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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: I might take less and it can be shared among the others. I thank the witnesses for coming in. In March 2022 the HSE acknowledged that remote consultations in respect of home abortions increased the chances of women being coerced into having an abortion. It recognised that meeting the woman in person increases the likelihood of the provider identifying any coercion or domestic abuse. In...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: Can Ms O'Shea see that level of care being open to abuse, as in not being able to actually assess the gestational stage of the pregnancy if there is somebody in domestic abuse, not having face-to-face consultation with the doctor in order to know that the person is suffering domestic abuse, and not being able to see that person's bruises to realise that the person may be coerced into having...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: Is Dr. Conlon aware of the case, about which I read in the Irish Examinerlast year, of a young underage girl who was locked in a room and forced to take abortion tablets? Was it put into the report and was it considered by the review?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: Was that case considered by the review?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: It can work for and against them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: I understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: I thank our guests. I appreciate that others may wish to make contributions also.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: I call for a debate with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, on the appropriateness of withholding funding from Irish higher education institutes, HEIs, which have not been rubber-stamped by a British NGO. The NGO in question is Advance HE, which supervises Athena SWAN. It was founded in 2018 as a merger of the UK's Equality...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: Funding is a big issue.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: Today is the International Day of the Girl Child. I call for a debate with the Minister for Justice on the need to increase efforts to detect, prosecute and eliminate the barbaric practice of female genital mutilation, FGM, in Ireland. FGM is a transnational public health, human rights and gender injustice issue that more than 125 million girls and women in 29 countries in Africa and the...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: It was dead.
- Seanad: Disability Allowance: Motion (11 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: I second the motion.
- Seanad: Disability Allowance: Motion (11 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: Let him finish. I can speak later.
- Seanad: Disability Allowance: Motion (11 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: I have a short few minutes. Can I come in later on?
- Seanad: Disability Allowance: Motion (11 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: I second the motion.
- Seanad: Disability Allowance: Motion (11 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: I will not need six minutes. To be quite honest, I am glad that Senator Craughwell was here to take the second slot this afternoon. I thank Senator Clonan for tabling this motion. How we treat our children, our elderly and our disabled people is a reflection on our country. We have failed in how we look after those three cohorts of people, especially those with disabilities. The Indecon...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Measures (10 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: This Commencement matter is on the non-commencement of section 6 of the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014. This Act was passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas on 27 November 2014 and was signed into law on 4 December. As per section 1(3) of the Act, the Minister must commence certain sections. This last happened in 2020 with SI 550, which commenced sections 5, 7, 8 and 9. This was...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Measures (10 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: That is fine.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Measures (10 Oct 2023)
Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister of State. I appreciate today is a busy day for the Minister. I appreciate the Minister of State coming to the House to take this important matter. It is important for the fathers out there. This is important legislation to ensure their names go on birth certificates. They have been waiting for this legislation for nine years.I understand that it is being drafted at...