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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: The arts and culture budget received an actual cut in budget 2026. It went from just above €300,000 to under €300,000. There was a lot of fanfare about the basic income for the arts and that expansion is welcome. However, that fanfare has masked what is happening to arts and cultural funding, which is that there will be less next year than this year. Arts Council funding is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: There is a serious credibility issue here. We see it with regard to the underdelivery of the social housing targets and, indeed, what we are seeing now with regard to childcare places. This is an issue that was raised with the Department during the summer. I raised it last week, and we have seen no response, frankly, from the Department on these issues. It is deadly serious for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I want to start by expressing my deep shock and sadness at the passing of the young person and injury to others in an apartment in north Dublin yesterday. Obviously there is a criminal investigation and we are limited in what we can say, but there is an additional layer of sadness that this is an unaccompanied minor thousands of miles away from his family and community. As we understand it,...

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I express my concern about and thoughts for the individuals and staff in the care home in Donaghmede where a very serious incident happened earlier this afternoon. It is a dangerous business in politics when you get people’s hopes up and overpromise and underdeliver. The reason we are here today is because of those commitments that the Tánaiste made when he was the Minister...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (15 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for conveying the written response from the Department. A lot of it is a copy-and-paste job of what was circulated in June of this year. To be very clear, there is no update in this response from the Department, that is zero update as to what is happening the new school building. There is no plan B apparent in the Minister of State's response here. For a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (15 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: But the Minister of State is not conveying the information here.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (15 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: My Topical Issue relates to Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire and its new school building on Dominick Street in Dublin 1. I stood with Government Ministers and representatives from the school two and a half years ago when the sod was turned in June 2023. The school was supposed to be open in June 2025, but instead we have an empty building site. The Department of education terminated the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (14 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 800. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Parkinson’s nurse specialists employed by the HSE, broken down by year from 2018 to 2024; the number of Parkinson’s nurse specialist positions advertised by the HSE in each of those years; the number of applications received for each of these positions, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54562/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (9 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: There is a new school principal.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (9 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: My question for the Minister for education relates to Presentation Primary School in George's Hill. Before I get to the problems about the school, I want to say that this is a great school in the heart of the north inner city in Dublin 7. It is a DEIS band 1 school. It probably has one of the most diverse populations of all schools in the country and has a significant amount of need, both...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (9 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for that reply on behalf of the Minister for education. I have to ask him directly. Is he comfortable with children walking on asbestos tiles every day of the week? The tiles were broken by works undertaken three years ago. We know that there is no safe level of asbestos. I have to ask him that direct question. The Minister of State said the project was...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (9 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: They cannot submit it because they cannot get a quote.

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome the opportunity to speak on World Mental Health Day. Enormous work is being done across the country by many groups, both informal and formal. Progress has been made on breaking the stigma in our communities in recent years. However, it is important to say that stigma is alive and well in workplaces and in the medical profession when people present with a long history of mental...

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, to the Chamber. I note that we have mental health campaigners in the Gallery. They are all very welcome.

Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank all the organisations here today, and Ms Rice in particular. Her contribution today was really powerful. I thank her. I am familiar with the work of SAOL and EPIC, but it is great to have Kinship Care Ireland and FamiliBase here as well. I often think of the word "kinship"; we are all familiar with the phrase "next of kin" yet so few people out there actually understand what...

Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I know I am out of time but I have a question which can be answered later as it is important to understand it. It is with regard to health and education. The lack of access has been well set out, as has lack of recognition by the health service of those in kinship arrangements, particularly in informal kinship arrangements. Has this changed much over the past 20 years? I am thinking in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (9 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 352. To ask the Minister for Health further to the decision to subsume CHI into the HSE, the plans that are being progressed for the buildings and land at Crumlin, Temple Street and Tallaght when the move to the new children’s hospital takes place. [54476/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the officials from the National Ambulance Service for attending today. I want to pay tribute to paramedics and national ambulance crews across the country who do incredible work day in, day out and have to witness some pretty appalling situations. It is important to pay tribute to them. Mr. Healy has been asked a number of times about the two rejected ballots. Some of the words...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: When I talk to staff in the service, people are very much on for the modernisation of the service and service reform, but ultimately there are historic issues that have to be resolved. It is up to management now to step up to the mark, deal with those and then be able to move on. I wish to ask about the helicopter emergency service. There is a review by the national office for trauma...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Does Mr. Healy reject any allegation that it is clinically operationally unsafe at the moment? We have received some allegations. I wish to hear from Mr. Healy on the record.