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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Sharon Keogan: Amid last week's budget business, I found myself some time to think and I thought about how important labels are, not on food or fragile boxes, but on people. I remember a brief time around eight years ago when western society's attitude towards labels was that they were not for people, that the fullness of human expression and complexity could not be placed into neat boxes and that swathes...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I suppose it is "happy budget day" to all. The amount of €11 billion is nothing to be sniffed at and there are certainly provisions in the budget that are welcome and overdue. I will say once again that the drip-feeding of budget information in the weeks leading up to the date is unhelpful in the extreme. It makes a farce of the system and the procedures we have in place for having...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I want to raise the issue of the ongoing shortage of pharmacists in Ireland. This was raised in both Houses last May. The situation certainly has not resolved itself. In fact just last month the Irish Pharmacy Union conducted a survey that showed the shortage is reaching crisis levels.These shortages will lead to some pharmacies reducing their hours and services and in some case temporary...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I was elected as a Senator, but as the Leas-Chathaoirleach addressed me as "Councillor", that is fine. I echo the welcome to the Maltese delegation. I visited Malta this summer. It is the most beautiful country. If Senators have not been there, please go. I raise an issue regarding the Covid-19 inquiry. At the end of August, both the UK and Northern Ireland established independent...

Seanad: School Transport: Motion (21 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: Will the Senator clarify the number of children who are without a school bus place? Is it 78,000?

Seanad: School Transport: Motion (21 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: Seven to eight thousand. That is fine. We heard 78,000.

Seanad: School Transport: Motion (21 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister for her very comprehensive report on school transport. The free school transport initiative was announced with great bells and whistles. We expected great things. Whenever anything is announced as a free service, I suppose the Minister has got to prepare for that and what it brings. I am wondering what action the Minister took. Did she acquire more buses for it? Did...

Seanad: School Transport: Motion (21 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: She will.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Process: Engagement with Ambassador of North Macedonia (21 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I thank Mrs. Bojadjieska Ristovski for being here. She should not let the men in here intimidate her in any way because we certainly are not intimidated by them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Process: Engagement with Ambassador of North Macedonia (21 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: During the French Presidency of the EU Council, President Macron made proposals for the commencement of the accession negotiations that included conditions requiring both North Macedonia and Bulgaria to make concessions on their disputes. What were those conditions? What were they looking to resolve? There were protests around that in July when the President of the Commission, Dr. Ursula...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Process: Engagement with Ambassador of North Macedonia (21 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I note North Macedonia has got €610 million since it applied in 2008. They are tangible things that people can see on the ground.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Process: Engagement with Ambassador of North Macedonia (21 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: What type of projects were included in that €610 million that Ms Bojadjieska Ristovski knows of? Is there anything the European Union can do in relation to future projects that might bring the people with them in the future?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: An Garda Síochána (20 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I spoke about this matter on the Order of Business on 13 July before the summer recess. It is now being raised as a Commencement matter at a time when I feel we are about to have a much wider discussion on the need for an increased Garda presence in our communities. The widely shared horrific scenes of gangs of joyriding thugs in a housing estate in Cherry Orchard have shocked many, but for...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: An Garda Síochána (20 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister of State. To be quite honest, I am a little taken aback by this response. I tabled this matter previously and the Minister came back to me to say it was not her responsibility. This is her constituency, however. This is her area. The people of the Ashbourne area and Laytown-Bettystown coastal area deserve a 24-hour station. The area in which the current Laytown...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Staff (20 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I welcome our visitors from Presentation Secondary School Warrenmount in Dublin to the Public Gallery. I apologise for delaying the Minister of State.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I call for a full inquiry into the ongoing system of unsafe medical practice in Ireland. On foot of the news over the summer that the UK's interim report by Dr. Hilary Cass found that the standards of clinical care, assessment and treatment at the Tavistock and Portman gender identity clinic fell below acceptable levels, we should have instantly examined how this has affected Irish children...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: These are children we are talking about.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: Hear, hear. Well said.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Sep 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I wish to raise the issue of the 35 Irish children with cystic fibrosis who are not yet being supplied with Kaftrio, a groundbreaking and life-saving drug.Many of us know that the exclusion of the 35 children stems from a price dispute between the HSE and the manufacturer Vertex and the fact that their inclusion was not foreseen in a 2017 pipeline agreement. All other eligible children and...