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Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Payment of Interns) Bill 2022: First Stage (19 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I move: That leave be given to introduce the National Minimum Wage (Payment of Interns) Bill 2022.

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Payment of Interns) Bill 2022: First Stage (19 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome the Minister of State. I thank Senators Keogan and Mullen for the motion. As others have said, it is very timely. It is important that we talk through all of the options for our energy security. As others have also said, the existing energy crisis shines a light on our dependence on other countries. When we had fuel crises 1968 and 1973, nuclear energy was very much on the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Staff (18 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Chathaoirligh. I welcome the Minister of State and thank her for coming to the House. A year, a week and a day ago, the Minister for Health announced that there would be 24 new lactation consultants appointed in 2022. My simple question to the Minister of State is: where are they? I must credit the wonderful campaigning group, Bainne Beatha, for alerting us to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Staff (18 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State. Maybe I am of a simple mind but either the 24 posts have been recruited and filled or they have not. The Minister of State is saying 14.5 of the 24 posts have been allocated to community services but that is a budgetary allocation. Either the people are providing the service or they are not. Will the Minister of State take back to the Department that we need...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Staff (18 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: That is the pre-2020 situation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the committee for bearing with me when I had to step out there. I also thank the officials from the Department for coming here today. I am conscious that they have an enormous workload and are having to take time out to come to this hearing today. However, to be frank, I am wondering about the purpose of today's hearing. On 26 January, 16 weeks ago, the Tánaiste said he was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: For the record, I am not sure that it is appropriate that our committee produces a report, given that we have so little detail as to what the Government's intentions are in respect of this Bill and I will leave it at that. Gabhaim buíochas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: Yes, I am indeed, thank you, Chairman.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: We learned last week about the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqla. The scenes from her funeral, including the attack on that funeral by the Israeli defence forces, are ones that few of us will ever forget. The killing and subsequent behaviour of the Israeli state must be called out and wholly condemned. It was a callous attack on media freedom and the right to mourn. I call...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: It is the first time in three years that summer festivals will be taking place. That is brilliant and badly needed for the music and arts sector. I want to refer to research recently undertaken by a group called FairPlé, which examined 16 folk and trad festivals dating back to 2018.Only a quarter of the performances at those festivals were by women performers, and that does not even...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I have just come from the front gates of Leinster House where a considerable number of former Debenhams workers have gathered in advance of the debate on a Bill being put before the Dáil today. It is two years, one month and one day since they lost their jobs in such a shameful way. Last month, I stated in this Chamber that we had a lot of honeyed words back in the spring and summer of...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: No, I will come in when we are discussing amendment No. 83.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: Can I speak on amendment No. 83 now?

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for yet another outing on these amendments. Amendment No. 83 proposes to insert a provision in the Bill whereby the commission will not co-operate with self-regulatory systems or any other non-statutory mechanism that is not part of the legislative framework. The key issue is that either we are serious about regulation or we are not. Self-regulation has been shown not...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I support what Senator Higgins said. I hear also what the Minister and Senator Malcolm Byrne said but we need to reinforce the point that there is a significant distinction between co-operating with and giving assistance to. I agree with Senator Higgins's question on whether the Minister would be open to a change of that particular language. Obviously, the language in the two amendments is...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: There is a question with regard to the resources of the commission and providing assistance, both in the preparation of standards and, in particular, in the establishment of a person or a group. We would like to hear from the Minister whether she is willing to accept any change in language that we bring forward on Report Stage.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 83: In page 40, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: "(1A) Subsection (1) does not apply to standards or self-regulatory systems relating to the regulation of commercial communications.".

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: Will this debate adjourn at 7.30 p.m.?

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I shall speak to my amendment No. 123. I welcome section 46N(5) as it refers to making provision to prohibit advertising "in respect of the general public health interests of children, in particular those foods or beverages which contain fat, trans-fatty acids, salts or sugars". Our amendment No. 123 seeks to ensure that we talk about all children and not just those who have digital access....