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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021: Central Bank (3 Nov 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I certainly believe that an element of transparency or at least public access to the details of people in those roles would be an important element in the context of the goal of improving the culture or forcing firms to improve their culture and behaviour. My next question relates to an issue Mr. Cross touched on in terms of the primary focus - I am paraphrasing him here - being improve...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tax Reliefs (2 Nov 2021)

Marie Sherlock: The matter I raise relates to owner-occupiers who find themselves in what can only be termed desperately distressing circumstances where they face bills of up to €50,000 to address fire safety defects in their apartments. These problems are not of their own making. Many landlords are also facing these costs but they are able to offset the cost of maintenance, repairs, insurance and,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tax Reliefs (2 Nov 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I am conscious that he is here today having to read out a pre-prepared script from the Department of Finance on behalf of the Minister of Finance. To be honest, in the response, there is a lack of urgency and of recognition that there are real families and individuals facing enormous bills between now and the end of this year. This is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Nov 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I joined the parents of babies born via surrogacy standing outside Leinster House this morning - as did other Members - in calling for the Government to progress the assisted human reproduction Bill, which people have been speaking about since 2015. There has been promise after promise but we have yet to see any progress. Of course, the issues are complex and there are no easy answers but...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament (2 Nov 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the four Dublin MEPs for being here today. As has been said, it is very important to have this interaction and to better understand the work they are doing on behalf of this city and county. I was struck by Mr. Cuffe's statement that the Green New Deal forms a major part of the focus of the work of the Parliament at the moment, which is very true. The equality agenda has also been...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I too extend my condolences to the Amess family and thank those involved in the service today. Unfortunately, I cannot be there myself but Senator Wall will be. It is important we in the Houses mark Sir David Amess's passing. I propose an amendment to the Order of Business such that No. 15 be taken before No. 1. No. 15 is First Stage of the Social Welfare (Surviving Cohabitant’s...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Surviving Cohabitant’s Pension) Bill 2021: First Stage (21 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I move: That leave be given to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 to entitle surviving cohabitants to a contributory pension; and to provide for related matters.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Surviving Cohabitant’s Pension) Bill 2021: First Stage (21 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: EU Regulations: Motion (20 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. We in the Labour Party very much welcome this motion. Picking up on Senator Boylan's comments on the timing of the debate, we know the deadline is 1 November for opting into this security directive. It is a little uncomfortable being so close to that date, and we have seen this rushed through both Houses of the Oireachtas within 48...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (20 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the Chamber. I thank my colleague, Senator Moynihan, for bringing forward this important Bill. I am sure the Minister of State, like many us, has not been immune to the many stories in recent weeks of students finding it near impossible to get accommodation and of students having to undertake arduous commutes to college simply because they cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Resourcing and Capacity of the Workplace Relations Commission: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the WRC and Mr. O'Brien for being here. I thank Mr. O'Brien for his enormous work on this issue. He is continuing the strong tradition and enormous work of Ken Fleming, my former colleague in SIPTU, who did so much to shine a light on practices in the sector. My first question is to the WRC. I thank the representatives for the documentation that was submitted. Looking at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Resourcing and Capacity of the Workplace Relations Commission: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: Notwithstanding that Mr. Kelly spoke about the difficulties of trying to mobilise a team during the night, is that number sufficient given that these figures seem to suggest contravention of the law is endemic among many, though not necessarily all, employers in the sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Resourcing and Capacity of the Workplace Relations Commission: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. O'Brien.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Resourcing and Capacity of the Workplace Relations Commission: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: It seems to me that the numbers that the WRC has recruited or is about to allocate are insufficient for the scale of the problem we are talking about. Mr. O'Brien set out in great detail the issues he sees with the atypical work scheme. A number of legislative changes need to take place. I will pick up on the earlier question put to Mr. O'Brien on how widespread exploitation is in the...

Seanad: Flood Risk Management: Motion (19 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: On behalf of the Labour Party, and as somebody who is based in the north inner city of Dublin in a place that was the site of fairly dramatic flooding almost two decades ago, I welcome this motion. As has been said a number of times in this debate, as global warming continues to bite, flooding will probably be one of the main ways that climate change will be experienced in this country....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Victim Support Services (13 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for coming to the House and I appreciate it is a particularly busy time for him at present. A number of weeks ago, I was contacted by a woman who is a victim of rape. She went through a traumatic trial and, to her horror, realised afterwards that all victim supports had dried up. She was effectively left to fend for herself and cope with the implications of the trial...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Victim Support Services (13 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister. I welcome a lot of the detail that the Minister has provided. It is certainly positive that the gaps are being identified and that the subgroup focusing on developing specialist training is being put in place, and that there will be funding announced over the coming weeks under the DSGBV heading. What worries me slightly is the sentence "The rape crisis centres have...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: We all have our own views on budget 2022. Of course, the Government Senators, as is their right, will speak about the positive aspects of the budget yesterday, whereas there are others of us who believe it was a confetti-like budget. There is a serious question mark about its capacity to make any dent in the very serious rental crisis we have in this country, the childcare affordability...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: Some of us had seating problems yesterday. Please, let us not cast aspersions.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: Over the past eight weeks, I have had reason to meet a considerable number of apartment dwellers in the area of Dublin Central where I am based. They live in apartment blocks which were built in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and over the past three to four years, they have had to come to terms with the horrendous reality that they are living in units that are effectively fire hazards, and...