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

Marie Sherlock: ...is so important is that the many apartment dwellers who want to retrofit need to do so. This is about reducing bills, keeping more heat in and, crucially, reducing energy poverty. We know from ESRI research that has been published over recent years that those who live in apartments and flats tend to be, on average, on a lower income, their accommodation tends more to be rented than...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value. Do the Department and the Minister really need a report from the Low Pay Commission and research from the ESRI to tell them that legal adults aged 18 and 19 should be treated like any other adult in the workplace and paid like every other adult in the workplace for their work? That is not the case in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Marie Sherlock: ...does not reflect in its recommendation that there may have to be future changes to the minimum wage rate. I wish to ask about engagement with research. Earlier Mr. Courtney said that the ESRI had forecasted an inflation increase of 4% for next year. Has the Low Pay Commission factored in that when the ESRI forecasted 4% that the institute believed the percentage reflects the base...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I am sorry, Chairman. Just to say clearly, the ESRI forecasting was inflation, between 2022 and 2023, of 11.4%.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2021)

Marie Sherlock: ...publishes the national economic recovery plan next week, we see clear commitments to deal with the triple problem we now have of the high rate of those not in employment, training or education. The ESRI research has highlighted that this problem was elevated even pre-pandemic. The cohort of 75,000 graduates coming out of college will find it difficult to find work over the coming weeks,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Marie Sherlock: It is really important to acknowledge the very important research undertaken by the ESRI, published this morning, on how young workers now fare worse in wages and access to housing compared with previous generations. For years, trade unionists and others on the left raised this and we were told Ireland was different because we had the most highly educated workforce across any EU member...

Seanad: Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Statements (Resumed) (26 Jan 2021)

Marie Sherlock: ...of "illegitimate" was only lifted in 1986. We need to change the recommendation. I urge the Government and the Minister to consider the report of Dr. Anthony McCashin, produced in 1993 for the ESRI and dependent on data from the 1980s and the early part of the 1990s, relating to women on the unmarried mother's allowance. It describes poverty, with 35% of those women living below the...