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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (17 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: 691. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied). [52913/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Childcare Services (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: I am grateful for the opportunity to raise this issue today. I acknowledge that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, was before the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs earlier today, where she agreed to make available a programme support payment of, as I understand it, approximately €1,500 to childcare providers. In many cases, insurance costs are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Childcare Services (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: I appreciate the statement the Minister has made on the average payment of €1,500 per provider. There needs to be greater interrogation of how that scheme is proposed to be rolled out. The question is whether it will give comfort to the provider that I referred to earlier. I do not buy the argument made by the insurance sector that risk profile has increased. If people, providers...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Services (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: They are all going to Mallow.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Services (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: This is a bit surreal.

Environmental Policy: Motion [Private Members] (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: I move: “That Dáil Éireann: recognises that: — environmental pollution and degradation are all too often the by-products of our economy; — the European Union has operated the polluter pays principle since 1987, and today this principle is enshrined in Article 191 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union; — while overall air quality in...

Environmental Policy: Motion [Private Members] (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: The Labour Party is proposing this motion because we wish to talk about public health and the effects of air pollution on it. There are some universal principles that we all appreciate and recognise. We recognise that environmental pollution and degradation are all too often the by-products of our economy. The EU has operated the polluter pays principle since 1987. Today it is enshrined...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: We will need two five-minute slots.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: I am sharing time with Deputy Fitzmaurice. Hopefully somebody will send out a text to tell them he will be up in five minutes.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: Every week we are in this Chamber or at a committee talking about climate action. If the Government is to achieve everything that it has set out in the climate action plan, it would be useful if we could nail down the financial package involved. Let us take targets around afforestation or the retrofitting of houses. While I do not wish to be partisan tonight, by any objective analysis,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision not to grant temporary accommodation to a school (details supplied) will be reviewed. [53556/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome the Minister, who is appearing before us at short notice but with potential solutions. I am seeking a greater degree of clarity around the programme support payment of €1,500. I wish to show the Minister examples whereby, notwithstanding the process that providers have been through, in particular providers of long standing who have always been compliant and whose risk...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: We should not overburden the sector to the extent where facilities are being forced to close because their capital and insurance costs are too high and the €1,500 payment is not enough to meet the challenges they face.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: The Minister has stated that, by 28 December, the process will have been gone through.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: I fail to understand how the Minister is going to get through a process where the childcare providers that I represent can interact with Pobal or the county childcare committee to benefit from this grant by-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: So it is not an application process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: Then there is the issue of the current insurance model-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: -----and the need to address the fact that people have received quotes with twofold, fourfold or sixfold increases, as in the three examples to which I can speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: With respect, what the Minister stated does not give any comfort to those providers. There are also those people who have yet to be registered up to June. What can they derive from the process to which the Minister refers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Insurance Cover for Crèches: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Sherlock: Did the Minister say 30%?