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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. Downes for his replies. My party is very strongly of the view that we need to be much stronger in looking for trade sanctions against Israel now. I appreciate everything our guests have said about the strictures of our EU obligations but when people are being slaughtered in such a manner by the Israeli Government, it is unconscionable that the Irish State would stand back and not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Does the Department envisage any change to those procedures if and when the due diligence directive goes through?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Childcare Services (21 Mar 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome the Minister. My question today relates to the State supports for the brilliant home visiting services that operate across many communities in Ireland. Across this country, approximately 170 people go into the homes of about 4,500 children each year and provide a vital parenting, learning and development support to parents and to children. Any of us with young children know the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Childcare Services (21 Mar 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome the establishment of the national home visiting programme. I am struck, however, by the fact the research into home visiting services was commissioned in 2022 and was supposed to be completed in 2023. We hear now it is going to be completed this year. There is only one year left of this Government. I very much hope the outcomes from that research will be acted upon this year. ...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Fire Service (6 Mar 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. Last weekend marked the 125th anniversary of Dublin Fire Brigade's dual ambulance and fire emergency response service. The fire brigade obviously plays a crucial role in keeping the people of this city and county safe and I pay tribute to the immense professionalism, commitment and care that firefighters give to their work every day of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Fire Service (6 Mar 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for the response. He set out what should happen but we do not have any detail as to how the Department ever follows up with the individual fire services, how comprehensive the preparation of PIP cards is, whether that information in any way exists within the Department or whether there are reporting mechanisms for fire services internally or to the local...

Seanad: Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (6 Mar 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach agus fáiltím roimh an Aire Stáit go dtí an Seanad. Tacaím leis na focail maidir le Niall Ó Donnghaile, who is very much missed in this Chamber. Tá áthas an domhain orm nach bhfuil ceiliúradh amháin ach dhá ceann againn inniu, Seachtain na Gaeilge agus Lá Idirnáisiúnta na mBan....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I ask for a debate in this House to allow the Minister for children to set out what he is doing regarding the expansion of early years places and what he is doing to look after the viability of existing services. Over the past three years, I and other colleagues have repeatedly highlighted in this House the dire shortage of early years places in this country, not only for those aged under...

Seanad: Community Safety and Investment: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for coming to the Chamber for the debate. I thank my colleague Senator Moynihan for all her work on the motion. Three months ago last week, Dublin city went up in flames. It is three months since a few hundred rioters took control of our streets for a few hours until An Garda Síochána from across the country and all levels including sergeants and inspectors,...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister and her officials for coming before us this evening. Can the Minister tell us how many staff she has working personally for her as Minister and how many staff are working in the news and broadcast unit of her Department?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Given RTÉ is in receipt of bailout money from the Government predating this crisis, again had to get a bailout at the end of last year and is awaiting further money this year, how many Department officials are working solely on RTÉ at this point in time?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: What questions did the Minister ask them? What did she ask them about the approval process for the exits to prepare herself in advance of the meeting that took place last Monday?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: The Minister's staff would have been aware. Her officials were aware of the new terms of reference of the remuneration committee and the process with regard to the approval of exits and they would have informed the Minister of that before the meeting last Monday.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: But the Minister's officials sat in a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts last September and heard Paula Mullooly set out exactly what the changes were. That is correct.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I understood it was September. Perhaps it was October. Regarding the meeting that took place last Monday, who was with the Minister when she asked that specific question about board approval?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Nobody piped up when the chair said what she had to say. Nobody said anything to try to correct or clarify the record at that meeting.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Is there something further to be added?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Surely it says a lot about the culture and the relationship between those attending the meeting that nobody else would clarify what had actually happened with regard to the approval process even if the chair did not remember. This is telling in itself.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: No official at that meeting asked, "We were told the remuneration committee had the new terms of reference as of late last year, why has it not taken effect before now?"