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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tidy Towns (9 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 2. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will request that the national judging of the Tidy Towns competition take place after the local elections in order to allow for any posters erected for the elections to be taken down in a timely manner. [20953/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tidy Towns (9 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: If it is within her gift, I ask the Minister to request that the national judging committee of the Tidy Towns competition allow for judging to take place a little later than normal, given the existence of posters which might serve as a mitigating factor in the judging criteria. I am unsure whether posters are such a factor but I am asking for a little bit of headroom while the election...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tidy Towns (9 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Minister for her reply. Tidy Towns committees throughout the country will take comfort from her reply insofar as there is that communication between the Minister's officials and SuperValu Tidy Towns. It will not be lost on Supervalu and the Musgrave Group that customers are voters and voters are customers, and I am sure they will allow for that . At least there is clarity of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tidy Towns (9 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Minister. I stand before her as someone who will not be putting up any more posters on my own behalf. I wholeheartedly support the idea of postering. Perhaps it is easy for me to say this now, given that incumbency is a powerful thing, but when one is trying to get in the door of places like this, the poster is important, as is visibility, and there is a place for it. I share...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Library Services (9 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 17. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications received to date in 2024 from local authorities for new or refurbished libraries; and the capital estimated cost of same, in tabular form. [20956/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Water Safety (9 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 40. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the engagement she has had with local authorities with coastal beaches and inland swimming lakes on funding for extended lifeguard personnel; and if she intends to extend the lifeguard season in light of changing weather in months such as September. [20957/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (9 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 145. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the challenges faced by owners of EVs who reside in terraced houses, who wish to charge their vehicles adjacent to or directly outside their properties via an EC charging channel, where no current legal provision allows for the installation of same; whether it is intended to address this; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to have regard to an issue (details supplied). [21008/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (9 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 293. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is no longer funding wigs for people with alopecia. [21012/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 317. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is discretion on the part of the deciding officer for a late application for paternity benefit (details supplied). [20559/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 596. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 264 of 28 September 2023, the reason an inconsistent policy of appeal was applied (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20659/24]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 1: In page 15, to delete lines 4 and 5 and substitute the following:“(a)a person nominated by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, and”. We welcome the Minister accepting the Oireachtas committee's recommendation in its pre-legislative scrutiny report to have employee and employer representatives on the board. That was recommendation 8. The absence of a...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I note the Minister's comments. While it may be the case that many workers are not members of trade unions - there are very many low paid workers, for instance, who may not be members of trade unions in private sector employment - but as far as I am aware, they are not represented by any known body. It is fair to say that although they may not be members of trade unions, I contend...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 3: In page 34, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "(d) a review of the performance of occupational pension coverage from current employment,". While unions strongly support the move to automatic enrolment, recognising that the current voluntary approach to pension savings has failed, they are concerned that automatic enrolment risks displacing...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: If I understand the Minister correctly, when she states that there is no evidence of displacement, one cannot measure that in an Irish context just yet and I think she is speaking to a UK context. Is that correct? I just want to be clear on that.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Minister. I take and appreciate that point. I think what we are talking about here is good data and good transparency. We were mindful when putting forward the amendment that we would not seek to step into other terrain where no such mandate exists to do so. What we are talking about here is the collation of data with a view to ensuring that the risk of displacement is at...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 5: In page 42, line 22, to delete “years 7 to 9” and substitute “years 4 to 6”. The Labour Party acknowledges that the authority will need time to draw up and apply standards to occupational and private pension contributions because it is not as simple as comparing like with like. For example, auto-enrolment contributions would be deducted...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I take it the Minister is not accepting my amendment.