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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: The Digital Services Bill 2023 is weighty legislation, as is often the case with Bills that give effect to EU regulations. It covers quite a lot of ground and contains a mixed bag of provisions that cover consumer protection and the regulation of advertising algorithms to content moderation and the combating of child sex abuse material. Some of these provisions are obviously deserving of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Projects (30 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Neale Richmond, for coming to the House. I am disappointed not to see somebody from the Department of Transport here this afternoon but I thank the Minister of State for coming into the Chamber. Somebody from the Government coming in is better than nobody, I guess, so I thank him for coming in today to deal with this matter, which is of great importance...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Projects (30 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister of State for the response. In regard to the last line of the response, that the strategic grant allocation 2024 will be notified to local authorities as part of general grant allocation process which will be issued in the coming weeks, I hope this particular development will be part of that. This is of interest to the Thurles municipal district council and to the...

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

Sharon Keogan: The Residential Tenancies Board reports that there are approximately 520 approved housing bodies in Ireland with a stock size of more than 30,000 homes. These bodies tend to deal with the housing needs of either a particular geographical area or a particular demographic, including families on low incomes, households with special needs such as older persons and people with disabilities,...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I echo everything Senator Boyhan said. The representatives from the AILG and LAMA have been very firm about having their representation on these new policing committees. Before Christmas, the Independent Group Members - Senators Boyhan, Craughwell and I - tabled a motion. Part of that motion was that we undo the attacks on the powers of local councillors and ensure the members of local...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: Now that is funny.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I will speak on amendment No. 80, in my name and that of Senator Craughwell. It requires that the chairperson of every safety partnership in each administrative area in each local authority shall be an elected member of a local authority. It seems that Fianna Fáil, with its late amendments, which I absolutely welcome, is playing catch-up. I am glad it tabled them but I would really...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I really do welcome that but the wording should state chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of the safety partnerships "shall be" members of a local authority. That would cement it for the Minister today and our members throughout the country. There was much talk earlier about the community safety innovation fund. I welcome the €3 million from the Criminal Assets Bureau, but the...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister for her engagement. I also thank Senator Ruane who has put huge effort into this Bill. We are only interested in this particular section of the legislation because it has a major effect on us.My heart is in local government and every councillor in the country knows that. I have to be their voice here today and that is why I am pressing amendment No. 72, which clearly...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I ask the Minister to clarify if that is five men and five women or is it just any ten members?

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I move amendment No. 72: In page 104, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “(b) at least one elected public representative of a local authority, shall be a member of every safety partnership in each administrative area of each local authority;”.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I am calling for a debate on the children of Ireland who are failed egregiously by the State. A full debate will be needed to even touch upon all the failings of the Government and the Minister for children. Since 2017, 62 migrant children have disappeared from State care after arriving in Ireland alone. Twenty of those disappearances were in 2023. These children left, or more likely were...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: No.

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: It does not discriminate.

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: Against-----

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: No, it does not.

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: Thank you. I thought he had seen me but that is all right.

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: Thank you.

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I thank the Senator very much. We heard yesterday and today tones and speeches on the referendums that this has got nothing to do with men. People are speaking very-----