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Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 73: In page 104, line 37, to delete “sector,” and substitute the following: “sector, provided that at least 20 per cent of such membership shall be members of the Garda Síochána nominated by the Garda Commissioner for that purpose,”.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 77: In page 105, to delete line 2 and substitute the following: “(I) such members of the local authority, who shall constitute not less than 25 per cent of the membership of a safety partnership, as may be nominated for that purpose by resolution of the local authority,”.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank IBEC and ICTU for attending this hearing today. I wish to ask about IBEC's support for collective bargaining. I heard what Ms McElwee said earlier. Specifically in regard to collective bargaining at enterprise level, does IBEC recognise that it is surely better to work issues out at enterprise level as opposed to at a social partner level or a sectoral level? I was looking at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: To pick up on that point about issues being best and ideally worked out at local level, unions tell us that quite a number of companies are actively and openly hostile to trade unions coming into the workplace. We have seen workers who within a few weeks of coming into a workplace go to a trade union and are warned not to do so because it is not good for them. On a second warning, they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: We have heard from the trade union movement that the legislation does not provide for that. Surely if our collective interest here is to see collective bargaining take place in a respectful manner at enterprise level, we would remove those barriers and any potential for victimisation of workers who want to form a union within the workplace.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I will ask one more question of IBEC before I move to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, with regard to the response to the legislative changes that the congress has spoken about clearly. I note that in its submission, IBEC noted that: "While the action plan itself may result in legislative changes to our industrial relations legislation, in our view, neither the framework nor the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Ms McElwee has spoken about the amount of time IBEC has spent on this issue in recent years and we have had the high-level group. Why is IBEC dragging its heels? Why not just come to the table and engage with the legislation that needs to be enacted as opposed to dragging this out for years? Why would we have a situation whereby IBEC takes a piecemeal approach and says "No" to legislative...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I will.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I have a final question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: My questions are directed to the ICTU. Mr. Reidy made a powerful point in respect of public procurement. It is important to state it is not just about the State contracts but also organisations that are in receipt of continual State funding, such as in the childcare or nursing home sectors. Rather than just looking at the private sector, we must also consider publicly funded services that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: As regards the roadmap to which Mr. Reidy referred, I would be interested to hear his thoughts on the timing in that regard. The directive is only one of several changes that will come in this year or in the coming years. I ask him to address the issue of timing. There is the high-level group and the directive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. Reidy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I want to be clear as to the sequencing of the legislative changes that IBEC envisages.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Conservation (22 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome the students of Gorey Community School as well, and I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. My question relates to apartments and the apparent lack of State support for the retrofitting of these homes. The Government has a plan to retrofit half a million houses by the end of this decade. We also have a national retrofit plan, which was published two years ago....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Conservation (22 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State. My question specifically related to apartments. In 2020, 11.7% of all apartment dwellers reported being in energy arrears. In 2013, the figure was as high as 20%. The issue of energy poverty among apartment dwellers is not new, yet my sense is that the Department has been hugely behind the curve on this matter. The Minister of State spoke about the SEAI...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I join my Labour Party colleagues, and all colleagues, in paying tribute to Senator Norris. To be elected to Seanad Éireann is a privilege in itself for any of us. However, to be elected and to serve alongside a brilliant mind, a brilliant agitator and a brilliant campaigner is indeed a real honour. As Senator Garvey said, as new Senators we obviously would have loved to have seen...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I warmly welcome the proposed changes to the definition of "family" in Bunreacht na hÉireann. We cannot overestimate the hurt that has been inflicted on individuals and families over the decades because they did not conform to that very narrow definition of a family based in marriage. I was struck by Senator Garvey's earlier contribution. This is personal for many people, including...

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I would love to have been standing here today and saying how important this referendum is and talking about the profound impact it would have on recognising and supporting care in this country. I was very excited about the prospect of replacing this outdated reference to women in the home and talking about supporting care in all its forms. We were given so much hope that by the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Dec 2023)

Marie Sherlock: The Labour Party group also wishes Tom Hickey the best in his retirement. I thank Tom for his great courtesy and helpfulness. His great sense of authority in managing Leinster House struck us over the years. I wish him the best in his retirement. I join previous speakers in thanking all the staff, the people we see and the people we do not see, in Leinster House, who make this building...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Dec 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I support the Order of Business which I thought would be opposed. I am glad that we can support it and that the Bill is not being guillotined. I wish to raise the issue of special or ASD class places, particularly secondary school places. Right now many families across this country are facing into Christmas not knowing whether they will have a school place for their child with additional...