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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (24 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to meet with representatives of the employees of a bank (details supplied) to discuss concerns over the withdrawal of the bank from the market. [26106/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (24 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on protecting those with home loans with a bank (details supplied) in the event of a sale of the mortgage loan book of the bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26105/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (24 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will intervene with the Central Bank in relation to credit union regulations that require a majority of members to sign up to a death benefit scheme in order for the scheme to be continued by a given credit union in order that these regulations are amended to allow for the schemes to be continued for those that wish to avail of it; and if he will...

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (23 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: I welcome the fact that taxi drivers in Cork will protest next Monday morning. Their demands are just and the Government should concede to them. Many of them actually involve no cost. It is hard to escape the conclusion that the fiasco facing transport workers at Aer Lingus regarding the stamping of social welfare forms for workers on short-term working contracts is anything other than...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: Last week the Taoiseach urged KPMG to talk to the Debenhams workers. Not only has KPMG failed to act on that suggestion, but non-union labour is now being hired to pass picket lines and go into the stores to pack stock that is at the centre of an industrial dispute. In other words the liquidator, appointed by the courts, is overseeing a scabbing operation organised on a national basis. I...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: Yes. I should have swung by the canteen on the way to the Dáil Chamber just now. I could have bought myself a packet of peanuts to hold it up in the air and ask the Taoiseach whether it is what he is going to offer low-paid workers in the budget. There is a recommendation of less than 1% from the Low Pay Commission. We are talking about workers who played a key role in getting this...

Sick Leave and Parental Leave (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: I wish to talk about nursing homes and meat plants. Workers in HSE nursing homes are entitled to sick pay. If they present with Covid symptoms, they can quarantine with a guarantee of full pay. They are under no economic pressure to go to work. Only 20% of nursing homes in the State, however, are HSE nursing homes; the other 80% are privately owned. There is no legal obligation on those...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: It is an ominous combination to have both the incidence of Covid-19 and the number of evictions on the rise at the same time. We know Covid infection rates are on the rise and we have a lot of anecdotal evidence that evictions are increasing. Next week, the official figures for the numbers in emergency accommodation at the end of August will be announced. I expect those figures to confirm...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [25166/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Work Permits (22 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 131. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if measures will be put in place to ensure that persons born here post-2005 who are not Irish, UK, EEA or Swiss nationals will not need to apply for work permits or other authorisations to work here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25388/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (22 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 277. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the programmes in place to provide beginner, intermediate and advanced Irish language training for staff in the civil and public service in view of the commitment in the Programme for Government to increase the use of the Irish language in the civil and public service; if beginner level classes are available to all civil servants at...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (22 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 278. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number and percentage of civil servants that are from Traveller, Black Irish and non-Irish citizen backgrounds; his plans to increase diversity in the civil service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24754/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (22 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify that the right not to attend religious instruction can be availed of by students in primary and second-level schools and that they can have appropriate supervision or alternative classes outside of that religious instruction class; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24752/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (22 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if measures will be put in place to ensure that students that were born here and or have been long term resident in Ireland but are not Irish, UK, EEA or Swiss citizens will be able to avail of the free fees scheme and apply for SUSI grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25385/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Certificates (22 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 675. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of certificates of naturalisation issued in 2019 to persons that were born here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25386/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Certificates (22 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: 676. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of certificates for naturalisation that have been applied for on behalf of persons under 18 years of age in 2019; and the number of these applications that were for persons born here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25387/20]

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (Resumed) (17 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: A Cheann Comhairle, what day is it today?

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (Resumed) (17 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: It is Thursday. It is also the day the Government is cutting the pandemic unemployment payment by €50 per week for many people and €100 for many other people. It is not a small adjustment, not a few bob here or a few bob there, but a cut of €100 or €50 per week for tens of thousands of people who do not have the option of going back to work. It is not possible...

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: At the start of the Covid crisis we were told that there was a need for national unity and that we were all in this together. The treatment of the Debenhams workers shows that we are not all in this together. In the words of the United Irishman leader, Henry Joy McCracken, "The rich will always betray the poor." Debenhams is not the only employer using Covid as cover to promote a race to...

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: The Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Mandate trade union recently made a proposal to the Government. It was a proposal which had the potential to resolve the five-month long Debenhams dispute. The gist of it was one, increasing employer social insurance contributions and two, making a pool of money available to the State from which enhanced redundancy agreements could be honoured in...