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Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Marie Sherlock: It is not intolerance.

Seanad: Comhshuí de Dháil Éireann agus de Sheanad Éireann - Joint Sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas - Address by H.E. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine (6 Apr 2022)

Marie Sherlock: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Apr 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I, too, pay tribute to your comments this morning, a Chathaoirligh. We were all very affected by that family being brought to the House, their horrendous lived experience and those they have had to leave behind.I welcome the announcement yesterday of a basic income for artists and pay tribute to the work of the Minister, Deputy Martin, and, in particular, the National Campaign for the Arts...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Marie Sherlock: For one minute or two minutes?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I want to be associated with the comments welcoming and congratulating Seanadóir Tom Clonan. The results of the International Panel on Climate Change report, which was published yesterday, are scarily stark and the message is clear. We cannot long-finger what needs to be done. Of course, while we have ambitious targets and we need to acknowledge them, there are real questions with...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (30 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I am also delighted to see school children in the Seanad today. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, for coming to the House to deal with this matter. As he knows, there is a real crisis in blood stocks in our health service and there has been throughout the pandemic. Ireland has had to import blood stocks on three separate occasions over the past 12 months from the NHS blood...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (30 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State. To pick up on his last point, the Department of Health has learned a lot about communication strategy over the past two years because it had to. It should be within the Department's wherewithal to deliver that message to the population that needs to hear it. I did not see any of the messages on social media or in the traditional media. That is not to say...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Chairman and the officials from the Department for attending the hearing today. I have a number of questions. On head No. 22, and I am aware that others have raised this concern also, but on the fundamental and constitutional right of access to justice and to the courts, this head seems like an interference with the running of the court in some way in its directing a judge with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: My question was on the extent to which the data collection will encompass oversight of the awards system. Picking up on mediation, I also asked about the supports available to those making a claim because it is really important. My concern is that somebody will feel forced into mediation. While, of course, they have the right to opt out, ultimately there is a power imbalance there for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the officials.

Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the Chamber today for this debate. The Labour Party very much welcomes the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Bill. I wish to begin by paying tribute to the work of Mr. Michael Tutty, the former official in the Department of Finance who put together the aforementioned report. The report was published in...

Seanad: Humanitarian Support for Ukrainian Refugees: Statements (23 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: It is very important that we are having this session today. I want to start off by saying how proud I am, and I know so many others are, of the enormous humanitarian response by the Irish people. We saw a vote taken in Westminster yesterday that effectively makes it illegal for Ukrainians to arrive in the UK without proper paperwork, with a risk of up to four years in prison. The contrast...

Seanad: Gambling (Prohibition of Advertising) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State very much for coming into the Chamber. I echo the thanks my colleague, Senator Wall, has given in that the Government has allowed time for us to debate this Bill today. I grew up in a household where there was, if I may call it this, a healthy scepticism of the two main political parties at the time. While there would be a discussion about the issues of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I want to express my solidarity with the 800 P&O Ferries staff who were sacked last Thursday. I want to express my outrage at the manner in which P&O Ferries effectively fired one fifth of its workforce over a Zoom call.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: It was absolutely disgraceful that a company would operate in that manner. It is important to note that up to 100 workers on the island of Ireland who were working with P&O Ferries have been affected by this and have now lost their jobs. This is a case of Irish Ferries mark II. Some Members will remember that Irish Ferries engaged in the very same practice in 2005. It pulled a stunt...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: The image from Ukraine that many of us saw last night and today in the newspapers and in other media of the heavily pregnant woman being stretchered out of a bombed maternity hospital is one that will stay in my head and, I am sure, the heads of many others for a long time. Russia is waging a barbaric war. I have been struck, having talked to Russians and Slavs here in Ireland and abroad...

Seanad: Proposal for a Council Decision on Hate Speech and Hate Crime: Motion (10 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome the Minister to the Chamber. The Labour Party welcomes the motion that the Government intends to work with EU institutions to define and combat hate crime and hate speech. It is important to acknowledge the work of Senator O'Loughlin and her colleagues in proposing a Bill in 2020. The Labour Party had similar measures in our 2020 manifesto and we are conscious it is a programme...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (3 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: It is just good manners.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I realise the ambassador has left but I very much want to welcome her to the Chamber. Veliko Tarnovo in Bulgaria and the people there have a very special place in my heart. I am delighted to be able to congratulate them on their national day. The issue I wish to raise this morning relates to the National Gallery of Ireland, which is one of a number of extremely important cultural...