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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (14 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 753. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the consequences for those in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment but accept short-term work for a day, several days or longer to maintain links with their pre-Covid-19 employment relationships and contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15413/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (14 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 754. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the consequences for those that accept work while on jobseeker's for the self-employed, jobseeker's for those that were in full employment but were let go at the onset of the Covid-19 crisis and the short-term work scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15414/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (14 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 756. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a system will be created by which those on the pandemic unemployment payment can accept sporadic work, declare it, offset that amount against the payment, yet retain the payment until such time as the live events sector and other sectors in prolonged Covid-19 shutdown return to normal; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (14 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 755. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the process involved and timeline for reapplying for the pandemic unemployment payment after a person comes off same to accept short-term employment for a day to several days; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15415/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (14 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 952. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the processing of family visit and spouse visas for those visiting loved ones here has returned to full functionality, that is, if they are being applied for and issued through the normal channels; if not, the estimated timeframe for returning to full functionality; if the time permitted for visits will be adjusted to...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am glad to hear that the Government will appeal the sectoral employment order. It seems to me that there are very strong grounds for that appeal which, as was stated, will affect thousands of construction workers and, potentially, hundreds of thousands of other workers in sectors where SEOs or sectoral agreements maintain some kind of minimum standard of pay and conditions. The...

Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (9 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am provoked by Deputy Gannon's reference to the venue we are in. It is a nice venue but if one was trying to do an artistic evocation of the weirdness, surreality and alien character of the impact of the pandemic on Irish society, one could do worse than start with an image of this place, with Deputies sitting miles away from each other in this weird environment. Having said that, it is...

Rent and Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be share time with Deputy Mick Barry. I will take five minutes and he will take four. The eviction of people into homelessness was utterly unacceptable before the pandemic. Solidarity-People Before Profit put forward an anti-evictions Bill that was passed with a majority in the previous Dáil. If I am correct, Fianna Fáil voted for that Bill and, ultimately, that is the...

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (7 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (7 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And also who does not benefit.

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (7 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister invited suggestions in this debate specifically about the July stimulus. He did actually invite such suggestions.

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (7 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. Taxi drivers as a group are excluded from nearly all of these supports for reasons I do not understand. I asked some of the taxi drivers to explain it to me. I am told their exclusion is related to them not paying or charging VAT. I did not fully understand the explanation but I know they are excluded from many of the support schemes for small enterprise.

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (7 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is an unfairness. Taxi drivers cannot return to work because there is little demand for taxis and also to do so they would need to install screens and the National Transport Authority, NTA, has not clarified what type of screen would pass muster in terms of insurance and so on. There has been no clear direction on this issue. Even though they have not been working throughout the...

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (7 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying that they are microenterprises. They are the definition of a microenterprise. In fact, they are the most micro of microenterprises-----

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (7 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and they deserve support.

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (7 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a microenterprise.

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (7 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Any Bill that the Government should put forward supporting microenterprises should take these specifics into account. That is the point I am making. I am appealing to the Government to do that and, in the mean time, I am appealing to the Government not to cut their payments but to maintain those payments as income subsidies. Taxi drivers do not want to remain unemployed. They do not...

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (7 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to take the Minister up on his earlier offer to listen to ideas for the July stimulus package. I will focus on a few specific groups. The pandemic and the lockdown affected huge numbers of people in terms of their income, employment and livelihoods but particular groups have been hard hit and are likely to be hard hit for the foreseeable future as long as Covid-19 remains with us....

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome, as I am sure the Debenhams workers will welcome, the Taoiseach's words of sympathy and his condemnation of how Debenhams has treated them, but the test is what the Government will do about it. We need to act urgently to do everything we can to make sure that Debenhams does not get away with manipulating the law as it stands to siphon off these assets. Its failure to consult...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The last time the Taoiseach and his party were in government and faced with a major crisis, at that time caused by the greed of bankers and developers, working people got it in the neck, hundreds of thousands of people lost their jobs or had cuts to their pay and a decade of austerity followed. For most people the test as to whether Fianna Fáil has changed and will lead the Government...