Results 141-160 of 3,250 for speaker:Seán Sherlock in 'Dáil debates'

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Some of the Taoiseach's own colleagues want to do it as well.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: We have just been talking about services.

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Well done.

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I wish to speak for those families who cannot get access to respite care particularly when their child attends a special school under the patronage of an education and training board, ETB. The case of Julie Anne Cunneen and her 16-year-old son Liam was highlighted on the "This Week" programme on Sunday. Liam attends Carrigaline Community Special School. He cannot get access to respite...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospice Services (23 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: The Minister is correct; the report covers a broad array of subject matters. There is one recommendation, however, where there is a clear articulation of the view, through the surveys that were carried out, of the need to provide greater signposting regarding, in particular, access to the supplementary welfare allowance for funeral costs. That resonated me because all of us, as public...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospice Services (23 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Minister. Even having this interaction with her is one way for us to highlight the issue. I acknowledge the campaign, although I have some issues with it given it was effectively a cost-of-living crisis campaign for working families in the main. Nevertheless, while I have some reservations about what I perceive to be the centralisation of services, we all acknowledge it must...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospice Services (23 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 73. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has had regard to a report by the Irish Hospice Foundation on the real financial impact of bereavement; and, if so, her views on the report. [25017/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospice Services (23 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has had regard to a report by the Irish Hospice Foundation on the real financial impact of bereavement and, if so, her views on it. I thank and pay tribute to the Irish Hospice Foundation, which recently provided an Oireachtas briefing in which it highlighted its study on the importance of supports for people who are bereaved.

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: No.

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: When we all speak in this debate, we speak for people who are decent. What I have witnessed in my constituency in the context of people coming in, whether under international protection or from Ukraine, is an overwhelming sense of decency and an outpouring of charity and of wanting to help people who have come to our shores seeking protection. I have witnessed that at first hand in my...

Social Welfare (Child Benefit) Bill 2023: Second Stage (17 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I support the Bill and welcome the fact that we are promulgating this legislation. Considering it realistically, this measure will cost €122 million, so it is quite a significant intervention by the Government. To be fair, that has to be acknowledged. If €100 for every child is being put into households in June, that has to be acknowledged. I will say that first and...

Targeted Investment in the Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: -----but to be fair to the man, he has always delivered for the people of Mallow through Mallow General Hospital. We have seen the outworkings of his efforts in that regard. We have had to push back on him on numerous occasions but I want to acknowledge that he had the best interests of Mallow at heart.

Targeted Investment in the Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I support the motion. I will talk specifically about Mallow General Hospital, which is categorised as a level 2 hospital, but in our minds in north Cork, we think it is somewhere between level 2 and level 3 in terms of what it delivers for the people of the region that I represent. In 2007, we in Mallow underwent quite a difficult process, prior to people like myself ever being in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (17 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for her response because it is the first time we have a real metric and set of figures in respect of north Cork, which is to be welcomed. I appreciate and acknowledge that a new special school will be allocated for Carrigtwohill. I am not striving for perfection here but I have a slight worry. We seem to accept the fact that children have to travel long...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (17 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Heath, Deputy Butler, to respond to my query in respect of what I perceive to be the lack of special school places, and school places for children with additional needs in the north Cork area specifically. I raise this issue on the basis of the fact that parents have been in contact with me to say there is no certainty for their children...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Seán Sherlock: You were.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 17. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of childcare providers that have exited the ECCE scheme since 2022. [15716/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: How many childcare providers have exited the ECCE scheme since 2022?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Notwithstanding those figures, does the Minister acknowledge that fact that more and more providers now are not able to provide services because there is a recruitment of staff issue? I am aware of one situation in my own neck of the woods in north Cork. One provider contacted me to say she simply cannot hire additional staff and that then has a knock-on effect. The effect is reduced ECCE...