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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I note the proposal to lift the criminalisation is confined to medical practitioners. What about-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Marie Sherlock: Sure, but what about others? I am thinking about family members. There was the famous case in the North where a family member secured medication for, effectively, a child. What is Ms O'Shea's opinion with regard to extending the lifting of the criminalisation beyond medical practitioners?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Marie Sherlock: Okay. I thank Ms O'Shea.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: On behalf of the Labour Party, I extend the condolences of our party to the family of Paul Coghlan and all his party colleagues. I also extend my condolences and those of my party to the family of the late John Murphy. He was one of two men who were very seriously injured in an incident at the Stryker plant in Carrigtwohill, County Cork, in April this year. Sadly, John lost his life last...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: Is the amendment being pressed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the witnesses for attending. I think this has been one of the most important meetings we have had in a while, with profound questions confronting us as legislators and policymakers in the Oireachtas. I take from this conversation that there is a clear call for regulatory oversight. Judging by the conversation to date, there is enormous potential for good from AI but also for bad,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: Ultimately, all legislation can do is to regulate the relationships. In some ways, legislation will always be behind the curve of innovation in the AI space. I want to pick up on the points being made by ICTU about the EU AI Act and the disappointing, serious gaps that remain in that legislation. On the question about the assessment of risk, what might be serious to one person may seem...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: We had the Financial Services Union, FSU, before the committee a number of weeks ago and it was looking specifically at its own sector. It is important to say we had Mr. Larry Broderick before the committee, which was before my time here, and he is being buried tomorrow so it is important to note that and I extend my condolences, on behalf of the Labour Party, to the FSU and to Larry's...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I express my solidarity with the workers of Iceland Foods, some of whom have had to stage a sit-in at the Talbot Street store. I was with them late last night. It is shameful that they feel they have to stage a sit-in in order to get the wages that are due to them. Some are owed more than €1,000. These are minimum-wage jobs. The staff are owed holiday pay. It is shameful that...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Civil Engagement Group for this important motion. We are seeing a normalisation of the Mediterranean becoming a graveyard for thousands of people fleeing war, persecution and poverty in a desperate bid to make a life for themselves in Europe. It has become normalised, particularly in western Europe. It is a shame on all member states of the European Union to have been party to...

Seanad: Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2023: Second Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the Chamber. The Labour Party very much supports the Bill and its intent. We have been awaiting it for quite some time. Its importance is evident when one considers how badly served groups of consumers in this country were for several decades, particularly in the context of insurance and banking. The issue of qualified entities came up in...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: The first thing is to thank all the witnesses who attended this hearing today. The crucial point of the hearing is that we understand more about the shambles that appears to be corporate governance within RTÉ, and that coming out of this, we would have a stronger RTÉ, a more transparent RTÉ and an RTÉ that has fairer working conditions. During the week we had...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I have three sets of specific questions for Ms O 'Leary, for Mr. Collins and for Ms Ní Raghallaigh, but first I want to ask Mr. Shortt - as the staff member on the board - what he believes now needs to happen within RTÉ to move forward from this awful crisis that has engulfed the national broadcaster. What needs to happen to the executive? I am conscious that I have another set of...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: What needs to happen to the executive and within RTÉ to try to re-instil confidence in the public broadcaster and to reassure staff now that these issues are going to be comprehensively dealt with?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. Shortt. As the commercial director, I must ask Ms O'Leary is it good enough that she cannot recall the detail of the invoices and that there was no paper trail within her office? This is particularly pertinent when we have learned from the Grant Thornton report that those invoices accounted for 70% of the value of the purchases going through the barter account in 2022. What...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: Is it exceptional then that Ms O'Leary would not even communicate with the chief financial officer if it is unusual for her role to be raising invoices at all?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I think what we are hearing is a story of Chinese walls and that divisions are working in silos and not communicating with each other. It reflects an utter dysfunction as an executive if an unusual transaction has never been brought to the attention of the executive. If I picked him up correctly, the chief financial officer said a few minutes ago that the first he understood of these...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: Mr. Collins had no knowledge and no inkling whatsoever.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: There is an ambiguity to Mr. Collins's answer. We see from the Grant Thornton report that the barter account was previously outside of the financial statements but was brought into the balance sheet two years ago, if I understand correctly. How could it be the case that if the barter account was on the balance sheet for the past two years, he had no knowledge of these events last year, and...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: When did Mr. Collins know?