120 to $140 per barrel. We all know whose shoulders this is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (23 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the policing reform implementation programme office based in his Department. [8389/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (23 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, investigation into the killing of George Nkencho had a targeted finish date of 30 December, the one-year anniversary of George's death. That deadline was not met. Not only was it not met, but it is now eight weeks past the deadline with no indication of when the investigation will be completed. Can the Taoiseach provide the House...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Europe will next meet. [9692/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: In many European countries, front-line workers have expressed their opposition and concerns with regard to the rapid dismantling of Covid restrictions, including the mandatory wearing of masks. While it is true the Irish Government has been slightly slower to move in this direction, concerns are being expressed here by workers such as teachers, special needs assistants, SNAs, public...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (23 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: 22. To ask the Taoiseach when the shared island unit will hold its next dialogue. [9693/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (23 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: I raise once more the closure of Regina Coeli House in Belfast, which is a vital resource for victims of domestic violence, among others. Today marks the completion of six weeks of strike and sit-in by Unite works at the hostel, demanding that the facility be handed over to the state and kept open. Has the Taoiseach raised this with members of the Northern Ireland Executive, as he promised...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (23 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach has not raised it.