Results 1-20 of 98 for long speaker:Marie Sherlock

Seanad: Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: ..., the Bill clearly tightens up section 610 of the Companies Act. This is welcome but falls short. It has been said several times in the debate about collective redundancies that it has taken a long time to get to this Bill. We had the report following the Clerys liquidation and that of the Company Law Review Group, CLRG, in 2021, but the minority report of the CLRG in 2021 specifically...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Fire Service (6 Mar 2024)

Marie Sherlock: ...outline of the buildings in the city so that if a fire breaks out, Dublin Fire Brigade can respond in the most time efficient manner possible. Frustratingly, we have seen glacial progress on these long-promised fire intelligence surveys in the city. I understand that only approximately 12,000 buildings have been surveyed to date when there is a total of approximately 45,000 buildings...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: ..., which was ultimately designed to try to improve the culture and the attitude manifested towards female workers in particular and to try to stamp out allegations of bullying, was suppressed for so long?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (8 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: ...has been a lot of attention this week on the Department of Education's failure to properly plan for secondary school places in certain areas, in greater Dublin, Kildare, and Wicklow. We have a long-running issue regarding the massive shortage of special school places and special class places right across the country. We had the damning report from the Ombudsman for Children in 2022.The...

Seanad: Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2023)

Marie Sherlock: We have all bases covered. This has been a long road with regard to this legislation. The Labour Party introduced it in the Seanad in May 2021. We had Committee Stage in January 2022 and I am most grateful, particularly to the Leader of the House, Senator Chambers, and her office for giving Government time to this Bill this evening. We know from listening to the many stories of women...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disabilities Assessments (22 Nov 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...up so that kids will not be left with a shocking wait for basic things like assistive technology. Two years ago, on the north side of Dublin in CHO 9, some 2,824 children had been waiting for 12 months or longer for an initial contact from a disability service in the HSE. While there are efforts on the ground, that does not take away from the fact that a torturous wait remains for...

Seanad: Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...in the workplace. There is no doubt that AI has a crucial role in many other aspects of Irish society but probably none more so than within the workplace. While AI is very much here with us and will be for a long time to come, the key issue is how we ensure we sufficiently regulate and understand what we are dealing with here. A Microsoft survey was undertaken earlier this year across...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...the record. The issue for Members of the Oireachtas is that while RTÉ has been forced into a corner to make these cuts because it was effectively given no choice by the Government, we still have no clarity on long-term funding for public service broadcasting in this country. We had commitments in the wake of the Government rejecting the Future of Media Commission's recommendation on...

Seanad: Vacant and Derelict Buildings: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...owner will certainly try to extract too high a price from the State. Aldborough House represents all that is wrong with our CPO system and we need to radically overhaul it. We need to see an end to the long and drawn-out notice-to-treat procedures. We want to see CPOs conducted by vesting order procedure and that this procedure be changed in order that the purchase is completed within...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...action to ensure we bring those who want to work but cannot do so into the workplace? I need to address that point to the Department in respect of the work its doing. Target 12.6 features a long list of legislative actions. It refers to the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, which incorporated the Right to Request Remote Work Bill, and states the enactment is expected...

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

Marie Sherlock: ...the State €20 billion a year, while the 2022 Census shows the number of unpaid carers increased by 53 per cent to over 299,000 from 2016; - the Government committed to introduce a pension solution for long term carers in January 2024; notes that: - the restrictive means test and low rate of Carer’s Allowance payment and the complex application appeals process for...

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

Marie Sherlock: ...in north County Dublin, was hoping to be here too. We are grateful to the Minister for not opposing the motion and for supporting elements of it. We very much welcome the restructuring of the long-term disability payments and, in particular, the consideration of bringing the domiciliary care allowance to the age of 18. There is no doubt there has been an expansion in the take-up of the...

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

Marie Sherlock: ...all the revelations that have emerged. I welcome the Bill put forward by Senator Mullen. It is obviously very timely. Pay caps in RTÉ is an issue that has been pursued by the NUJ and SIPTU for a long time. There is a particular need in this regard when we see the very large gap between the highest salaries and the average salary, which is around €45,000, in RTÉ. Many...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Bertie Ahern, Former Taoiseach (23 May 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...people first. Regarding the conversation about the future, as previous speakers said, it is vital that we allow for closure with regard to the past. In that context, a truth recovery process is long overdue. The cowardly and shameful effort by the British Government to lock away the past is the antithesis of what needs to happen but it must also be the spur to us all here. As we all...

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...the Minister's role in that. I will comment on some of that progress shortly. Just as important, we need to reflect on the enormous challenges women in this country have been facing for a long time. Thousands of women are trapped in low-paid employment, usually part-time work. The State can help to address that. There are women who have had to cut back their hours of work or leave...

Seanad: Welfare and Safety of Workers in the Public Health Service: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...in respect of the different jobs that exist within the Irish health sector. Is the Minister going to implement a staffing plan? The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, has talked for a long time about an overall framework for staffing and recruitment to be published on an annual basis to ensure safe working conditions. We have heard the figures in respect of over-capacity and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...when I say that but something needs to change in the international response in the EU and at the UN Security Council. We need to hear from the Minister what Ireland's approach is going to be. There is the long-standing call that we recognise the state of Palestine, we had the Bill from this House on the purchase of goods from illegal settlements, and there is the failure by the State to...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 Jan 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...means of working. I continually come up against this and I am sure the Minister is also hearing it. People want flexible hours because travelling to work during rush hour will take them twice as long as would be the case if they can start a bit earlier or a bit later. That is a really simple thing. If we are serious about trying to encourage people onto buses or trains or to cycle - I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I wish to pick up on something Mr. Croke spoke about. The Waterford Crystal situation is long and complicated. He referenced 2023 and suggested that he is hopeful of a conclusion or development this year. Where will that come from? What gives him such optimism?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Dec 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I want to raise the issue of the closure of the Mater hospital long Covid clinic that is due to take place this month. The closure of this important clinic will deprive communities of the north inner city and across the north side of Dublin of a vital service for those who are unlucky to develop those enduring symptoms from Covid-19. Those symptoms can be debilitating both physically and...