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Seanad: Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I thank Senator Crowe for his input into this Bill.

Seanad: Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I commend former Minister of State Deputy Robert Troy on his work on this Bill.

Seanad: Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Private Nursing Home Sector: Statements (16 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I, too, wish to be associated with the previous remarks and to welcome Councillor Sarah Kiely and her guests to the House. There is a story about the anthropologist, Margaret Mead, who when answering the question about what she considered to be the first signs of civilisation in a culture, her answer was a femur or thighbone that had been broken and healed. In the animal kingdom, a broken...

Seanad: Private Nursing Home Sector: Statements (16 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: -----but I am sure that no matter where she goes she will serve that Department very well.

Seanad: Vaping: Motion (16 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I apologise for being late. I was at another event. I welcome the Minister of State. I am glad to see this motion in front of the House. It is one I am happy to support. One would have had to have been living under a rock for the past few years not to have seen the rise in e-cigarettes. There is a ridiculous number of them on the streets. My main concern, and one I think is shared by...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Transport (10 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: The Minister of State is very welcome. I raised the issue of the remote area grant last September when the Minister, Deputy Foley, was in the Chamber. The grant is available, although many people may not know about it, to people who live more than a certain distances from their local school. I asked for an increase in the payment rate on the grant. The cost of fuel has gone up. The...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Transport (10 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister of State. My question was really about the remote area grant. The response the Minister of State was provided by the school transport section spent three minutes on the school transport scheme but my question was really about the remote area grant. He told me about the 121,000 people who have got school transport. There are 130,000 applications, so, therefore there...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I raise the issue of COP27. I am surprised no other Senator has raised it or spoken about it this week. Climate TRACE, a non-profit organisation, launched a report yesterday at COP27. The report lists a number of Ireland's largest polluters. Obviously, Dublin Airport is top of that list, but a number of places near where I live were also listed, such as the cement factories in Drogheda,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I wish to bring up once again the revolution in Iran and the ongoing well-publicised protests led by the women of Iran. It is now day 55, and reports state that almost 30,000 are imprisoned. Some 550 people have been killed of which 41 were children, the youngest of whom was two years old. Over the last ten says, security forces have been firing live ammunition at peaceful protestors in...

Seanad: Transport: Motion (9 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I am delighted the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, is here because I think a Green Party Minister will actually make this happen. I thank my Fianna Fáil colleagues for putting forward this motion, which is very important for many colleagues in this House. I felt it was so important that, a number of weeks ago, I contacted Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour Party and all other...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: On 24 July 2020, I said in this Chamber that the decision to postpone bowel and breast cancer screening over the course of that spring and summer until September was a mistake. Even at that early stage, when social media was awash with videos of people dropping dead on the streets of China, falsely attributed to Covid-19, and fear and panic around the unknown severity and mortality rate of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: Cancer screening was-----

Seanad: Housing for All: Statements (8 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: The Minister of State is very welcome to the Chamber today. The Government's Housing for All plan was published on 2 September 2021. It is a proposed roadmap for housing in the State up to the year 2030 and it sets out to make renting and purchasing affordable, eradicate homelessness, increase housing supply and ensure efficient use of existing housing stock. It is the most recent...

Seanad: Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: Senator-----

Seanad: Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I thank Senator Kyne. The Senator is lucky that the Cathaoirleach, Senator Mark Daly, is not here today.

Seanad: Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I thank Senator Buttimer. The Minister of State may be aware of this and I want to let Senator Buttimer know there is an rural development fund, RDF, of €50 million that local authorities can apply for through Europe. It is called innovative actions and local authorities can apply for that in respect of urban spaces within large cities and large towns. I call the Minister of State.

Seanad: Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: Go ahead.

Seanad: Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive statement. Is it agreed that the House be suspended until 7 p.m.? Agreed.