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Covid-19 (Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: An extraordinary report appeared in The Business Postlast weekend to the effect that the Government is considering vaccinating 61,000 students in order to allow them to sit the leaving certificate. I wonder which vulnerable group in society would be pushed down the vaccine queue in order to allow for such an extraordinary measure. I wish to ask the Minister about reports regarding the...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (13 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: The Government was full of praise for itself when Ireland had one of the lowest rates of infection in Europe before Christmas. Now it is trying to dodge responsibility when Ireland has the highest rate of Covid infection in the world. The Taoiseach went on the Claire Byrne show and tried to put the lion's share of the blame on the UK variant. He did not comment yesterday when Mike Ryan...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: This was the Ireland that was presided over by the men whose pictures hang on the walls of the Taoiseach and Tánaiste. It was the Ireland of Eamon de Valera, Seán Lemass, Jack Lynch and Charlie Haughey, and the Ireland of W. T. Cosgrave, John A. Costello, Liam Cosgrave, Garret FitzGerald and John Bruton. "What upset me is Micheál Martin blaming us - society," states Galway...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: I wish to convey my condolences to the family of George Nkencho, who was shot dead on 30 December. The European Court of Human Rights has decreed that the death of any person at the hands of police requires independent official investigation. In this case, there needs to be an independent public inquiry that fully involves the family and the community. Regardless of the serious issues that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: The proposed agenda for the House tomorrow includes statements and questions to the Minister for Education and the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. Many of the parties represented in the House expressed the view to the Business Committee that they feel that the overwhelming bulk of the education-related issues the people they represent, namely,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (13 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: 383. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1080/21]

Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: I refer to the Solidarity-PBP amendment No. 10, which would insert the word "holds" after distributes. The point that we want to make here is that in order to step over the line in terms of the law, it should not simply be the case of distributing the image, but if one holds the image with the intent to cause harm, that should be on the wrong side of the law. A practical example would be if...

Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: I will be brief. We are debating image-based sexual abuse and legislation to combat that. It is about time that this legislation was passed. The legislation needs to be strengthened by the amendments that we are debating today. This is legislation that has been within the Oireachtas for a period of three years. Successive governments and the political establishment have taken a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Company Law (17 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: 103. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on progress made on implementing the Duffy Cahill report recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43553/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Company Law (17 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: I ask the Tánaiste for an update and a progress report on plans to implement the Duffy Cahill proposals.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Company Law (17 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: The last Government, led by the Minister of State's party, failed to implement Duffy Cahill. The Minister of State and the Tánaiste have been in denial about that. They deny the negative consequences for our workers. Deny, deny, deny. They denied that in Debenhams it would have made any difference, saying it was different from Clerys because Clerys had a building, etc. Of course,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Company Law (17 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: Equally, the authors of the Cahill Duffy report have failed to back the Tánaiste's view that the report would under no circumstances have been of assistance to the Debenhams workers. The important thing is that the legislation is implemented. Has the Tánaiste received any communications from trade union officials in the last half hour asking him to stop making the kind of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Liquidations (17 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: 178. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on consultations he has had with the trade union movement on issues surrounding workers’ rights in company liquidation situations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43554/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Law (17 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: 190. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on his engagement with the trade union movement in relation to issues regarding collective redundancy legislation reform. [28813/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Minimum Wage (17 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: 191. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider increasing the minimum wage beyond the amount announced in budget 2021 to ensure it reflects a living wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40070/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Law (17 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: 192. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on measures to implement the Duffy-Cahill report in relation to collective redundancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40067/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Aviation Industry (17 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: 193. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the contacts he has had with an airline (details supplied) and other airlines registered here in relation to the terms and conditions of their workforce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40072/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (16 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: Taking it out of the-----.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (16 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: The stock in the stores has been used to pay.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (16 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: KPMG is taking €4.6 million from the Debenhams liquidation pot. It is taking this money to pay itself, and to pay for lawyers - in some cases for court actions taken against workers - for security, leases and warehouses where it has stored the goods that it smuggled out in the dead of night in order to cheat the picketing workers. If the Government had intervened after 50 days, as...