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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (8 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. I welcome the work that is being done. It has been a scramble, but I will wholeheartedly support every expansion of special needs places. Having said that, there is a big difference between announcements and delivery. Even in Dublin 7, we have seen a delay in the opening of a new special school. These things happen. As adults, we can wait,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: To follow that last contribution, the call from this House is that the Israeli basketball team should be called out and pulled out of the International Basketball Federation because the pressure on the players has been shocking. I wholeheartedly agree with Senator O'Donovan about the stance that many have rightly taken but it is not fair to put players in that awful situation. I agree with...

Seanad: Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: The Labour Party welcomes the Digital Services Bill. We all have to be clear that, as Senator Garvey said, this is giving effect to the EU regulation on digital services. It is specific with regard to establishing the mechanism for the supervision and enforcement of the regulation in this country. In that regard we welcome the Bill. This is the latest chapter in the EU initiative to...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I support the amendment. There have been drug and alcohol task forces in operation for almost 26 years in the communities most badly affected by serious addiction issues. The task force model is based on drawing in people from the community to come up with solutions for the community. Not including them in the list of bodies to be represented on the new community safety partnerships is a...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 68: In page 104, line 27, after “Ministers” to insert “and with any local authority association (within the meaning of section 225 of the Local Government Act 2001)”.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Agreed.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. I will say at the outset that the dissolution of the joint policing committees, JPC, and creation of the community safety partnerships, CPC, is arguably a major shift in that interface between public representation and policing. We very much support the theory of community safety partnerships because safety cannot just be about policing. We cannot...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome my fellow Cork people today. The other key thing is with regard to the composition of the new community safety partnerships. In our amendments Nos. 77 and 81, we set down that 25% of the membership of the CSP has to be with local authority members and then the chair has to come from a member of the local authority. Furthermore, it is a bit strange to us when we read section 114...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 71: In page 104, to delete lines 32 and 33 and substitute the following: “(a) the establishment by resolution of a local authority of one or more safety partnerships in the administrative area of that local authority;”.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 73: In page 104, line 37, to delete “sector,” and substitute the following: “sector, provided that at least 20 per cent of such membership shall be members of the Garda Síochána nominated by the Garda Commissioner for that purpose,”.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 77: In page 105, to delete line 2 and substitute the following: “(I) such members of the local authority, who shall constitute not less than 25 per cent of the membership of a safety partnership, as may be nominated for that purpose by resolution of the local authority,”.

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)

Marie Sherlock: I thank IBEC and ICTU for attending this hearing today. I wish to ask about IBEC's support for collective bargaining. I heard what Ms McElwee said earlier. Specifically in regard to collective bargaining at enterprise level, does IBEC recognise that it is surely better to work issues out at enterprise level as opposed to at a social partner level or a sectoral level? I was looking at...

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)

Marie Sherlock: To pick up on that point about issues being best and ideally worked out at local level, unions tell us that quite a number of companies are actively and openly hostile to trade unions coming into the workplace. We have seen workers who within a few weeks of coming into a workplace go to a trade union and are warned not to do so because it is not good for them. On a second warning, they are...

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)

Marie Sherlock: We have heard from the trade union movement that the legislation does not provide for that. Surely if our collective interest here is to see collective bargaining take place in a respectful manner at enterprise level, we would remove those barriers and any potential for victimisation of workers who want to form a union within the workplace.

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)

Marie Sherlock: I will ask one more question of IBEC before I move to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, with regard to the response to the legislative changes that the congress has spoken about clearly. I note that in its submission, IBEC noted that: "While the action plan itself may result in legislative changes to our industrial relations legislation, in our view, neither the framework nor the...

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)

Marie Sherlock: Ms McElwee has spoken about the amount of time IBEC has spent on this issue in recent years and we have had the high-level group. Why is IBEC dragging its heels? Why not just come to the table and engage with the legislation that needs to be enacted as opposed to dragging this out for years? Why would we have a situation whereby IBEC takes a piecemeal approach and says "No" to legislative...

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)

Marie Sherlock: I will.

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)

Marie Sherlock: I have a final question.

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)

Marie Sherlock: My questions are directed to the ICTU. Mr. Reidy made a powerful point in respect of public procurement. It is important to state it is not just about the State contracts but also organisations that are in receipt of continual State funding, such as in the childcare or nursing home sectors. Rather than just looking at the private sector, we must also consider publicly funded services that...

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)

Marie Sherlock: As regards the roadmap to which Mr. Reidy referred, I would be interested to hear his thoughts on the timing in that regard. The directive is only one of several changes that will come in this year or in the coming years. I ask him to address the issue of timing. There is the high-level group and the directive.