Results 61-80 of 480 for long speaker:Seán Sherlock

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...to transpose the EU legislation, does not fully vindicate the rights of the employee. Why have a cut-off age of 12 years, as provided for in section 13B(3)? Where a child is in receipt of a long-term illness payment, for instance, he or she qualifies up to the age of 16 years. I respectfully contend that the ages of 12 and 16 years are unrealistic and premature cut-off points. We will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (14 Sep 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...Social Protection the estimated annual cost of providing a payment of €230 which can be applied for on a weekly basis to support families with the costs associated with bringing a child with a long-term illness to hospital for appointments and treatment during a given week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44572/22]

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...recruitment is at the heart of the issue and that the centre cannot be reopened to allow people to avail of the services because it cannot recruit the required staff. One can only accept that answer for so long. If we are spending €12 million, surely to goodness that money, wherever it is being deployed, could find somebody to be able to reopen that facility. A person in charge...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jun 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...are reasonable and decent people. If they could just get some qualitative engagement with the process, it would be a first step. Although I have a few minutes left, I do not want to tarry for too long except to say that the members of Justice for Wards of Court feel that they have been jettisoned by the process and do not feel a part of it. If we ensured that they were included, it...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jun 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...to the archaic Wardship system for many years – since the State signed the UNCRPD in 2007 to the eventual signing of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. We now know that the finish line was to be a long way off for those who were locked into the Wardship system for their lifetime with no route out. This matter has rumbled on for ... too long, with delays at every...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Committee Stage (1 Jun 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...by which someone can continue using the product for which he or she has shelled out considerable amounts of money. People are sick of the fact that they are sitting on a mountain of this electronic detritus. They are sick of the fact that phones are locked or bricked, to use that term. They want to buy products that are recyclable, repairable and designed to last longer, and that is...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Committee Stage (1 Jun 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...customers. It goes back to the theme of the previous amendment, which basically buttresses the rights of consumers, which is what the legislation is about. We have seen in the past, however, the practice whereby customers of long standing find themselves at a price disadvantage relative to new customers where one seeks to attract new customers to a service, whether a digital service, an...

Food Price Rises: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...year, some 780 exceptional needs payments amounting to €167,000 had been made across the entire State to assist with household bills and heating costs. Most of us in this House have been around a long time. We all deal with CWOs and the Department of Social Protection but something is not computing in respect of the volume of figures I have shared. I have noticed a trend in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 May 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 658. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide all reports that he has received in the past six months on the issue of long-Covid and its impact upon persons with the condition. [26307/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (18 May 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 171. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) is taking so long.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25298/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...it was discussed, was an agreement reached in regard to the terms of the notices to weigh on landing? Was that agreed at that meeting on 4 February? This is a yes-no question. We do not need a long context.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (17 May 2022)

Seán Sherlock: It is the medical certification. If the medical certification says long Covid, then that should suffice.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (17 May 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has engaged in research in respect of the need to devise a disability-related payment to deal with the effects of long Covid. [24811/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (17 May 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Has the Minister's Department engaged in research in respect of the need to devise a disability-related payment to deal with the effects of long Covid? I acknowledge the existence of the Covid-19 enhanced illness benefit payment and that it will be in place until the end of June 2022. My reason for raising this is that we seek clarity as to whether there will be continuity of that payment...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (17 May 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ..., and there is robust clinical evidence for this, is that hospitals such as Cork University Hospital, CUH, in the South/South West Hospital Group have set up or are in the process of establishing long Covid clinics. That will be replicated throughout the country. If somebody moves from the enhanced illness benefit onto the illness benefit, that is for a period of two years. The issue is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (17 May 2022)

Seán Sherlock: -----because there will have to be a recognition of long Covid as a qualifying condition.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (17 May 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...will go from the enhanced payment to illness benefit, the clock will tick down the two years and then they potentially will fall off the cliff if they are not eligible to move onto an invalidity or long-term payment, as devised by the Department. The worry I have for those people is that the Department might be too stringent in how it applies rules and the criteria that they must meet for...

Vacant Properties: Motion [Private Members] (6 Apr 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...of housing supply; it is the other stressor that creates within families as a result of not having the security or fixity of tenure that was so often a staple of political discourse in this country long before even this House was established. The idea of fixity of rent and fixity of tenure, security and a roof over one's head are fundamental principles embedded in the Irish psyche. I do...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Apr 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the Housing for All objective to end long-term leasing by local authorities and approved housing bodies through phasing out new entrants and focus on new build to provide social housing homes. [17537/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Apr 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the Housing for All objective to strengthen the mortgage to rent scheme to ensure it meets the needs of those in long-term mortgage arrears. [17538/22]