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Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: It is agreed, but may I speak to the amendment very briefly?

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I do not think the Minister can talk about this amendment for Members of the Oireachtas without talking about the amendment the Labour Party tabled on the social welfare Bill with regard to a Member of the Oireachtas who is the subject of maternity leave and who is paying class K contributions. That amendment, which we promulgated during the social welfare Bill, was rejected by the Minister...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I will speak to my amendment No. 4. The logic of the amendment is based on correspondence we received from IBEC. I referred to this on Second Stage. I wish to quote from correspondence we received on 17 October with regard to the potential for discrimination to arise specifically where: For example, 'necessary medical intervention' is only defined with respect to mental health conditions...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (23 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of vacancies, by grade, in her Department at the end of August 2023 and August 2024; the number of staff, by grade, on career break for more than five years; and the number of staff, by grade, on career break for more than six years at those same times. [43325/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Functions (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 143. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he and his Department are in a position to provide finance to a medical health scheme (details supplied); his views on the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42516/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 144. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is proposing to review current duty rates in the Defence Forces; the last time these duty rates were reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42517/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 145. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current position with a military service in County Kildare (details supplied); the plans for the future of the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42518/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 146. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the up-to-date position with the provision of military housing in County Kildare at the Curragh camp; if the report has been finalised; the conversations he or his Department have had with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage or the local authority on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42519/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 147. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the new rank of Lance Corporal, as proposed by the Commission on the Defence Forces, will come into effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42520/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 148. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has established or will establish a scheme where non-Irish nationals can be assisted with their naturalisation following an agreed level of service in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42521/24]

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I thank Deputy Kerrane for ceding time to me to speak on the Bill. The Labour Party broadly welcomes the Bill. I ask that an additional explanatory memorandum be supplied on the NDAs and the records. It would be good parliamentary practice if it were possible. We reserve the right to bring forward amendments on records and NDAs as well as the maternity leave protection elements of the...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I am conscious of the time and that other colleagues have tabled amendments, so I will be brief and speak specifically to my amendment. Where people lose office or cease to be Members, they can find themselves in the invidious position of having no payments due to them. Notwithstanding High Court actions or otherwise, the question also arises as to whether the Minister can, by statutory...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 6: In page 3, after line 25, to insert the following: “Maternity benefit – members of the Houses of the Oireachtas 5. The Minister shall, within 3 weeks of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas on the payment of maternity benefit to public office holders who are members of either such House and who cease to...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I make the case for my colleagues, for all colleagues in the Houses of the Oireachtas, in putting forward this amendment.

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: The Minister has raised the issue of the interdepartmental group. She may be sick of hearing from me about-----

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: -----a couple where one person starts to earn overtime and then the carer loses all entitlements. If the Minister could indicate that the interdepartmental group will look at those types of cases where all entitlements are lost by dint of the earning of overtime, that would provide some comfort. Probably just a small number of people are affected by that but they are there nonetheless.

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I support the Sinn Féin motion. Every week, we discuss important issues such as this one in debates on Private Members' motions. I have lost count of the number of motions of this nature I have spoken to at this stage. That is testament to the need to reform the way we order business in the House in the next Dáil, of which I will not be a part. It becomes a little tiresome when...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I note the Minister's pressing need to have this Bill promulgated prior to the recess. There was a time when social welfare Bills would be a source of great debate in this House. I have noticed in latter years the debate has become shorter and shorter.

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I acknowledge the work of the Minister in providing protections for vulnerable people in society through the payments she has instigated in the past number of years, in particular. We have to come to a stage where there is some maturity in these Houses around acknowledging where there is a strong social welfare package that gives people more resources and money to meet their everyday...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if, under the environmental liability Directive and its iterations, environmental liability insurance exists; if there is published guidance on the financial provision for environmental liability; and if so, whether such guidance is published. [41014/24]