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Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Okay.

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Indeed. As a matter of record, given that we put forward the amendment on behalf of the Labour Party, we would still like to ensure the amendment is promulgated. Therefore, respectfully, that is what I intend to do. I am delighted with the Minister's offer to take receipt of the report, nonetheless. I thank her for that.

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Yes.

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I wholeheartedly support Deputy Naughten’s proposed amendment because more of us are interacting with people who are definitively feeling the effects of long Covid. The amendment is a reasonable one in that it seeks to have a report laid before the House on particular measures, especially, as stated in the amendment, in designating long Covid as an occupational illness. We all have...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I support Deputy Kerrane's amendment. This is a time when the Government, to be fair to it, and the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, are putting particular emphasis on apprenticeships. There is now a clear Government policy around resourcing apprenticeships. We want to see more apprenticeships coming from right across the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (30 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a limit per household for the payment of the respite care grant bonuses; and if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a payment. [59641/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (30 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 172. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be contacted for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59609/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 Dec 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school transport will commence for a student (details supplied) with additional needs. [59896/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Dec 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process where a family can ensure siblings (details supplied) with additional needs are in the same school. [59900/22]

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

Seán Sherlock: 274. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the population in the catchment area of each Intreo office in the country in tabular form. [60038/22]

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

Seán Sherlock: 275. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria for deciding to locate an INTREO office in a particular area. [60039/22]

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

Seán Sherlock: 276. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria for making the decision to close an INTREO office in a particular area. [60040/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (1 Dec 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 344. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be allocated a placement. [59969/22]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Supports for Parents of Children in Foster Care: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: It does. We must understand and appreciate the service has only been operational for a matter of weeks really. It is an iterative process. I absolutely acknowledge that. My second and final point is in relation to the courts. We have been talking about reform of the courts for donkey's years and for decades. I believe that we think too rigidly in this country about how the Courts...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Supports for Parents of Children in Foster Care: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Particularly on the Courts Service.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Supports for Parents of Children in Foster Care: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: To be fair, while one cannot say there has been a sea change, there has certainly been a shift in terms of the appointment of judges whose legal experience is grounded in family law and that is making a difference.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Supports for Parents of Children in Foster Care: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I have found this interaction with our witnesses very informative. I had not been conscious of the parent in all of this. I have looked matters through the prism of people who come to our constituency offices, and very often it is about a social protection query or a medical card query, but once one starts to open the box one sees that there are other issues, but one never really fully...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (7 Dec 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 123. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [61115/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (7 Dec 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 148. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children referred on from children's disability network teams to private providers for assessment and therapy; the number in each CHO; the therapies concerned; and the cost for each private provider referral in tabular form. [61209/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (6 Dec 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if enabling legislation will be required to implement the provisions of Council Regulation (EU) 2022/1854 including the temporary solidarity contribution on fossil fuel production and refining; if any analysis has been carried out on the impact of such a levy on strategically important facilities for Ireland’s...