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Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: The fundamental reality is there is a misalignment regarding the ages at which children age out of paediatric mental health services and physical health services. It is 16 for mental health services and 18 for physical health accommodation. We need to put in place safeguards for children who are admitted to an adult psychiatric facility. That is why we propose in amendment No. 63 that the...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I support amendment No. 30. The rationale for this extension is far from clear. It is obviously a matter of great concern to those who understand the intricacies of involuntary detention or involuntary treatment, the timeframe and the process surrounding all that. Those who have approached us, and I think everybody in the Opposition, believe there are very significant grounds for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (8 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State. I am conscious that he is relaying the message from the Department. It is not very heartening to see that the Department has completely ignored the specific request with regard to Dublin 1. The reality is that schools in the Dublin 1 area are having to make do in the context of a declining ratio of special needs assistants to children because the number of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (8 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: My question relates specifically to the ask for a new special school in Dublin 1. In response to a recent parliamentary question, which I submitted to the HSE about the number of children's disability network teams, CDNTs, that do not have special schools in their catchment area. We learned that, of the 93 CDNTs across the country, 16 are not in the catchment area of a special school,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Time and again, we have heard from Government that it recognises that dereliction is a problem in Dublin, yet there is not a single penny in the Dublin City Council to compulsorily purchase derelict properties in the city. There are 4,500 derelict properties across the city but only a tiny fraction of these are on the derelict sites register. Nearly 5,000 people are facing eviction notices...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: It is not its fault.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: You need money for that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: You need money for that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: That is not true. We supported the Land Development Agency.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Time and again, we have heard from Government that it recognises that dereliction is a problem in Dublin, yet there is not a single penny in the Dublin City Council to compulsorily purchase derelict properties in the city. There are 4,500 derelict properties across the city but only a tiny fraction of these are on the derelict sites register. Nearly 5,000 people are facing eviction notices...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: It is not its fault.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: You need money for that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: You need money for that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: That is not true. We supported the Land Development Agency.

Health (Availability of General Practitioner Services) Bill 2025: First Stage (3 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make provision in relation to the availability of general practitioner medical and surgical services throughout the State, and to provide for related matters. I am very proud to introduce my first Bill in the Dáil on behalf of the Labour Party. There is a reality that access to GP care is not equal across this...

Health (Availability of General Practitioner Services) Bill 2025: First Stage (3 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I move: "That Second Stage be taken in Private Members' time."

Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — investigative journalism by RTÉ has again exposed distressing and unacceptable practices and conditions in private Irish nursing homes, 20 years on since the Leas Cross scandal; — the failure of the State to provide sufficient public long term residential care places has led to the growing privatisation of nursing home...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Chair for accommodating me and I thank all the witnesses. There are very many questions I could ask but, given the small amount of time I have available, I will just ask some specific ones. The NTPF is saying there are strong financial oversight procedures and processes in place to administer the insourcing funds and yet we saw the issues in Beaumont, which incidentally were...