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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I did not ask about Kanturk, a Cheann Comhairle. I asked about Fermoy in the precious time I have.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Do not play down the clock, please.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Funded by the taxpayer in part.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Funded partly by the taxpayer.

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I acknowledge the presence in the Public Gallery of Tegan Lyons, Sophia King, Lexi King and Amelia Kee from Mallow United. I am glad they are here because their achievements to date have been exceptional. They are accompanied by Paul Lyons and Philip King. They have won division 1 of the Cork Women's and Schoolgirls Soccer League. They have won the Denise McArdle Cup. They have won the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine a proposal to allow pre-retirement men coming from a manual labour background to have a disregard for the requirement for 12 months in receipt of a social protection payment so they can qualify for community employment schemes. [32063/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I wish to ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine a proposal to allow men and women, the question should have read men and women, of pre-retirement age coming from a manual labour background to have a disregard for the requirement to be in receipt of a social protection payment for 12 months,in order that they can qualify for community employment schemes.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: While I appreciate the answer, it is that the status quoremains. That is what I interpret from the Minister of State's response. What we are talking about here are people who either carried the hod, or were cleaners who partook in manual labour for long periods of their lives where the physical nature of their work is such that they cannot transition at a certain period of their lives into...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I take the Minister of State's point and I am not trying to apply a broad stroke to this but I think it would be acknowledged that there is a category of workers where the ability to transition to enhancing their digital skills, for instance, would be limited. That is a fact of life. That is a nonjudgmental statement I am making. There are unfilled places in community employment schemes....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: The Minister of State will put my file into a filing cabinet somewhere in the Department.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I restate for the record that, in principle, we are opposed to the Bill and have recorded our votes in that respect. What we are doing now, as per the Minister's words, is a consideration of the amendments put forward by the Seanad. Like Deputies Connolly and Funchion, we record our opposition to this scheme as currently constituted. To return to an issue I raised previously in respect...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: With the Minister's indulgence, I will put it more simply. If someone signs up to the scheme and is eligible for it, the Minister is going to ask the person to sign a legal waiver that will preclude him or her from taking further actions down the line, if I understand correctly the terms of the scheme. If I say to the Minister of State, to the Department, or to the promoters of the scheme...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I ask for some latitude for what I am about to say, because I will not be speaking strictly to the amendments. I seek some clarifications with respect to legislation at this juncture, with the permission of the Chair. I do not want to go over the arguments that we made on Second Stage and Committee Stage. The people who are watching these proceedings and who continue to monitor them will...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I will start with forestry. The Minister referred to the forestry programme. I was listening carefully to him and think he was about to make some statement on the approvals process and the EU Commission process. He may have been interrupted or may have lost the flow and moved on to something else. The forestry programme is non-existent. The programme for Government target is 8,000 ha per...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I appreciate the fact that the Minister of State, Deputy Kieran O’Donnell, is taking this matter on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan. I think the answer, with respect to the Minister of State, is inadequate because it does not give a definitive timeline for which those monies will be paid. Ministerial approval is the benchmark here. That is the yardstick. That is the point...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Sherlock: With all due respect to the Minister of State, one would expect that if he is to address the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, then the Minister, Deputy Ryan, would respond. I say this with respect to the Minister of State.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I will be very brief. I appreciate that the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, is not the line Minister and is taking this matter on behalf of others. I have been contacted by former An Post workers who are pensioners who tell me that, in March of this year, the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, the Communications Workers' Union, CWU, An Post and the Government reached agreement on an...

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I support the motion. I am glad we are debating this matter tonight. I read the Minister's speech and listened to him speaking earlier. He spoke about the NTPF and said that any nursing home that "has had a scheduled renegotiation of its deed of agreement this year with the NTPF has seen a significant uplift" and that the uplift has been in the region of 6% to 7% above the baseline price...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Jun 2023)

Seán Sherlock: We in the Labour Party welcome this Bill and the fact the Government has come around to the idea of a windfall tax, albeit, it must be said, at the behest of the European Commission. We would like to have seen this measure introduced much earlier. Exorbitant profits have been made by the energy companies over the past number of years in the midst of one of the worst cost-of-living crises in...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Deputy Paul Murphy is sharing time with Deputy Barry.