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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Union: Discussion. (8 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. O'Connell. My next question was going to be about branch banking. The example Mr. O'Connell has given eloquently sets out the stress felt by branch workers at the moment, especially Ulster Bank employees. Mr. O'Connell has articulated a vision for the combination of branch banking with online digital banking. Are there good international examples of banks that have got this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Union: Discussion. (8 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. O'Connell.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: We are opposing the section and specifically the provisions relating to the retrospective application of income tax to the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, for the 20 and a half weeks between 13 March and 5 August. Let us be clear what is in question here. The Social Welfare (Covid-19) Act 2020 provides that the PUP is subject to tax from 5 August but it is only now, in the middle of...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for his detailed and considered response. I would like to make three points. It is well within the power of the Government to allow on a pro ratabasis the application of the PAYE allowance and personal tax credit during this tax year. It is within the power of the Government to allow those tax credits to apply against whatever earned income is generated in...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Senators Higgins and Gavan for the earlier support. I thought it was implicit in my comments that I was asking the Government to put forward a recommendation in the context of this Bill coming through our House. Senator Higgins has eloquently articulated how it is well within the power of the Government to bring forward recommendations on Report Stage. I am disappointed that the...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I came into this House to debate respectfully with the Minister of State on a very important issue. It is a source of regret to me as a new Senator that, when a Minister of State has his back to the wall and is looking for arguments, he would seek to attribute to me something that I simply did not say. It is most disappointing that the Minister of State made that comment. I have made my...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I support Senator McDowell in calling for all in the Seanad to show leadership. All Senators received a letter from my colleague, Deputy Kelly, last week urging them to sign a pledge stating they will take the vaccine. I support the call for a debate in the Seanad with the Minister for Finance on insurance. The findings in the report of the Central Bank are extremely serious. They point...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Planning Framework (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke. Has it been communicated to him that someone else will ask Senator McGahon's question?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Planning Framework (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: Senator Keogan is next as Senator McGahon cannot be here.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Planning Framework (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State. The Senator has one minute to respond.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Planning Framework (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I ask the Minister of State to provide the Senator with a copy of his contribution.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Planning Framework (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: My apologies to the Minister of State. I understand his contribution is available to Members. I thank him for coming to the House. I also thank Senator Keogan.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I move recommendation No. 1: In page 1. In page 9, to delete lines 9 to 24 and substitute the following: “ “(iib) Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment (within the meaning of the Act of 2005),”, and (b) by inserting the following after subsection (6B): “(6C) The payments, commonly known as the pandemic unemployment payments, made under section...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: On Committee Stage, I made very clear on behalf of my colleagues in the Labour Party our deep unease - this is shared by other colleagues on this side of the Chamber - regarding what we believe is the retrospective application of income tax to the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, between 13 March and 5 August. I listened very carefully to the comments the Minister of State made,...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for his reply but I am disappointed by it. I believe the goalposts have been shifted since Committee Stage, when Senators were told that people would be horrified to discover that they would not be able to offset some of their tax liability for the PUP against their personal and PAYE tax credits. The recommendation clearly attempts to deal with that by...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I second the recommendation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I thank ISME and ICTU for their presentations. I apologise if some of my questions have already been asked. Unfortunately, I was delayed at another event. My first question is for Mr. McDonnell and ISME. I very much welcome the fact that ISME supports the call for the statutory right to sick pay in this country. That is progress, but I am not sure that the demand that employers pay...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I am sorry to interrupt, but what I really want to hear about is the temporary replacement cover. What share of firms or types of work require that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. McDonnell for that. What I would respectfully say is that we do need to hear the voice of business in this conversation and discussion about how we pay for sick pay, but we do need hard facts and figures as well. If we can be of assistance in undertaking the research to understand what is going on among ISME's member organisations then that is something to be considered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I am really sorry, but I must direct a question to ICTU now. I have a very short time to talk.