Results 21-40 of 479 for long speaker:Seán Sherlock

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Sep 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 884. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have presented at the long-Covid clinics in Dublin and Cork; and the measures being taken to support these clinics, including ring-fenced funding. [39524/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (11 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 651. To ask the Minister for Health what funding has been allocated to the ICGP to provide training and certification to health care professionals on long-acting reversible contraception insertion in 2022 and 2023; the number of health care professionals who have availed of training and certification in the same time period; the resultant increase in capacity of LARC-trained health care...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...quoremains. That is what I interpret from the Minister of State's response. What we are talking about here are people who either carried the hod, or were cleaners who partook in manual labour for long periods of their lives where the physical nature of their work is such that they cannot transition at a certain period of their lives into new modes or forms of employment. Frankly, the...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...he has made initial contact with one. That firm is asking him questions like, “Do you have any documents that prove you were resident in this institution?”; “If you were a child in this institution, how long did you reside there?”; and “Where were you sent to after your time here?”. There are further questions such as, “If you were a...

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...I have spoken. If the State introduces an additional bank holiday, national wage agreement or statutory sick pay scheme, for example, that will need to be factored in. In light of the level of dependency on long-term residential care entities, there needs to be a mechanism to allow for additional funding for nursing homes within a certain category and size to cover overheads arising from...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Jun 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...January. Austria and Greece all introduced legislation late last year, as did Slovakia, Portugal and Romania. Even the Tories in the UK introduced taxes on excess profits last year. Why has it taken us this long to begin to even have this formal discussion? The general scheme of this Bill was not published until late March of this year and every excuse the Government gives for this...

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...to care. They speak to the issue of those people who are carers. I want to speak for carers today. They want home support to be put on a statutory footing. That argument has been going around for a long time now. We wait to hear the timeline for that from the Minister. The report states that 24% of carers experienced a delay or a reduction in the delivery of home care support hours...

Retained Fire Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I apologise if I lost my temper earlier. I am a great believer in the conventions that rule this House, which are agreed by all, and there is a long-standing convention here. During Covid it changed, but post-Covid I thought we would revert to the Minister distributing his speech among colleagues so we have an opportunity to parse the words of the Minister in real time. It is unfortunate...

Targeted Investment in the Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...medicine is increasingly moving towards acute elective procedures on a short-stay basis, the capacity to deliver that in the county of Cork is still far short of where it needs to be. There is a long way to go. To come back again to Mallow General Hospital, what I want to see within those 48 beds is some capacity for rehabilitation services. For example, Mallow is located in the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (17 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...acknowledge that a new special school will be allocated for Carrigtwohill. I am not striving for perfection here but I have a slight worry. We seem to accept the fact that children have to travel long distances to get to school of a morning when they are trying to access a special school. I reiterate my call for consideration to be given to north Cork specifically because the demand for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (17 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...being given to the prospect of a special school specifically for the north Cork area. This would be in addition to the one in Charleville, where the waiting lists, as we know, are quite long.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: This service has a long-standing fantastic reputation with very genuine people and is community minded. If I may ask on behalf of this particular service, if at all possible will the Minister continue to engage with me on it? It is reflective of many other services that may not have come into the Minister's process. For the record, I acknowledge the Minister's nod of assent in response.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...working in the sector has had a negative impact on those providing community services under the early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme. I have been contacted by one such provider of long standing who tells me the increase in wages has had a serious impact on her core funding, such that her ability to pay everybody equally in her service is impacted. Will the Minister consider a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (30 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...show he acknowledges that the pay differentials are significant and that this is having a knock-on effect concerning the ability to recruit. The very existence of section 39 organisations in the long term is now in question. They are losing capacity weekly and their ability to deliver services to the people they serve is being hindered as a result. I contend this is an emergency, it...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ..., that would give a lot of confidence to people. We all welcome the fact that the Minister will devolve to expert opinion and victims' services organisations and so on regarding the process. How long will the process take and how long does he anticipate that it will take for a rate to be struck for people? That would send a real signal if we could get clarity on that.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: We are a long way from Galway now.

Reform of Carer's Allowance Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...the next budget will arguably be a give-away budget. The Minister questioned the sustainability of some of the giveaways and once-off payments that were made, and whether it would have been a better approach to bake in more sustainable, long-term payments for people such as carers who give so much to society. We do not need to rehearse how valuable carers are to society. We know that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...the Chair, I would suggest that if there was an increase in the number of staff, for instance, to be deployed on this effort because it is such a massive opportunity for this island, that would go a long way towards dealing with possibly allowing for a greater throughput of licences and consents to be issued and so on. I respectfully suggest that Government is not deploying enough people...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I support the motion. The Labour Party has been leading the way regarding what we perceive to be the reduction or diminution in community welfare officer services at the most local level for a long time now. While many people will easily interact with a freephone number and that will capture perhaps a new audience, many vulnerable people living in rural areas will not have the wherewithal...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update under Housing for All to end long-term leasing by local authorities and approved housing bodies through phasing out new entrants and focus on new-build to provide social housing homes. [7118/23]