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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: There are plans to build 25,000 new homes in the Cork docklands over the next 20 years. The question is whether they will be genuinely affordable. Will young people and people on low and even average incomes be locked out of the market? I saw an interesting snippet on the RTÉ news recently. A company in Castleisland, County Kerry, built 70 houses. As the company had difficulty...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: I wish to speak on the same issue. Last week in the Dáil, the Minister for Health told me that the HSE had asked SouthDoc for a timeline for reopening. He said he would report back to the Dáil this week on that timeline. Has the Taoiseach spoken to him about this matter and is he in a position to enlighten us in that regard?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with housing will next meet. [43557/20]

Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (16 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: I will conclude on this point, out of respect for the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's appeal. The workers have been hemmed in by the Covid restrictions. There would have been many more people on mass pickets if it were not for the Covid restrictions. It is shameful for Revenue to state, as it has in the past week, that it will not surrender one penny from the redundancy pot and for the Department...

Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (16 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: We are debating Covid restrictions and the Debenhams workers have been victims of Covid restrictions. They have been limited in the action they can take because of the Covid restrictions despite the fact their company used Covid as a cover to sack them by email, despite the fact they were forced to picket in a level 5 lockdown and despite the fact their campaign has been a litmus test for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: I hope the Minister of State can hear me okay. He can. I will talk about motor insurance. I am reminded of the words of the late great Woody Guthrie who said that, as he travelled through life, he met many kinds of men; some would rob him would rob him with a six-gun and others with a fountain pen. I certainly think that is applicable to the insurance industry in this country. The area...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the establishment of the high-level task force on Covid-19 vaccination. [43556/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: I have two basic questions. How many new staff will be required to roll out the vaccine? Will the vaccine be rolled out exclusively through the public system, or is it envisaged that contracts may be awarded to private companies to administer it?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the progress of his plans for a high-level review of the economy to be led by his Department. [43555/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: The Government is currently reviewing the travel and accommodation allowance for student nurses and midwives. I want to remind him that the allowance was introduced in 2004 at a maximum of €50.79 per week. Sixteen years on, it still stands at €50.79 per week. It has not increased by one single penny in 16 years. I am sure the price of travel has gone up quite a bit in 16...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach's criticism of me personally is water off a duck's back. I am interested in what the workers think of my role in this dispute. I am not interested in what the Taoiseach thinks in this dispute, and that is where I will take my lead and my guidance from. For the matters at hand, I have spoken about the need for a settlement before Christmas. I want to speak now about the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: Today is day 250 of the Debenhams dispute. The Taoiseach was asked by multiple parties across this House to intervene to resolve this dispute before Christmas in order that workers could spend the holiday season at home with their families rather than freezing on picket lines and having to stress about an ongoing dispute. He appointed the chairman of the Labour Court, Kevin Foley, as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (15 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he will take to further increase places in third level courses should there be indications of significant CAO point inflation for 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43315/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Examinations (15 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the practice in some third level institutions of withholding exam results for exams taken during the year for those students who have not fully paid their fees; if he will consider instructing institutions to stop the practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43316/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (10 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: I wish to restate that this is an unacceptable situation for people on the north side of the city and beyond who have to travel to the other side of the city for out-of-hours care. Someone with a car might be able to deal with the situation. Someone without a car who faces an emergency with a young child must spend €40 on a taxi. That is completely and totally unacceptable. I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (10 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: The Minister says a timeline has not been provided but he will undertake to discover one. If the House does not mind me going into a rabbit hole, I must ask what the timeline is for the Minister to tell us the timeline. We do not want to know about this in January. We want to hear about it in the Dáil. Can we hear it tomorrow? If not tomorrow, can we have it early next week? The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (10 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: 157. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will take to ensure the recommencement of SouthDoc general practitioner out-of-hours services to the north side of Cork city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42429/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (10 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: 117. To ask the Minister for Health the discussions and contacts that he has had with section 39 workers and their representatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42430/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: The Arcadia Group workers-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: I am asking the Taoiseach a question on behalf of 900 Irish workers.