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Seanad: Child and Family Agency (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

Sharon Keogan: The Minister is again welcome to the House. This is a technical Bill providing the Minister for Education with a direct line for policy direction and oversight of Tusla in respect of its education welfare functions. The functions vested in the Minister for Education in last year's statutory instrument cover the home school community liaison scheme, the school completion programme and the...

Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person (Amendment) (Stalking) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

Sharon Keogan: Stalking is a clear example of a crime which has become all too common, facilitated by the rise in communications technology. The word no longer conjures up images of hooded figures in dark alleys but of inboxes spammed with messages, private social media accounts being bombarded with comments, identity theft, phone calls and more. There has been a move over the past decade or so to an...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Sep 2021)

Sharon Keogan: What a pleasure it is to be back in our own Chamber. I hope that as we approach the lifting of restrictions on 22 October, other aspects of life in Leinster House will likewise return to normal. I wish to call for a debate on what is to be done about the horrific instances of murder-suicides in rural farming communities. Yesterday morning, a woman and her 24-year-old son were laid to rest...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second and Subsequent Stages (16 Jul 2021)

Sharon Keogan: The Minister is very welcome to the House, as always, although, to be honest, I wish he was not here. I wish none of us were here because I am shocked and deeply disappointed that this legislation has been drafted and is before us today. In a mere couple of months, medical apartheid has gone from being discounted by the media as a scaremongering conspiracy theory-----

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second and Subsequent Stages (16 Jul 2021)

Sharon Keogan: -----to Government policy. Scientists and policymakers alike have warned about this since vaccines were still in development. Articles in The New York Timesand The Washington Postas far back as October 2020 discussed, in dire tones, the social consequences of creating a vaccinated overclass. It has been an odd feeling seeing people-----

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second and Subsequent Stages (16 Jul 2021)

Sharon Keogan: I did not interrupt the Senator. I ask her not to interrupt me.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second and Subsequent Stages (16 Jul 2021)

Sharon Keogan: It has been an odd feeling seeing-----

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second and Subsequent Stages (16 Jul 2021)

Sharon Keogan: I will continue with my speech. It has been an odd feeling seeing people celebrate receiving their Covid passes online. It is dystopic to see people so glad to be granted this piecemeal freedom by the Government as if these fundamental rights were its to give and take as it sees fit. However, I do not blame people for grasping at any sliver of hope that might allow them finally escape the...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second and Subsequent Stages (16 Jul 2021)

Sharon Keogan: I reserve the right to have my speech on the record of the House.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second and Subsequent Stages (16 Jul 2021)

Sharon Keogan: How many times do I have to say this?

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second and Subsequent Stages (16 Jul 2021)

Sharon Keogan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second and Subsequent Stages (16 Jul 2021)

Sharon Keogan: Who is he talking about? Any discrimination is wrong. Any discrimination is unacceptable----

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second and Subsequent Stages (16 Jul 2021)

Sharon Keogan: May I come in there?

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second and Subsequent Stages (16 Jul 2021)

Sharon Keogan: I was referenced there.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second and Subsequent Stages (16 Jul 2021)

Sharon Keogan: Will there be?

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second and Subsequent Stages (16 Jul 2021)

Sharon Keogan: Any discrimination is unacceptable.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second and Subsequent Stages (16 Jul 2021)

Sharon Keogan: So health discrimination is all right.

Seanad: Mandatory Hotel Quarantine Extension: Motion (16 Jul 2021)

Sharon Keogan: Now is fine. I thank the Acting Chairperson and appreciate that he has changed that around for me. I thank the Minister for once again coming into this Chamber to listen to us. Sometimes I have been quite critical of him and his Department and of the way it has handled this situation. I thank him for the respect he has shown Opposition Senators and the manner in which he has treated us -...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2021)

Sharon Keogan: I wish to offer my sympathies as well to the former Senator and Deputy, Seán McCarthy. I also extend my sympathies on the deaths of the Independent councillor, Hugh Conlon, from Dunleer, and the retired Independent councillor, Jimmy Cudden, from Duleek who will be buried later this morning. I also extend my sympathies on the death of our Fianna Fáil colleague in Fingal County...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2021)

Sharon Keogan: I am getting to it.