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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Is Ms Cusack comfortable that a report, which was ultimately designed to try to improve the culture and the attitude manifested towards female workers in particular and to try to stamp out allegations of bullying, was suppressed for so long?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: The trade union group was not given this report. Surely all the dealings go through the trade union group when it comes to HR matters. They were not given the report-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: This was a systemic issue. It was not just a once-off. There was a systemic issue within current affairs.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Okay.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: If issues like this present again, I do not think it an appropriate approach to move people sideways. If there is wrongdoing, then there has to be a process where people are dealt with accordingly, as opposed to a culture of moving people sideways. I hope that never happens again in the context of what did happen in respect of the manner in which those issues were addressed at the time.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Yes. I appreciate that. I thank Mr. Bakhurst.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (8 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. I thank the Minister of State for taking this on behalf of the Minister for Education today. I am very conscious that there has been a lot of attention this week on the Department of Education's failure to properly plan for secondary school places in certain areas, in greater Dublin, Kildare, and Wicklow. We have a long-running issue regarding the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (8 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. I welcome the work that is being done. It has been a scramble, but I will wholeheartedly support every expansion of special needs places. Having said that, there is a big difference between announcements and delivery. Even in Dublin 7, we have seen a delay in the opening of a new special school. These things happen. As adults, we can wait,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: To follow that last contribution, the call from this House is that the Israeli basketball team should be called out and pulled out of the International Basketball Federation because the pressure on the players has been shocking. I wholeheartedly agree with Senator O'Donovan about the stance that many have rightly taken but it is not fair to put players in that awful situation. I agree with...

Seanad: Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: The Labour Party welcomes the Digital Services Bill. We all have to be clear that, as Senator Garvey said, this is giving effect to the EU regulation on digital services. It is specific with regard to establishing the mechanism for the supervision and enforcement of the regulation in this country. In that regard we welcome the Bill. This is the latest chapter in the EU initiative to...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I support the amendment. There have been drug and alcohol task forces in operation for almost 26 years in the communities most badly affected by serious addiction issues. The task force model is based on drawing in people from the community to come up with solutions for the community. Not including them in the list of bodies to be represented on the new community safety partnerships is a...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 68: In page 104, line 27, after “Ministers” to insert “and with any local authority association (within the meaning of section 225 of the Local Government Act 2001)”.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Agreed.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. I will say at the outset that the dissolution of the joint policing committees, JPC, and creation of the community safety partnerships, CPC, is arguably a major shift in that interface between public representation and policing. We very much support the theory of community safety partnerships because safety cannot just be about policing. We cannot...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome my fellow Cork people today. The other key thing is with regard to the composition of the new community safety partnerships. In our amendments Nos. 77 and 81, we set down that 25% of the membership of the CSP has to be with local authority members and then the chair has to come from a member of the local authority. Furthermore, it is a bit strange to us when we read section 114...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 71: In page 104, to delete lines 32 and 33 and substitute the following: “(a) the establishment by resolution of a local authority of one or more safety partnerships in the administrative area of that local authority;”.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 73: In page 104, line 37, to delete “sector,” and substitute the following: “sector, provided that at least 20 per cent of such membership shall be members of the Garda Síochána nominated by the Garda Commissioner for that purpose,”.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 77: In page 105, to delete line 2 and substitute the following: “(I) such members of the local authority, who shall constitute not less than 25 per cent of the membership of a safety partnership, as may be nominated for that purpose by resolution of the local authority,”.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank IBEC and ICTU for attending this hearing today. I wish to ask about IBEC's support for collective bargaining. I heard what Ms McElwee said earlier. Specifically in regard to collective bargaining at enterprise level, does IBEC recognise that it is surely better to work issues out at enterprise level as opposed to at a social partner level or a sectoral level? I was looking at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: To pick up on that point about issues being best and ideally worked out at local level, unions tell us that quite a number of companies are actively and openly hostile to trade unions coming into the workplace. We have seen workers who within a few weeks of coming into a workplace go to a trade union and are warned not to do so because it is not good for them. On a second warning, they are...