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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Assisted Decision-Making (5 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 474. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications that have been completed under the Assisted Decision-Making Capacity Act 2015 since the Decision Support Service came into being earlier this year; in tabular form. [53430/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Parliamentary Questions (5 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 611. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE-referred parliamentary questions or TD rep queries yet to be answered as of 29 November 2023, in tabular form. [53787/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 166. To ask the Minister for Health to consider an exemption to the HSE recruitment freeze in the case of a person (details supplied). [53957/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: That is your next job.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: We do not have a standard culture and governance, which is the problem as far as I am concerned.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (7 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 299. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an application has been made or is being considered being made for accommodation for international protection applicants and those availing of the temporary protection for people fleeing the conflict in Ukraine (details supplied). [54336/23]

Private Business - The Royal Hibernian Academy (Amendment of Charter) Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Insofar as it is appropriate for me to do so in light of what is before us, I welcome the changes proposed by the RHA, albeit that this is a rather idiosyncratic method of endorsing those changes. Any move by the RHA to broaden its membership to include younger artists must be welcomed. One is hopeful that the new members who will come under its purview will embrace many new forms of art...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment no. 12: In page 15, line 23, to delete “The director general” and substitute “The Mayor in consultation with the director general”. The rationale for this amendment is that on Second Stage, our party leader, Deputy Bacik, quoted from an editorial by our colleague, Limerick City Councillor, Connor Sheehan, who argued that this legislation must...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: We could argue that the mayor will be spanceled before he or she ever receives a mandate. Let us call a spade a spade. Limerick politics are cut and thrust; they are pugilistic betimes, no more than in any other city in Ireland. The idea that there will be a wonderfully seamless relationship between the director general and the mayor of the city is a bit naive and we are not buying it. A...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I will speak to amendments Nos. 25 and 26. Amendment No. 25 relates to the frequency with which the consultative forum shall meet. In section 30, the Bill provides that a forum be established "known as the Limerick Mayoral and Government Consultative Forum ... to advise the Minister in relation to any matter that affects, or is likely to affect, Limerick or the performance of the functions...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: In amendment No. 26, we are looking for a strengthening of the language by replacing the word "consideration" with "approval". I note the Minister of State's intervention regarding the two distinct and discrete budget lines here and that is understood. Let me also acknowledge the very personal interest he has taken in shepherding this legislation through the Houses, probably crafting a lot...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 25: In page 22, lines 2 and 3, to delete “twice in each year at intervals of not less than 5, and not more than 7, months,” and substitute “quarterly in each year at intervals of not more than 3 months,”.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 26: In page 22, line 16, to delete “consideration” and substitute “approval”.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 29: In page 23, to delete lines 5 and 6 and substitute the following: “(b) a representative group of members of Limerick City and County Council appointed by the D’Hondt system, and”. This amendment deals with the composition of the Limerick mayoral advisory and implementation committee as contained in section 32 of the Bill. The function of...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: The Minister of State made a point about the possibility of somebody who is an Independent, or maybe not of politics heretofore, being elected. That might emerge to include hurling managers, all-stars, rugby stars or whoever.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: That is accepted. It is self-evident and an obvious thing for the Minister of State to say. We understand that point. The application of a d'Hondt system would have buttressed somebody who is an Independent, per the Minister of State's point. He talked about checks and balances but there still has to be a check and balance against a popularly elected mayor. I may have exaggerated the...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Sorry, I know that time is ticking on. How does a member of an advisory group or panel perceive himself or herself in terms of the power he or she has or does not have? If a person is elected mayor tomorrow and appoints me as an advisor to that group, how do I perceive my role? The Minister of State is setting it out in statute here that there is an advisory panel. How does he or she...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Will the Minister of State accept a point of order?

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Am I in order to make a point about-----

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: May I contribute on the amendment?