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Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I am glad to put my name to this motion, which states: "during the past 25 years of a law-enforcement approach to drug abuse, drug-related deaths have increased by 225 per cent, compared to a 68 per cent reduction in road deaths in the same period, with the total number of such deaths well exceeding 10,500." That is 10,500 lives and 10,500 families. The multiplied consequences of this are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (30 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a limit per household for the payment of the respite care grant bonuses; and if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a payment. [59641/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (30 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 172. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be contacted for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59609/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: The union SIPTU has brought to our attention a notice of strike action at Zenith Energy Bantry Bay Terminal Limited. That strike is to take place on Tuesday, 13 December. The Whiddy Island terminal has 17 oil storage tanks with a capacity of almost 9 million barrels and stores a significant portion of the State's oil reserves. It is a key reference site nationally. The National Oil...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I am disappointed with the answer. The Whiddy Island terminal is fixed firmly in the consciousness of every citizen's mind as key in the security of energy supply. There would have been a time when somebody like me would have gotten up as a member of the Opposition to call on the Government to use its influence specifically in relation to a site like this. Zenith has a contract and owns...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Code (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I am aware that the Minister for Social Protection is very influential at the Cabinet so I implore her, following this discussion, to raise the issue with her colleague the Minister for Finance. With regard to hurling, there is a crisis with ash dieback at present and we seriously want to preserve the craft of hurley making. My own thinking on UNESCO intangible heritage status was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Code (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome the Minister's response to this and the Government's proactive approach to encouraging the craft of uilleann pipe making and its making of provisions in the tax code to ensure the survival of the craft. If the Government were of a mind to consider other crafts such as hurley making, it would be very much welcomed. If the Minister wishes to take up the cudgel or the hurl on that,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Code (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 67. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that the new scheme announced under the Social Welfare Act 2020 in respect of uilleann pipe makers will work in practical terms. [59446/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Code (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: How will the scheme announced under the Social Welfare Act 2020 in respect of uilleannn pipe makers work in practical terms? The Minister will recall that I very much welcomed this in the context of the Social Welfare Bill, which is before the House, and I tried to make a play for the hurley makers in a similar vein on the basis that the two are connected by dint of their status under...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Code (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Gabh mo leithscéal. I did not hear the Chair.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I know that.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 64. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied that every resident in the State, regardless of geography, has access to a community welfare officer in their locality. [59445/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I totally agree that the role of the community welfare office is a vital one, so let us all put that to bed. I want to see more of them, and more of them within our communities meeting people face to face. There are 50 Intreo offices but if there are only 50 Intreo offices they can only cover a narrow geographical area. The impediment is that there are not enough community welfare officers...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I appreciate the Minister's commitment to service. I welcome the fact that the discretionary nature of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is set out in statute, covers everything from household bills to child-related payments, clothing, funeral expenses and other general expenses, housing expenses, illness expenses and a multitude of other urgent needs payments. I welcome the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: This is now a service where people are being forced into the Parnell Street office. It takes the service further away from the people. Will the Minister give an undertaking to conduct an analysis of the community welfare service as it relates to every part of the country? This will tell us whether the service is being delivered equally to all citizens.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome that additional staff are being deployed. As someone who represents both an urban and rural constituency, I want to see the traditional, old-style, face-to-face interaction, and I believe that many others share this view. I take the point made by the Minister around the right of people to have access to a person where they can make an appointment. If, however, the caseload is...

COP27: Statements (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Sorry Minister, may I intervene for a second? As Deputy McGrath sits in this Chair from time to time, may I ask him please, if he cannot respect the speaker, to respect the Chair.

Estimates for Public Services 2022: Messages from Select Committees (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: The Select Committee on Transport and Communications has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2022: Vote 31. The Select Committee on Justice has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimates for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2022:...

COP27: Statements (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: The Minister is entitled to reply to the debate without interruption.

COP27: Statements (29 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I ask that all speakers be respected and that the Minister be allowed to continue without interruption.