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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I wish to raise the issue of apprenticeship pay. On 3 May 2023 – almost a year to the day – Labour Party Senators introduced a Bill seeking to ensure that all apprentices would receive the national minimum wage for the duration of their training. The following week, the then Minister and current Taoiseach, Deputy Simon Harris, stated at a Government press conference that he...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I support amendment No. 2 and what Senator Gavan said. This Bill needed to do three things. The first concerns improving the provision of information to employees and creditors more generally. The second concerns the special recognition of workers, specifically with regard to existing collective agreements, implicit or express. The third concerns tightening up section 610 of the Companies...

Seanad: Smartphone and Social Media Use: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome the Minister. I sincerely thank Fine Gael and Senator Seery Kearney for using their Private Members' time to discuss this really serious public health issue this evening. I compliment what is a very detailed motion. Of course, social media has a lot of positives and we all use it. However, we are also talking about a device and social media platforms that are addictive by...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank our witnesses for attending. I am extremely conscious that the past ten months have been very difficult for RTÉ staff, considering that the greed and serious mistakes of a few have precipitated a crisis for the many within RTÉ. I acknowledge that some former RTÉ workers are in the Gallery. As some were bogusly self-employed and wronged by RTÉ, it is important to...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Sure. The Resolve report had to be commissioned on foot of the behaviour of certain people in management in the current affairs section. When the director general was before the committee, we asked him about it several times. Do the witnesses believe changes are now happening on foot of the recommendations in the report?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: It pointed to a human resource culture that was prejudiced against women, in particular. There were allegations of bullying and these were not confined to just one individual-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Sure. Does Ms O'Kelly believe changes or improvements have been made in the current affairs department in recent months on foot of the recommendations? There were some very clear recommendations and stark findings in the report.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: One of the striking issues we have noted in RTÉ recently is that although it is facing cuts in the future, there is currently a shortfall of staff. I would like to hear about the experience of Mr. Sloper, Mr. Reynolds and Ms O'Kelly regarding the current staffing shortfall and resourcing issues. While the conversation is about making RTÉ smaller, which I disagree with because I...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Okay. Does Ms O'Kelly want to add to that?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I will ask about bogus self-employment. I will say to some colleagues present that I look forward to their enthusiastic support when it comes to the transposition of the EU directive on bogus self-employment when it has to be transposed here. I am a little incredulous at some of the union blaming. I will ask about the conditions. Mr. Dooley talked about decisions, or bad practice, by...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Ms Hannick talked very passionately about the situation "Fair City" workers now find themselves in. People are probably a little incredulous at how RTÉ, as a semi-State organisation, can have the level of bogus self-employment it does. People come in as freelancers. Will Ms Hannick very briefly describe how people come in as freelance actors but then end up being bogusly self-employed?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Has any good come out of this crisis? I would like to hear from the witnesses on that.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Air Quality (23 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State. My question today relates to the Government's clean air strategy. As the Government has told us, air pollution is the silent killer in our environment and our society. We know where air quality is poor that those with an underlying condition are at greater risk of stroke, lung disease, lung cancer, asthma and dementia and that those conditions are...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Air Quality (23 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: There are two fundamental points we are not seeing here. There is a degree of urgency we are not seeing here. There is a lot of talk about the plans the Government intends to put in place and the Minister of State said it is a priority for Government, but the Government has millions of priorities. What is it actually going to do? I do not see the urgency here. We still have a target of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I, too, offer my condolences to the family, colleagues and friends of the late Senator Dowling. I wish to raise the issue of the school transport scheme, which is now open for applications but which will close later this month, and how it is designed. The rules of the scheme, particularly the criteria that students need to live 3.2 km away from a primary school or 4.8 km from a secondary...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Maternity Leave (11 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for coming here, in the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman's place, today. Any of us who are fortunate to have had babies know the immense value of maternity leave. It is a way of society saying to women to take time with their newborn babies. Approximately 60 women in this country each year are diagnosed with cancer during their pregnancy and, of course, their...