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

Marie Sherlock: ...to gain some sort of an insight as to what the social platforms themselves understand as to the impacts.In one study of teens in the US and UK, Facebook found that more than 40% of Instagram users reported feeling unattractive and said that feeling began on the app. An internal Meta study in 2020 showed that 500,000 Instagram accounts a day were involved in inappropriate interactions with...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: .... As some were bogusly self-employed and wronged by RTÉ, it is important to acknowledge their presence. My questions relate to the cuts hanging over staff in the first instance. Ms O'Kelly said she feels staff are being held to ransom in RTÉ because of the proposed cuts. What is her working relationship with the director general in terms of communication? A question has...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Air Quality (23 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: ...that those conditions are exacerbated. We also see a growing body of research that suggests that poor air quality has an impact on cognitive and mental health. While we may not be able to see or feel poor air quality, it has a very real impact on our communities, particularly those in which I am based which are very close to the city centre. These communities are effectively highways to...

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

Marie Sherlock: ...change in the energies and attitude of the Government with regard to resourcing An Garda Síochána and our inner-city communities, and that there would have been a significant improvement in safety and the feeling of safety in our city. Right now, I am not so sure we have seen any turning point. Right now, 23 November has been forgotten about and we have just gone back to...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: ...are choosing to have children on their own and the many other types of families in this country. The symbolism of the change in our Constitution would have a profound impact for those families as they feel recognised. There are also practical implications. Senator Wall already mentioned the Johnny O'Meara case. It is wonderful to see the Supreme Court's judgment today. In reading the...

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: ...care within the family and will continue to do so. Rather than having a rights-based approach, which was what I was really hoping for, that would empower those who need care in this country, it feels like we are entrenching that patronising notion that it has to take place within the family. I am thinking in particular of a woman named Fiona I have had reason to engage a lot with over...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Waste Management (6 Dec 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I am supportive of all the initiatives the Minister of State outlined. However, a piece of the jigsaw is missing. We are talking to the people who want to do more, but there are people who feel they cannot do more, for a variety of reasons, or will not do more. This is not about the individual, rather, this is about the overall provision of services. At the moment, local authorities are...

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

Marie Sherlock: ...danger because of the wanton destruction and events that should never have happened. Last Thursday was a trauma for all of us who love and live in this city. I am reeling, as are so many others, and we feel really angry that our city could have been so disgracefully ravaged last Thursday night. I am in Dublin 23 years now. Those of us who were born here and those of us who have made...

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

Marie Sherlock: .... It is a miracle that no lives were lost but we need to see changes because the people of Dublin are heartbroken at what happened and they will not tolerate this laissez-faireapproach to policing any more. They want police on their streets. They do not feel safe and they want a visible policing presence in order that we can ensure that tourists and those living here can feel safe in...

Seanad: Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...of disrespect, a sense of being ignored and a sense of being treated like second-class citizens. That is being passed on to the next generation. As legislators, we all have a responsibility to ensure that people do not feel failed by An Garda Síochána and the legal system in this country. The Minister has the responsibility to ensure that justice is served. Tonight, we stand...

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

Marie Sherlock: ..., the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, commenced sections of the Act relating to carer's leave and breastfeeding leave, yet some of the most important and crucial parts of the Act remain uncommenced. I feel very strongly about the right to flexible work for all workers in workplaces where it is possible, because of the chances it offers to so many people who want to work and cannot, or those...

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

Marie Sherlock: ...of the past but in having a living building for the present and the future. I hear what the Department is saying with regard to the possibility of a different economic analysis. To be frank, it feels a bit tortured that this has not happened up to now. However, if the door is open to analysing the use of the building on the basis of different criteria, namely those the Minister of State...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...of everything that has been spoken about involves changing the culture and building trust. The report was produced in March 2020. It referred to serious issues in current affairs, women not feeling valued and respected, staff feeling defeated, women not getting the same opportunities as men and a lack of transparency with regard to the appointment process. Obviously, individuals were...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...think that lends itself to a lack of transparency? I am thinking in particular of the gender pay gap issue in RTÉ. Going back to the Resolve report, where some female members of staff are not feeling valued or indeed they are not getting the opportunities, does Ms Cusack think that system of allowances is perpetuating that divide between some workers?

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

Marie Sherlock: ...paid employment and the impact on their household finances and sense of independence.As we know, the reality is that, by and large, it ends up being mostly women who step back from their paid employment or take on that caring role. There are of course many men as well. I am very conscious that there are many men in caring roles who do not feel able to talk about it but, by and large, the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...for him in 2020, pay cuts for RTÉ staff were back on the table. Mr. Tubridy is one person and is part of a team for both his radio programme and his television programme. How did Mr. Tubridy feel about those pay cuts, knowing he had a guarantee that he would not be asked for any pay cuts for a five-year period?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Marie Sherlock: On one side we have a guarantee of no pay cut and yet people earning that little money, which is a modest income, were going through pay cuts. How did Mr. Tubridy feel about those pay cuts?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I express my solidarity with the workers of Iceland Foods, some of whom have had to stage a sit-in at the Talbot Street store. I was with them late last night. It is shameful that they feel they have to stage a sit-in in order to get the wages that are due to them. Some are owed more than €1,000. These are minimum-wage jobs. The staff are owed holiday pay. It is shameful that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Plan of Action on Collective Redundancies following Insolvency Bill 2023: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...there relates to the obligation to inform creditors of their right to participate in a committee of inspection. I am not sure if that appears in this Bill. Specifically, trade unions would feel strongly that employees should have a right of participation in that committee of inspection given they make up the company. They do not have that position as a preferred creditor but I think we...

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

Marie Sherlock: ...Gallery today. Her mother, Rose, was a resident in the Tuam mother and baby home on two separate occasions. Even though Rose is now getting on in years and would have liked to be here today, she feels she is beginning to be recognised for the experiences that were forced on her by the Ireland of the not-too-distant past. Their activism and that of so many others, and their perseverance...