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Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: We are debating measures that need to be introduced to assist people with household bills. The clearest and simplest step that can be taken is to increase welfare benefits and pay to rates that match inflation. However, this would go directly against the policy of the Government. The Government effectively wants to cut workers' pay, including the pay of the lowest paid workers. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: Last year's increase was higher than inflation?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: At 2.9%?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: The Grand Parade?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach increased the minimum wage this year by less than 3%, which is in real terms a very serious pay cut for the country's lowest-paid workers. Now he intends to increase it for next year by less than 8%, which is another pay cut in real terms. His annual report talks of building a better society. How can he say that he is doing that when a worker in this country who is on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: I have a question for whoever wishes to answer. I want to talk about the closures but before that I will talk about the main topic of conversation in this country today which is the costs of living and people's concern about what will happen with their mortgages in the context of interest rate increases. It would be fair to say that there is the potential, in terms of mortgage hikes, for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: When Dr. Hunt says rate increases will be higher-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: -----is he talking about the ECB?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: The fact that it is being considered indicates that it is not automatic that AIB will respond in the same way to this increase as it did the previous increase. It is a significant measure to absorb. AIB is considering the possibility, at least as one of its options, of increasing the rates on the basis of this increase. That is not ruled out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: If we are looking at the context of at least two and less than five, as I think Dr. Hunt said, ECB hikes in the next period, how many of those increases does he think AIB could absorb? When does he get to the point where he thinks the bank has to say, "Maybe we need to make increases here"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: Could AIB absorb five?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: What that would mean in effect is that, if the ECB hikes rates and AIB does not pass them on, that would mean a cut in AIB's profits, all other things being equal. To get an idea of what might be absorbed, will Dr. Hunt remind us what the pre-tax and after-tax profits were for the bank in the last year for which those figures were recorded?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: I have never met a banker before who did not know how much profit their bank made the previous year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: Can one of Dr. Hunt's team give us the figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: Before I ask a brief question about the branch closures, I would like to say that people are hurting very badly. People are looking at options of heating or eating this winter. Some people will not be able to heat their homes properly or put food on the table properly. Banks are recording high rates of profits at the moment. The banks should absorb the ECB increases and not pass them on....

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Amendments (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: 53. To ask the Taoiseach if he plans to examine constitutional amendments on religious oath taking for public office positions following the recommendations of the United Nations Human Rights Committee (details supplied). [42405/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: 71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the recourse that fishers have at the Workplace Relations Commission in cases in which Sunday pay, which is included in the standard Department of Justice-approved contracts for the atypical work permit scheme for non-EEA fishers is not honoured by employers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44827/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: 72. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he or his Departmental officials have met with representatives of the fishing vessel owners' organisations since March 2022 to discuss the review of the atypical work permit scheme for non-EEA fishers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44828/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fishing Industry (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: 147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of prosecutions that have been brought against fishing vessel owners to date by the Marine Survey Office for breaches of SI 709/2003 or SI 672/2019 governing the maximum number of daily and weekly hours of work at sea and the minimum hours rest and minimum breaks at sea; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44825/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Mick Barry: 148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that the Clinch Report that he commissioned in early 2021 and that was subsequently submitted to his Department the following July has still not been published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44826/22]