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Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 28: In page 15, line 17, to delete “as soon as practicable” and substitute “within 28 days”.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I support this amendment. To draw a comparison with the Department of Social Protection, if you were designing a scheme to which people would make an application and which was subject to a decision by a chief deciding officer, the timelines built into that for a decision would be definitive. What the amendment seeks to do, quite rightly, is take out certain words. We are getting into the...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: My apologies, but there is a phone ringing somewhere. It is very distracting and I cannot here Deputy Healy-Rae properly.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: There is a phone ringing somewhere and I cannot hear the Deputy properly.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I am trying to listen to the Deputy.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Section 18 provides that "The Chief Deciding Officer may, for the purposes of his or her examination of an application, request the applicant concerned to provide, within such reasonable period as the Chief Deciding Officer may specify, information by affidavit where the Chief Deciding Officer is of the opinion that ..." and it goes on to list the various subsections and paragraphs. What is...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I will come in again briefly, if I may, on the issue of the affidavits. The Minister refers specifically to section 37 which states that, "The Scheme may, in accordance with regulations under section 38, provide financial support". The word "may" is very subjective. My fear relates to people who are not on the database who wish to make an application and have to procure an affidavit. I am...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Bhuel, níl mé sásta.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: For clarity, the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach is moving through each of the amendments Nos. 34 to 38.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I rise to oppose amendment No. 56. We are supposed to be legislating in a generous spirit, but the language of the Minister's amendment No. 56 is rules based. It requires the person applying, "within 60 days of the date on which the notice is sent to him or her, to comply with the request". I understand that if you are designing a legislative scheme, there is a lexicon around it. In this...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I share a similar view to Deputy Funchion about the application process. I do not know if the Minister has ever spent time with a constituent filling out a medical card, invalidity pension, disability allowance, pension, community welfare allowance, supplementary welfare allowance or any other such application form, but it is quite an onerous task. I still do not understand why he is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 622. To ask the Minister for Health the individual CDNT teams in each CHO area that has a dietitian on its team; and the case load per dietitian, per CDNT team, in tabular form. [8278/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (21 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 721. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of payments received by the State forestry company, Coillte, from the European Union for each of the years since it drew down an initial European Investment Bank loan of £27.8 million in the year of its establishment, 1988. [8195/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (21 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 722. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of loans drawn down by the State forestry company, Coillte, from the European Investment Bank for each of the years since it drew down an initial EIB loan of £27.8 million in the year of its establishment, 1988. [8196/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 723. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of dividends paid by Coillte to the Exchequer from the year of its establishment, 1988, until the end of the last calendar year, 31 December 2022. [8197/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) can apply for a refund for monies paid for transport for her child when approval was granted but services had not commenced. [9350/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (28 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the all-island rail review; and when he will publish same. [9668/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Data (28 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the numbers of users, bike rides, membership revenue and each station usage in the each of the years 2018 to 2022, and to date in 2023, for each of the public bike schemes in Cork, Galway, Limerick, Waterford and Dublin, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10055/23]

Future of Regional Pre-Hospital Emergency Care: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I am happy to share my time, although it will curtail my speech significantly, which the Acting Chair will be happy to hear. The Labour Party fully supports the motion. There is no question about that. I will speak specifically about Mallow General Hospital because the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, referred to it. The Minister of State noted in respect of Mallow that there is now a...

Future of Regional Pre-Hospital Emergency Care: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: In that short time, I will quote a letter a paramedic wrote to me recently. It states: We are paid as ambulance drivers whereas in fact we are trained and qualified as paramedics after completing a two or three-year course depending on the year you started. We are paid as emergency medical technicians where we should be getting paid as qualified paramedics. That point needs to be...