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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (15 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: 210. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the policy regarding welfare payments for persons with no fixed abode; if claimants are permitted to use An Post’s address point as an address; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30668/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (15 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: 238. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting times for the processing of visa applications; if the waiting times have increased during the Covid-19 pandemic; the measures that will be taken to increase staff numbers in her Department to bring waiting times down; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30669/20]

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: I wish to deal with the issues of the PUP, training and internships and make a point about the Debenhams situation. Before I do so, I point out that the Government has taken a Keynesian turn in the budget. There is significantly increased State intervention in the economy and society. In taking these actions, the Government is in lockstep with capitalist governments globally which are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (14 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: 34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the testing process to the calculated grade system prior to it being used; her views on whether the tests were robust enough; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29991/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (14 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: 52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of leaving certificate students that have had their leaving certificate grades upgraded as a result of a review to the calculated grade system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29992/20]

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: There is no argument that this is a big budget, with €86 billion in overall expenditure, an increase of €4 billion in health spending and €19 billion in borrowing next year. Some of the spending is unnecessary, particularly on corporate welfare. There is fair amount of necessary spending that is not included in the budget, and housing is a big part of this. Most of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: Let us look at this exact same issue from another angle. Listen to these words: "We are having big outbreaks that we simply cannot get a handle on because we don't have the resources." Those are the words of a public health employee that were reported in the Irish Examinerlast night. One of her colleagues reported that 150 new cases came in over the weekend but that none of her staff could...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: I note with great interest the information the Taoiseach has provided to the Dáil. He is expecting 40,000 to 50,000 new claims for the pandemic unemployment payment this week alone. In the previous debate, a point was made by a Deputy that it seems that, according to a fairly extensive online survey, the average pay of someone before having to go on the pandemic unemployment payment...

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: It is amazing what one learns when one listens very carefully during a Dáil debate. I was under the misapprehension that what the Government did in September was cut the PUP by €100 or €50. It turns out I was wrong and the payment was not cut at all. Many people believed that was what happened. They believed the Government, in taking €100 from them, had taken...

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: I move: “That Dáil Éireann: notes: — the surge in Covid-19 cases across the country; — the continued public health guidelines and restrictions and their effects on employment and people’s movement; — the consequences for many thousands of workers across the country; — the likelihood that other counties may join Dublin and Donegal in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (6 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: 46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he will take following the recent release of homeless figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28553/20]

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: From midnight tonight, the entire country will be at level 3. As the restrictions tighten, there could be and should be an increase in supports but there will not be. In fact, those on the pandemic unemployment payment have seen their supports cut. They are down between €50 and €100 every week, money needed to keep a roof over one's head, put food on the table and keep the...

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee which addresses the economy will next meet. [26731/20]

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with transport last met. [28810/20]

Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (6 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: I ask about the plight of two groups of workers, namely, the Aer Lingus workers and the Debenhams workers. The Aer Lingus workers have been submitting short-term working forms to Intreo offices to try to get the back-money due to them from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection from before 1 September. Why are they getting satisfaction in some offices and not in the...

Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (6 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [28555/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (6 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: 48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a restoration of the eviction moratorium will be supported in view of the most up-to-date homelessness figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28554/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Student Support Schemes (6 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: 556. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the situation faced by minors and young persons who have been born here or who are long-term resident here but are not Irish, EU, UK, EEA or Swiss citizens in terms of discrimination they may face in accessing education, public services and employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28692/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Deportation Orders (6 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: 557. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department or agencies under his remit are informed or notified of minors being deported from the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28693/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (6 Oct 2020)

Mick Barry: 581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he supports the principle of persons born in the State who are not Irish, UK, EEA or Swiss nationals and who qualify under the residency and other requirements of the schemes being able to access SUSI grants and the free fees scheme on the same basis as Irish, UK, EEA and Swiss nationals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28688/20]