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

Seán Sherlock: We are within the time and I have another question.

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

Seán Sherlock: This service has a long-standing fantastic reputation with very genuine people and is community minded. If I may ask on behalf of this particular service, if at all possible will the Minister continue to engage with me on it? It is reflective of many other services that may not have come into the Minister's process. For the record, I acknowledge the Minister's nod of assent in response.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: We spoke about CDNTs earlier in a question I raised. To give the Minister a further prospective on CHO4, which is my area, it has a caseload of 555 children and the number of staff available is 13.5%. There is a vacancy rate of 38%. The number of therapeutic hours available according to a report issued recently stands at 5,815 per annum. The end result is that there is a mere 10.4 hours...

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

Seán Sherlock: 9. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff who will be impacted by new wage agreements in early years education. [15717/23]

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

Seán Sherlock: What have been the benefits and the number of people affected by the implementation of the employment regulation order, ERO? How many have benefitted from the new wage structures?

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

Seán Sherlock: Perversely, the raising of standards of living for people working in the sector has had a negative impact on those providing community services under the early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme. I have been contacted by one such provider of long standing who tells me the increase in wages has had a serious impact on her core funding, such that her ability to pay everybody equally in...

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

Seán Sherlock: I welcome that. I was not aware of it. If that is the position and if I have a case of a sessional service where there is an impact on core funding and it has not engaged with the independent process, is it possible for me to refer that directly in at this late stage?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: In support of Deputy Stanton and to dovetail with his question, I formally ask the Minister to consider visiting the Down's syndrome facility in Ballincollig, Field of Dreams, where he will meet absolutely amazing people who have issues with access to public transport and transport on a personalised basis. I extend the invitation to the Minister specifically to visit that facility in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: On the way out of Dublin for the day, the Minister should come down to Cork and we will show him.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Can we write to him to invite him?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I acknowledge the Minister's response. The Labour Party feels strongly that the key to filling vacancies is the issue of pay parity. The lack of this between section 39 organisations and the HSE, for instance, is having a major impact on the ability of these organisations and CDNTs to recruit. Does the Minister acknowledge that the joint statement by Fórsa, the Irish Nurses and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: As the Minister sits in Cabinet, I am sure he has a view on these matters. Given there is clearly a major issue concerning the disparity in pay between organisations, CDNTs are not going to function until such time as, I respectfully suggest, pay parity is addressed. I refer to there being some signal from the Minister to us this morning to show he acknowledges that the pay differentials...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 2. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has met with An Taoiseach and the Minister for Health regarding vacancies in children's disability network teams [15714/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I ask the Minister what engagement he has had with the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health regarding the serious issue of vacancies that are arising in children's disability network teams, CDNTs, throughout the country where we know there is a significant vacancy rate of 31% at present within the section 39 organisations?

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I do not know who said it but the perfect is sometimes the enemy of the good. I think we all acknowledge that this is a very good start. I am coming back to the issue of process. If the Minister tells us he is going to start the process immediately upon the passing of this legislation and that there is a timeline for that process and if he gives us some indication as to when he feels...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: As we say in Cork, the Minister is being a bit cagey about it, like. He could come up with a little bit more.

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: Addressing the first grouping of amendments, particularly amendments Nos. 1, 2, 10, 20, 22, 23, 29, 30, 32, 33, and 36 to 44, inclusive, I wish to ask the Minister about the process for determining the rates of pay for domestic violence leave. What is the Minister's intention, having come from the Seanad, regarding the setting of regulations on the rate of pay for domestic violence leave?...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I accept the Minister's answer. The process by which one arrives at the point at which you set the rate is still unclear. It must be as seamless a process as possible. This has been debated extensively on Committee Stage in the Seanad and in this House. Will the Minister at this late stage give a clearer articulation - which I say most respectfully - of the process? We do not want a...

Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I support the amendment. Will the Minister indicate whether he will accept the amendment? If he does not propose to do so, will he indicate whether he would accept a Private Member's Bill or some other mechanism that would allow this issue to remain on the books?

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I support our motion. I wish to raise a matter that relates to Dublin Central. The Chair might ask why a Corkman is doing so, but I have been asked by Senator Sherlock to raise the issue of Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire on Parnell Square. When will the sod turning for the school take place? As I understand the situation, it was to take place around Easter. The school has been in...