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Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 met last; and when it is next due to meet. [50875/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: The Government kicked to touch in budget week on the issue of a Covid bonus for front-line workers but it cannot keep kicking to touch every week. Did the Taoiseach note The Irish Times/MRBI poll last week which showed 79% support for paying the bonus to public sector front-line workers and majority support for making a payment to private sector front-line workers too? What steps does the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: Nadim Hussain is a 34-year-old man from India. He is from a Muslim background. In 2018, both of his parents were killed in anti-Muslim violence. Nadim came to Ireland. He currently lives in Cork city, at the Kinsale Road direct provision centre. Nadim worked all the way through the pandemic. He worked in a hospital as a security worker. He paid his taxes. Last month, Nadim received a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: I want to restate the basic point that this man is on the sixth day of a hunger strike. Tomorrow is day seven of this hunger strike. The man's GP has expressed some serious concerns about the effect of this on him, particularly on his kidneys. He is not talking in terms of weeks but about the next number of days. I have requested that the Minister of State would contact the man directly...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [47971/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 24. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [50874/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: I am most definitely not Deputy Alan Kelly.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: I just want to put that on the record. When will the European Council set aside time to discuss an action plan to combat femicide? In Ireland, the death toll mounts. I refer to Nadine Lott, Anne Colomines and many others, including Katrina Rainey who was burned alive in her car in Derry last week. In Europe, in just 20 countries more than 1,000 femicides took place in 2018. There is a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 154. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending access to free contraception to all persons that request it as per the recommendations of the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution; the forms of contraception that will be available under the scheme; if he will consider a choice of contraception and for the scheme to be introduced ahead of the August...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 185. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that all maternity hospitals in the State will provide abortion services; if it will be ensured that the review of the abortion legislation will examine the measures needed to ensure provision of abortion services in all hospitals and in all areas of the State; if a guarantee can be provided that the national maternity hospital when based...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Marine Accidents (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 330. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will publish unedited the report commissioned by him from a person (details supplied) that has been with his Department since July 2021; the reason for the delay in its publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50740/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Funding (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 368. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking to oppose the proposal to include nuclear power as a power that can be classified as renewable for the purposes of EU investment in renewable sources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50741/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Support Services (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 696. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason her Department has not succeeded in closing down an online operation (details supplied) that automatically books interview slots with immigration services and then sells on these slots at a €40 charge to migrants with a genuine need for a face-to-face appointment; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 697. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda National Immigration Bureau can agree to a face-to-face appointment with an Egyptian national (details supplied]) who was recently granted a change of status but is required by the Egyptian authorities to have an up-to-date visa sticker on their recently renewed Egyptian passport if they are to be permitted to...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach told the Dáil today that new rent caps are on the way. The way things are going, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, will end up with more caps than Robbie Keane. First of all, it was a 0% cap, which was okay, then it was a 4% cap, then the cap was the rate of inflation, and now it will be something else again. Let me spell it out for the Minister of...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: What did the Government do this afternoon? It tweaked the system a little bit. It gave a few crumbs from the table but the rich will stay rich and the poor will stay poor. Many will die preventable deaths frozen in their homes this winter. Let us start with that. An extra €5 on the fuel allowance, which is payable for 28 weeks, means a total increase of €140. We know that,...

Recovery of Tourism and Aviation: Statements (7 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: I want to make a few brief points about wages at Aer Lingus. The company saved €188 million last year on employee costs, which is a 46% reduction on 2019. Perhaps we should expect nothing less in a global pandemic. However, this was the largest percentage cut in any airline in the International Airlines Group, IAG. Interestingly, Aer Lingus represents approximately 6% of that group...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: I see the former Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine was comparing the Tánaiste's policies to my policies at the Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting yesterday. I hope the Tánaiste will take him outside and have a quiet word and get that knocked on the head. The Tánaiste will get me into terrible trouble with my comrades. Under this Government, thousands of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 61. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the changes she is considering to the work schemes under the Pathways to Work initiative given the abuses of same by employers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48663/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (7 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 124. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he will take to increase the funding and resources for services combating gender-based violence and assisting those impacted by Covid-19 given the well documented rise in gender-based violence during the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48662/21]