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Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I would like to think that arrogance is behind us. I would like to think that arrogance is beneath any Minister for Health, but unfortunately it was an arrogance we saw last week. It was regrettable that the Minister was calling out the ethics of the clinicians who brought those concerns to us, particularly when many of them gave enormous public service to this State while sitting on the...

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for his response. First, I am much more inexperienced legislator than he is but in the past four and half years I have spent here, I have seen the Government table amendments to Government Bills. We see this on a regular basis. We all faced a deadline of last Monday for amendments to this Bill and it was absolutely open to the Minister to bring forward an amendment to...

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I have purposely tried not to personalise this, and I have not mentioned names today. However, unless there is any doubt, it is worth saying it on the record that the Minister received a letter and many emails from clinicians with concerns about the issues I have raised. An email was addressed to the Minister at the start of this week. It was from three clinicians, namely, Dr. John...

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I will be pressing the amendment.

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. There is no doubt that there has been an increase in the numbers coming to our shores and the European Union area in recent years, but we need to be very clear about the intent behind the migration pact. This pact is not driven by humanitarian responsibility towards those seeking shelter and refuge on this island or across the EU. If it were,...

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I will speak on amendment No. 13. We welcome that there is provision in the Bill that the board would include the appointment of a person who, in the opinion of the Minister, has knowledge or experience in matters relating to the interest of employees and that there will be representation of employees or representing the interests of employees. The Minister will be aware of the...

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 13: In page 15, in line 4, after “Minister,” to insert “following consultation with trade unions, knowledge or experience in matters relating to the interests of employees, and”.

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 34: In page 42, line 31, to delete “years 7 to 9” and substitute “years 4 to 6”. In terms of the period of time where the Bill allows for seven years to consider those employees who are currently in exempted employment, there is a concern that employees who will not currently be covered by auto-enrolment will be waiting for seven years and...

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 110: In page 88, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(2) Where it appears to the Revenue Commissioners from information available to them that an employer is making no payment of enrolments and contributions for the benefit of employees to a qualifying occupational pension scheme, qualifying PRSA or qualifying trust RAC, the Commissioners may...

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 111: In page 88, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “Hindering the displacement of occupational pension schemes 129. Where a qualifying occupational pension scheme is in place on date on which this Act comes into operation, the employer concerned shall not freeze or wind up the scheme for a period of at least 10 years from that date.”. ...

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: On a point of order, because of the division, surely we could afford the Minister the opportunity to at least respond to the amendment.

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I am sure the Minister would only take a minute, to be fair.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I ask for clarity about the referral-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: We can go to Senator Lombard.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I am seeking clarity, if possible today, from the Ministers for Justice and integration about the system of referral of international protection, IP, applicants to the International Protection Accommodation Services, IPAS. Most of us in this House agree that the emergence of tents and people being forced to camp overnight along the canal and in other areas around the city is inhumane. It...

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for bringing this legislation before us. There will be many descriptions of it but there is no doubt that it is groundbreaking legislation. It is hard in some ways to fathom that it has taken 19 years since the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction to get to this point, that we have had the heads of Bill since 2017, and that, notwithstanding those terrible delays,...

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I hear the Minister say this is wrong and I am delighted.

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I look forward to his clarification. He might point to exactly how those children are provided for under section 39. To conclude, we welcome the Bill overall. We do not want to see any delays to it. We want to see the gaps that have been identified in the Bill addressed. Senator Seery Kearney covered many of them. We now need to get on with the job of ensuring the regulatory authority...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: We owe those here today and the wider citizens’ assembly a huge debt of gratitude for their work and the concise recommendations we have before us. To have 250 hours of round-table discussion is an enormous commitment so I thank everyone very sincerely and also Dr. Ivers and Mr. Galvin whose professional work is hugely valued in this area. We have a profound set of recommendations in...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: That is a very important statement. I thank Mr. Reid. I will ask about recommendation 17. The assembly has very helpfully set out the questions that our committee needs to deal with regarding the issue of decriminalisation. I want to understand whether the citizens' assembly thought it was possible to go further. The recommendation is that ultimately there should be "a comprehensive...