Parliamentary questions

Departmental Programmes

Mick Barry

66. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach his views on the national reform programme for the European Semester 2022 that was published by his Department in April 2022. [44929/22]

Departmental Programmes

Mick Barry

67. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach his views on the national reform programme. [44930/22]

Workplace Relations Commission

Mick Barry

141. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of non-compliances among fishing vessel owners related to their engagement of non-European Economic Area fishers that have been made by the Workplace Relations Commission inspectorate since that scheme’s inception in 2016; the number of individual vessel owners who are represented among those non-compliances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48214/22]

Maritime Safety

Mick Barry

196. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Transport the number of occasions, if any, that the Marine Survey Office has prosecuted fishing vessel owners for switching off their vessel’s automatic identification system in contravention of SI No. 640 of 2007, Merchant Shipping (Safety of Fishing Vessels) (15 to 24 metres) Regulations 2007 section 10 paragraphs (6) and (7); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48209/22]

International Protection

Mick Barry

474. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a number of incidents (details supplied); the resources, if any, which have been allocated to the International Protection Accommodation Services and the Ukraine crisis temporary accommodation team to address these matters; if guidance has been provided to staff and management in accommodation-settings in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48208/22]

Work Permits

Mick Barry

540. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Justice the number of fishers, past and present, who have been enrolled on the atypical work permit scheme for non-European Economic Area fishers to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48211/22]

Work Permits

Mick Barry

541. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Justice the number of vessel owners who currently employ fishers under the atypical work permit scheme for non-European Economic Area fishers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48213/22]

Workplace Relations Commission

Mick Barry

644. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health if he will establish the independent radiation therapist review as agreed with the HSE and unions at the Workplace Relations Commission; the measures that he will take to ensure that the vacancies among radiation therapists will be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48216/22]

Work Permits

Mick Barry

734. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated number of vessels that are eligible for the atypical work permit scheme [48213/22]

Fishing Industry

Mick Barry

757. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an individual or agency has been engaged to conduct the social risk assessment with reference to the fisheries improvement projects that are supported by Bord Iascaigh Mhara and the extract from a website (details supplied); if so, if he will identify the individual or agency; the persons who sit on the social working group; the body that each of these individuals represent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48210/22]

Fishing Industry

Mick Barry

758. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of vessels in the Irish fishing fleet that are eligible to employ fishers as part of the atypical work permit scheme for non-European Economic Area fishers; the number of vessel owners who are represented among that segment of the fleet; the number of those vessels with fishers currently employed under the terms of the scheme, according to the current contracts that pertain to the scheme held in his Department's central depository unit in Clonakilty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48212/22]

Visa Applications

Mick Barry

425. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Justice if her Department will provide a person (details supplied) with a visa while they recuperate and pursue recourse given the catastrophic accident suffered by them as an undocumented migrant fisher on an Irish-flagged fishing vessel; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47292/22]

Budget 2023

Mick Barry

96. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Finance if his Department will undertake an analysis of budget 2023 to ascertain whether it is a progressive budget in terms of its redistributive effects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46199/22]

Banking Sector

Mick Barry

124. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Finance if he would support regulations to oblige retail banks to guarantee access to cash across the State through a branch network and ATM network that would allow people to easily access and deal in cash should they so wish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46198/22]

Mortgage Interest Rates

Mick Barry

149. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Finance if he will support measures to be taken to ensure that interest rate rises will not be passed-on to mortgage consumers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46196/22]

Tax Code

Mick Barry

158. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Finance the aspects of the recommendations of the recent Report on the Commission on Taxation which he supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46197/22]

United Nations

Mick Barry

294. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on his participation in the United Nations Human Rights Committee's review of Ireland's performance under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in Geneva in July 2022; the steps that he will now initiate to fulfil the recommendations of the Committee, in particular those related to religious oath-taking in the Constitution, which the Committee obliged the State to take concrete steps to remedy by 2025, given the relevance to his role with responsibility for equality issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46435/22]

Hare Coursing

Mick Barry

56. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider a suspension of the open hunting season on wild birds in light of the spread of highly-pathogenic avian influenza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46189/22]

Health Strategies

Mick Barry

128. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health the measures and initiatives that will be taken to better understand and to reduce still-birth and infant deaths among mothers of African background, and those in poorer social-economic groups following the publication of a report (details supplied) showing inequalities in mortality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46190/22]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Mick Barry

3. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his meetings with European Union and NATO leaders on the margins of a recent NATO summit in Madrid. [45762/22]