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- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: Yes.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: I move amendment No. 5: In page 4, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “Repeal of section 21 of Principal Act 3. Section 21 of the Principal Act is repealed.”. Amendments Nos. 5 to 8, inclusive, propose to repeal sections 21 to 24, inclusive, of the principal Act. These sections, as they stand, embed the national planning framework deeper into our...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: I move amendment No. 6: In page 4, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “Repeal of section 22 of Principal Act 3. Section 22 of the Principal Act is repealed.”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: I move amendment No. 7: In page 4, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “Repeal of section 23 of Principal Act 3. Section 23 of the Principal Act is repealed.”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: I move amendment No. 8: In page 4, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “Repeal of section 24 of Principal Act 3. Section 24 of the Principal Act is repealed.”.
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: The witnesses are all very welcome this morning. This is a subject I hold very closely to my heart. All the children in care in this State deserve the utmost attention from the State to make sure they get the best possible care. I believe we have let them down. I believe Tusla has let them down. There are so many issues I want to bring up with Tusla today. I ask the witnesses to please...
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: I am sorry; I would like to hear from Mr. Hone about reunification. It is important.
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: How many families?
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: I thank Mr. Hone.
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: Ten children died in the care of Tusla last year. Will Ms Duggan confirm how many of these deaths were reviewed and what changes have been made to prevent further tragedies happening to children in State care? More than 230 children were referred to the Tavistock gender clinic in the UK, which is now closed following the Cass report's findings of unsafe practices and lack of evidence for...
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: It is still a lot.
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: I thank Ms Duggan. Can we move on?
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: I thank Ms Duggan but I only have a few minutes left and I want to try to get an answer to the question on out-of-State care.
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: There are none.
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: There are none at this moment. I had a question in regard to Tavistock and the Cass report.
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: What does Tusla do to support those parents and that child to make sure they stay in their home environment, rather than removing the child from that environment and have the whole relationship break down?
- Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: I will try to get to it quickly. Sometimes I look at the organisation and I really want it to work. I do not like the idea of private. I know that has had to be done because of the circumstances Tusla is in. Looking at the National Transport Authority, NTA, model, it is organised into six main divisions. Sometimes I look at Tusla and wonder how we could work this better. Could it be...
- Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: I welcome the Minister into the Chamber again and thank him for coming in so many times to listen to Senators while we scrutinise this legislation. I express my deep concern about the direction the Government is taking with the Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024. This is not a reform Bill; it is a retreat from fairness, transparency and the rights of ordinary people. Let us begin with the...
- Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: This is actual fact and true.
- Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)
Sharon Keogan: It is. This has to do with the defamation legislation. I am sorry but it is. Mr. Fanning, before becoming Attorney General, was one of the country's most sought-after barristers.