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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Childcare Services (21 Mar 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome the establishment of the national home visiting programme. I am struck, however, by the fact the research into home visiting services was commissioned in 2022 and was supposed to be completed in 2023. We hear now it is going to be completed this year. There is only one year left of this Government. I very much hope the outcomes from that research will be acted upon this year. ...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Heritage Sites (4 Oct 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for taking this question today. It is directed to the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, who controls public expenditure in this country but who is also a Minister in the constituency this question is relevant to. On many streets in Dublin, and particularly in Dublin's north inner city, we see dereliction and vacant...

Seanad: Care Payments: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for her reply and thank everyone who contributed, namely Senators Ardagh, Burke, Boyhan, Pauline O'Reilly, Wall, Hoey, Currie and O'Loughlin. I again thank Family Carers Ireland, representatives of which are in the Gallery. Baby Willow was with us for a time and Snowflake, the support group in north County Dublin, was hoping to be here too. We are grateful to the...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (16 May 2023)

Marie Sherlock: The Minister has sat through many hours of debates in the Dáil and the Seanad at this stage and, of course, countless other hours in internal meetings. Therefore, he knows the strongly-held views of many of us in this House, those of many of his colleagues in Government, the survivor groups, and even the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. We have to ask how we are still in this...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I very much welcome the fact we are debating Second Stage of the Bill and will for a moment focus on its many positives. I am conscious, as many of us are, of the significant work the Minister has undertaken to get it to where it is. My good friend Mags McKinney is with us in the Gallery today. Her mother, Rose, was a resident in the Tuam mother and baby home on two separate occasions....

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) (Certificate of Life) Bill 2022: Second Stage (20 Oct 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I thank Senators Doherty and Seery Kearney for introducing it. I pay tribute to Caroline and Martin Smith, who were in contact with us about Bill that was debated last year about reproductive health leave and the amendments tabled on Committee Stage earlier this year.I want to pay tribute to the tenacity, perseverance and work of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Registration of Births (23 Nov 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. At this point, there is a very real and serious problem with families being able to register the births of their newborn babies and get a birth certificate for that child. A child born in Cork today will have a birth registered in two to three days. If that same child was born in Dublin the wait for an appointment for registration...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Nov 2021)

Marie Sherlock: .... To say that he is gutted about the announcement with regard to the coming into effect of the early closing time from this Friday is an understatement. I do not propose to dwell on the rights and wrongs of these changes. It is absolutely vital that the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, is reinstated. It is ironic that the second in a series of cuts to that payment comes into force...

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

Marie Sherlock: ...last week was a very important one. I welcome the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman. Much has already been said about the report. From my perspective it is hard to put into words the sense of horror and shame reading some of the women's testimonies and the report of the confidential committee. Reflected in the body of the report was that women were treated worse than animals. Many of the...