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Road Safety and Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I want to speak first on the investment in local regional and national secondary roads, specifically in regard to the town of Mallow, where €300,000 has been allocated to progress the northern relief road. I know the Minister of State met the mayor of County Cork and senior officials of Cork County Council recently, where they made the case for the full allocation of approximately...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tidy Towns (9 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Minister for her reply. Tidy Towns committees throughout the country will take comfort from her reply insofar as there is that communication between the Minister's officials and SuperValu Tidy Towns. It will not be lost on Supervalu and the Musgrave Group that customers are voters and voters are customers, and I am sure they will allow for that . At least there is clarity of...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Minister. I take and appreciate that point. I think what we are talking about here is good data and good transparency. We were mindful when putting forward the amendment that we would not seek to step into other terrain where no such mandate exists to do so. What we are talking about here is the collation of data with a view to ensuring that the risk of displacement is at...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: ...if the Minister is not going to accept my amendment. For the purposes of being efficient with time, I will withdraw the amendment with a view to resubmitting it and having thought about what the Minister said, particularly in regard to the other factors that I am not entirely clear about. We will have a look at that. I will withdraw the amendment with a view to submitting it again.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 13: In page 51, line 15, after “subsection (3)” to insert “ and at least one ethical and environmental fund”. I note the comments made by the Minister about people being able to decide into which pot they want to put their moneys. The kernel of that is that this is the people's money, not the State's money, so choice should be given to the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: Given the fact that it has been raised here in the legislative process in these Houses, I ask if we can at least make the case for the word "shall", and for this to be revisited or for the wording to be strengthened in some way on Report Stage. I would be very grateful for that.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I will take what the Minister says at face value. I note her bona fides in this respect. I will withdraw the amendment.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I again seek clarity about the making of the regulations. There must be some thinking or draft document, even if it is a very early draft. There must be some paper available on what the regulations would look like. As was articulated by Deputy Daly, if the Minister of State has already set out very specific asks or points in section 148, one would assume the Department would have at least...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: The Minister of State has provided some clarity. I seek further clarity, and forgive me if I sound pedantic in what I am about to say. I will stand corrected if I am wrong. I again ask the Minister of State to clarify section 148(2) which states, "A licensee may not offer a person or specific group of persons an inducement". Do I take it that the practical outworkings of that, where you...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I congratulate Deputy Higgins on her appointment as Minister of State. I wish her well in the role and I hope that she will have a good, long sojourn in the Department. It is appropriate that the Minister of State is here. Although she may not be the line Minister for this issue, she is the Minister of State in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment with responsibility for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Seán Sherlock: Once the RSA has mapped the failure rate for lack of alignment of dipped headlights, does it map onto that the cost of the retest for the people who, in numerous cases and at particular points in the past number of years, have gone to their local garages, done the pre-NCT, come out the other end and gone back to and said that the vehicle failed because the dipped beams were not correctly set?...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Data Protection (18 Apr 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 25 of 28 February 2024, why GDPR was not given as a reason for data withholding, if it was known at the time of answer that GDPR was an issue; if so, from what date; and the reason it was not referenced. [17078/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (18 Apr 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 242. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 503 of 5 March 2024, why GDPR was not given as a reason for data withholding, if it was known at the time of answer that GDPR was an issue; if so, from what date; and the reason it was not referenced. [17079/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Programme (11 Apr 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 181. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what engagement he has had with the Taoiseach on providing direct supports for childminders in the home and what stage the legislation is at to ensure that pledge by the Taoiseach. [15868/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (9 Apr 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 1709. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the plan to address the financial deficit at a university (details supplied) will be submitted to the Higher Education Authority; and when that plan will be published. [15350/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the up-to-date position with the provision of social housing at a location (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11882/24]

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (6 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I agree with the spirit of what Deputy Boyd Barrett is suggesting by way of his amendment. He raised the point about increased militarisation that funding at a European Commission level could start to tilt towards funding for militarisation. I was glad that earlier the Deputy gave recognition to the Commission. He quoted from a Commission document. With tongue in cheek do I take it that...

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: ...the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. On amendment No. 6, I have listened carefully to Deputy Boyd Barrett. I am about to do an unusual thing and ask the proposer of the amendment if he is suggesting that preserving and supporting the independence of academic and research institutions is now to be a matter for Taighde Éireann? In law, will that be its remit? If that is the case, what is the...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I share some of Deputy Naughten's concerns. The issue of a unified patent court has been sloshing around in the Minister's Department since I was a Minister of State, which is now several years ago. In my humble opinion, the proposed wording is very vague. We are in the business of politics and it is the responsibility of the political system to tease out the wording further. Why would...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Accidents (5 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 503. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 25 of 28 February 2024, the number of incidents recorded by all agencies at certain intersections (details supplied) by type of incident, time of day and month, for the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [10762/24]