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Seanad: Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (17 Nov 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I warmly welcome Second Stage of this Bill. I pay tribute to Senator Ardagh, Senator Buttimer and all those in the cross-party Oireachtas group on cancer. Today's Bill is about the right to be forgotten, specifically with regard to those who have endured a cancer diagnosis and treatment and have come through the other side. This Bill is about dragging our financial providers into an...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Surviving Cohabitant’s Pension) Bill 2021: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister and call on Senator Buttimer who has six minutes.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Surviving Cohabitant’s Pension) Bill 2021: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: Does Senator Flynn want to continue?

Seanad: Social Welfare (Surviving Cohabitant’s Pension) Bill 2021: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Senator Flynn and call Senator McGahon.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Surviving Cohabitant’s Pension) Bill 2021: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: Okay, I will ask Senator Higgins to speak.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Surviving Cohabitant’s Pension) Bill 2021: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I want to pay tribute to Johnny O'Meara and his three children, Jack, Thomas and Aoife. They have been through so much with the loss of their beloved Michelle. It took immense courage to take the judicial review on the refusal to grant Johnny the widower's pension. I also want to pay tribute to the work of Treoir, which is represented here this evening, and to those who have come forward...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank all the witnesses for attending today and sincerely apologise for missing their contributions. The Labour Party is very much opposed to the design of this levy. We put forward an alternative proposal for a levy on the profits of concrete block suppliers. Ms Hone makes the very powerful point that there is a double penalty here for those now facing the challenge of having to rebuild...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I wanted to ask the CIF as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: This question has come up already and I apologise for repeating it but it is important. Who pays this bill? We have an unmerciful mess on our hands between mica, pyrite and 100,000 apartments with fire safety defects across the country. The CIF says we have not seen proposals targeting those responsible for the defects. I am not sure we have heard proposals from the CIF as to how we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: We are all aware of the Statue of Limitations with regard to product defects liability. Would CIF be opposed to making directors of construction companies and building supplier companies liable? Phoenix companies are a huge characteristic of what goes on in the construction sector. It is a huge feature of what has happened in Donegal and across the country with regard to concrete supply,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: Will the CIF resist it, as it is resisting this and has resisted many other measures?

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) (Certificate of Life) Bill 2022: Second Stage (20 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I thank Senators Doherty and Seery Kearney for introducing it. I pay tribute to Caroline and Martin Smith, who were in contact with us about Bill that was debated last year about reproductive health leave and the amendments tabled on Committee Stage earlier this year.I want to pay tribute to the tenacity, perseverance and work of...

Seanad: Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 1: 1. In page 31, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "Rights in relation to diagnosis, maintenance and repair of electronic equipment 26. (1) In relation to digital electronic equipment sold in the State, a manufacturer shall make available, for the purposes of diagnosis, maintenance or repair of the equipment— (a) to independent repair...

Seanad: Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for his detailed reply. He articulated technical concerns about the wording of our amendment. We are very happy to work with him to improve or fix that wording. The spirit of the amendment is the crucial aspect. I hear what the Minister of State is saying about the EU initiative taking place and the potential for a strong, comprehensive set of harmonisation...

Seanad: Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 7: In page 105, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “(4) (a) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, where a trader supplies a service to subscribers, it is an unfair term of the contract under which the service is provided if the trader, in relation to provision of the same or substantially the same service, charges consumers who...

Seanad: Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 8: 8.In page 139, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “Consumer complaints 159.The Consumer Protection Act 2007 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 66B: “Part 4B SUBSCRIBER COMPLAINTS HANDLING Interpretation and application of Part 66C.(1) In this Part— ‘complaint’—...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I pay tribute to the sterling work of Ms Lawlor and her team, Front Line Defenders, and Trócaire and the Irish Coalition for Business and Human Rights. This will be a groundbreaking directive both for trade unionists throughout the world and those exposing environmental degradation if it is enacted in the spirit in which it was originally intended. As our guests detailed, there has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: Just to clarify, I used the phrase "outright ban", but I am thinking of that supply chain regulation. There is still a need for that. I did not mean to interrupt Ms Lawlor. We have touched a little on the protections in place with regard to retaliation, reprisals and retribution. I suppose it goes to the heart of the effectiveness of the directive, whenever it is enacted. I think Mr....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I am delighted members of the St. Luke's bridge club are joining us. I welcome the eviction ban that was announced earlier, which comes after many months of our being told that it would not be possible. We were told about the possible constitutional challenges and the unseen legal advice and given warnings landlords would exit the sector. Landlords are already exiting the sector. The ban...

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: As we all know, more than 900,000 households are facing into fuel poverty this winter. Fuel poverty has been a permanent feature of this country through good times and now through bad. The choices facing this State, particularly when the public finances are in such a remarkably healthy situation, raise very serious questions about the extent to which the State is willing to go the extra...