Results 721-740 of 1,637 for speaker:Marie Sherlock
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: I thank the Chair for continuing these important hearings on disability and employment. They are very important. I thank our witnesses from the Open Doors Initiative and the NCBI. The NCBI talked about the shame of Ireland having the highest number of jobless disabled persons when compared with the whole of the EU. The other thing that stands out to me is that, when we look at potential...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: That is fine. I will contribute again in the second round.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: Ms Feeney mentioned EU procurement a few minutes ago. I do not know if it was with regard to the general EU procurement directives or is there a directive that makes specific reference to disability. I do not know whether she has the detail there, or we might pick it up afterwards, but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: There has been very poor transposition of the procurement directives in this country-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: -----so it is something I will certainly need to look into, but I thank Ms Feeney for that. I wish to pick up on the conversation earlier about the issue of hidden disability and the stigma and the issue surrounding disclosure or having to notify an employer. Perhaps Ms McDonagh might comment on the conversation about it being much harder to retrofit systems into a particular organisation...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: That is the most critical point to us as legislators. In my head, I ask what the State can do to try to push that on and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: Absolutely. As the largest employer in the country, of course it has to take that lead. From a legislative perspective as well, however, what pushes it and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: My last question touches on - it has been touched on already to a certain extent - the interaction between disabled persons, the social welfare system, the world of work and then other employment supports. The witnesses talked about the fear of losing supports if people take up employment, but also how certain supports are structured. Separately, we are seeing at the moment with the basic...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: Perhaps the witnesses could give me some detail on the application process an employer faces that the individual should be going through, and that he or she will bring with him or her.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: To clarify-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: I know, but this is an important question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: This is my last question. To be clear, in terms of the retention grant and the awareness grant, are we talking about converting those in cost-of-disability supports or something else? We are doing different things in terms of what the State is subventing at the moment and if we are to give it to the individual.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: I thank the witnesses very much.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: Not at all. First and foremost, it points to organisational culture.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Conservation (23 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State very much for coming to the Chamber today. I also offer a big welcome to all those present in the Gallery. There are three serious concerns with regard to the criteria for the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, grant system for retrofitting and how they apply to thousands of older homes in Dublin and across the country. Houses constructed before...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Conservation (23 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for that detailed response. I welcome that there will be new guidance this September. A question arises about what will be offered through the one-stop shop – currently, it is only to a B2 standard – and the retrofitting community is wondering whether it is possible to bring some of the older houses to B2 or whether a lower standard would be...
- Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Bertie Ahern, Former Taoiseach (23 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: I very much welcome the former Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, to the House today in recognition of his enormous contribution to delivering the deal that was the Good Friday Agreement. I thank him for the account he has given on that process today. Much has been said over recent weeks and months about the agreement. While first and foremost the agreement was about being the instrument to end...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (24 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: Yesterday, The Wheel, the charities association of Ireland, held its conference. A key message from it was that section 39, section 56 and section 10 organisations are on the brink of collapse. The issues, relating to recruitment and retention and the very significant disparity between the pay of the State and that of the various organisations, are not new and have been evident for years....
- Seanad: Naming of National Children's Hospital for Dr. Kathleen Lynn: Motion (24 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: I, too, thank the Fianna Fáil group and Senators Fitzpatrick, Ardagh and Clifford-Lee for bringing forward this motion. I also thank the 1916 Relatives Association for all its work in campaigning to ensure this fantastic new children's hospital will have the name it deserves. It will ensure we are looking to the past but also establishing our commitment to the future and what the new...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employee Experiences of Technological Surveillance in the Financial Services Sector: Discussion (24 May 2023)
Marie Sherlock: I thank the FSU and Dr. O'Sullivan for being here today. I commend the FSU on its work. I think back to 2020 and the unit's work on the right to switch off and disconnect, which set the agenda then and brings us on to this conversation today. We are all very aware that the use of technology is transforming the concept of the workplace. The FSU's recommendations are very clear on the need...