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- Seanad: Pregnancy Loss (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: I know. I support the Bill. I urge the House to consider what we must do next. We need a broader conversation – one that includes the criminal justice system, the rights of the victim and the recognition of the unborn life in cases of violence.
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: The witnesses are all very welcome this morning. This is a subject I hold very closely to my heart. All the children in care in this State deserve the utmost attention from the State to make sure they get the best possible care. I believe we have let them down. I believe Tusla has let them down. There are so many issues I want to bring up with Tusla today. I ask the witnesses to please...
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: I am sorry; I would like to hear from Mr. Hone about reunification. It is important.
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: How many families?
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: I thank Mr. Hone.
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: Ten children died in the care of Tusla last year. Will Ms Duggan confirm how many of these deaths were reviewed and what changes have been made to prevent further tragedies happening to children in State care? More than 230 children were referred to the Tavistock gender clinic in the UK, which is now closed following the Cass report's findings of unsafe practices and lack of evidence for...
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: It is still a lot.
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: I thank Ms Duggan. Can we move on?
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: I thank Ms Duggan but I only have a few minutes left and I want to try to get an answer to the question on out-of-State care.
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: There are none.
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: There are none at this moment. I had a question in regard to Tavistock and the Cass report.
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: What does Tusla do to support those parents and that child to make sure they stay in their home environment, rather than removing the child from that environment and have the whole relationship break down?
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: I will try to get to it quickly. Sometimes I look at the organisation and I really want it to work. I do not like the idea of private. I know that has had to be done because of the circumstances Tusla is in. Looking at the National Transport Authority, NTA, model, it is organised into six main divisions. Sometimes I look at Tusla and wonder how we could work this better. Could it be...
- Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: The witnesses are very welcome this afternoon. This is a very important piece of legislation that we as a committee here must scrutinise, and the witnesses are part of that scrutiny, unfortunately. I am going to talk about NGOs in general and the collaboration and influence they have in this particular consultation process. Seven of the organisations - the National Women's Council of...
- Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: Were these positions developed independently or was there a co-ordinated effort? If it was co-ordinated, who led the process?
- Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: It was to the National Women's Council of Ireland, IHREC and Pavee Point. I think that FLAC was mentioned in all three of their submissions.
- Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: Yes, I understand that.
- Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: Does the IHREC directly collaborate with that?
- Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: Does it have direct collaboration with that?