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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: We will do a bit of work and aim to get that figure up to 100%. Recital 24 of the directive talks about providing ease of access for trade union representatives to workplaces. This is an issue on which it would be interesting to get more information. I have spoken to union representatives who tried to access some of the large and best-known retail shops in the country. I have spoken to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: Can Mr. Reidy give me an example of the types of things that happen, day to day?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: Where did that happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: I am on the clock here. We will be fully supportive of legislative change on that, and also increased union organisation in the workplace because I think that organisation on the ground is the key, and legislation is a key back-up. On the issue of union busting, would Mr. Reidy say that this is becoming a bigger or smaller issue in society?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: That would tally with feedback I have received from my contacts in various workplaces in Cork and across the country. The directive speaks about a protection from dismissal at work - that is particularly relevant for trade union representatives - and it speaks about using public procurement as a lever against anti-union and union-busting strategies. The point was made that we rarely hear...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: Okay, well let us put it this way. We have seen several examples - one that I have referred to recently may well be one of them - where the State has provided lucrative contracts for companies that are involved in union-busting activities. My final question to the trade union representatives is this: do they think there is an issue in this State with the State providing contracts for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: I totally agree. I will leave it at that.

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: The Tánaiste is saying there would be no sense in boycotting the St. Patrick's Day trip. Let us have a quick look at this argument. The first argument put forward by the Tánaiste relates to why should we boycott when it is clear the US is trying to end the conflict. Clear to whom? Biden has pledged $14.3 billion in military aid to Israel. As of Christmas Day, Israel had...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: Some 24 residents died in a 51-bed nursing home at Ballynoe in Cork during the Covid emergency. They were just some of the more than 1,500 people who died in nursing homes during those times. Families and loved ones have many questions they want answered about the care that was and, in some cases, was not given in the homes. Ireland's Covid inquiry is due to be set up in the near future....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: And the human rights expert?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: I would have thought you might have a view on it, but anyway.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: What about the question on healthcare assistance?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: The Minister of State, Deputy Neale Richmond, met the employers' organisation Nursing Homes Ireland earlier this month and agreed to its request to defer increases to minimum pay rates for healthcare assistants and home care workers from outside of the European Economic Area who hold work permits. This concession to employers was made despite nursing homes being increasingly owned by real...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: 5. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his Department’s new publication entitled Government Response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2023. [55232/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Official Travel (23 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: 150. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence what the policy is regarding the usage of private aeroplanes for official travel for his Department; and if he will report on his recent transport choice and related expenses to the Balkan region. [2922/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (23 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: 219. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures his Department will take to regulate insurance prices that, according to reports (details supplied), are rising rapidly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2923/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Personal Public Service Numbers (23 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: 343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that it will not be obligatory to provide a PPS number and date of birth information to vote or to register to vote; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2496/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: 647. To ask the Minister for Health to report on the services and access so far provided by the new mobile health unit run by the social inclusion team from CHO Dublin north city and county. [2920/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: 648. To ask the Minister for Health what LGBTQI+ health services are provided by the new mobile health unit run by the social inclusion team from CHO Dublin north city and county. [2921/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: It is contracted to private companies.