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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I would like to hear other members' perspectives.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I have no political agenda to undermine any organisation. I feel I have to put that on the record. Clean Coasts Ballynamona is in my constituency. I raised many a green flag myself when I was a Minister of State. The Chairman will know from the tone of the language of my questioning that it was not with a view to seeking to undermine any organisation. I stated very clearly on the record...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: However, I do not want it inferred that, because I have asked the question, there is a certain political motivation. I take grave exception to that. It is wrong that it should be inferred from my questioning; it is unfair. I feel aggrieved by the fact that I would be impugned in that way consequent to my line of questioning. My question was asked with a view to seeking clarification.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Absolutely not.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Absolutely not.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I used the word "solvency" because I am seeking to find facts in regard to the process as to how this organisation is funded. I do not see how the Deputy is loading the basis by asking that question. It is merely with the purpose of finding fact. For that word to be weaponised now, in some fashion, I think is quite patently wrong. It does me a disservice when all I am seeking to do is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I am trying to listen carefully to the language of the Minister's reply. I am not reassured by it. The premise on which I base my question is the right of the citizen to interact face to face with an officer. I am asking the Minister for clarification because I am hearing that her Department is not renewing leases in respect of certain traditional centres such as health centres where they...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Again I ask the Minister if it is her Department's intention not to renew leases with the HSE. It is one Department renewing with a Government agency like the HSE, State to State. Is it factually the case that the Minister is not renewing those leases with the HSE in respect of the delivery of services in certain centres around the country?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 2. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the changes that are foreseen in the delivery of community welfare office services; if it is intended to centralise those services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5712/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I raise this issue because I am extremely concerned that the Department is now pulling back community welfare services where they are delivered in face-to-face settings in the most local of centres, particularly in rural areas. Based on what I have heard so far, my fear is that the Minister is not renewing any leases that her Department may have had with the HSE for the delivery of these...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 18. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of her Department's engagement with private multinational companies tendering for local employment services. [5351/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 23. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will seek an increase in social welfare payments in line with inflation. [5353/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 31. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications that have been received and approved for fuel allowance in 2021 and to date in 2022. [5354/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of supplementary welfare payments that have been made under the heading of disability services or equipment provision in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022. [5355/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the engagement she has held with her officials on pension reform since the publication of the Commission on Pensions report. [5352/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 310. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on the case of a person case (details supplied). [5610/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 464. To ask the Minister for Health if it is envisaged that a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be in a position to access the relevant dental services which are no longer available to them. [5737/22]

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I asked the Minister a specific question so as to seek enlightenment on the justification for the 30 days and he has come back to us on that. I asked specifically whether that is consistent with other member states' positions in respect of preparing cases and whether there is scope, because of the particular conditions that exist in an Irish context, for a moving of that beyond the 30 days....

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: If this legislation is about an EU harmonisation of sanctions, is the 30 days the de facto position across all member states? Is each member state implementing a 30-day regime? If that is the case, so be it; there is consistency. However, we plead mitigation in these circumstances. Given the particular variations in an Irish scenario where fishermen are fishing quite far from their home...