Results 6,521-6,540 of 13,254 for speaker:Seán Sherlock

Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (15 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: I beg the Deputy's indulgence, but I seek clarity on the procedure as some of us are a little confused.

Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (15 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: Should Deputies speak to their amendments in the group now?

Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (15 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: May I seek clarification? I am a party to the amendments in this grouping.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Properties (15 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 229. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the provision of mobile phone services in an area (details supplied) will be facilitated. [21080/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (15 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason history has been removed as a compulsory subject from the junior cycle curriculum. [21051/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Directives (15 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 327. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will request that the EU cultural and energy directorates maintain the exemption (details supplied) afforded to all stage lighting equipment from legislations which would prohibit their manufacturing and sale. [21422/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (15 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 372. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [20932/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Correspondence (15 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 429. To ask the Minister for Health if a reply will issue to a person (details supplied). [21337/18]

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: Our amendment No. 15 substitutes "16 years" for "13 years". I have spoken on this issue on Second and Committee Stages so will not overly detain the House. I have made clear that I favour a digital age of consent of 16. The advocates for a digital age of consent of 13 have argued that children have a right to a voice online and to participation. However, the digital age of consent applies...

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: Article 8 of the GDPR deals with the issue of consent to the processing of personal data in connection with what we call information society services. That is the headline language that is used. The article itself proposes 16 years as the minimum age at which a child may independently consent to such processing. Younger children's data may be processed "only if, and to the extent, that...

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: The Deputy can now answer Deputy Mick Wallace's point.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (16 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 203. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears in respect of a carer's allowance will issue to a person (details supplied) in view of the fact the payment was first awarded on 12 April 2017; and if the details of same will be provided. [21532/18]

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (16 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: Apologies have been received from Deputy Martin Hayden whom I wish well. His wife has given birth. I do not know whether it was a boy or a child, as we say down my way.

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (16 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: We pass on our congratulations to the Deputy and his wife and family on their good news. I ask members to, please, turn off their mobile phones. The usual provisos apply. Will they, please, switch them to airplane mode? In accordance with the standard procedures agreed to by the Committee on Procedure for paperless committees, all documentation for the meeting has been circulated...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: It is blossoming like the rhododendrons in Kerry.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: That is my point.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: I wish to speak to amendment No. 6 in the name of Deputy O’Callaghan.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: The Labour Party will support the amendment but it behoves us to make some political points on the nature of how this legislation is beginning to unfold. It is very clear now that Sinn Féin has done a deal with the Government in respect of sentencing guidelines. What we would like to know, what the House would like to know and what the people who are looking at this legislation would...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: -----in respect of the position that Sinn Féin has adopted on this matter. It is very rarely that I agree with Deputy Wallace but he is right when he says this is poor legislation designed to keep the Minister, Deputy Ross, on board. If we really examine the nature of the legislation, in his assault on official Ireland, the Minister, Deputy Ross, rails against insiders and cronyism...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: Deputy Barrett spoke to the heart and soul of Fine Gael in regard to this matter tonight. Notwithstanding the ideological differences between all of us in this House, when somebody of Deputy Barrett's experience stands up and questions authoritatively the manner in which the legislation is proceeding and speaks so passionately about the confidence in the Judiciary of the Irish people, it has...