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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (4 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 278. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will be participating in the upcoming summit of L'Organisation internationale de la Francophonie in Tunisia; if so, the Minister or officials that will be attending; the key issues Ireland will be raising at the summit; if human rights will be amongst them; the amount Ireland has paid to the organisation since becoming an...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: I wonder how many workers might resign their jobs in the next year. A survey was carried out recently, namely, the Workhuman fall 2021 international survey report. It surveyed workers across a range of countries. It found that 42% of workers in Ireland would consider resigning their jobs. The key issues the survey identified were the need for better pay and the need for greater...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach cannot see the wood for the trees.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment last met; and when it is next due to meet.. [53182/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: A Cheann Comhairle, can we say one minute per question?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: You are waffling now. Come on.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: A Cheann Comhairle, let us say one minute per question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: I too will be brief. I will raise the issue of migrant fishers. A review of the atypical scheme has been promised. This commitment coincided with, or possibly arose because of, recent research by Maynooth University's department of law, which catalogued ongoing abuses experienced by migrant fishers. Will the Taoiseach commit to meaningful consultation with the International Transport...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with marine and fishing will next meet. [53181/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: It is my turn now. It is clear that the political establishment are impressed with themselves and with COP26 to date, but are the young people impressed? They saw a conference opened up by Boris Johnson, dressed in green, but know that this is a man who slashed tax on domestic flights and support subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. They saw Jeff Bezos, the rocket man, pledge $2 billion...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: The earth is not dying; it is being killed. The people who are killing it have names and addresses. My neighbours and constituents will do their bit and I urge them to do a bit more. However, it is not their names and addresses that folk singer, Utah Phillips, was referring to; it is the names and addresses of big oil, big gas, etc., and the big banks that finance them. The Taoiseach...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: That is bizarre-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: There is a lot of wind in this Chamber.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 41. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee that deals with transport will next meet. [50876/21]

Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: The best protest placard of the year outside Dáil Éireann was held by a student nurse today. It stated, "Why are nurses priceless but penniless?" It is a brilliant placard. The Minister has left the room but he needed to read the room because he has got it wrong on student nurses' pay. He must stop, look and listen and he needs to make some changes. Students are going back...

Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: Covid-19 will be with us forever; so said the Tánaiste last week. Does the Government, therefore, want the Covid emergency powers to be with us forever too? Serious civil liberties issues were involved in the introduction of these powers in the first place, and that was why I voiced my opposition in the first Dáil debate on them. Today, there are serious civil liberties issues in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (2 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 23. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will introduce legislation to regulate and protect the rights of workers to receive tips and gratuities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53175/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (2 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 62. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will introduce measures to improve the rights of workers to avail of sick leave and paid sick leave in all sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53176/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Unfair Dismissals (2 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 97. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way a person (details supplied) who made a successful complaint for unfair dismissal against their former employer at the Employment Appeals Tribunal in 2012 and obtained an enforcement order for a greater sum from the Circuit Court on 20 March 2015 but never subsequently received their due compensation due to the failure of the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Environmental Policy (2 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: 298. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 268 of 19 October 2021, if he will oppose attempts to classify nuclear energy as an environmentally sustainable economic activity at an EU level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53267/21]