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Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I am a little bit sorry to see this debate going the way it is at the moment, with neither colleague having respect for each other's view, which is a shame. This amendment provides an opt-out for general practitioners who do not wish their GP surgeries to automatically become a safe access zone by notifying the Minister of Health. We are aware that most GPs do not want to provide abortion...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Sharon Keogan: There has been no evidence to say-----

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Sharon Keogan: -----that this legislation is needed.

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Sharon Keogan: It can be managed within the current legislation we have if there are any violations in terms of protests. This legislation is not needed because if there are people in protests behaving badly, there is legislation to deal with that currently. Is there or is there not legislation to deal with that, Minister? There is. That can clearly be seen by the protest down in Newtownmountkennedy...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Sharon Keogan: Vótáil.

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Sharon Keogan: The amendments are of critical importance. As I and others have noted during the course of the debate, both inside and outside Houses, the Bill has a deeply totalitarian undercurrent. Its enactment would severely damage and limit legitimate constitutional rights, including the right to protest and freedom of expression. In the past, some have attempted to portray the Bill, like the hate...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Sharon Keogan: To tell the truth I am a little disappointed. I thank my colleague, Senator Rónán Mullen, and all the Independent colleagues in the Dáil who put down amendments to this legislation. I would like to see the Minister being a Minister for young pregnant girls and women who find themselves pregnant, to encourage them to have their children, and to put in place policies that will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: UN Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Sharon Keogan: Ireland has adopted a whole-of-government approach to SDG implementation, with each Minister having specific responsibilities for implementing individual SDG goals and targets related to the ministerial functions. The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications has responsibility for promoting these SDGs and for overseeing their coherent implementation across government and each...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I wish to raise my concerns regarding the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee. I struggle to have confidence in the Minister and her Department. On her watch, a breakdown in British-Irish relations on the most serious matter of foreign policy is under way. The Minister was due to meet the UK Home Secretary, James Cleverly, yesterday to discuss strengthening the common travel area. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: It is a bad deal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I thank our guests for their presentations here this afternoon. In relation to the Eurodac, last week the Department officials spoke about the Eurodac system as if we would not continue to be part of the system if we did not sign up to this pact. This is misinformation. If we reject the migration pact, we will continue to operate within this system. We already operate within this system....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: Is a system like that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: The system we are currently operating at this moment whereby we have access to all of the data that Ms Kenny outlined will be null and void if we do not opt into this pact. Is that correct? Is that what Ms Kenny is saying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: Does that also apply to Interpol?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: On the detention centres that are proposed in the legislation, the Government, in a document it put out on 27 March, referred to providing reception and integration centres and accommodation centres that would be State-run and that would hold up to 13,000 people. It also stated that it had contingency accommodation, developed to national standards and run by commercial providers, for up to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: This is obviously to do with the pact because it is exactly the kind of thing the centres-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: These are different centres completely. The centres proposed in the pact will be additional detention centres.