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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Direct Provision System (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: The written statement we have here states that the process will be completed in a relatively short period, which is vague, and then in no more than a few months which is vague as well. That is not going to cut it with the asylum seekers or their supporters in the town. They welcome the fact that people are being moved out. Some people are being moved out this weekend. However, the idea...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Direct Provision System (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: I congratulate the asylum seekers at the Skellig Star hotel in Cahersiveen. They have been treated appallingly since the first day they were put in there in the middle of March. There were 110 people accommodated in 56 rooms. Imagine what that means in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic. When there was a boil water notice in the town, the residents were limited to 1 l of water per...

Opening of Schools and Calculated Grades: Statements (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: Fifth year students, the leaving certificate class of 2021, lost close to three months of face-to-face teaching time this year. I know that the Government and the Minister accept that changes must be made to take account of that lost time. I was going to say that I had an exchange with the Minister earlier today but it was yesterday at this point. In that exchange, she indicated that the...

Opening of Schools and Calculated Grades: Statements (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: I want to be clear that I understand the answer. I think the Minister said that the students should know about the changes as soon as they go back to school. That implies that they will know in the first week that they go back. Is that the position? Could the Minister indicate if I have got that right with a "Yes" or "No" answer?

Opening of Schools and Calculated Grades: Statements (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: That is helpful; I thank the Minister. Earlier, I mentioned to the Minister that in an exchange I had during the week with the Taoiseach, he said there would be consultation with all of what he described as the stakeholders on the proposed changes in next year's leaving certificate about which the Minister has just spoken about. He laid particular emphasis on the fact that he considered it...

Opening of Schools and Calculated Grades: Statements (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: I am concerned by that answer and I think that many fifth year students who will be going into sixth year in September will also be concerned. The Minister said that the consultation has taken place. I am not sure if many of those students to whom I referred will agree with that. I know that there is a representative organisation and I respect the good work it has done. I understand that...

Opening of Schools and Calculated Grades: Statements (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: I will conclude by saying that it may well be the case that what the Minister says does not contradict the Taoiseach's line that there will be maximum consultation and a need for consent. It is possible that it will contradict that. If it does, the Minister will need to review that position. We will leave it at that.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: They are not going to get away with it.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: Thank you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. To be clear on what is being proposed here, the Government is trying to push through without debate a major organisational change in the way in which this Dáil organises its business, namely, to change the order of speaking time in Dáil debates. The aim of it is to ensure that smaller left parties and groups and Independent groups have less...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: Could I speak without interruption, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle?

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: If it was not for the role of precisely those smaller left groups and Independents over the past few weeks, the Government would not have been called to account in nearly as efficient a way as it was on the issue of the pay increases for the junior Ministers.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: They would not have been called to account in nearly as effective a way on the issue of their scandalous attempt to try to deny the pandemic unemployment payment to unemployed people who are travelling. I will conclude on this point, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: This Government has been a shambles over the past few weeks.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: It has been a shambles-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: I will conclude on this point, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The Government has made a shambles-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: The Government has been a shambles on the pay increase for the junior Ministers.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: The Government has been a shambles on the attacks on people who avail of the pandemic unemployment payment, and it is a shambles here tonight.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: They are not going to get away with it.

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: My amendment, No. 10, will add to the category of relevant persons people aged over 65, all those who have lost income and those with underlying medical conditions. There is much confusion in society, created in large measure by people involved in the Government's spin machine. They were on the FM radio stations at the start of the week saying what the Bill would do, which gave the...

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: The amendment seeks to delete the Government proposal to make it a criminal offence to deliberately and intentionally give false information on a declaration that would say that one's income has been hit by the Covid-19 crisis and, as a result, one is in rent arrears. The Government is creating a situation where a person can face eviction and then, on top of that, face criminal charges for...