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

Seán Sherlock: That is for the record. What I will have to do is take what the Minister is saying away and kick the tyres on it, if that is okay.

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

Seán Sherlock: There is no point in making a counterargument if the Minister is not going to accept my amendment. For the purposes of being efficient with time, I will withdraw the amendment with a view to resubmitting it and having thought about what the Minister said, particularly in regard to the other factors that I am not entirely clear about. We will have a look at that. I will withdraw the...

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

Seán Sherlock: The core point for us is that there is still, what we call in economic terms, the opportunity cost foregone within the timeframe. I note that the Minister has said that they can have to the beginning of years 4 to 6. She said that it can happen up to year 6, if I am not mistaken in interpreting what she said. We are trying to instill within the legislation clearer timelines to have the...

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

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 13: In page 51, line 15, after “subsection (3)” to insert “ and at least one ethical and environmental fund”. I note the comments made by the Minister about people being able to decide into which pot they want to put their moneys. The kernel of that is that this is the people's money, not the State's money, so choice should be given to the...

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

Seán Sherlock: I thank Deputy Ó Cathasaigh for his unwavering and unambiguous support for the Labour Party amendment. I note the Minister will revisit amendments Nos 14 and 15 and I acknowledge that. I will withdraw the amendment and I will revisit the issue again on Report Stage.

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

Seán Sherlock: I wholeheartedly support amendments Nos. 16 to 18, inclusive. On amendment No. 18, section 74(2)(b) in respect of the investment rules allows wriggle room for funds to get off the hook regarding investment decisions on ESG. I am not being in the slightest bit facetious on this one, but if Deputy Ó Cathasaigh intends to press the amendment we would certainly support it.

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

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 24: In page 88, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(2) The Revenue Commissioners may share information with the Authority and a specified body where an employer makes no payment of enrolments and contributions for the benefit of employees to a qualifying occupational pension scheme, qualifying PRSA or qualifying trust RAC.”. The...

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

Seán Sherlock: Given the fact that it has been raised here in the legislative process in these Houses, I ask if we can at least make the case for the word "shall", and for this to be revisited or for the wording to be strengthened in some way on Report Stage. I would be very grateful for that.

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

Seán Sherlock: I will take what the Minister says at face value. I note her bona fides in this respect. I will withdraw the amendment.

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

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Minister. I will withdraw the amendment on the basis that I can revisit it on Report Stage with a view to the Minister perhaps expanding on the preliminary legal advice that she has received. It would be very useful and informative for us to have a greater insight into that legal advice. I withdraw the amendment.

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

Seán Sherlock: There was genuine scepticism on the part of many people, including ourselves, in the setting up of this authority. We similarly looked to the NTMA as being the natural organ to manage this. Having said that, and to repeat the point in relation to the new authority, I refer to ensuring that workers' representatives like ICTU are on the board of the new authority. That is an important point...

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

Seán Sherlock: That is fair enough. I take the Minister's point, and I will withdraw on that basis but before withdrawing, the word "may" is the bête noire of every Opposition TD who ever came into this place. I have been on the Minister's side of the fence, and I have used the word myself. One minute you are playing in Opposition, and the next minute you are playing for the Government, and that is...

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

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 25: In page 88, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “Hindering the displacement of occupational pension schemes 129. An employer shall not wind up or freeze a qualifying occupational pension scheme in place after the commencement of this Act for a period of 10 years.”. Again, it speaks to my original amendment No. 3 on essentially...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: What the Minister of State is saying is that the primary legislation is very clear about inducements. It is worth reiterating because concerns have been expressed by people that a licensee may not offer a person or specific group of persons an inducement. The Minister of State has clarified that.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I again seek clarity about the making of the regulations. There must be some thinking or draft document, even if it is a very early draft. There must be some paper available on what the regulations would look like. As was articulated by Deputy Daly, if the Minister of State has already set out very specific asks or points in section 148, one would assume the Department would have at least...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: The Minister of State has provided some clarity. I seek further clarity, and forgive me if I sound pedantic in what I am about to say. I will stand corrected if I am wrong. I again ask the Minister of State to clarify section 148(2) which states, "A licensee may not offer a person or specific group of persons an inducement". Do I take it that the practical outworkings of that, where you...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (1 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 300. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults who are being treated for stage 1 and stage 2 hypertension within the primary care system; the cost of management of hypertension on an annual basis for 2022,2023 and to date in 2024 to the GMS scheme; and the public health programmes underway to highlight the need to raise awareness of hypertension. [19740/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (30 Apr 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of active travel applications received for an area from a local authority (details supplied) for the years 2019-2024 inclusive, by the amount requested and the of the request, in tabular form. [18920/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (30 Apr 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine funding for a pedestrian crossing in an area (details supplied) as part of the works underway for the M28. [18924/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (30 Apr 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine funding for a pedestrian crossing in an area (details supplied) as part of the works underway for the M28. [18925/24]