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Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I restate for the record that, in principle, we are opposed to the Bill and have recorded our votes in that respect. What we are doing now, as per the Minister's words, is a consideration of the amendments put forward by the Seanad. Like Deputies Connolly and Funchion, we record our opposition to this scheme as currently constituted. To return to an issue I raised previously in respect...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: With the Minister's indulgence, I will put it more simply. If someone signs up to the scheme and is eligible for it, the Minister is going to ask the person to sign a legal waiver that will preclude him or her from taking further actions down the line, if I understand correctly the terms of the scheme. If I say to the Minister of State, to the Department, or to the promoters of the scheme...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine a proposal to allow pre-retirement men coming from a manual labour background to have a disregard for the requirement for 12 months in receipt of a social protection payment so they can qualify for community employment schemes. [32063/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I wish to ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine a proposal to allow men and women, the question should have read men and women, of pre-retirement age coming from a manual labour background to have a disregard for the requirement to be in receipt of a social protection payment for 12 months,in order that they can qualify for community employment schemes.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: While I appreciate the answer, it is that the status quoremains. That is what I interpret from the Minister of State's response. What we are talking about here are people who either carried the hod, or were cleaners who partook in manual labour for long periods of their lives where the physical nature of their work is such that they cannot transition at a certain period of their lives into...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I take the Minister of State's point and I am not trying to apply a broad stroke to this but I think it would be acknowledged that there is a category of workers where the ability to transition to enhancing their digital skills, for instance, would be limited. That is a fact of life. That is a nonjudgmental statement I am making. There are unfilled places in community employment schemes....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: The Minister of State will put my file into a filing cabinet somewhere in the Department.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Home Care Packages (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what engagement she has had with the Minister for Health on homecare packages and the financial impact of those families in receipt of carers' payment who do not receive homecare support. [32066/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to publish any research undertaken or commissioned by her Department on a cost of disability payment, including costings to the Exchequer. [32067/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 162. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of the Christmas Bonus who do not receive a Spring cost-of-living payment, in tabular form, by county; and if that will be rectified before the Autumn cost-of-living payment. [32065/23]

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I acknowledge the presence in the Public Gallery of Tegan Lyons, Sophia King, Lexi King and Amelia Kee from Mallow United. I am glad they are here because their achievements to date have been exceptional. They are accompanied by Paul Lyons and Philip King. They have won division 1 of the Cork Women's and Schoolgirls Soccer League. They have won the Denise McArdle Cup. They have won the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I speak on services provided by GPs, red-eye services and out-of-hours services, specifically in relation to SouthDoc. It is being reported the centre in Fermoy, County Cork, is to be reduced. I want the Minister, through the Taoiseach, to give a commitment that the centre in Fermoy will not be closed and, second, that there will be active GP cover on a red-eye basis from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I did not ask about Kanturk, a Cheann Comhairle. I asked about Fermoy in the precious time I have.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Do not play down the clock, please.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Funded by the taxpayer in part.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Funded partly by the taxpayer.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address concerns regarding a building proposal for a school (details supplied). [33828/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (11 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 651. To ask the Minister for Health what funding has been allocated to the ICGP to provide training and certification to health care professionals on long-acting reversible contraception insertion in 2022 and 2023; the number of health care professionals who have availed of training and certification in the same time period; the resultant increase in capacity of LARC-trained health care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (11 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 652. To ask the Minister for Health the type of data being compiled to inform further development of the free contraception service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33452/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (12 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 31. To ask the Taoiseach the amount paid by his Department in 2022 and to date in 2023 on outside or third-party reports of a technical nature or qualitative and quantitative nature, by payee, in tabular form. [34478/23]