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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 May 2022)

Mick Barry: Good afternoon Tánaiste. He is back from the luxury ski resort. I am sure he did not do a Eugene Murphy and sleep in the back of a car, so I am curious to know how much the rooms cost in Davos this year and what was the all-in price of the trip. For some time the Tánaiste has been solemnly warning about the dangers of a wage-price spiral. It seems his analysis is up to serious...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 May 2022)

Mick Barry: It is interesting the Tánaiste has gone back half a century and used the 1970s for his analysis of inflation. He did not engage with the examples I gave him. They are real, new, fresh and are coming from the US and Europe, including from members of the executive board of the ECB. That in itself says much, as the Tánaiste engages with the Minister, about the weakness of his line...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (25 May 2022)

Mick Barry: I will just have time to comment on a few issues here. I will comment on the Tories' legacy Bill and two of the industrial disputes currently taking place in Northern Ireland, and then I will see as to whether I might squeeze in another point. The legacy Bill was well summed up by Suzanne Breen, writing in the Belfast Telegraph, when she wrote: The Tories bill includes not only an...

Strike Action by the Medical Laboratory Scientists Association: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2022)

Mick Barry: What is this dispute about? It is about equal pay for equal work. Medical scientists and biochemists do the same work in the same laboratories in the same public hospitals. More than 20 years ago, it was agreed there would be pay parity and, more than 20 years on, there is still no pay parity. Medical scientists are paid at least 8% less. In the National Health Service in the UK,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market (Resumed): Engagement with Financial Services Union and Electric Ireland (25 May 2022)

Mick Barry: I thank the representatives of the FSU. The information provided has been very interesting. The information from the Ireland Thinks poll of the union's membership is particularly interesting. I will start with that mental crisis within the workforce of the banks. The poll indicates that 88% of the FSU's members who responded regularly or very regularly feel stressed at work. It also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market (Resumed): Engagement with Financial Services Union and Electric Ireland (25 May 2022)

Mick Barry: I thank Mr. O’Connell. The banks appeared before us last week and laid heavy emphasis on how they were recruiting extra staff to deal with the increased pressures resulting from the exit of the two banks. Mr. O’Connell has provided interesting information about people coming in one door and others going out the other. He even raised the possibility of staffing levels...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market (Resumed): Engagement with Financial Services Union and Electric Ireland (25 May 2022)

Mick Barry: That is an important point to come from this meeting, in that, despite the banks pointing to the recruitment of people that is taking place, people are also leaving, numbers may be continuing to decline overall and the Financial Services Union has voiced its support for the idea of a moratorium on those job losses, at least until such time as the exit by KBC and Ulster Bank has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market (Resumed): Engagement with Financial Services Union and Electric Ireland (25 May 2022)

Mick Barry: Is the danger of banks charging for ATM services increased, lessened or unchanged one way or the other by the exit process of Ulster Bank and KBC?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market (Resumed): Engagement with Financial Services Union and Electric Ireland (25 May 2022)

Mick Barry: Is there a relationship between the exit by KBC and Ulster Bank and the increased possibility or threat of charging at ATMs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market (Resumed): Engagement with Financial Services Union and Electric Ireland (25 May 2022)

Mick Barry: The debate so far has centred around the question of whether the exit by Ulster Bank and KBC should be entirely managed and cleared by the banks themselves or whether society should impose terms and conditions on how the exit is done. There is a third way of looking at this matter, though, which is that Ulster Bank and KBC should not be allowed to leave in the first place or, if they want to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market (Resumed): Engagement with Financial Services Union and Electric Ireland (25 May 2022)

Mick Barry: To track back to where I began, I refer to the poll findings concerning the mental health pressures on members of the union, that is, the people who work in banks. The general secretary indicated that if the correct measures were taken now, this situation could be managed and that staff would see light at the end of the tunnel as they would feel their concerns, having been voiced, were being...

Short-term Lettings Enforcement Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 May 2022)

Mick Barry: I am sharing time with Deputy Boyd Barrett. Staggering profits are being made from short-term letting in the midst of the greatest housing crisis in the history of the State. According to the online publication, Tripe + Drisheen, citing the AirDNA website, a five bedroom house on the south side of Cork city yielded €71,400 income through Airbnb last year. According to the same...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (24 May 2022)

Mick Barry: 532. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications that her Department has received to date for the regularisation scheme for long-term undocumented migrants; the number of applications that have been rejected; the number of instances where rejections have occurred due to the applicant, despite being currently undocumented and having resided in the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 May 2022)

Mick Barry: After the events of last night, the Government has only a paper-thin majority and is significantly more vulnerable to pressure. I am of the view that pressure will grow from working people hard-hit by the cost of living crisis. Bus Éireann workers have been threatened with a two-year pay freeze and are not going to wear it. Medical scientists have been underpaid for years and they are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Mick Barry: I will do.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Mick Barry: It is right and proper that urgent action is taken to support the victims of this war who have fled to this country. It is also right and proper that this country takes action to support other victims of the war. I want to urgently raise the case of Javid Mamedov, a Russian anti-war activist and socialist who is now in prison after being arrested for a third time for his anti-war stance....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Mick Barry: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the new Cabinet subcommittee that is dealing with Ukrainian refugees will next meet. [24935/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank and KBC Ireland (18 May 2022)

Mick Barry: I will pick up where Deputy Mairéad Farrell left off there. So as I am clear on what is being said here, I take from the last exchange the following: a time will come when they have to sell non-performing loans, those loans can be sold to debt collection agencies and that is unlikely to happen until next year. This is one of the stories of this hearing so far. One would not know it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank and KBC Ireland (18 May 2022)

Mick Barry: I thank the witnesses. My follow-on question is, given that representatives of both banks have indicated that the numbers that might be involved in this scenario are on the lower side, something that I am not fully convinced of given the cost-of-living crisis and the financial pressures bearing down on ordinary people at present, can we get a guarantee from the representatives of each of the...