Results 801-820 of 1,879 for speaker:Sharon Keogan
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: In all fairness-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: Actually, I do not believe you are.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: I do not think the Cathaoirleach is treating me equally to other Members.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: Okay. I certainly hope the time the Cathaoirleach has taken away from me will be given back to finish my speech.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: RTÉ's big personalities, many of whom are paid six-figure salaries, frequently allow politicians to present inaccurate narratives and avoid difficult questions. Will this be considered misinformation or disinformation? Will political parties be targeted for putting out false information about their achievements or their opponents? I would advise you to think very carefully about the...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: This is the Order of Business and at the end of my speech I will be calling for a debate with the Minister.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: It is not. That is correct. I will be looking for the Minister to come in if I am allowed to finish my speech.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: Thank you. Will the committee empower tech companies to decide what is misinformation and disinformation? They have an interest in suppressing information about their own corruption and malpractice. Targeting the far right and commentators online while at the same time failing to target the problems in establishment media and political parties will only erode-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: The real question for the Government and the media should be how we can rebuild trust. If you spend all your time trying to avoid criticism no one will trust you and your efforts will be in vain. I call on the Deputy Leader to allow us to have the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in here before she establishes the committee to give us the guidelines she is...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: Hear. hear.
- Seanad: Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Statements (22 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. This is a conversation I have been requesting for some time. I have worked very hard since March last year in my local community where I have been personally involved in the cases of perhaps 900 people who have come to east Meath. I know at first hand the difficulties the Minister is dealing with. I am glad we are having this debate....
- Seanad: Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Statements (22 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: No problem.
- Seanad: Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Statements (22 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: No problem. The Acting Chair might give me a few extra minutes as a result.
- Seanad: Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Statements (22 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: There are no wars or other human rights emergencies to justify the fact that more than one third of asylum seekers are from states such as Nigeria, Georgia, Algeria and South Africa. Why is this relevant? It is relevant because, in a shocking revelation, the State has limited resources. Each bed, apartment and house occupied by an economic migrant is one that cannot be given to a genuine...
- Seanad: Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Statements (22 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: No problem.
- Seanad: Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Statements (22 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: You cannot get out of Iran without permission of your husband or permission of your father. You cannot leave that country unless you have that document. That is what the legislation in Iran provides.
- Seanad: Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Statements (22 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: I did not say it was a good thing.
- Seanad: Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Statements (22 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: It does strengthen the case but that is what I am saying. You cannot leave that country unless you have some sort of documentation from a husband or from a father.
- Seanad: Report on Working Conditions and Skills Shortages in Ireland's Tourism and Hospitality Sector: Motion (22 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: I thank Deputy Niamh Smyth for the great work she did on the report and my colleague, Senator Carrigy. I welcome the Minister to the House. The hospitality sector employs 240,000 people worth a combined €12.5 billion to the economy each year. The report tells us it accounted for 67% of pre-Covid employment across rural and regional areas. Outside of Dublin, tourism and hospitality...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2023)
Sharon Keogan: This weekend the Ladies Gaelic Football Association, LGFA, introduced a new policy allowing for trans-identified teenagers to play with, and against, girls and women. This decision flies in the face of globally-recognised medical and scientific evidence such as the evidence upon which the Irish Rugby Football Union, IRFU, based its opposite decision. Previously, the IRFU used the...