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Covid-19 (Special Educational Needs Provision): Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: The Minister states that she wants a traditional leaving certificate. To hell with the Minister's tradition. Tradition is not more important than health. Tradition is not more important than mental health. Tradition does not take into account the fact that these students have experienced serious disruption to their course, not once but twice.

Covid-19 (Special Educational Needs Provision): Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: It is a debate on education.

Covid-19 (Special Educational Needs Provision): Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: There are special needs students doing the leaving certificate.

Covid-19 (Special Educational Needs Provision): Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: What do the students want? Yesterday's Irish Second-Level Students' Union, ISSU poll of more than 20,000 students should give the Minister a fairly good idea. Four per cent want the Minister's traditional leaving certificate. Eighty-one per cent want a break with that model, as either a first or second choice for them is that they would have a choice between a watered down leaving...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: 392. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering lengthening the time between the administration of first and second doses of a vaccine (details supplied) or other Covid-19 vaccines; the consultation that has been had with the manufacturers; if the lengthening of time has been endorsed by the manufacturers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3232/21]

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: One week from its publication, this report is widely discredited. The decision of its authors to disregard the witness testimonies in its conclusions was particularly galling. To state in the report that there was "very little evidence that children were forcibly taken from their mothers" or that the commission "accepts that the mothers did not have much choice but that is not the same as...

EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Motion (20 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: This agreement ends a chapter in the Brexit saga but it does not bring to an end the tensions between the capitalist powers. The agreement sets a framework in which ongoing tensions can be increased. The deal was negotiated and drawn up by representatives of British big business and their European counterparts. Such an agreement can never be in the fundamental interests of working people...

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: I put it to the Minister that this is the most challenging week in the history of Ireland's health service. There are 2,000 Covid patients in our hospitals with 200 Covid patients in our intensive care units. There were 93 deaths yesterday. Last weekend there was the death of a nurse in a Kilkenny nursing home. With all of this going on, the Minister has decided that fourth year students,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (20 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: 7. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of inspections carried out by the Workplace Relations Commission on Irish-flagged fishing vessels from January 2020 to December 2020; the number of prosecutions subsequently initiated by the Workplace Relations Commission as a result of these inspections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2316/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (20 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of undocumented fishers discovered on board vessels during inspections on Irish-flagged fishing vessels from January to December 2020 within the scope of the inspection powers of the Workplace Relations Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2317/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (20 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: 9. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if concerns emerged about matters that fell within the scope of the Marine Survey Office in the course of Workplace Relation Commission inspections of Irish-flagged fishing vessels from January to December 2020; the number of referrals made by the Workplace Relations Commission to the Marine Survey Office; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Workplace Relations Commission (20 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: 75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of referrals made to the Marine Survey Office by the Workplace Relations Commission arising from inspection the latter made on Irish-flagged fishing vessels from January to December 2020; the status and outcomes of each referral made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2319/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Postal Voting (20 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: 199. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on extending postal votes to those who on polling day are in the later stages of pregnancy or have recently given birth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2301/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (20 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: 200. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on extending voting rights in local and European elections to 16 year olds and 17 year olds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2302/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (20 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: 201. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on extending eligibility to vote in elections to Dáil Éireann to persons resident here who are not Irish citizens; extending eligibility to vote in elections to the European Parliament to persons resident here who are not citizens of an EU member state; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2303/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: 484. To ask the Minister for Health the number of health staff he estimates will be required to administer the Covid-19 vaccination; the number that will come from the existing health service; the number that will be newly recruited; the number that will come from the private sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2304/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: 486. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff in the health service that have been trained to give vaccination injections since March 2020; his plans to increase this training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2306/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: 485. To ask the Minister for Health the contingencies he will make to replace staff in the health service who are transferred to work in the Covid-19 vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2305/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: 487. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the contacts and plans he has made with the private health sector in the provision of the Covid-19 vaccinations; if he will publish details including the costs of any contracts with the private sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2307/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: 627. To ask the Minister for Health if persons who can certify that they have received the full Covid-19 vaccination will need to comply with the regulations relating to restricting their movements when entering the State from abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2765/21]