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Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I rise to oppose amendment No. 56. We are supposed to be legislating in a generous spirit, but the language of the Minister's amendment No. 56 is rules based. It requires the person applying, "within 60 days of the date on which the notice is sent to him or her, to comply with the request". I understand that if you are designing a legislative scheme, there is a lexicon around it. In this...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Bhuel, níl mé sásta.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: For clarity, the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach is moving through each of the amendments Nos. 34 to 38.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I will come in again briefly, if I may, on the issue of the affidavits. The Minister refers specifically to section 37 which states that, "The Scheme may, in accordance with regulations under section 38, provide financial support". The word "may" is very subjective. My fear relates to people who are not on the database who wish to make an application and have to procure an affidavit. I am...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Section 18 provides that "The Chief Deciding Officer may, for the purposes of his or her examination of an application, request the applicant concerned to provide, within such reasonable period as the Chief Deciding Officer may specify, information by affidavit where the Chief Deciding Officer is of the opinion that ..." and it goes on to list the various subsections and paragraphs. What is...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: My apologies, but there is a phone ringing somewhere. It is very distracting and I cannot here Deputy Healy-Rae properly.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: There is a phone ringing somewhere and I cannot hear the Deputy properly.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I am trying to listen to the Deputy.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I support this amendment. To draw a comparison with the Department of Social Protection, if you were designing a scheme to which people would make an application and which was subject to a decision by a chief deciding officer, the timelines built into that for a decision would be definitive. What the amendment seeks to do, quite rightly, is take out certain words. We are getting into the...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 28: In page 15, line 17, to delete “as soon as practicable” and substitute “within 28 days”.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 622. To ask the Minister for Health the individual CDNT teams in each CHO area that has a dietitian on its team; and the case load per dietitian, per CDNT team, in tabular form. [8278/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (21 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 721. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of payments received by the State forestry company, Coillte, from the European Union for each of the years since it drew down an initial European Investment Bank loan of £27.8 million in the year of its establishment, 1988. [8195/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (21 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 722. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of loans drawn down by the State forestry company, Coillte, from the European Investment Bank for each of the years since it drew down an initial EIB loan of £27.8 million in the year of its establishment, 1988. [8196/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 723. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of dividends paid by Coillte to the Exchequer from the year of its establishment, 1988, until the end of the last calendar year, 31 December 2022. [8197/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I was watching the Minister's intervention on the monitor in my office. I am especially interested in offshore wind. The Minister will know there is a particular group of stakeholders in the Cork region who are eager to greenlight projects off the south and south-west coast. I am always trying to understand the specifics of timelines. The Minister will correct me if I am wrong. He has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: We know all that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I am not being facetious. I appreciate that the Minister has a deep knowledge of Cork. Extrapolating from the Minister’s response, it seems that the Minister wants to sequence this. The Minister also spoke about resources and deploying resources to the effort around all of this. I perceive that there is not the requisite number of personnel for the effort that is required across...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I am talking specifically about this bespoke issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I absolutely agree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: The Science Foundation Ireland-funded MaREI research entity was set up between 2011 and 2016, just for clarity.