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

Mick Barry: 48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the budget that has been allocated to community welfare officers in relation to those seeking assistance due to an inability to keep their prepaid gas or electricity meters topped up; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50715/22]

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: When he spoke during this debate on the issue of the need for greater flexibility in the recruitment of bus drivers, Deputy Ó Cathasaigh said that we have to look towards the fishing industry. That statement is incredible, as is the fact that a Government Deputy points towards the fishing industry as an example of anything in this country to do with jobs, recruitment, workers' rights...

Community and Voluntary Sector Workers: Motion [Private Members] (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: The cost of living crisis is bearing down hard on working people. The pay increase in the public sector is less than the rate of inflation. It constitutes a de factopay cut. The increase in the national minimum wage due in January is also below the rate of inflation and also constitutes a de factopay cut. But the situation is worse again for the nation's community and voluntary workers in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 12. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of prepaid gas meters for domestic household customers in the State; the number with each company. [50501/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 13. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of prepaid electricity meters for domestic household customers in the State; the breakdown of the number with each company. [50502/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 15. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he raised the issue of extending the moratorium on disconnections to prepaid customers in his meetings with gas and electricity utility companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50504/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 16. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has explored ways to extend the disconnection moratorium to prepaid customers; the options explored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50505/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 17. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has explored the various barriers that exist for consumers to switch from prepay to credit meters; his views on a ban on exit fees or other financial penalties for persons wishing to switch from prepaid meters to credit meters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50506/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 18. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if those who have agreed to take a prepaid meter as part of a process to pay down arrears on their electricity or gas accounts will be allowed to switch back to a credit meter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50507/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 19. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will support the waiving of the fee to change a gas meter from prepaid to credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50508/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 14. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amounts provided in hardship funds for each of the gas and electricity utility companies. [50503/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will request local authorities to allow their housing tenants to change a gas or electricity meter from prepaid to credit; if they will cover any fees for doing so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50509/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: 67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any local authorities have a policy of automatically installing prepaid gas or electricity meters on their housing stock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50510/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: Does the Minister know how many staff were lost to the Cork Life Centre this summer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: I understand that. Does the Minister know how many staff were lost to the Cork Life Centre this summer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: Sure. It is interesting that the Deputy mentioned 8.5 teaching posts because eight staff were lost to the Cork Life Centre this summer alone. They were all senior staff. All of them had worked there for a minimum of six years. Some of them had worked there for 12 or 13 years. There was an inevitability to the Cork Life Centre losing staff this summer. The director had warned in advance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: I am going to cut in on the Minister because the clock is running down a wee bit. The Minister mentioned on numerous occasions in the discussion the €177,500 and the co-operation hours equivalent to 8.5 full-time posts. Does the Minister think that is nearly enough? Could she answer that for me briefly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: I will conclude with one very brief comment. It is very clear that the resources that have been put at the disposal of Cork Life Centre are not nearly enough. What speaks to that more clearly than anything that has been said in the committee today, with respect, is the fact that eight staff were lost from Cork Life Centre, which does such vital work in Cork city and beyond. That is eight...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: The three €200 energy credits will be refused by no one. However, many people see that they are of particular value to the for-profit energy companies that are increasing their prices while making massive profits and will end up with this money in their accounts boosting those profits. The Government argues that fixing prices at 2021 rates would be to write a blank cheque for the big...