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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I am sure the Tánaiste saw the Minister for justice's comments yesterday on a case being taken by the Irish Refugee Council in respect of how refugees, those seeking protection in our State, are being treated. Those comments were absolutely outrageous. They were deliberately designed to inflame tensions, to further the tropes that are out there and to pit refugees against homeless...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: -----who are feeding that poisonous anti-immigrant sentiment. That has to end. People in here need to show leadership and speak to the realities.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: No, this is important.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: People's lives are at stake here. What the Minister for justice said yesterday was absolutely disgraceful. I hope the Tánaiste will now reflect what the Government thinks.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Hear, hear.

Pride: Statements (16 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: There is much to be proud of and celebrate in the ten years since the passing of the marriage equality referendum and the Gender Recognition Act 2015, but it is incumbent on us to call out and name the lived reality of so many of our friends in the LGBTQ+ community. It is terrifying to see the very real mental health crisis happening at the moment. My colleagues and others referred to the...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: There are key questions about how this very good model is consistent with this very political decision to effectively try to make the HSE deal with any cost overruns itself and take corrective measures and to pass the buck on to the HSE for what may be understandable cost overruns into the future. We need to be extremely careful about section 24 of the Bill in particular.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: When I was reading the substance of this Bill today, my overriding sense of it was that the one consistent feature of the health service over the past 20 years is change. Since the Health Act 2004 there has been so much chopping and changing with regard to our health management system. Some of that was out of necessity. There are some very real questions as to the timing of this Bill,...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: The answer may be that it is both. When we look at the individual issues within our health service, there are fundamental questions about the operability of, in particular, section 24 into the future. I am looking in particular at budget 2024 announced in October 2023. With the benefit of hindsight, it was a complete work of fiction. The HSE had to come out and effectively out the...

Dental Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I extend a sincere welcome to the Young Scientist winners. I sincerely thank Deputy Stanley for his motion. The reality is that public dental services in this country are on the brink of collapse. We know there has been an almost 40% drop in the number of dentists participating in the dental treatment services scheme over just five years. The number of directly employed HSE dentists has...

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: It is great we are having this committee meeting today. I very much welcome the Bill. I wish to pick up on some of those questions about the integration with primary care and, in particular, GP records. Is there a view it will be just GMS patients who will be captured by this system, or will it be all GP patients? By extension, I am thinking of dental services and the integration of...

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Ultimately, the software provider of these systems will be a private company, not something developed within the HSE or the Department of Health itself.

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Our witnesses might explain what Community Connect is. We have had some correspondence alleging that this project has not gone to tender and the HSE is developing its own in-house framework. Could the witnesses explain what it is and clarify it for us? Whatever we have heard, the witnesses have been alerted to those concerns as well.

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: When Mr. Tierney says community now, he is talking about CDNTs, primary care-----

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Does the Department of Health have any concerns about the procurement process or lack thereof?

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I am just clarifying that the Department of Health does not have any procurement concerns as regards community connect or projects such as that.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify within every special school if every teacher and SNA, respectively has the appropriate qualification; and if not, the number of teachers and SNAs, respectively do not, out of the total number of teaching and SNA staff and if she will make a statement accordingly. [40095/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 236. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has considered the model whereby funding follows the patient (MFTP) for vasectomy services, as with termination of pregnancy services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39807/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 237. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been, or will be, given to extending free family planning to the provision of vasectomy services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39809/25]

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I sincerely thank Sinn Féin for this detailed motion. When you look at the detail and the very specific calls that are in this motion, it behoves us all to look at how women, and particularly teenage girls and young women, are being absolutely failed in this country. As I speak this evening, I think of the conversations I have had over the past four years with women who have had to...