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Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: On 29 September, I asked the Tánaiste whether pay-as-you-go customers were included in the winter moratorium on electricity and gas disconnections. Effectively, he said "No". That question and answer opened this controversy and 19 days later the Government has failed to put the issue to bed. The Taoiseach said at first that people should engage with the Department of Social...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: I want to voice solidarity with Royal Mail postal workers in Northern Ireland and in Britain. Their employer has announced 10,000 redundancies but plans to recruit new staff at 20% below the current rate, as well as plans to sell off the profitable parcel service. Royal Mail made a £758 million profit last year, paying out more than half of this to shareholders. The workers who are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: Privatising the buses.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: Did you listen to them opposing your privatisations?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: These are people who are trying to maintain poverty pay.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: It is poverty pay.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 25. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [51691/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: About 25 minutes ago, the Taoiseach told Deputy O'Reilly that the Government was anxious to defend the employment regulation order in the security industry. This ERO would have ensured a minimum rate of pay for security workers of a mere €12.50 per hour but there is an injunction out against it. Is the Taoiseach aware that the Department of Transport recently gave the contract for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach has not answered my question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach has not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: That woman will not be evicted.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach needs to clarify that, Chair.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit in his Department. [50365/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: I have a question on the eviction ban. Let us say that a woman is faced with a choice between not paying some of her family's rent or having her children go cold or hungry this winter. Is she covered by the ban? Can she be evicted? The Tánaiste says that people who do not pay their rent can be evicted. Other Deputies say that people who wilfully do not pay their rent can be evicted....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [50014/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [50364/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (18 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the measures that he intends to take to make student accommodation affordable given that it is a major barrier to people taking up college places; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51658/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Unions (18 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on any meetings with student unions in relation to the cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51657/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens' Assembly (18 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 158. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline for the citizens’ assemblies committed to in the Programme for Government. [51689/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Energy Prices (13 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 16. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the instructions that have been issued to community welfare officers in relation to people who present to them seeking assistance due to having difficulties in keeping their prepaid gas or electricity meter topped up; the criteria that will be applied to assess claims; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50714/22]