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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: My questions are directed to the ICTU. Mr. Reidy made a powerful point in respect of public procurement. It is important to state it is not just about the State contracts but also organisations that are in receipt of continual State funding, such as in the childcare or nursing home sectors. Rather than just looking at the private sector, we must also consider publicly funded services that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: As regards the roadmap to which Mr. Reidy referred, I would be interested to hear his thoughts on the timing in that regard. The directive is only one of several changes that will come in this year or in the coming years. I ask him to address the issue of timing. There is the high-level group and the directive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. Reidy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I want to be clear as to the sequencing of the legislative changes that IBEC envisages.

Seanad: Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: The Labour Party welcomes the Digital Services Bill. We all have to be clear that, as Senator Garvey said, this is giving effect to the EU regulation on digital services. It is specific with regard to establishing the mechanism for the supervision and enforcement of the regulation in this country. In that regard we welcome the Bill. This is the latest chapter in the EU initiative to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (8 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. I thank the Minister of State for taking this on behalf of the Minister for Education today. I am very conscious that there has been a lot of attention this week on the Department of Education's failure to properly plan for secondary school places in certain areas, in greater Dublin, Kildare, and Wicklow. We have a long-running issue regarding the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (8 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. I welcome the work that is being done. It has been a scramble, but I will wholeheartedly support every expansion of special needs places. Having said that, there is a big difference between announcements and delivery. Even in Dublin 7, we have seen a delay in the opening of a new special school. These things happen. As adults, we can wait,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: To follow that last contribution, the call from this House is that the Israeli basketball team should be called out and pulled out of the International Basketball Federation because the pressure on the players has been shocking. I wholeheartedly agree with Senator O'Donovan about the stance that many have rightly taken but it is not fair to put players in that awful situation. I agree with...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Chair and thank everybody who has made the effort to be here today. We often hear the slogan, on both radio and television, about RTÉ supporting the arts and I suppose the question has to be asked today. Does RTÉ accept that serious harm was done to the reputations and indeed the livelihoods of the people involved in Toy Show The Musicalin terms of how it was managed?...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: But Mr. Bakhurst is trying to repair the mess that has been made.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Looking ahead, Mr. Lynch referred to the strategy set out for RTÉ to look at future live events and other ventures in order to generate funds for RTÉ. Ultimately, Toy Show The Musicalwas obviously a corporate governance failure. It was a financial failure and, arguably, an artistic failure because it was so undercooked. The question in my head is about something like that...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. Bakhurst. I have a question for Ms Cusack. There has been a lot said about the voluntary exit package. There is a question that keeps coming up in my mind. Ms Cusack was assured that the required savings would be made and that gave her a degree of comfort with regard to the deal that was ultimately done, but it was Ms Cusack's department that ultimately would have processed...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: The culture within the HR department is to apply a fine-tooth comb to managing contracts and payments to workers of RTÉ. Why did Ms Cusack not act when she did not see the required savings?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: That is the exit, but I refer to the incoming CEO. The savings were not there. Ms Cusack's task was to administer the scheme. There was a breach of the scheme. I suppose the other side of it is that we have a package here worth €400,000 or more. I do not know what Ms Breda O'Keeffe's package was, but obviously it was a significant package. Surely that should have been weighing on...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I think it points to a culture in this regard. To my mind, if people are at the executive director level, they are paid to ask questions of others. That did not happen, but it should have happened.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I refer to the form of the executive, however, in front of the director general. This is the key point. The conversations took place outside the room and there was no degree of transparency.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I just want to ask another question. The Resolve report was furnished to Ms Cusack on 2 March 2022.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: It took more than a year and freedom of information requests and all sorts of other efforts to get that report published. For everybody's benefit, this report examined the culture in certain parts of RTÉ because there had been allegations of bullying, etc. Why did Ms Cusack sit on that report for a year?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: When were the changes made? To my knowledge, they were not made before the publication of this report. The reason the trade unions in RTÉ had to force the publication of this report was so that action would then be taken.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I refer to moving the individual in question sideways.