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Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (7 Nov 2012)

Seán Sherlock: The Deputy should have regard to other people.

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (7 Nov 2012)

Seán Sherlock: With all due respect, the Deputy raised an issue and I replied to it. We should stick to our guns on this matter. The issue has been expedited satisfactorily and I know the Deputy will speak highly of the collegiality of his partners in Government when he relates this to the people on the streets of Longford. I sincerely thank him for raising this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research and Development (13 Nov 2012)

Seán Sherlock: The Seventh EU Framework Programme for Research and Development (FP7), with a budget of over €50 billion for the period 2007 to 2013, is the EU’s main instrument for funding research and development in Europe. The EU Framework Programmes have been an important element in the internationalisation of Irish research, offering Ireland's SMEs, multinationals, and research...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Bodies (22 Nov 2012)

Seán Sherlock: The Government decision to abolish the separate Office of the Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) is part of the wider reform and efficiency process currently being driven right across the public sector. The abolition of the Office of the CSA is one element of a number of reforms being driven by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. The principal function of the Chief Scientific...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)

Seán Sherlock: The Deputy is the best proponent of talking down the clock.

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Nov 2012)

Seán Sherlock: I acknowledge Senator Quinn for bringing forward this legislation.

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Nov 2012)

Seán Sherlock: On behalf of the Government I acknowledge the presence of Mr. Younis in the Visitors Gallery. I thank each of the speakers who contributed so passionately to the debate on this Bill. I will outline some of the historical aspects of the Bill. On Friday, 31 August 2012, Mr. Justice Gerard Hogan of the High Court reversed a Labour Court award of ¤92,000 to Mr. Mohammad Younis, a Pakistani...

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Nov 2012)

Seán Sherlock: -----and had little discretion but to consider the contract of employment as illegal. The result was that, arguably, the employer benefitted from the illegal contract. The issue raised by the High Court judgment is one which has important policy and legal implications in the area of employment permits and also in terms of employment rights. As Mr. Justice Hogan noted in his judgment, "the...

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Nov 2012)

Seán Sherlock: It is the Minister's intention to amend the employment permits legislation in a precise manner to ensure an employer may not benefit from the illegality of the contract of employment where they are found culpable in not ensuring a valid employment permit was in place for the employee concerned. To this end, the Minister will propose the necessary provisions in a new employment permits Bill...

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Sherlock: What is the yield?

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Sherlock: How many of them are there?

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Sherlock: We saw him first here.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Seán Sherlock: On a point of order, I did not hear the Deputy's point.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Seán Sherlock: Will he repeat what he said?

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Seán Sherlock: The House is about to hear a lecture in partitionist politics from Sinn Féin.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Seán Sherlock: With the Chair's permission, I would like to share my time with Deputies Harrington, Twomey and Kyne.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Seán Sherlock: I will conclude my contribution within the two minutes remaining before the sos, after which my time will revert to the other Deputies, with the Chair's permission.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Seán Sherlock: There are two Sinn Féins on this island - Sinn Féin in the Six Counties and Sinn Féin in the Twenty-six Counties. They preach one message in the South and another in the North. I do not understand Sinn Féin's vehement opposition to a property tax in the South, as it does not appear to oppose it in the North where it is in government and where the average household pays...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Seán Sherlock: I thought I had one minute.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Seán Sherlock: The Deputy is revising his party's history slightly.