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Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Marie Sherlock: Senator Cassells makes an important point and we have repeatedly heard about the level playing field. Do we want to level down or level up? Is it right that the print media is able to carry advertisements by powerful interests? It should not be able to do so. I respect Senator Cassells' arguments but I profoundly disagree. This amendment is here for a good reason. If the Senator was to...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Marie Sherlock: No but the point is-----

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Marie Sherlock: -----let us not undermine the few existing protections for workers in the context of industrial disputes.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I support these amendments and what has been said. While language is important to ensure these references are hardwired in the legislation there is a real issue as to how the commission will actively promote same. I know that we are not talking about amendment No. 112 but it sets down a gender quota to ensure there is a fair gender balance in broadcasting both the spoken word and music....

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Marie Sherlock: It will be difficult to follow Senator Cassells's passionate and eloquent contribution. I will support the amendment, but it is important to highlight that it is in some ways a timid amendment. We should not miss the opportunity to refer to gambling advertising but, in fact, we need to ban it. Our party had a Bill before this House a month ago on the issue, which the Government parties...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Apr 2022)

Marie Sherlock: Following on from Senator Gavan's appeal on the Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill, it is to be commended that we have space on the Order Paper to bring the Bill to Report and Final Stages. The critical issue now is what will happen to it. As Senator Gavan said, it is the only Bill we have, notwithstanding that commitments have been given by the Minister for Health in...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Marie Sherlock: He disrespected the staff and everybody else and he goes on and on. We have listened to the Senator for the last number of hours. Please now.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Marie Sherlock: It is not intolerance.

Seanad: Comhshuí de Dháil Éireann agus de Sheanad Éireann - Joint Sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas - Address by H.E. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine (6 Apr 2022)

Marie Sherlock: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Apr 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I, too, pay tribute to your comments this morning, a Chathaoirligh. We were all very affected by that family being brought to the House, their horrendous lived experience and those they have had to leave behind.I welcome the announcement yesterday of a basic income for artists and pay tribute to the work of the Minister, Deputy Martin, and, in particular, the National Campaign for the Arts...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Marie Sherlock: For one minute or two minutes?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I want to be associated with the comments welcoming and congratulating Seanadóir Tom Clonan. The results of the International Panel on Climate Change report, which was published yesterday, are scarily stark and the message is clear. We cannot long-finger what needs to be done. Of course, while we have ambitious targets and we need to acknowledge them, there are real questions with...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (30 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I am also delighted to see school children in the Seanad today. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, for coming to the House to deal with this matter. As he knows, there is a real crisis in blood stocks in our health service and there has been throughout the pandemic. Ireland has had to import blood stocks on three separate occasions over the past 12 months from the NHS blood...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (30 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State. To pick up on his last point, the Department of Health has learned a lot about communication strategy over the past two years because it had to. It should be within the Department's wherewithal to deliver that message to the population that needs to hear it. I did not see any of the messages on social media or in the traditional media. That is not to say...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Chairman and the officials from the Department for attending the hearing today. I have a number of questions. On head No. 22, and I am aware that others have raised this concern also, but on the fundamental and constitutional right of access to justice and to the courts, this head seems like an interference with the running of the court in some way in its directing a judge with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: My question was on the extent to which the data collection will encompass oversight of the awards system. Picking up on mediation, I also asked about the supports available to those making a claim because it is really important. My concern is that somebody will feel forced into mediation. While, of course, they have the right to opt out, ultimately there is a power imbalance there for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the officials.

Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the Chamber today for this debate. The Labour Party very much welcomes the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Bill. I wish to begin by paying tribute to the work of Mr. Michael Tutty, the former official in the Department of Finance who put together the aforementioned report. The report was published in...

Seanad: Humanitarian Support for Ukrainian Refugees: Statements (23 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: It is very important that we are having this session today. I want to start off by saying how proud I am, and I know so many others are, of the enormous humanitarian response by the Irish people. We saw a vote taken in Westminster yesterday that effectively makes it illegal for Ukrainians to arrive in the UK without proper paperwork, with a risk of up to four years in prison. The contrast...

Seanad: Gambling (Prohibition of Advertising) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State very much for coming into the Chamber. I echo the thanks my colleague, Senator Wall, has given in that the Government has allowed time for us to debate this Bill today. I grew up in a household where there was, if I may call it this, a healthy scepticism of the two main political parties at the time. While there would be a discussion about the issues of the...