Results 1-20 of 477 for long speaker:Seán Sherlock

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...

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

Seán Sherlock: I accept the Minister's answer on this. I am just concerned that we do not create a situation where a research funding body is given a remit that supersedes long-established practice. I daresay most of us have benefited from the practice or have experience of interfacing with institutions like HEIs and we recognise that academic independence. I just do not want to see anything in law that...

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

Seán Sherlock: ...on Committee Stage with the Minister's response on that point. I would have liked it to have been a bit stronger, if I may, but we had amendments to that effect. However, there was always a long-standing protocol whereby the board would be comprised of people of international standing. I am hopeful the Minister will give us some comfort that the board will not be inward-looking, that it...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: ...We could all do a tour de table of our own native counties and I am sure the figures would be commensurate with the figures I am talking about here. If energy can be invested in that, we will go a long way. The third issue is Irish Water. We cannot talk about a Housing for All policy if the very people who want to build houses spend an inordinate amount of their time toing and froing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Feb 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 593. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a family has been refused payment for a long term illness card drug (details supplied). [6508/24]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Protection of Children in the Use of Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Seán Sherlock: ...because someone, somewhere, wants to see it. The foundation went on to state it had also seen evidence of AI-generated images being sold online and that its latest findings were based on a month-long investigation into a child abuse forum on the dark web. This is the children's committee and we do everything we can to have hearings of this nature to see how we can best protect children....

Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Seán Sherlock: ...third point relates to composition of the board of the new agency. It is notable that Professor Philip Nolan was appointed to the body, which is to be known as Taighde Éireann - Research Ireland, long before it has even been established. That appointment was well signposted within the community. I have spoken to many long-suffering researchers - I describe them as such because of...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...of legal instruments which recognise care in other countries - without creating positive obligations on the State - supports this view. Those laws have been criticised for shifting the responsibility for long-term care onto unpaid carers. That is the view of FLAC. Those are two stakeholders. In the case of the NWCI, the jury is still out. The Minister stated that he met one...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...still has to be a check and balance against a popularly elected mayor. I may have exaggerated the previous points I made with respect to the type of person that might emerge, but five years is a long mandate. If, after two years, the mayor takes on certain characteristics and becomes unpopular for all sorts of reasons, the amendments tabled by Sinn Féin and us in this regard provide...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...council itself and for the proposals to work, there must be cohesion and buy in. Ensuring that this new committee is representative of the council would assist in delivering that cohesion and help to make this long-awaited proposal work properly.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...the progressing disability services, and we have pathways to this and pathways to that? I am genuinely not being cynical because we always work to try find solutions. Forgive me if I am being long winded. In my experience the HSE is excellent at processes and it is excellent at devising strategies. It is absolutely brilliant at answering parliamentary questions. I can give the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...is the area I represent. This is the first time ever I have heard anybody from the HSE publicly acknowledge the issues with CAMHS. I want to acknowledge that. I have been around for a quite a long time. Whenever we sought to have referrals to CAMHS, it operated, to my mind, as a silo with no doors or windows. It was very hard to advocate for individuals and families. We have a major...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (23 Nov 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...of a carer's allowance on behalf of her son who has profound intellectual disabilities. This is a case I have raised with the Minister previously. I will keep going on this particular case for as long as I have a mandate here. Because the husband works overtime, the means were deemed to be in excess of what the scheme allows and the woman in this case lost her carer's allowance. Not...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Issues Facing the Early Childhood Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...the figures the Department would look for. This provider says that under no circumstances should a funder insist on a different accounting period without this being contractually required and a longer lead-in time being given to allow providers to prepare. Owners with multiple crèches now have the financial burden of producing a full set of accounts or trial balances for each of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (14 Nov 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...and Youth if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) has had an interim chief executive since June 2022 while its chief executive is on sick leave; and if his Department can outline how long the organisation will have two chief executives without appointing a new chief executive. [49772/23]

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...arbitrary retirement age and that needs to be examined by the Minister of State because it is having such an impact for those families. These workers are women who have been providing care for a long time and doing an excellent job, according to Senator Wall. Why can they not continue to do so? That is something that needs to be looked at. I fully appreciate that the Minister of State...

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...profits, and the same goes for electricity companies. While we will not oppose the Bill because it is a small relief for squeezed households, we are clear it does not go far enough. Energy companies have had it their way for too long. There needs to be structural change in terms of how the market operates so that it works for the benefit of consumers. That is where Government needs to...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...same terms and conditions of employment. Dr. Martin O'Donnell, who founded St. Joseph's Foundation, passed away in 2020.I remember speaking about him in this very House during a similar debate not long after he passed away. He was a great man with a great team around him. It was said of him when he set up the foundation that he was the man who brought the children down from the attic....

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...I say it, then we should. I acknowledge the Minister's remarks in respect of the fact that, historically speaking, we are coming from a very low base in respect of this sector and there is still a long, long way to go. I have checked the Minister's speech against the delivery. The wording of the Minister's speech, as distributed, states: - Does Sinn Féin support Core Funding? -...

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...and I am glad the issue was sorted out. What it has thrown up, however, is the fact that people in Rathcormack had to go through a struggle whereby 11 children did not have a school place for a long time. The closure of the Kildinan school in 1975 created an exception such that when the scheme was changed, children on concessionary tickets had to be taken off the bus. I acknowledge that...