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Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank Mr. Joyce. I ask Deputy Ó Murchú to be brief.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank Deputy Ó Murchú for his brief six minutes. I thank all our witnesses for appearing before the committee and for their comprehensive engagement. It is very helpful. The secretariat will be very busy over the summer putting together the pre-legislative scrutiny report. I thank Ms Ryan from SIPTU, Mr. Joyce from ICTU, Ms Walsh from UCD, Mr. Holohan and Ms Gorman from Add...

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I agree. You are all becoming much more efficient with your questions and rarely going over. We get to a second round and sometimes a third. With that, the meeting stands adjourned.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: Thank you, Ms Barry. I call Sharon Keogan. There will be a second round.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank the Senator and witnesses for that. I just want to check whether we have Senator Mike Kennelly online. I do not hear him, so we will move to Senator Cosgrove.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I again apologise. Members have been coming and going all morning. If the witnesses see me on the phone, it is because I have two members in the Committee of Public Accounts meeting next door, another who is in the wrong meeting and people taking part in radio interviews and different things. The witnesses should not feel it reflects on the importance we give this issue. It is just the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Process (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: 387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the timeline for the proposed amendments to the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 to take effect in view of the fact that homeowners are depending on these amendments in their rebuild; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40617/25]

Pride: Statements (16 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: Ministers agus a chairde go léir, it is an honour to stand before you today as an ally and a proud supporter of the LGBTQI+ community. Over the month of June, we celebrated Pride around the country and around the world. Pride is a powerful expression of identity, resilience and love. I had the pleasure of walking in the 2025 Dublin Pride Parade alongside the Tánaiste, Deputy...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank our guests for being with us this morning. I noticed that in both opening statements assistive and new technologies are mentioned as a way to increase participation, especially in voting. As a behaviour consultant who really saw the change that assistive technology can make to my neurodiverse clients, I am interested in hearing how they see that working within polling stations.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank both guests. The IWA in Belmullet, County Mayo, was mentioned, as was Western Care in Mayo. Both organisations really went as far as they could to ensure their service users could exercise their right. It would be interesting to have a breakdown, by county, of service providers who went out of their way to ensure their residents could vote. It might be interesting to examine the...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: Crying over spoiled votes.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: Apologies have been received from Senator Bradley and Deputy Charles Ward. The joint committee, at a private meeting on 3 July, agreed the minutes of a private meeting on 29 May and of the public meetings on 12, 16 and 23 June 2025. The agenda item for consideration today is engagement with Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. We are joined this morning by Ms Kate Duggan, chief executive...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank Ms Duggan for affording me the opportunity, as a new Chairperson, to meet her earlier in the year to receive an overview of the agency. When I was at the launch of the report yesterday, I was thinking of the 96,666 referrals. That would fill Croke Park, with 15,000 more outside. It is a huge number. I thank Ms Duggan for her opening statement. It is proposed to publish the...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank Ms Duggan. We might leave it there and go to the next member. She will get a second round.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank Senator Keogan. I am a hard taskmaster with the time. We will get to a second round.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: We might come back to this issue in the second round, if that is okay. I call Deputy Boland.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I will allow the Mr. Hone to continue on that topic during my slot, because I am also interested in it. Will he talk about what the assessment looks like when people arrive in the country and Tusla is trying to ascertain whether they are 17 years of age or an adult?

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I want to understand the assessment more. Does it involve an interview? Is there a medical assessment? I do not understand what the assessment involves.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: It certainly is complex.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I will move on as time is limited. I thank Tusla's 5,700 staff for the phenomenal work they do every single day. I encourage them to keep going with the reform and to keep growing, learning and doing all they can to keep our children safe. I read in Tusla's report about issues regarding homelessness, the cost of living and addiction. Reference was also made to social media. A big...