Results 241-260 of 1,637 for speaker:Marie Sherlock

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Between Ireland and the Palestinian Territories: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I have a question regarding the recommendation on requiring domestically domiciled businesses to conduct enhanced human rights due diligence in conflict-afflicted areas. Can the witnesses talk about some of the best practice in other countries with regard to that type of legislation and what lessons we might take from other countries for this country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Retail Sector: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Marie Sherlock: Having talked to local businesses where I am based in Dublin Central, I am aware a deal have been done with some businesses and other businesses have been refused a deal. This is a serious issue. It would be helpful for this committee and for myself if Mr. Graham's organisation could undertake a survey of its members and provide us with the specific detail of its findings. Otherwise, it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Retail Sector: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. Graham.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for joining us today. Like some of the others, I had lots of non-LPT questions as well for the Minister but I will confine them to the LPT for the time being. Head 5, regarding section 11 relates to the enhanced leasing scheme and the long-term leasing scheme, I welcome that the lessor is the liable person for the LPT. Are there any circumstances or situations where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Marie Sherlock: Okay. Head 10, in respect of section 133 refers to the deferral and the phasing out of the adjustment of the income for mortgage interest payments. I want to understand the basis or grounds for phasing out that allowance or adjustment of the mortgage interest payment. Who will this phasing out apply to? It seems from my read of it that anybody who will be newly paying the local property...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I appreciate the initiative taken with regard to containing the change for a large number of households on the review of the bands. As I understand it, that adjustment of income for mortgage interest was put in place to deal with households that are low income and have mortgage interest payments to make. It would be very unfortunate to withdraw that now, particularly in our current...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I refer to the movement from €25,000. The thresholds are being increased to €30,000 and €42,000. There is no provision in the Bill to allow for them to be indexed or increased in future years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Marie Sherlock: This is a comment more than a question. The issue of the necessity for a vacant site tax or vacant house tax has been articulated by others. Many of us believe there is an urgency now in terms of the collation of the data the Minister is seeking to undertake in making these houses be registered in the context of LPT. I ask for a commitment on when the Minister expects his review of that...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (22 Sep 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I am delighted the Minister is in the Chamber today. As she knows, families and children who depend on school escorts know the importance of that role in ensuring children can go to school in a semi-independent way. School escorts are low-paid workers and many of them have to engage in other work to supplement their income. Often they are special needs assistants, SNAs, or in other work....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (22 Sep 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for her reply. I am most relieved to hear that the issue has been identified and acknowledged within the Department. My only question now concerns the fact that by the time the new circular is circulated and implemented within schools, a number of weeks will have passed. It needs to be ensured that no school escort is out of pocket from the beginning of the school...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I express my sympathies to our colleague, Senator Annie Hoey, and her family. Just a number of short weeks ago we were congratulating her on her wedding. Thankfully her father, Ray, was able to attend it but after a very long illness, he lost that battle last night. The issue I raise this morning is one that many Deputies, Senators and other elected representatives from north County Dublin...

Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person (Amendment) (Stalking) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

Marie Sherlock: We in the Labour Party welcome this Bill and I thank the Fianna Fáil Senators for bringing it forward. As we have heard from a number of accounts and from reading the LRC report, stalking is a deeply insidious and appalling violation of a person's dignity, safety and security. I pay tribute to Una Ring, Eve McDowell, and, indeed, Senator Keogan, for sharing their stories. This is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for coming before the committee. Let me be clear that I remain utterly unconvinced, as do others in my party, on the need for this alternative dispute resolution system. It is a good argument that we have an existing dispute resolution system within our domestic courts that functions well. The argument for an alternative is weak, other than on grounds of efficiency....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Marie Sherlock: It is alarming that such a conversation has not taken place at EU level. It is important to say that it was 15 of the 28 EU member states, because the UK ratified and, of course, they are no longer part of the Union. My other question relates to the reassurances the Government can provide with regard to the trade deal. I am aware that trade unions have repeatedly expressed concern about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister; that is all from me.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I wish to mark International Safe Abortion Day and acknowledge the significant number of people who turned out on Saturday for the annual March for choice. Notwithstanding the enormous progress we made since the historic referendum three years ago, we still have significant issues regarding the delivery of abortion services in this country. While the Government's review is welcome, I urge...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Sep 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. The Labour Party is very happy to support this Bill. It is being taken at a time when there are very real question marks about the capacity of the aviation sector to recover. Projections suggest that it will be 2024 before it recovers, if at all. The desirability of that recovery is a very separate but important question about how to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: Over the past eight weeks, I have had reason to meet a considerable number of apartment dwellers in the area of Dublin Central where I am based. They live in apartment blocks which were built in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and over the past three to four years, they have had to come to terms with the horrendous reality that they are living in units that are effectively fire hazards, and...

Seanad: Registration of Wills Bill 2021: Second Stage (6 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: On behalf of my Labour Party colleagues I thank Senator Boyhan for bringing this important Bill forward. I understand this is the fourth time that this Bill, or at least the concept contained within this Bill, has come before the House. I read back through some of the transcripts of those previous debates and, as other Senators have said, there is cross-party support for the concept within...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Four-Day Working Week: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. O'Connor, Ms Cox and our guests from Fórsa and IBEC for attending the meeting. I am interested in the concept of a four-day week especially in the context of female labour market participation. There is the issue of getting women into work but also that of keeping them there, given that, as we know, there is a significant and dramatic fall-off in women's participation after...