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Tue, 4 Oct 2022
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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]
Tue, 4 Oct 2022
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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]
Tue, 4 Oct 2022
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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]
Tue, 4 Oct 2022
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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]
Tue, 4 Oct 2022
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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]
Tue, 4 Oct 2022
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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]
Tue, 27 Sep 2022
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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]
Thu, 22 Sep 2022
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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]
Thu, 22 Sep 2022
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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]
Thu, 22 Sep 2022
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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]
Thu, 22 Sep 2022
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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]
Thu, 22 Sep 2022
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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]
Wed, 21 Sep 2022
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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]
Wed, 21 Sep 2022
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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]
Tue, 20 Sep 2022
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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]
Tue, 20 Sep 2022
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Housing Policy
Mick Barry
14. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [45764/22]
Tue, 20 Sep 2022
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Mick Barry
568. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health if he will take measures to expedite the payment of the pandemic recognition payment to eligible staff in the non-HSE and non-Section 38 sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45905/22]
Wed, 14 Sep 2022
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Constitutional Amendments
Mick Barry
53. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Taoiseach if he plans to examine constitutional amendments on religious oath taking for public office positions following the recommendations of the United Nations Human Rights Committee (details supplied). [42405/22]
Wed, 14 Sep 2022
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Employment Rights
Mick Barry
71. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the recourse that fishers have at the Workplace Relations Commission in cases in which Sunday pay, which is included in the standard Department of Justice-approved contracts for the atypical work permit scheme for non-EEA fishers is not honoured by employers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44827/22]
Wed, 14 Sep 2022
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Work Permits
Mick Barry
72. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he or his Departmental officials have met with representatives of the fishing vessel owners' organisations since March 2022 to discuss the review of the atypical work permit scheme for non-EEA fishers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44828/22]