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Seanad: Situation in Iran: Motion (11 Oct 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I am happy to support this motion. I do not believe that there will be much debate on it, given that we are on the side of Senator Chambers and her Fianna Fáil colleagues. We are here because of how young girls and women are treated in Iran and the deaths of Mahsa Amini, Sarina Esmailzadeh, who was 16 years of age, and all the others whose names we do not know. Some of the names were...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2022)

Sharon Keogan: This year, Ireland's population will increase by about 90,000 people, the fourth highest annual increase since the Famine. Some 27,700 of that figure will be due to natural change. More than 61,000 of the figure is net migration. This figure, massively inflated from our yearly average, is obviously due to the intake of Ukrainians fleeing the war. According to figures released by the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I would like a debate with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, wherein he can outline to us the future of housing in this country under this Government, as well as his considered thoughts on what it will be under the next government and future governments based on what we are seeing and emerging trends. The mortgage tracker scandal involved 81...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Conference on the Future of Europe and the General Affairs Council: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I apologise for being late for the Minister of State's presentation this morning. Following on from Deputy Howlin's comments on how we engage better with communities and the public, I put down a question to the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Peter Burke, about a European affairs officer in each local authority and setting up a strategic...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (4 Oct 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber. I am disappointed not to see the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, this afternoon. At this stage, no one needs the background to this debacle which has been ongoing since the start of the year and has been raised multiple times in both Houses. I spoke on it on the Order of Business in June and again in September when we realised that the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (4 Oct 2022)

Sharon Keogan: Somebody is telling lies here. I understand that Vertex has agreed a price with the Department since the original pricing was given in 2019, yet the Department is saying otherwise. That is why I submitted a freedom of information, FOI, request on this. I wanted to see the correspondence. Vertex has told me it has tried to negotiate with the Department on this. It has given many pricing...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (4 Oct 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I said "somebody" was telling lies-----

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (4 Oct 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I said "somebody" was telling lies. I have been-----

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (4 Oct 2022)

Sharon Keogan: Absolutely, but somebody is telling lies here. This reply is not correct according to the information I have been receiving from Vertex, the pharmaceutical company.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (4 Oct 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister of State and appreciate him taking the matter.

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.