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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (24 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 309. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will grant a review to allow back to education allowance for a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that the person was already in receipt of BTEA. [44060/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (24 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 310. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [44067/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mayoral Election (24 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to hold a plebiscite in County Cork on the issue of a directly elected mayor. [43994/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Library (24 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 331. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to over 1,800 books being lost at the National Library; and the meetings she has held with officials on the matter. [43986/18]

Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: In the context of taxation, the imposition of increased betting duty could have an unintended consequence. Large chains of betting shops are able to absorb betting duty through a reduction in profit rather than passing the cost to consumers and some can cross-subsidise it through their online profits. For the information of the officials who are with the Minister of State, an examination of...

Prevention of Single-Use Plastic Waste: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: On behalf of the Labour Party, I support the Private Members' motion and thank the Green Party for putting it before us. It speaks to common sense. The scourge of single use plastics is a blight on our environment and landscape. There is a clear demand now among the people, as articulated by the majority of Members in the House through the motion, and a clear view that we must now move...

Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: There are several specific points I wish to raise on the technical detail of the Bill but before I do so, I wish to address the rainy day fund. The Labour Party is at pains to understand the necessity for such a fund. We are wondering if it was conjured up to make Fianna Fáil look fiscally responsible and whether it is a Fianna Fáil tool or a Fine Gael tool and we seek more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Local Public Banking: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: I apologise for not being here for all the interactions. Many of my questions have been addressed, so I will be very brief. I am very interested to hear Mr. Boland's and Mr. Maye's commentary. If I understand their statements correctly, they are saying the Sparkasse model would fill a gap in respect of lending. Could I get an understanding as to whether there is a geographical bias in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Local Public Banking: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: It does.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Local Public Banking: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: I take some comfort from the representative organisations' interventions today. If I read them correctly, they are stating they are open for business and ready to adopt new mechanisms to enhance their offerings and try to move into the very space referred to where there is a gap. The proof of this is, for instance, in CUMA and Mr. Molan's intervention on the 2016 regulations, in which he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Local Public Banking: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: That is understood.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Local Public Banking: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: Mr. Boland can take it that that is understood.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Local Public Banking: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: Moving along very quickly, this is more of a general question which concerns the perception I would have had perhaps a year or so ago that the public perception was that credit unions were being put through the wringer by the Central Bank in terms of regulation. There was much discussion at this committee about that process. If I read the tone of the delegates' interventions today...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Local Public Banking: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: In the context of regulation, what is the state of the relationship between the Central Bank and the representative organisations?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fáilte Ireland Funding (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 570. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocated by Fáilte Ireland to entities (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [43551/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Reform (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 618. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the changes which have been implemented for the payment of illness benefit; the number of issues her Department has dealt with since the changes were made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43238/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: The members have read the opening statement. We are very much briefed on the opening statement. In order to allow for a concise opening statement and a proper question and answer afterwards, that is why the members came to that conclusion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: We have received it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee today. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, report on global warming of 1.5o C as a result of CO2 emissions from industry, pathways limiting global warming to 1.5o C are projected to be approximately 75% to 90% lower in 2050 relative to 2010. That is compared with the 50% to 80% figure for global warming if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: That is the first question. If there is a difference in that respect, how different is the current trajectory in terms of the requirement for industry to cut emissions by more than 75%? I cannot see any specific figures in Dr. Quinn's submission on cutting emissions. I would like to see information from the Department in respect of those figures. The second theme also emanates from the...