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Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I understand. The six minutes-----

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Marie Sherlock: Okay. Tá brón orm. The point is that in the Gender Pay Gap Information Act - this is the amendment that we would like to see happen over the next year - we do not have comparison between full-time and part-time pay. Unless we have that, we will not make further progress in closing that gap over the coming period.

Seanad: Good Friday Agreement and Windsor Framework: Motion (8 Mar 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome the Minister of State. I thank our Sinn Féin colleagues for bringing this motion. It is important to mark the Windsor Framework agreement and the upcoming 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. The Windsor Framework takes place in the context of increasing unrest, particularly among workers, in the North. It is striking that Northern Ireland Housing Executive...

Seanad: Good Friday Agreement and Windsor Framework: Motion (8 Mar 2023)

Marie Sherlock: The House stands adjourned until 9.30 a.m. tomorrow in accordance with the order of the Seanad today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Marie Sherlock: Thank you, Chair, for putting on this additional session today the committee. I thank AIB and Mr. O'Keeffe and his team for coming here. The reason this hearing is so important is that AIB remains a bank with a majority State stake and we, as the State and as taxpayers, have little or no transparency as to the type or scale of write-downs it offers to its customers. We heard very clearly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I appreciate that, and I do not mean to interrupt, but, clearly, if somebody's home has been repossessed and he or she still owes more than 10% to the bank, while others are getting to hold onto their homes and having 90% of their debt written off, that is a very stark picture. I would think that the eight situations are probably burnt into their brains. They should be in that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Marie Sherlock: Yes, I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I echo the calls made earlier in respect of the profile of the 1,900 and whether they are for the most part people with multiple assets or whether they are just ordinary mortgage holders. The public very much needs to understand that profile, and we look forward to the detail the witnesses will furnish to the committee. Mr. O'Keeffe has spoken about policies being consistently applied. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Marie Sherlock: Do the witnesses accept that there is a perspective that people with much smaller debts feel they have to get the protection of the personal insolvency process, while those with much larger debts can individually negotiate with the bank and get an individual write-down? Do they accept that this perspective is out there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Marie Sherlock: What is the bank's policy on working with unregulated financial negotiators or intermediaries, particularly in the context of non-personal insolvency situations? I think the latter is the best way to define them. Does AIB engage with unregulated negotiators on behalf of the lender? What is the bank's policy in this regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I appreciate that, but a market has now developed in the context of what I might call unregulated financial advisers. The latter attempt to mediate with banks regarding debt and to negotiate individual write-downs. I am very concerned that AIB, as a regulated entity, would engage with any unregulated entity in that write-down process.

Seanad: Project Ireland 2040: Statements (1 Mar 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the Chamber and thank the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, for updating us on the NDP. Notwithstanding that there are very serious sums involved in the national planning framework and national development plan, there are serious questions about the scale of ambition in the national development plan. The Government acknowledges it is going to cost about...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 6: In page 11, to delete lines 19 to 43, and in page 12, to delete lines 1 to 10.

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Marie Sherlock: The Minister has listened to what we had to say about getting the detail right. We have listened to what he has had to say about the importance of a process and engagement. The reality is that he has had a number of groups, those who know in great detail what the life of those who experience domestic violence is like and what they have to go through. They have engaged with the Minister and...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I support amendment No. 4. I note my party's amendment No. 5 has been ruled out of order. I do not understand why given that it is, to all intents and purposes, the same as amendment No. 4. Nonetheless, my party will support amendment No. 4. On the previous occasion, I said clearly that my party welcomes the introduction of domestic violence leave. All of us in this Chamber want it to...

Seanad: Remuneration Information and Pay Transparency Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Senators Ardagh and Crowe and the Fianna Fáil group for bringing forward this Bill. It is very timely as we have International Women's Day next week and also because the EU pay transparency directive was agreed by the European Council on 20 December this year. I welcome the Bill and, as Senator Ardagh said, it follows in line with some of the provisions contained within the...

Seanad: Welfare and Safety of Workers in the Public Health Service: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for coming to the Chamber. I also thank my colleague, Senator Annie Hoey, for drafting this motion and tabling it this evening. On the Minister's watch, there are workers in the Irish health service going to work in fear, stressed about what is going to happen in the course of their work. It is on his watch that we heard testimonies from healthcare workers about being...

Seanad: Welfare and Safety of Workers in the Public Health Service: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Marie Sherlock: Sorry, Cathaoirleach-----

Seanad: Welfare and Safety of Workers in the Public Health Service: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Marie Sherlock: Cathaoirleach-----.