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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take measures to ensure that a student (details supplied) who is taking physical education as a leaving certificate examination subject as an external candidate can be assessed for their performance assessment and physical activity project even though they have not carried these out in a school setting due to complications during...

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: There was an astonishing ruling today by the Office of the Planning Regulator, whereby it blocked a city council from introducing some small degree of control on build-to-rent apartment blocks. Dublin City Council had the temerity to insist that a percentage of apartments in build-to-rent developments be made available for sale. Second, it sought to restrict the number of studio and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent communications with the President of the United States of America. [7957/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: I am totally opposed to any attempt by the Putin regime to organise a Russian invasion of Ukraine. I am opposed to war and to conflict here. However, I am also opposed to the continuing expansion of NATO into eastern Europe. The Irish Government should support neither Washington nor Moscow. However, the Taoiseach’s Government is supporting an increasingly pro-NATO position. It is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Partnership Meetings (15 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: The following are the words of Mayo-based Tesco security worker Keith Leonard after 100 of the company's security officers were outsourced to OCS with just a couple of weeks' notice: I have been spat at, threatened and beat up for this company over the last 16 years. Then on Tuesday, on my day off, the company called me to tell me my job is gone. It is upsetting and disrespectful and we...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Partnership Meetings (15 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the social partners. [7956/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (15 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: 90. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that Cork University Hospital is provided with funding to allow for the employment of the required number of neurology nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7959/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that student nurses due to receive payments for working during the Covid-19 pandemic will be paid immediately; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7960/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Television Licence Fee (15 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: 324. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider reforming the legislation relating to television licensing to allow for persons to appeal decisions of inspectors without having to go to court; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8298/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Correspondence (15 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: 407. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will publish the correspondence from the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs seeking that the State restates its commitment to not strengthen security at the expense of the security of other states (details supplied); if he will publish the reply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8297/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Minimum Wage (10 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: The Government is ignoring a decision of the Dáil. The cost of living package that is being reported in media this morning and watched carefully by low-paid workers involves increased electricity credit, an extension of fuel allowance and the bringing forward of the working family payment by two months. Of course, groceries are up €800 a year, petrol is up €500 a year...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Minimum Wage (10 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: The Government must.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Minimum Wage (10 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: If the Government will not provide real relief for working people and ordinary families, unfortunately working people will have no alternative but to seek real relief themselves. We are calling on working people to organise in the workplace to submit pay claims which at least match the cost of living increases and to fight to achieve them. In the UK, the Unite trade union has won cost of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Minimum Wage (10 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: So does the Minister of State. The Government cut the minimum wage.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Minimum Wage (10 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: Look at their record. They cut the minimum wage.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Minimum Wage (10 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: 2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will initiate an emergency review of the minimum wage given the rate of inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7066/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Minimum Wage (10 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: Yesterday, the Dáil unanimously passed a motion calling for the following steps to be taken: an emergency review of the national minimum wage; mandating an increase that would at least cover the rise in the cost of living as it impacts on the low paid; a new rate to be in place by 1 May; and for it to be index-linked. The Tánaiste voted for that motion. His party voted for it. I...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (10 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: 18. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on workers who seek above inflation pay rises given the stagnation in real wages over the past decade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7068/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Low Pay (10 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: 22. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he will take to cut the high-level of low pay in the State; if he will support a system in which the rise in the minimum wage will at a minimum track increases in the cost of living for persons on low incomes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7067/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: Will the Taoiseach address the issue of the school in Blackpool?