Results 1-20 of 20 for cork speaker:Marie Sherlock

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Maternity Leave (11 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: ...during their maternity leave can retain their maternity leave and that it is not forfeited. He committed to doing it before Christmas. That is what he told reporters at the annual convention in Cork. We are now four months on and we have not seen sight nor sound of those legislative proposals. I appreciate that the Minister has had a very busy first two months of this year but that is...

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

Marie Sherlock: I welcome my fellow Cork people today. The other key thing is with regard to the composition of the new community safety partnerships. In our amendments Nos. 77 and 81, we set down that 25% of the membership of the CSP has to be with local authority members and then the chair has to come from a member of the local authority. Furthermore, it is a bit strange to us when we read section 114...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...Síochána to read the signs that have been there for many months. We have seen what happened in Finglas with the mob at the Garda station last February; the burning out of tents; what is happening in libraries in Cork and across the country; and indeed outside our own door in Leinster House a few weeks ago. I was on Parnell Square myself at 3 o'clock last Thursday and it was...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Flexible Work Practices (10 Oct 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ..., the lack of childcare available or circumstances in their lives. In particular, this includes working parents, lone parents, those with a disability and those who had to relocate out of Dublin, Cork and the other major urban areas because they are priced out of them by house prices and rents. Almost one in three women at work in Ireland today work part-time. Not all work part-time...

Seanad: Broadcasting (Restriction of Salaries) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Marie Sherlock: .... We have to ask the extent to which that model has led us to the current state. I believe Senator Warfield may have raised this. We have seen frenzied speculation in recent days about job cuts coming down the line, about the closure of the Cork studio and about other changes coming. On the one hand, we cannot have the Government saying it is pausing the review of the licence fee reform...

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

Marie Sherlock: ...my condolences and those of my party to the family of the late John Murphy. He was one of two men who were very seriously injured in an incident at the Stryker plant in Carrigtwohill, County Cork, in April this year. Sadly, John lost his life last week. It is obviously an enormous tragedy for his family and colleagues but it is important to say, while we have to await the outcome of the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (30 May 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...understaffing in our disability and mental health services at the moment. The northside of Dublin has the longest waiting periods in the country for an initial assessment. It is second only to Cork in terms of the waiting times for speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and psychology services. That, of course, has a worrying impact on children and their families, but it also...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I express solidarity with the more than 1,000 workers who are out on strike yesterday, today and tomorrow across a number of section 39 organisations and community employment schemes in Cork, Kerry, Galway, Mayo and Donegal. Most of these workers provide vital health and disability services to some of the most vulnerable people in our communities and yet they have had no pay increase since...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2022)

Marie Sherlock: ...That is absolute madness. I am well able to be critical of Ministers, but it was only when we asked the Minister of State to intervene in an issue with regards to schools for the deaf in Cabra and Cork and two other schools last year that she engaged with those disability managers and we managed to resolve the problems. I know that the transition under progressing disability services and...

Seanad: Humanitarian Support for Ukrainian Refugees: Statements (23 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: .... The third issue is housing. As the Minister said, the challenge is enormous. If Ireland eventually receives the 2% of the estimated 10 million Ukrainian refugees, that increase in population is almost the size of Cork city and its suburbs. It is hard to get our heads around that. We absolutely need to make sure that all refugees in this country, those in direct provision and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Feb 2022)

Marie Sherlock: ...overdose. Many were concentrated in some of the most deprived and disadvantaged parts of this country. It is, however, important to say this is an issue affecting all of Ireland. It is not just confined to Dublin, Cork or Limerick or the main urban centres. There is much anger and frustration at the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan. We had tried to work constructively with the...

Seanad: Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Feb 2022)

Marie Sherlock: The Tánaiste is very welcome to the House. I pay tribute to the work of the One Galway and One Cork movement, which did a significant amount of campaigning and work to bring this issue to national attention. I pay tribute also to the work of Senator Gavan and his colleagues who introduced the National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill back in 2017. When the campaign...

Seanad: Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (20 Jan 2022)

Marie Sherlock: ...service, it is simply impossible to start the day two hours later than they might otherwise, or disappear in the middle of the day and make up that time later. If people have to travel to Dublin, Cork or the other main centres where treatments are privately provided, which is the reality for many couples and individuals wanting to undergo fertility treatment, that involves whole days out...

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

Marie Sherlock: ...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 would be weeks and in some cases months. I know...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2021)

Marie Sherlock: ...fundamental difficulty with the second criterion. The national average rent is, of course, driven by the main urban centres. A massive increase in the cost of rent in Leitrim, Longford, Clare or a very rural area in Cork is no less important than a significant increase in the main urban areas. It is in the context of that criterion that there are, according to survey data collected by...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (18 Nov 2021)

Marie Sherlock: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach. Ar son Pháirtí an Lucht Oibre sa Seanad ba mhaith linn fáilte a chur roimhe inniu. As a proud Cork woman, who has been based in Dublin for 20 years, I have to admit to a certain pride in having a Cork Taoiseach although I should not probably admit to it. I thank the Taoiseach for taking the time to come to the House. We are all...

Seanad: Flood Risk Management: Motion (19 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: ...unforgiving and devastating. The second point I wish to make is that while, year after year, we see the devastating pictures of flooding from the River Shannon, and almost on an annual basis from Cork and other parts of the country, it is also a significant concern for Dublin. I wish to quote directly from Dublin City Council's current climate action plan, which covers the period up to...

Seanad: Post Office Network: Motion (26 Apr 2021)

Marie Sherlock: ...and their important place in rural communities, I can attest to the great importance of post offices in urban villages like my village of Phibsborough. I grew up in a small place called Carrignavar in Cork, where the post office was at the heart of the community. The post office in Phibsborough, which is an urban area, occupies the same important place in providing services to those of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services Provision (12 Mar 2021)

Marie Sherlock: ...the Holy Family School for the Deaf is not an isolated school. The Carmona School in Glenageary was in contact and there are other schools across the country, including a school for the deaf in Cork. I plead with the Minister of State and the Government because this is an education and health issue. It is not just a health issue. I understand that the HSE must do what it must do but I...

Seanad: Election of Cathaoirleach (29 Jun 2020)

Marie Sherlock: I congratulate the Cathaoirleach on his election today. Much has been spoken about Kerry today. As a Cork woman by birth, but now living in that great melting pot of Dublin Central, I wish him the very best in his work as Cathaoirleach. I am very honoured and privileged to have been elected a Member of the Twenty-sixth Seanad as a Senator for the Labour Party on the labour panel. I am...