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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: The review will be complete by the end of the year. Is that right?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: Yesterday, I asked the Taoiseach about the situation in the Arcadia group but he did not have time to reply so I will ask about it again because there are 900 workers whose jobs are on the line and, unlike Sir Philip Green, they cannot sail off into the sunset in a £100 million yacht. The company is in the hands of the liquidator who will try it for another six weeks but that only...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with the economy last met. [42079/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: There are pay increases for judges, pension cuts reversed for ex-taoisigh and 4,000 top civil servants but still no pay for student nurses and midwives. I agree with the Fianna Fáil Deputy for Cork East who stated yesterday that this may do lasting damage to his party. The Taoiseach spoke firmly earlier against paying student nurses but the point is student nurses are working in our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Commissioner Mairead McGuinness on priorities for her term of office and EU Commission matters (9 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: I refer to the issue of bank dividends. Like all companies, banks have been affected by Covid, but the situation needs to be put in a certain context. For the decade running up to the Covid situation, bank profits were rising. There were significant bank profits year on year for a decade. For example, in 2019, nearly 15% of all dividends paid out by European companies were paid out by...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: Last week, the Arcadia group of companies went into liquidation, with 900 jobs on the line. Clearly, a retail jobs massacre is under way in this country. I believe that the Government should intervene to save jobs. If it does not, Mandate, the shop workers' union, needs to consider a one-day national strike to put pressure on the Government on this issue. There is also a broader issue...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he plans to publish a review of the progress made in implementing the programme for Government. [42078/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Union: Discussion. (8 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: Ulster Bank is a no-show this afternoon. Ulster Bank has more than 1 million customers and 3,000 employees. It is very poor form not to come in to answer parliamentarians' questions. What about the 1 million customers and the 3,000 workers? They have questions they want answered. Not only are their questions unanswered, the entity of which they are to be asked has not even shown up. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Union: Discussion. (8 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: My question was very similar. This is a very interesting piece of information that has been put before the committee. I would like to tease out a little more information about what has been revealed by the freedom of information requests. In the case of a town which has one bank - the only one for miles - and the bank's head office informs the Central Bank that the branch will close in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Union: Discussion. (8 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: Did the Central Bank respond to that notification? Did it ask any questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Union: Discussion. (8 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: That is very interesting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Union: Discussion. (8 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: The drawing up of a short report to go to the Dáil to enable a debate is a proposal I will second.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 70: In page 45, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: "22.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the revenue gained from increasing corporation tax to 25 per cent for corporations with over €800,000 in profits and in closing loopholes that exist that allow...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: I will not go over the substantive points again. We did that on Committee Stage and the basic points have been outlined during this debate. Nevertheless, I will make one further point to the Minister. I have outlined a variety of reasons that corporations invest in this country. I underlined the opinion - I think it is a fact - that a key reason there is high multinational investment in...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: I wish to speak to amendment No. 70 which proposes that a report be drawn up to look into the question of a doubling of the corporation tax rates from 12.5% to 25%, which is a policy I support. I will start with a couple of clear facts. The first is that Covid-19 will cost Irish society a large sum of money. The costs that have been heaped on society by Covid-19 are currently being...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: 2. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the continuation of the pandemic unemployment payment will be guaranteed until the end of the pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40071/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: I ask the Minister if the continuation of the pandemic unemployment payment will be guaranteed until the end of the pandemic.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: I want to ask the Minister about her plans to tax the pandemic unemployment payment. The recipients of the payment are victims of the Covid crisis; they are workers who lost their jobs in the Covid crisis. Many of these workers did not just lose their job, but their incomes fell off a cliff. There are people who would have had incomes of €600, €700 and €800 a week that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: Tax is a matter for the Department of Finance but the Minister sits at the Cabinet table, where a proposal came to tax a payment for which the Minister is responsible. She is the Minister for Social Protection. How are these workers being protected with the plans to tax them in the new year? In fact, it is a retrospective tax because when it was introduced, on 13 March, it came in as an...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Legislative Measures (3 Dec 2020)

Mick Barry: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the Traveller History and Culture in Education Bill 2018; the steps she will take to see the progression of this Bill in the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41040/20]