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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Driver Test (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 10. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to ensure that all driving instructors will be given access to shelter and handwashing and toilet facilities at RSA driving test centres in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35520/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Driver Test (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: This question is to ask the Minister the steps that will be taken to ensure that all driving instructors will be given access to shelter and handwashing and toilet facilities at RSA driving test centres during the Covid-19 pandemic

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if support will be given to the suspension of all check tests in driver tests during the course of the Covid-19 pandemic in the interests of ensuring the safety of driving instructors and others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35521/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fishing Industry (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of annual referrals made to the Marine Survey Office by the Workplace Relations Commission under the agreement made between those agencies on 3 April 2019; the number of referrals that led to inspections of fishing vessels by the office; the number of inspections that were unannounced; the number that involved a review by...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fishing Industry (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of unannounced inspections of Irish fishing vessels made by surveyors of the Marine Survey Office annually since 1 January 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36058/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Legislative Measures (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to amend the European Union (International Labour Organisation Work in Fishing Convention) (Working Hours) Regulations 2019 SI 672 of 2019 to include a method for calculating, in particular cases, the reference period for use in calculating average weekly hours as required by Council Directive (EU) 2017/159 of 19 December...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fishing Industry (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the Irish-flagged fishing vessels over 15 m in length that have been inspected by the Marine Survey Office annually since 1 January 2018; the number of vessels that had returned the official log book to the office as required by sections 239 to 242 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894, as amended; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 239. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated projections for the increased expenditure in order to participate in the European peace facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36121/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 293. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when he plans to publish the final report of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36031/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 311. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has issued permissions to reside and work in the State since 1 January 2020 to non-EEA, Swiss nationals on stamp 1 conditions subject to the general requirement that the person in question be in employment rather than the usual requirement that they be employed by a named employer; if so, the number of such...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (12 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 312. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of letters of notification sent in 2019 and to date in 2020 by her Department to participants in the atypical working scheme to non-EEA, Swiss crew in the fishing fleet here notifying them that their contract of employment has ceased and that they should furnish details of their new contract of employment under the...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: The Halle Institute for Economic Research recently estimated that 1 million jobs could be lost as a result of a no-deal Brexit. Of these, 176,000 would be lost in Germany and 91,000 would be lost in China. However, per head of population, nowhere would more jobs be lost than in the Republic of Ireland where it predicted 35,000 job losses or almost 2% of the entire workforce. A large number...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: On the issue of a Covid-19 vaccine, will the Taoiseach give us a guarantee that it will be supplied free of charge through the public health service? What steps does he plan to take to ensure that there will be no queue-jumping, with people using the power of the wallet to jump the queue? In this regard, I am referring to the private health sector. Can the Taoiseach give more information...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will next meet. [35073/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: In the Taoiseach’s discussions with the President of the European Council, has the issue of the denial of women’s rights in some EU countries been part of these? As the Taoiseach will be aware there has been a magnificent mass movement of women and young people on the streets of Poland for abortion rights in recent weeks. These protests were provoked when Poland’s...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the President of the European Council. [35072/20]

Regional Airports: Motion [Private Members] (11 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: When news broke of a breakthrough on the vaccine front, the share values of the airlines rose the following day on the New York Stock Exchange. International airlines increased in value. The group that owns Aer Lingus was up 39%, Easyjet was up 30% and Ryanair was up 16%. There is a long way to go and it is only light at the end of the tunnel but we have begun to see improvements for...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: If the Tánaiste survives tonight's vote, it will be thanks in large measure to Fianna Fáil and Green Party Deputies whose votes will be noted with disapproval by some-----

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: -----and with disgust by many others. He will also survive thanks to the support of the corporate media, which has refused to frame this scandal as a matter that might require resignation. They recognise the Tánaiste as a skilful and capable representative of the capitalist establishment and as a man who can play an important role for the system when he takes the reins again as...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: Sixth-year students in our secondary schools have lost a lot of teaching time. The Minister for Education has made some changes to leaving certificate 2021 to try to take account of this. Coming off the back of the mid-term break, it is fair to say that there is a growing feeling among students that the Minister's changes do not go far enough. An Instagram poll that I recently organised...