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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: The most important statement the Minister made in his reply, by a long way, was his comment that to the best of his knowledge, and I presume he would know being the Minister, there is not a legal impediment to having a pay cap, which he might set at €100,000. He could maintain his ban on pay increases and bonuses for people earning above this level, including those on €500,000...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: I did not say that. I ask the Minister not to misrepresent my words.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: I will clarify my position because the Minister seems to be confused about it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: The key point that has been raised in this debate is the Minister's admission that there is no legal impediment which would allow for pay increases and bonuses for low-paid and middle-paid banking staff on the one hand, while maintaining a pay maximum and super tax on bonuses for the people at the top. That completely undermines the line of argument that was put forward in the Dáil...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: I will clarify this point because the Minister wants to make a mountain out a molehill, and he can shake his head all he wants. The key point I am making on the pay of low-paid and middle-paid banking workers is as follows. The issue of variable pay becomes far less of an issue if the key question of the unsatisfactory basic rates of pay is dealt with. There are too many low-paid workers...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: The pay rates have remained low when the State has had a majority share.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: It had no influence whatsoever.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: And the human tissue Bill?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: And would what I referred to be illegal?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: Parents of babies whose organs were sent abroad for incineration without their knowledge or consent received the long-awaited report into the scandal from Cork University Hospital on Friday. These parents should not have been forced to wait until the report's release to find out that their babies' organs had been incinerated in Denmark and not, as they previously had been told, in Belgium....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: Almost every week the Taoiseach tells the Dáil that the State is not politically neutral but is militarily neutral. I wish to quote from an article in the journal.ieearlier this month: For decades Irish soldiers have trained on the high uplands of Kilworth ranges, located just off the old Cork to Dublin road between the towns of Fermoy and Mitchelstown. ... The laughs and banter of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: Will the Taoiseach answer the question?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach should stop bluffing and answer the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach is waffling on and he is not answering the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: What was NATO doing in Cork?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: Answer the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach is not-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach is running around it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: Kilworth. The Taoiseach must stop waffling.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach is waffling.