Sean Sherlock
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Disabled children ‘being left behind again’ by Covid-19 measures
- Social Affairs
- December 1, 2020, 19:57
Disabled children “are being left behind again” because welfare staff who should be helping them have been redeployed by the Health Service Executive (...)

Dáil debates Bill to give employees ‘right to switch off’ from online work
- Politics
- November 18, 2020, 12:02
Current law on remote working is “ludicrous in the extreme” where an employer is effectively required to inspect employees’ homes to ensure they are s(...)

Miriam Lord: TDs do not speak as they do in the official Dáil record. It’s a shame
- Politics
- November 7, 2020, 01:00
Tuesday marked a unusual milestone in the history of the House. Leas Cheann Comhairle Catherine Connolly announced that the sitting would see the comm(...)

Tidy Towns contest to go ahead next year, says Humphreys
- Environment
- November 4, 2020, 18:21
The annual Tidy Towns contest will go ahead next year, Minister for Community Heather Humphreys has said. After concerns were raised that the competi(...)

Pandemic payment may be needed for ‘much longer’ than a year, Dáil hears
- Politics
- September 22, 2020, 21:40
Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys has ruled out restoring the €350 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (Pup) rate for workers in the entertai(...)

‘Bizarre’ regulations allow hotels host weddings of 50 but not funerals, Dáil told
- Politics
- September 9, 2020, 20:13
There is “no logic” to regulations in the hospitality sector where a hotel can hold a wedding with up to 50 people but cannot host a funeral party for(...)

Dáil passes law to place PUP on statutory footing
- Politics
- July 29, 2020, 07:28
Legislation to put the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) on a statutory footing and provide PRSI credits to recipients of the €350 emergency payment(...)

Government must rethink frontline childcare scheme, INMO says
- Irish News
- May 14, 2020, 07:58
The Government must now go back to the drawing board on childcare, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has said. A scheme to offer chil(...)

Labour TDs back going into opposition rather than into government
- Politics
- April 1, 2020, 01:00
A private meeting of Labour TDs has reiterated the party’s position that it should go into opposition rather than enter government. The six party TDs(...)

Election 2020: Seán Sherlock (Labour)
- Politics
- February 10, 2020, 16:53
In 2016 Seán Sherlock (47) was one of only seven out of 37 TDs elected in 2011 to survive the battering Labour got after its coalition with Fine Gael.(...)