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Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (20 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the Chamber. I thank my colleague, Senator Moynihan, for bringing forward this important Bill. I am sure the Minister of State, like many us, has not been immune to the many stories in recent weeks of students finding it near impossible to get accommodation and of students having to undertake arduous commutes to college simply because they cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Resourcing and Capacity of the Workplace Relations Commission: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the WRC and Mr. O'Brien for being here. I thank Mr. O'Brien for his enormous work on this issue. He is continuing the strong tradition and enormous work of Ken Fleming, my former colleague in SIPTU, who did so much to shine a light on practices in the sector. My first question is to the WRC. I thank the representatives for the documentation that was submitted. Looking at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Resourcing and Capacity of the Workplace Relations Commission: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: Notwithstanding that Mr. Kelly spoke about the difficulties of trying to mobilise a team during the night, is that number sufficient given that these figures seem to suggest contravention of the law is endemic among many, though not necessarily all, employers in the sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Resourcing and Capacity of the Workplace Relations Commission: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. O'Brien.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Resourcing and Capacity of the Workplace Relations Commission: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: It seems to me that the numbers that the WRC has recruited or is about to allocate are insufficient for the scale of the problem we are talking about. Mr. O'Brien set out in great detail the issues he sees with the atypical work scheme. A number of legislative changes need to take place. I will pick up on the earlier question put to Mr. O'Brien on how widespread exploitation is in the...

Seanad: Flood Risk Management: Motion (19 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: On behalf of the Labour Party, and as somebody who is based in the north inner city of Dublin in a place that was the site of fairly dramatic flooding almost two decades ago, I welcome this motion. As has been said a number of times in this debate, as global warming continues to bite, flooding will probably be one of the main ways that climate change will be experienced in this country....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Victim Support Services (13 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for coming to the House and I appreciate it is a particularly busy time for him at present. A number of weeks ago, I was contacted by a woman who is a victim of rape. She went through a traumatic trial and, to her horror, realised afterwards that all victim supports had dried up. She was effectively left to fend for herself and cope with the implications of the trial...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Victim Support Services (13 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister. I welcome a lot of the detail that the Minister has provided. It is certainly positive that the gaps are being identified and that the subgroup focusing on developing specialist training is being put in place, and that there will be funding announced over the coming weeks under the DSGBV heading. What worries me slightly is the sentence "The rape crisis centres have...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: We all have our own views on budget 2022. Of course, the Government Senators, as is their right, will speak about the positive aspects of the budget yesterday, whereas there are others of us who believe it was a confetti-like budget. There is a serious question mark about its capacity to make any dent in the very serious rental crisis we have in this country, the childcare affordability...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: Some of us had seating problems yesterday. Please, let us not cast aspersions.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: Over the past eight weeks, I have had reason to meet a considerable number of apartment dwellers in the area of Dublin Central where I am based. They live in apartment blocks which were built in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and over the past three to four years, they have had to come to terms with the horrendous reality that they are living in units that are effectively fire hazards, and...

Seanad: Registration of Wills Bill 2021: Second Stage (6 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: On behalf of my Labour Party colleagues I thank Senator Boyhan for bringing this important Bill forward. I understand this is the fourth time that this Bill, or at least the concept contained within this Bill, has come before the House. I read back through some of the transcripts of those previous debates and, as other Senators have said, there is cross-party support for the concept within...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Four-Day Working Week: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. O'Connor, Ms Cox and our guests from Fórsa and IBEC for attending the meeting. I am interested in the concept of a four-day week especially in the context of female labour market participation. There is the issue of getting women into work but also that of keeping them there, given that, as we know, there is a significant and dramatic fall-off in women's participation after...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Four-Day Working Week: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: It is important to say that even pre-pandemic, notwithstanding the unemployment rate related to the pandemic at the moment, we had a very broad unemployment rate of just below 18%. That included people who would have liked to work but could not because of various structural issues in their lives, such as caring responsibilities or a disability. A move by some companies towards a four-day...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I wish to mark International Safe Abortion Day and acknowledge the significant number of people who turned out on Saturday for the annual March for choice. Notwithstanding the enormous progress we made since the historic referendum three years ago, we still have significant issues regarding the delivery of abortion services in this country. While the Government's review is welcome, I urge...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Sep 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. The Labour Party is very happy to support this Bill. It is being taken at a time when there are very real question marks about the capacity of the aviation sector to recover. Projections suggest that it will be 2024 before it recovers, if at all. The desirability of that recovery is a very separate but important question about how to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (22 Sep 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I am delighted the Minister is in the Chamber today. As she knows, families and children who depend on school escorts know the importance of that role in ensuring children can go to school in a semi-independent way. School escorts are low-paid workers and many of them have to engage in other work to supplement their income. Often they are special needs assistants, SNAs, or in other work....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (22 Sep 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for her reply. I am most relieved to hear that the issue has been identified and acknowledged within the Department. My only question now concerns the fact that by the time the new circular is circulated and implemented within schools, a number of weeks will have passed. It needs to be ensured that no school escort is out of pocket from the beginning of the school...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I express my sympathies to our colleague, Senator Annie Hoey, and her family. Just a number of short weeks ago we were congratulating her on her wedding. Thankfully her father, Ray, was able to attend it but after a very long illness, he lost that battle last night. The issue I raise this morning is one that many Deputies, Senators and other elected representatives from north County Dublin...

Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person (Amendment) (Stalking) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

Marie Sherlock: We in the Labour Party welcome this Bill and I thank the Fianna Fáil Senators for bringing it forward. As we have heard from a number of accounts and from reading the LRC report, stalking is a deeply insidious and appalling violation of a person's dignity, safety and security. I pay tribute to Una Ring, Eve McDowell, and, indeed, Senator Keogan, for sharing their stories. This is a...