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Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I know that. I am well aware of all that.

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister.

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: Can I pass on my earlier questions to the Minister's officials and they might come back to me with answers? My question concerns the missing Gender Recognition Act impact assessment. In 2018, a review group recommended extending legal gender recognition to non-binary individuals but acknowledged the need for a comprehensive impact assessment. The reply to a parliamentary question from 2023...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I also extend my sympathies to the Fitzgerald family, and indeed the Fianna Fáil family, on the loss of Liam Fitzgerald. I welcome to the Gallery Councillor Jason Murphy from Waterford and his fiancée, Nicola. They recently got engaged. They are welcome as guests of Senator Ollie Crowe. I rise to highlight two stories from the United Kingdom that are of relevance to us in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: As a member of the industrial and commercial panel, I wish to speak about a total farce and affront to democracy and the business community that took place earlier this week. I am speaking about the national economic dialogue. I do not need to remind anyone that our country is currently trapped in a state of total policy inertia. It is not the inertia of a broken down car stuck on the road...

Seanad: Enterprise Matters and Business Supports for SMEs: Motion (18 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Enterprise Matters and Business Supports for SMEs: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I rise today in support of the motion and in defence of our small and medium-sized enterprises, which are the lifeblood of our communities. The SME test, as outlined in the programme for Government, is a tool meant to protect these businesses from the unintended consequences of legislation. Tools are only as good as the hands that wield them, however. Right now, I fear we are not wielding...

Seanad: Enterprise Matters and Business Supports for SMEs: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: Open one in Taiwan, please.

Seanad: Enterprise Matters and Business Supports for SMEs: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: We have to wait for the Minister of State.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I thank Dr. Feely and Dr. Corbett for coming here this morning to our committee. The role of the civic organisation is to act as a voice of conscience that forces the Government into action. The alliance represents more than 160 organisations. The Children's Health Alliance is before the health committee. Some of the groups come from the disability sector and the inclusion sector and the...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I thank Ms Ward for joining us today. On online age verification, there is a Bill before the Dáil and Seanad at this moment, the Protection of Children (Online Age Verification) Bill, which was brought in last July by a number of us Independent Senators. That legislation is there and I hope it will see the light of day. It puts the obligation on the Internet providers and app store...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: Today I rise to speak for the voiceless, those 200,000 Irish citizens, many of them in their 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s, who were sold out by their own Government and financial institutions. These are not reckless borrowers; these are neighbours, pensioners and parents trapped in a nightmare of missold mortgages and are now preyed upon by vulture funds operating in the shadows of our financial...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I welcome the witnesses and thank Dr. Muldoon for his statement this morning. The ombudsman has the statutory obligation to serve and safeguard the children in Ireland. However, we have badly let down the children who are homeless, in poverty, awaiting timely healthcare, in State care, the migrant children who are missing and our own children who are missing. There are so many issues...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: Does the scoliosis society have an office in the premises?

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: What about any health organisation or disability group?

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: BelonG To has listed the office as a location.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: Dr. Muldoon has not answered my questions.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: Perhaps I will get some of the questions I asked in the first round answered. My first question relates to the 2023 UCD report, which details the organised and systemic sexual exploitation of children in State care, including children being trafficked to hotels for abuse, the failure of professionals to identify and take action on clear signs of exploitation, and the lack of consistent Garda...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I find this all very shocking given how vulnerable and open to grooming children in care, particularly residential care, are. I had a child in my care in an emergency situation a couple of times and that child ended up in residential care, becoming part of this and taking her own life. These children are being let down badly. Let us go back to the issue of gender. Will Dr. Muldoon...