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Private Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2021)

Mick Barry: The Minister lifted the blanket ban on rent increases and evictions. He bowed to the landlord lobby when he did so. He was warned on the floor of this Dáil of what the consequences of his actions would be and, unfortunately, we are beginning to see the consequences of those actions already. Last Friday the Inner City Helping Homeless group reported the case of a healthcare worker who...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (5 May 2021)

Mick Barry: 634. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the structure and timeline of the review under section 7 of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; if he will be accepting submissions from the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23170/21]

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: I want to express my support for the open letter published recently by more than 400 academics researching climate and environmental change protesting the worldwide attempts to criminalise non-violent climate protest. The letter states that those who put their voices and bodies on the line to raise the alarm are being threatened and silenced by the very countries they seek to protect. I...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: Five hundred ESB network technicians are on strike today. They are striking over plans to outsource their jobs to private contractors and are making a stand against creeping privatisation. The company refuses to recognise their union, the Independent Workers Union, or to meet it at the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, to try to sort out the differences. Instead, it is threatening to...

Covid-19, Mental Health and Older People: Statements (29 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: I want to raise the issue of nursing homes. The four-visits-per-week rule comes into force next Tuesday. Under the restrictions in place for the last while, two visits per week were permitted. The organisation, Care Champions, says it is aware that at least 70 of the 580 nursing homes in this State, more than 10%, have not applied the two-visits-per-week rule. In many cases, this was not...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his engagements with the President of the United States of America. [20335/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (28 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: The Citizens' Assembly on gender equality has recommended a slew of changes. I will concentrate on the call by the assembly to amend the notoriously sexist Article 41.2, which states that mothers have duties within the home. This was part of the Constitution in order to give constitutional status to the social teachings of the Catholic Church. It is backward, sexist and sectarian and it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: More than 3,000 people died from Covid in just one day in India yesterday. More than 360,000 were infected in the same day. The images on our television screens are ones of horror, showing a shortage of oxygen, car parks converted to crematoriums and a shortage of wood for funeral pyres. Meanwhile the Financial Timesreports: "As industry lobbying has escalated in Washington, companies have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (28 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: 14. To ask the Taoiseach the expected running order of citizens’ assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [21878/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [20334/21]

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: The proposition before the Dáil at the moment is simple. The idea is that if a student cannot take up the place he or she has rented for public health reasons, whether he or she is ill, has to isolate or is unable to travel, the rents and related charges should be returned. The vast majority of people would say that is basic common sense. It is, however, a common sense with which the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (28 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: 273. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce regulations or take steps to prevent insurers denying cover or loading premia for those who are type 1 diabetic and who are managing their condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21443/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (28 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: 504. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised the recent announcement of deportations of Syrian and other asylum seekers from Denmark to detention centres outside the EU with his Danish counterpart, the Danish Ambassador or within the EU institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21312/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (28 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: 694. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will bring forward legislation on banning so-called conversion therapy aimed at LGBTQ persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21311/21]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: I will begin by adding my voice to the comments of the Chairperson and Deputy Doherty as to what I consider to be the non-reply received with regard to the correspondence sent on the issue of the pay increase for the Secretary General of the Department of Health. I echo the points raised earlier. I mainly want to ask the Taoiseach about Covid supports, and the pandemic unemployment...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: I will comment on that. It is the case that the percentage of the population that is fully vaccinated at 8.06% is ahead of the European average of 7.8%. These are the most recent figures I have, but they are two days old and the Taoiseach may have access to more recent ones. If he can, he might clarify. All of that said, the percentage of the population that has received one dose is 20%...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: The figures for the first dose are Ireland on 20% and the EU on 21.26%. We are behind. What is probably a more accurate figure is doses per hundred,-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: -----which puts Ireland at 28.6 and the EU ahead of us at 29.18. I am putting it to the Taoiseach-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: These are figures from two days ago on Sunday.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: Those figures are two days old. The Taoiseach may have more accurate ones. As of two days ago, we were behind rather than ahead. Not massively, but it is best to be clear on the position. Perhaps the Taoiseach can clarify further. In any case, I will turn to the key point that I want to raise. The Irish Examinerreported yesterday that there was to be a special Cabinet meeting at which...