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Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I thank Ms Graham. I appreciate that.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (1 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 193. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the full range of business supports in place for persons starting a business other than in those sectors supported by Enterprise Ireland and the IDA. [4419/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Data Centres (1 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 194. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the Government Enterprise Statement on Data Centres will be updated. [4421/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (1 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if business supports exist for new businesses in the automotive services sector that are taking on new employees, who are transitioning from long term unemployment or are in receipt of an unemployment support payment from the Department of Social Protection. [4420/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (1 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the case of a person (details supplied). [4281/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (1 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 862. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding her Department has granted across rural development for projects on Arranmore Island including all roads. [4285/22]

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I will be brief. Firstly, I support the amendment. It is a laudable one and worthy of support. Certainly, the Labour Party seeks to speak in support of the amendment. When the climate action Bill was before us we sought to put forward amendments to provide for specific sectoral targets for afforestation. The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications refused to accept...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Specificity is precisely what should be governing primary legislation. This is a specific amendment. It should not be so injurious to the Minister that he should not accept it on the basis that it is overly specific. There is a point to be made here that captures the political zeitgeist. That is about how we take carbon out of society and the economy. One of the ways to do that is...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I rise on behalf of the Labour Party to support the amendment. Reference has been made to the former Deputy and former Leas-Cheann Comhairle, Pat the Cope Gallagher, who holds the respect of every single person in this House, both past and present. He spoke with passion in respect of Statutory Instrument 89 of 2019. He argued that natural justice must be allowed to occur and that common...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: In response to the Minister, I appreciate the point that this is an administrative scheme and that the concept of the balance of probabilities is applied. I remain open to the expertise of the Minister's own officials, given that they have spent much time going to and from Brussels over the years. Was due cognisance taken of the fact that we are in a common law system? Whether or not there...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I do not want to be too rhetorical about it. In the language of law, this is an administrative scheme, with a penalty points system, but fishermen perceive it-----

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: -----and want their feelings to be acknowledged that they perceive it as being yet another heavy-handed State intervention.

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: If this legislation is about an EU harmonisation of sanctions, is the 30 days the de facto position across all member states? Is each member state implementing a 30-day regime? If that is the case, so be it; there is consistency. However, we plead mitigation in these circumstances. Given the particular variations in an Irish scenario where fishermen are fishing quite far from their home...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I asked the Minister a specific question so as to seek enlightenment on the justification for the 30 days and he has come back to us on that. I asked specifically whether that is consistent with other member states' positions in respect of preparing cases and whether there is scope, because of the particular conditions that exist in an Irish context, for a moving of that beyond the 30 days....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (2 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 36. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is obliged to change their property’s heating system from oil to gas in order for essential works to be carried out under the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland. [5335/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 138. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to set up a long Covid clinic in the South/Southwest Hospital Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5262/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 2. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the changes that are foreseen in the delivery of community welfare office services; if it is intended to centralise those services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5712/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I raise this issue because I am extremely concerned that the Department is now pulling back community welfare services where they are delivered in face-to-face settings in the most local of centres, particularly in rural areas. Based on what I have heard so far, my fear is that the Minister is not renewing any leases that her Department may have had with the HSE for the delivery of these...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I am trying to listen carefully to the language of the Minister's reply. I am not reassured by it. The premise on which I base my question is the right of the citizen to interact face to face with an officer. I am asking the Minister for clarification because I am hearing that her Department is not renewing leases in respect of certain traditional centres such as health centres where they...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Again I ask the Minister if it is her Department's intention not to renew leases with the HSE. It is one Department renewing with a Government agency like the HSE, State to State. Is it factually the case that the Minister is not renewing those leases with the HSE in respect of the delivery of services in certain centres around the country?