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Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: From the Seanad (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: Is it appropriate in ten seconds or less to express some gratitude to people?

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: From the Seanad (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: I acknowledge the work of former Deputy Clare Daly in respect of the Bill and the work of Dr. Jo Murphy-Lawless, now retired, who was an excellent proponent of this legislation. There were too many other women to mention. The impact of the subject matter, as articulated by people such as Vicky Conway in The Irish Timesof late, had a tremendous effect on all of us. I acknowledge those women...

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: From the Seanad (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: The Labour Party supports the amendment.

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: I may have inadvertently said there were amendments to this Bill before the House this evening but I withdraw that comment. It was a mistake on my part. I accept the Minister's comments and thank him.

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: We too support the legislation. With the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's permission, I will read into the record the entirety of correspondence I received last night from the Justice for Magdalenes Research, JFMR, group. The group stated:We in Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR) are writing to express our concerns about the serious shortcomings in the health and social care provided to Magdalene...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Funding (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: 66. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if financial containment by organisations is having an impact on services (details supplied). [29934/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: 69. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to issues in respect of a service (details supplied) used by Tusla. [29933/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Aftercare Services (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: 78. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of young adults engaging with the aftercare service; and the estimated number of children in care at 16 years of age identified as likely requiring the services of aftercare teams on turning 18 years of age in each of the years 2020 to 2022. [29937/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Data Sharing Arrangements (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: 81. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the client identification service has been halted; when it will be rectified under the Data Protection Act 2018; and when co-operation will be re-established between agencies. [29935/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: 93. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of staff employed under an initiative (details supplied) by county; and the grades of staff employed. [29936/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Housing and Retrofitting: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: No, thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Housing and Retrofitting: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: I wish to come back to financing and scalability, which are the two elements to this that I can discern. If questions about finance have already been asked and answered-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Housing and Retrofitting: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: How can we get banks and credit unions to finance this opportunity for people living in typical 1970s bungalows? Such people might have some savings and can benefit from the SEAI grant. However, they still fall short of the a cost of a deep retrofit or a better energy solution. How do we fill that final piece of the pie? I have not been able to figure that out. The credit union movement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Housing and Retrofitting: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: That is the first question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Housing and Retrofitting: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: Yes, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Housing and Retrofitting: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: I appreciate that. There is more work to be done around financing but at least we can take some empirical models from the SEAI research. I welcome Mr. Tom Parlon back to the House, if that has not been done already. I am sure it has. I refer to Part L of the building regulations and the skill set needed for retrofitting. A finite pool of labour is available for construction in Ireland...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Housing and Retrofitting: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: As I said at the outset, for efficiency's sake if my questions have been answered already the witnesses need not answer them. The second question concerns Part L of the building regulations. We have discussed nearly zero energy buildings. What is the energy fit in these buildings? Is it boilers, advanced boilers or heat exchangers? What is the CIF's interpretation of Part L for new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Housing and Retrofitting: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: That is the challenge. We are now going to load the grid. We will effectively use fossil fuels to add more power to the grid to meet the targets from a building perspective. At the same time, there will be an exponential increase in the amount of fossil fuel we use to keep the grid going. I am playing devil's advocate now-----

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: I, too, welcome the Minister of State's statement on the need for further legislative solutions to the regulation of gambling, particularly in respect of the licensing and registration of casinos. I think all of us in this House would like to see a compendium of legislation that deals with all the issues, particularly online. Mobile technology is now moving at such a pace that regulations...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Seán Sherlock: It was his misspent youth.