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Seanad: Protection of Employment (Platform Workers and Bogus Self-Employment) Bill 2021: First Stage (7 May 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to declare the relationship between employer and employee to be a status relationship, to declare the question whether an individual is an employee or is self-employed to be a question of law to be independently determined, to provide that the description given by the parties shall not be conclusive in determining the true...

Seanad: Protection of Employment (Platform Workers and Bogus Self-Employment) Bill 2021: First Stage (7 May 2021)

Marie Sherlock: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Childcare Scheme (30 Apr 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for taking the time to come to the House. There is a glaring and urgent need to review the national childcare scheme. For many families, the subvention is very welcome and helps to pay for childcare but it would be incorrect to say it is a universal subvention available to all parents. The Labour Party acknowledges that there has been progress in the Department over...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Childcare Scheme (30 Apr 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for that most detailed reply. I very much look forward to the findings of the review of the first year of the scheme. I am heartened to hear that it is being undertaken. I must say , however, that the lack of emphasis on after-school care is most problematic. The Minister spoke about how, during term time, the child's development needs are generally met through school...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Protection of Young Persons (Employment) (Exclusion of Workers in the Fishing and Shipping Sectors) Regulations 2021 (27 Apr 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome the regulation insofar as it sets out to try to protect young workers in the fishing sector. With regard to the exemption proposed with regard to engagement in night-time work for essential training purposes, is it possible to define and set out in detail an appropriate rest period? This is important in the context of night-time work. Perhaps this question is a reflection of my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Protection of Young Persons (Employment) (Exclusion of Workers in the Fishing and Shipping Sectors) Regulations 2021 (27 Apr 2021)

Marie Sherlock: To be clear, it is notifiable at present. That is great. To whom does the notice go?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Protection of Young Persons (Employment) (Exclusion of Workers in the Fishing and Shipping Sectors) Regulations 2021 (27 Apr 2021)

Marie Sherlock: That is super. I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I express my delight at the outcome of the Citizens' Assembly on gender equality and at the recommendations it issued on Saturday last. The breadth of the recommendations reflects how large the job to be done with regard to gender equality remains. The focus of the assembly was women and work and the recommendations are seismic. Crucially, the assembly recognised that there are no silver...

Seanad: Post Office Network: Motion (26 Apr 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Fianna Fáil for the motion, which sets out how this is about post offices in urban and rural areas. While there is, obviously and inevitably, much focus on the viability of rural post offices and their important place in rural communities, I can attest to the great importance of post offices in urban villages like my village of Phibsborough. I grew up in a small place called...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Apr 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I second the amendment to the Order of Business proposed by my colleague, Senator Mark Wall. In 2020, the new national childcare scheme was launched and for working parents it represented great progress in establishing the principle of universal subvention for childcare. The subvention was small but it was progress nonetheless. A significant number of early years services located in some...

Seanad: Gambling (Prohibition of Advertising) Bill 2021: First Stage (19 Apr 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I second the proposal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank our guests from MII and the MRCI for attending. MRCI sent in a detailed note with eight recommendations so that is welcome and I thank our guests for that. In the limited time available to me, I will ask a number of specific questions of MII. I want to understand the lack of labour supply in that sector better. From 2015 to 2018, there was an unemployment rate of in or around 4%....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I am sorry to interrupt, but the live register figures are clear. What precise initiatives did MII's sector take to recruit? I want to hear the numbers in terms of apprenticeships and Skillnet programmes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. Ryan. It is important to say that, in light of the efforts that have been mentioned, there should be no need to go beyond the EU to seek skills. If those efforts are being undertaken as Mr. Healy says they are, there should be no reason the industry cannot recruit in this country, given the scale of unemployment we have had and will have into the future. A number of weeks ago,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I am sorry to interrupt but my time is limited. I am asking what the margin is. I am aware that the information is limited. That is why I ask the question of the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. Carroll. I am aware of that data, which does not break down to the level of the meat industry which he represents. It relates to food processing. There is an issue with regard to disentangling or disaggregating the figures. I move on to my next question. We have had repeated news reports on the sector engaging in exploitative work practices, including bogus self-employment....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I support Migrant Rights Centre Ireland's call for labour market mobility to be associated with employment permits in future. I utterly reject the current situation whereby workers on permits here are treated like a second class of worker when compared with other employees in terms of their access to the Workplace Relations Commission. Under head 6 in the more detailed document, a concern...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Marie Sherlock: My second question is directed to the representatives of Meat Industry Ireland. The Labour Party produced a Bill on sick pay last September. Obviously we strongly believe that every worker should have access to paid sick leave in this country. While I welcome that Meat Industry Ireland is not opposed to the introduction of paid sick leave, with all of the attention on the sector in recent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I have a specific question on the costs. If a worker falls ill at the moment, is there replacement cover put in place for him or her? I am really interested when I hear employers talk about the costs associated with sick pay. Is it the case that other workers must cover the person who is ill or is the replacement cover put in place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. Carroll. That is a very welcome clarification because, from my perspective, it is important to understand that when temporary cover is not put in place, a company just continues to pay the worker as if he or she were there even when he or she is out sick.