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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: The key point that has been raised in this debate is the Minister's admission that there is no legal impediment which would allow for pay increases and bonuses for low-paid and middle-paid banking staff on the one hand, while maintaining a pay maximum and super tax on bonuses for the people at the top. That completely undermines the line of argument that was put forward in the Dáil...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: I will clarify this point because the Minister wants to make a mountain out a molehill, and he can shake his head all he wants. The key point I am making on the pay of low-paid and middle-paid banking workers is as follows. The issue of variable pay becomes far less of an issue if the key question of the unsatisfactory basic rates of pay is dealt with. There are too many low-paid workers...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: The pay rates have remained low when the State has had a majority share.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: It had no influence whatsoever.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (6 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: I am glad to see the Minister opposing, in effect, the position being argued by the Tánaiste. I want to make some points about tasers because this is part of the debate now. The Garda Representative Association, GRA, has supported arming gardaí with tasers. That would be a step in the wrong direction. In the United States, more than 1,000 people have been killed by police, the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (6 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: I might come back some other day to discuss the question of body cameras. I want to use my remaining time to ask about the killing of George Nkencho by gardaí two years ago now. George's family were given to understand by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, that every attempt would be made to complete that investigation within a year of the killing, which would...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (6 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: 2. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will support an alteration to the policy in relation to the arming of gardaí; if she will support more gardaí being armed with firearms or tasers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60564/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (6 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: What is the Minister's position on the arming of gardaí? What is her position as regards the idea of more gardaí being armed with firearms or tasers? I am coming from a position of opposing steps in that direction. It has been a matter of some public debate recently with the comments of the Tánaiste so I am interested in hearing the Minister's position.

Teacher Shortages: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: There is not a lack of teachers; it is full-time permanent teaching posts of which there is a lack. Why would a young teacher who is thinking of emigrating after Christmas stick around for a one-year contract? Why would a person who has already emigrated come back for a one-year contract? Teachers coming back to Dublin or Cork will be asked to pay €25,000 a year rent in one city and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: It froze again last night, and the cold snap is set to go on through the weekend. The cost of heating a home was high in October and November. In December, it looks like it might go through the roof. Many who have not yet faced the choice of heating or eating will face it now. On Tuesday, a reporter from a Cork radio station spent the day with the local charity, Penny Dinners. He counted...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: The State is taking steps, but are the steps sufficient? According to bruegel.org, the German state is spending 7.4% of its GDP on shielding households and businesses from the energy crisis; the Irish State is spending 0.9%. In Greece, most households will have 90% of the energy price increases covered by the State. Cold snaps can make or break governments. Forty years ago, a Fine...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: What about a forum for the Opposition?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (6 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: 31. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the publication of the review of the atypical work permit scheme for non-EEA fishers and resulting improved permit system that should accrue to those fishers who are currently documented in the atypical scheme and to those non-EEA fishers who may be employed in the future, if she will also consider offering to those...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (6 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: 37. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the scheme to regularise undocumented persons; if she will consider adjustments to the scheme to ensure those such as fishers who were in the atypical scheme can have a pathway to regularisation; if she will support other initiatives to allow those who are undocumented access to regularisation; and if she...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: We need a Dáil debate on the issue of this cold snap. We need a debate on how we will help people to keep their homes warm despite the massive increases in gas and electricity prices. The Government will say there is the €200 credit, but there are households who are burning through that €200 energy credit in the seven to ten days of this cold snap alone. Some of these...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: As I do every Saturday afternoon.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: We will talk about that in a minute

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: Householders are burning through their €200 energy credits at a rate of knots in this cold snap. I spoke to a woman on the north side of Cork city last night living in a council house with a poor building energy rating, BER. She is spending €10 per day on electricity, €10 per day on gas and €7 per day on coal and blocks. She is a pay as you go customer and her...