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Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: Councillor Leah Whelan is a Socialist Party councillor in Tallaght in the constituency of Dublin South-West. She is 25 years-old. Leah is in a WhatsApp group with 21 of her friends. Some 16 of those friends have emigrated. All of them have left this year. Three of them left earlier today. What does the Government offer this generation? There is a €500 tax credit for renters,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: A moratorium on electricity and gas disconnections is in place for this winter. For most customers, the moratorium will be place from the beginning of December to the end of February. For vulnerable customers, the moratorium will apply from October to March. While this moratorium is very welcome, does it apply to all electricity and gas customers? Approximately 10% of electricity users...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: I am gobsmacked by the Tánaiste’s reply. He said that ideally, it should apply to everybody. However, that implies, and he clearly indicated, that it does not apply to everybody. Who are the people it does not apply to? They are the people who have been disconnected in the past and put onto the meters and are, in many cases, the lower-income people in society. Many of them...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: We will return to this.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: I wish to make three proposals as to how approximately 200,000 pay-as-you-go gas and electricity customers can be protected from the threat of disconnection this winter. The first is to allow customers to transfer from pay-as-you-go bill pay without any obstacles, such as by removing the €199 transfer charge for gas, etc. Disconnections are already banned on bank holidays, Saturdays,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [46036/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment will next meet. [48634/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: Economic recovery, but for who? Tens of thousands of pay-as-you-go gas and electricity customers are yet to be convinced that the Government has a plan to protect them from disconnection this winter. Meanwhile, PrepayPower made profits of €14.2 million in 2020, up 27% from the previous year. It is majority-owned by Ulric Kenny, who increased his wealth by €30 million in 2020....

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Programmes (4 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 66. To ask the Taoiseach his views on the national reform programme for the European Semester 2022 that was published by his Department in April 2022. [44929/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Programmes (4 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 67. To ask the Taoiseach his views on the national reform programme. [44930/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (4 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 141. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of non-compliances among fishing vessel owners related to their engagement of non-European Economic Area fishers that have been made by the Workplace Relations Commission inspectorate since that scheme’s inception in 2016; the number of individual vessel owners who are represented among those non-compliances; and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Maritime Safety (4 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of occasions, if any, that the Marine Survey Office has prosecuted fishing vessel owners for switching off their vessel’s automatic identification system in contravention of SI No. 640 of 2007, Merchant Shipping (Safety of Fishing Vessels) (15 to 24 metres) Regulations 2007 section 10 paragraphs (6) and (7); and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (4 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 474. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a number of incidents (details supplied); the resources, if any, which have been allocated to the International Protection Accommodation Services and the Ukraine crisis temporary accommodation team to address these matters; if guidance has been provided to staff and management...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (4 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 540. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fishers, past and present, who have been enrolled on the atypical work permit scheme for non-European Economic Area fishers to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48211/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (4 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 541. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vessel owners who currently employ fishers under the atypical work permit scheme for non-European Economic Area fishers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48213/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Workplace Relations Commission (4 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 644. To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish the independent radiation therapist review as agreed with the HSE and unions at the Workplace Relations Commission; the measures that he will take to ensure that the vacancies among radiation therapists will be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48216/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Work Permits (4 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 734. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated number of vessels that are eligible for the atypical work permit scheme [48213/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (4 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 757. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an individual or agency has been engaged to conduct the social risk assessment with reference to the fisheries improvement projects that are supported by Bord Iascaigh Mhara and the extract from a website (details supplied); if so, if he will identify the individual or agency; the persons who sit on the social working group; the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (4 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 758. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of vessels in the Irish fishing fleet that are eligible to employ fishers as part of the atypical work permit scheme for non-European Economic Area fishers; the number of vessel owners who are represented among that segment of the fleet; the number of those vessels with fishers currently employed under the terms of the...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: The case for free public transport is overwhelming and unanswerable. In Germany this summer, the €9 monthly rail fare scheme was availed of by 52 million people, equivalent to 60% of the population. The scheme reduced CO2 emissions by 1.8 million tonnes. Free public transport was implemented in Spain last month. That scheme will run to the end of the year. In Tallinn, the capital...