Results 1-16 of 16 for drugs speaker:Marie Sherlock

Seanad: Smartphone and Social Media Use: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: ...I was struck by some research by one of Oxford's lead researchers on social media and its effects on mental health, Professor Andrew Przybylski, who said, “People talk about Instagram like it's a drug. But we can't study the active ingredient.” We have, therefore, had to rely on leaked internal reports in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times and, indeed, other media...

Seanad: Community Safety and Investment: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: ...now, one of the youth projects in the north inner city that I know very well has a waiting list to get into it. That is absolutely crazy when we think of the life that is potentially on offer to so many of these young people, especially with the easy availability of drugs and a life of crime that is on their doorsteps. We have to get the resources right for our young people and for the...

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

Marie Sherlock: I support the amendment. There have been drug and alcohol task forces in operation for almost 26 years in the communities most badly affected by serious addiction issues. The task force model is based on drawing in people from the community to come up with solutions for the community. Not including them in the list of bodies to be represented on the new community safety partnerships is a...

Seanad: Recent Violence in Dublin City Centre: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Marie Sherlock: .... People are afraid to walk around their own communities or the city centre and there is a sense that the people whose lives have fallen apart have been left on our streets. Whether it is due to alcoholism, drug addiction or mental health issues, those people need to be better supported. What is the Government response to this? We have had a community safety forum in place now for some...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...is the Government now pushing workers back into the workplace as opposed to allowing them to work in a hybrid fashion? Last night, the Department of Health published the report of the north inner city drug and alcohol task force. While I totally understand that there could be disagreements between people and personality clashes, the document produced last night was petty, self-serving...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Drugs Task Forces (5 Jul 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the Chamber. I am conscious this is my first interaction with her in her role as Minister of State with responsibility for the national drugs strategy. My question relates to the north inner city drugs and alcohol task force and I hope that when the Minister of State came into this role, this was one of the first issues brought to her attention....

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

Marie Sherlock: ...is a weight of expectation in regard to what the assembly might recommend. Obviously we do not want to pre-empt the outcome of what the assembly might say but the attempt to prosecute our way to a drug-free country has simply failed. Because of that approach over a number of decades, there are thousands of people suffering in private or in a more public form from the stigma and shame...

Seanad: Gambling (Prohibition of Advertising) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Marie Sherlock: ...advertising, we are recognising that Ireland has a major problem and many young people, particularly young men, have that problem. In 2019, the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs showed that Irish 16-year-olds were 1.3 times more likely to bet on sports and animal betting and 1.8 times more likely to use slot machines than other young adults on average across...

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

Marie Sherlock: ...point following its acts of aggression against its neighbour, Ukraine. The main issue I wish to raise today relates to the announcement yesterday of the postponement of the citizens' assembly on drug use until 2023. This flies directly in the face of the Taoiseach's commitment on the floor of the Dáil just two weeks ago. It runs contrary also to what he said in the Fergus McCabe...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Feb 2022)

Marie Sherlock: ...in this country. An inference was drawn with regard to its funding. We have seen this previously. I have raised in this House the matter of veiled threats being made about funding when people on drugs task forces spoke out about State policy. We also witnessed this with regard to An Taisce last year. Crossing that line and making out that independent bodies are not entitled to secure...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Funding (20 Jan 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Minister of State for coming into the House today. My question relates to the funding for the north inner city drug and alcohol task force. This is an issue Deputy Feighan and I have spoken about previously. There has been what I consider to be a new development with regard to the task force in that a meeting took place last week between the HSE and the directors of the task force....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Funding (20 Jan 2022)

Marie Sherlock: ...that he started off by calling out that I was being negative. I acknowledged that the services are being funded, but the Minister of State did not address the operational funding for the drugs and alcohol task force in the north inner city. I do not know where the Minister of State is getting his information from, but he is simply not being brought up to date. He said that the north...

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

Marie Sherlock: ...carefully to the contribution and I very much welcome the Taoiseach's commitment to the health-led approach and his emphasis on, and commitment to, increased supports and the promise of a citizens' assembly on drug use in this country. I also heard him speak about the importance of community and partnership. It is vital that the Taoiseach understands there is a large difference between...

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

Marie Sherlock: ...point of a supervised centre is to take people from the streets and bring them to a place that is safe and that will save lives. It is uncomfortable for many people when we talk about addiction, particularly drug addiction. There is a real sense of it being "over there" but addiction is in all our communities, not just in Dublin but throughout the country. I pay particular tribute to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2021)

Marie Sherlock: ...for us in the Labour Party over many years. As my colleague, Senator Moynihan, said, Deputy Bacik represents the best of us. The best is yet to come. I wish to raise the issue of the 24 drugs and alcohol task forces in the country. The heart of their work is about bringing together statutory agencies, local drugs projects and community representatives. We know that if we are to tackle...

Seanad: Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 May 2021)

Marie Sherlock: ...cost. Such help was not available to previous generations and it is available now, but only for those who go private. What is all the more galling is that medication for fertility treatment is covered under the drugs payment scheme and one can get tax relief for it, but if one cannot get in the door of a fertility clinic because of the cost of treatment then one is not going anywhere....