Results 901-920 of 1,958 for speaker:Sharon Keogan
- 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...
- 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.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Process: Engagement with Ambassador of North Macedonia (21 Sep 2022)
Sharon Keogan: During the French Presidency of the EU Council, President Macron made proposals for the commencement of the accession negotiations that included conditions requiring both North Macedonia and Bulgaria to make concessions on their disputes. What were those conditions? What were they looking to resolve? There were protests around that in July when the President of the Commission, Dr. Ursula...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Process: Engagement with Ambassador of North Macedonia (21 Sep 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I note North Macedonia has got €610 million since it applied in 2008. They are tangible things that people can see on the ground.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Process: Engagement with Ambassador of North Macedonia (21 Sep 2022)
Sharon Keogan: What type of projects were included in that €610 million that Ms Bojadjieska Ristovski knows of? Is there anything the European Union can do in relation to future projects that might bring the people with them in the future?
- 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: 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 (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...
- 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...
- 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: Community Employment Schemes (11 Oct 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister of State for coming into the House. The issue on the table is the exclusion of those aged 18 to 20 from participating in the community employment, CE, scheme. It is generally accepted that the Government should reward the behaviour we want to encourage in our citizens, and being an active citizen in our economy is one such behaviour we should champion. While this has...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Community Employment Schemes (11 Oct 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister of State. Why are almost 20,000 people under the age of 25 unemployed? Can they not avail of the Tús, JobPath and work placement programmes?
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Community Employment Schemes (11 Oct 2022)
Sharon Keogan: Of course they can but if that is what the Minister is proposing, why are we encouraging them by giving them more money – an extra €12 – through the budget? They are not being encouraged to work. They are being given an extra €12 per week to stay in unemployment, to remain as a jobseeker, when we should be encouraging them to get on the programmes. In fact, the...