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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: Last year sales were up 14% at Tesco Ireland, and the parent company made an operating profit of more than €2.25 billion. While the company added up the pandemic profits, Tesco workers risked their health day in, day out working at the front line. Is the Taoiseach aware that this company is now trying to remove from staff all premium payments, including payment for working Sundays,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: Some news reports are suggesting that this €100 emergency energy payment might not be paid until March or April of next year because legislation will not be introduced until the new year. I believe €100 is too low a sum given the scale of rising energy costs. Why can this legislation not be introduced before Christmas? If it is a question of the Dáil having to sit one or...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will publish the annual transition statement for 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61470/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (14 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he will take to ensure that the targets set to be missed as documented in the Climate Change Advisory Council’s review of the year will be met in particular the lack of a long term emissions reduction strategy, a failure to meet the target of a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions for 2020 and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expected date for the launch of the affordable purchase shared equity scheme; when further details of the scheme will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61714/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Tests (14 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on providing an antigen testing scheme to all third-level institutions including the private higher education sector which would allow for all students who wish to avail of tests free at the point of use given the large numbers of students in many of those colleges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61717/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the suggestion that all exams in third-level institutions that are due to be taking place in December 2021 and early January 2022 not to be in-person exams given the situation with Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61715/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (14 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 142 of 1 December 2021, if he will consider introducing measures such as regulations or legislation that would prevent third-level institutions from passing on debts arising from unpaid fees to debt collectors; his views on the suggestion of a ban on preventing students graduating due to debts arising from...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 518. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if those who have been placed on temporary visas will be able to use this time as reckonable time in applying for the regularisation scheme for long-term undocumented migrants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61718/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 519. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider a waiving of fees to apply from the regularisation scheme for long-term undocumented migrants for those persons on low incomes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61719/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 520. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider adjusting the regularisation scheme for long-term undocumented migrants to ensure that those who are not successful in their application will not have their cases identified and sent to the repatriation unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61720/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (2 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 115. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider revisions to the Mother and Baby Institutions payment scheme following the reaction of survivors and their families to the proposed details of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59775/21]

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 10: In page 20, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: "Reports 16.Within three months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay a report before the Dáil, on the abolition of the Special Assignee Relief Programme on tax justice grounds.". Not too long ago, I was listening to the radio in the morning and heard the Minister for Health talking...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: The Minister spent quite a bit of time going on a big attack against Opposition Deputies, but he did not answer the question that I put to him, so I will put the question to him again. Can he clarify, in relation to the Government's new housing legislation, that it is indeed the case that landlords who did not increase the rent last year or in previous years will be permitted, under this...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: I will make a brief point and ask the Minister a question. We support the amendment. Renters have been hammered from pillar to post in recent years. I will not go back over all the points. They have been debated here many times. There is a clear need, in our opinion, for, at the very minimum, a national rent freeze. Many renters would say we need to go further than that and find a way...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 2: In page 10, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “Reports 3. Within three months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay a report before the Dáil, on the cost to the exchequer of abolishing the USC and replacing it with a High Income Social Charge of 10 per cent on all earnings over €90,000.”.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 24. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [59075/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: What is the Government's vision for the development of our cities? Is it a vision in which the agenda is dictated by developers and by speculators, or is it one where the agenda is the needs of ordinary people? We have already seen a real debate open up in Dublin on the issue of Dublin docklands and the question of gentrification. I believe we also need a debate around what is to happen to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the public conversation on the well-being framework for Ireland. [59073/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress made on the economic recovery plan published by his Department in May 2021 [59074/21]