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Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: In the context of the one good adult, how do we get parents to behave and to engage?

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: Not to behave but to engage.

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I thank Ms Rogers.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I rise today to speak on a matter of grave urgency and moral clarity. I refer to the modern persecution of Christians, in particular in Nigeria, which has reached levels that many experts now describe as genocidal. According to the World Watch List 2024, more than 365 million Christians worldwide faced high levels of persecution, and nowhere was this crisis more acute than in Nigeria. In...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I speak to my first sole amendment, which is amendment No. 8. This Bill comes to the Chamber with a number of stated purposes, but they are best summarised in plain English as making defamation law fairer and more efficient. This is driven by the fact that there is simply too much defamation litigation in Ireland. I do not believe anyone in government or opposition will contest this. This...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: Sorry; they were my words.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: Before I begin my speech today, I would like to first send my congratulations to President Trump for the successful ceasefire in Gaza and this week's peace summit in Egypt. There is a long way to go in this peace process, but I hope everyone will join me in expressing our support for its success and for bringing an end to the horrendous suffering caused by this war. I wish to call for a...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I move amendment No. 8: 8. In page 7, after line 32, to insert the following: “Serious harm threshold for natural persons 7. (1) The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 12: “12A. A statement concerning a natural person shall not be considered defamatory unless its publication has caused, or is likely to cause, serious harm...

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (16 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: Could we speak, a Chathaoirligh? There are only two of us.

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (16 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: Would the Taoiseach mind if we take a minute? There are only two of us left in the Opposition who have not spoken.

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I thank the witnesses for their statements and attending this committee meeting today. Before I start, as this is the children's committee, I wish to say how deeply saddened and horrified I was regarding the death of the child in residential care yesterday. Residential care is not the way forward for Tusla. I am asking and begging Tusla to just-----

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: It is not the way forward. Children are coming to this country and our own children-----

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I am sorry.

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I ask Tusla to do better for these children. It is just awful what is happening. My first question is to Ms Canavan. Last week, I talked about in-kind services to combat child poverty. A research paper was carried out in 2019, which looked at 22 European-founded in-kind benefits. It determined such benefits to be more efficient than cash in curbing child poverty, particularly during...

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: What about food poverty?

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: In-kind services.

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: Some countries provide an-kind credit card service to parents who are struggling and it can be used only for food.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I rise with a heavy heart to address two tragedies that have taken place in our nation over the past week. A young man fled war in Ukraine and, within four days, was murdered with unspeakable brutality in Ireland. A girl ran away from a Tusla centre and is, allegedly, raped. What do these two tragedies have in common? They were entirely preventable. They highlight two areas in which our...

Seanad: Cost of Childcare: Motion (21 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: We wish to share time and I would like to speak first.

Seanad: Cost of Childcare: Motion (21 Oct 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I rise today in support of this motion not because I agree with the proposers on everything - far from it - but because on this issue they are right. Budget 2026 has failed Irish families. It has failed mothers and fathers who are working every hour they can just to afford the privilege of placing their children in the care they need so that they can work in the first place. It has failed...