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Seanad: Free Provision of Period Products Bill 2021: Second Stage (8 Feb 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I am very glad to speak on this important Bill at this sitting. While it is fair to say that there are many of us on this side of the Chamber who may have done it quite differently in terms of the Bill itself, and we have pointed to gaps and missed opportunities, nonetheless this is a very important and positive debate. A lot has been said this evening, and at the conclusion of this debate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for his engagement with the committee. I am conscious that a lot has been said on the proposed remuneration of the Secretary General to be appointed. It should be clear that there is a sense of disquiet and dismay among many here and in the public about the scale of the increase for the Secretary General of the Department of Health, which is disproportionate. We want...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Marie Sherlock: As the Minister will be aware, public sector employees are being balloted at the moment on the public service pay deal. What message does he think the proposed package sends out to student nurses and others within the health sector who are voting this week and next week on the pay increase of 1% or €500, whichever is the greater, for next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I too hope it will be passed but it is not helpful, to put it mildly, that the Government and the Minister have decided on this pay package and attracted all this unnecessary attention on what is a very responsible and significant position in the public service. The Government has brought this attention on itself unnecessarily and I ask it to reconsider its decision on the remuneration package.

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

Marie Sherlock: I am heartened to see the Fianna Fáil Bill on period products. The House should note that Senator Rebecca Moynihan and the Labour Party put down a Bill on period products just last week, which is No. 11 on the Order Paper. I wish to raise two issues today. We have spent many months calling for the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, to come to...

Seanad: Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Statements (Resumed) (26 Jan 2021)

Marie Sherlock: It is very fitting that Senator Boyhan is the Acting Chairperson today. The Senator's contribution to the House last week was a very important one. I welcome the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman. Much has already been said about the report. From my perspective it is hard to put into words the sense of horror and shame reading some of the women's testimonies and the report of the confidential...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Planning Framework (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke. Has it been communicated to him that someone else will ask Senator McGahon's question?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Planning Framework (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: Senator Keogan is next as Senator McGahon cannot be here.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Planning Framework (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State. The Senator has one minute to respond.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Planning Framework (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I ask the Minister of State to provide the Senator with a copy of his contribution.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Planning Framework (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: My apologies to the Minister of State. I understand his contribution is available to Members. I thank him for coming to the House. I also thank Senator Keogan.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I move recommendation No. 1: In page 1. In page 9, to delete lines 9 to 24 and substitute the following: “ “(iib) Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment (within the meaning of the Act of 2005),”, and (b) by inserting the following after subsection (6B): “(6C) The payments, commonly known as the pandemic unemployment payments, made under section...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: On Committee Stage, I made very clear on behalf of my colleagues in the Labour Party our deep unease - this is shared by other colleagues on this side of the Chamber - regarding what we believe is the retrospective application of income tax to the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, between 13 March and 5 August. I listened very carefully to the comments the Minister of State made,...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for his reply but I am disappointed by it. I believe the goalposts have been shifted since Committee Stage, when Senators were told that people would be horrified to discover that they would not be able to offset some of their tax liability for the PUP against their personal and PAYE tax credits. The recommendation clearly attempts to deal with that by...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I second the recommendation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I thank ISME and ICTU for their presentations. I apologise if some of my questions have already been asked. Unfortunately, I was delayed at another event. My first question is for Mr. McDonnell and ISME. I very much welcome the fact that ISME supports the call for the statutory right to sick pay in this country. That is progress, but I am not sure that the demand that employers pay...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I am sorry to interrupt, but what I really want to hear about is the temporary replacement cover. What share of firms or types of work require that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. McDonnell for that. What I would respectfully say is that we do need to hear the voice of business in this conversation and discussion about how we pay for sick pay, but we do need hard facts and figures as well. If we can be of assistance in undertaking the research to understand what is going on among ISME's member organisations then that is something to be considered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I am really sorry, but I must direct a question to ICTU now. I have a very short time to talk.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I am sorry, but I must allocate time to ICTU. I thank Mr. McDonnell. I am sorry for being rude. It is good to see Ms King and Dr. Bambrick. I thank them very much for their presentation today. I have two very quick questions. There is a lot of commentary about the Trumpian management of the economy in the United States but on 31 December the Families First Coronavirus Response Act...