Results 12,241-12,260 of 13,254 for speaker:Seán Sherlock

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider an issue where over 20 schoolchildren are excluded from transport (details supplied). [22256/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (10 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will resolve an issue affecting CPD for guidance counsellors in Cork (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22131/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pension Provisions (10 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 167. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate a matter concerning the HSE pension of a person (details supplied). [21886/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (17 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Heath, Deputy Butler, to respond to my query in respect of what I perceive to be the lack of special school places, and school places for children with additional needs in the north Cork area specifically. I raise this issue on the basis of the fact that parents have been in contact with me to say there is no certainty for their children...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (17 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for her response because it is the first time we have a real metric and set of figures in respect of north Cork, which is to be welcomed. I appreciate and acknowledge that a new special school will be allocated for Carrigtwohill. I am not striving for perfection here but I have a slight worry. We seem to accept the fact that children have to travel long...

Targeted Investment in the Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I support the motion. I will talk specifically about Mallow General Hospital, which is categorised as a level 2 hospital, but in our minds in north Cork, we think it is somewhere between level 2 and level 3 in terms of what it delivers for the people of the region that I represent. In 2007, we in Mallow underwent quite a difficult process, prior to people like myself ever being in...

Targeted Investment in the Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: -----but to be fair to the man, he has always delivered for the people of Mallow through Mallow General Hospital. We have seen the outworkings of his efforts in that regard. We have had to push back on him on numerous occasions but I want to acknowledge that he had the best interests of Mallow at heart.

Social Welfare (Child Benefit) Bill 2023: Second Stage (17 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I support the Bill and welcome the fact that we are promulgating this legislation. Considering it realistically, this measure will cost €122 million, so it is quite a significant intervention by the Government. To be fair, that has to be acknowledged. If €100 for every child is being put into households in June, that has to be acknowledged. I will say that first and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (17 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 65. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to report on the public consultation in respect of the transposition of the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (EU) 2022/2464; if he is satisfied with the level of consultation that has taken place; when he intends to report on the outcome of this consultation and plans to implement the directive; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Regulations (17 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 66. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will set out the mechanisms in place in his Department to ensure full corporate compliance with the EU’s Disclosure of Non-Financial and Diversity Information by certain large undertakings and groups (Regulations 2017 – DI no 360 of 2017); if he will indicate compliance and non-compliance levels; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Policies (17 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 67. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment following the expiry of Ireland’s second CSR Action Plan (Towards Responsible Business 2017-2020), if it is his intention to publish a new plan; if he can outline the mechanisms he intends to use to promote and execute the provisions of this plan; if his Department has reported to the EU Commission, in respect of his...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (17 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 229. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address an issue with the fair deal scheme (details supplied). [23379/23]

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: When we all speak in this debate, we speak for people who are decent. What I have witnessed in my constituency in the context of people coming in, whether under international protection or from Ukraine, is an overwhelming sense of decency and an outpouring of charity and of wanting to help people who have come to our shores seeking protection. I have witnessed that at first hand in my...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: No.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospice Services (23 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 73. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has had regard to a report by the Irish Hospice Foundation on the real financial impact of bereavement; and, if so, her views on the report. [25017/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospice Services (23 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has had regard to a report by the Irish Hospice Foundation on the real financial impact of bereavement and, if so, her views on it. I thank and pay tribute to the Irish Hospice Foundation, which recently provided an Oireachtas briefing in which it highlighted its study on the importance of supports for people who are bereaved.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospice Services (23 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: The Minister is correct; the report covers a broad array of subject matters. There is one recommendation, however, where there is a clear articulation of the view, through the surveys that were carried out, of the need to provide greater signposting regarding, in particular, access to the supplementary welfare allowance for funeral costs. That resonated me because all of us, as public...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospice Services (23 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Minister. Even having this interaction with her is one way for us to highlight the issue. I acknowledge the campaign, although I have some issues with it given it was effectively a cost-of-living crisis campaign for working families in the main. Nevertheless, while I have some reservations about what I perceive to be the centralisation of services, we all acknowledge it must...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate (23 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome Ms Yiasouma. I am fascinated by her background. Although this is not a job interview, I think occasions like this afford us a little opportunity to have some perspective.