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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Europe Day and the European Year of Youth 2022: Engagement with Comhairle na nÓg (11 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: It is wonderful to have no worries in transition year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Europe Day and the European Year of Youth 2022: Engagement with Comhairle na nÓg (11 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: A politician in the making.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Europe Day and the European Year of Youth 2022: Engagement with Comhairle na nÓg (11 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: All right.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: Last week the European Parliament established a special committee on the Covid-19 pandemic. The committee includes in its title, "lessons learned and recommendations for the future". While many times we might be well served by keeping an eye on the EU, in this case, we best take a leaf from its book. The Covid pandemic was the most impactful global health crisis of our time. Are we just...

Seanad: Regulation of Display of Electoral and Polling Posters and Other Advertisements Bill 2022: Second Stage (17 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber. I welcome this Bill and commend the Members from the Green Party who have brought it forward. The plastering of our towns and cities with blown-up images of incumbent and prospective politicians has long been the most immediately apparent hallmark of an election. Even this tradition must be examined as we strive to be more conscious of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I would like the House to look at the citizens information centres and how we might go about ensuring the continuation of these vital service providers. There are a number of these centres around the country offering a diverse range of services to anyone who is in need of them - tax and money services, free legal advice, immigration assistance and Workplace Relations Commission issues. The...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Abortion Services (19 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister of State for being here today. I would have like to have seen the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, here to discuss this very important matter and answer the questions I put down. I raised the issue in March in this House about the state of telemedicine provisions for abortion in Ireland and the risk surrounding its operation. Telemedicine abortion was introduced in March...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Abortion Services (19 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I was not expecting anything else from the Department, to tell the truth. I am very disappointed. I understand the review is ongoing. I am unfamiliar with how long it will take to conclude the review or when the results will be published. There are safeguarding issues here, specifically with regard to coercive control and domestic violence, and there are also difficulties in identifying...

Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I move: That Seanad Éireann: acknowledges that: - to meet our demands for energy and the targets set out in carbon budgets, Ireland needs to generate more electricity while also reducing carbon emissions; - while the Climate Action Plan 2021 does not list individual targets for each sector, it details emission reductions that are needed from each sector of the economy; emissions...

Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: It is not about being popular or unpopular. It is about what is right for the nation.

Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I thank the majority of my colleagues for engaging with my motion and the respectful debate we had until our last speaker. I did not consider my motion to be "muck", and no Senator who puts down a motion should have it so described. It is disrespectful. We have to think past this Government because there is no doubt we are here to legislate for the now. There are people who will not be in...

Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: With the greatest of respect-----

Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: We have had a very respectful-----

Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: We had a very respectful debate and you are being very disrespectful to Senator Mullen. I did not realise he could not come in. You should not have treated him so rudely.

Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: The Acting Chair does not have to swear.

Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: That is very condescending.

Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: This is not parliamentary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Rights of Children: Discussion (12 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: Does the Vice Chairman mind if we express our deepest sympathies to our colleague and Chair, Deputy Whitmore, on the death of her sister Lillian?