Results 1,081-1,100 of 1,879 for speaker:Sharon Keogan
- Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: Well done. I thank the Minister of State, who kept to time very well.
- Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?
- Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: When is it proposed to sit again?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Potential Double Standards in Protections for Surrogate Mothers in Domestic Arrangements: Discussion (26 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I thank Professor Golombok very much. She has long been a campaigner for diverse families. Her studies and research are based on a very small sample, perhaps of a couple of dozen people. Given the small sample size, it is hard to arrive at a definitive conclusion. Page 4 of Professor Golombok’s document states: Findings are presented of a study of families created through...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Potential Double Standards in Protections for Surrogate Mothers in Domestic Arrangements: Discussion (26 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I was not here when the witnesses gave their opening contributions but I have read Dr. Tobin's and Professor Madden's statements. Dr. Tobin states the 2022 Bill provides for altruistic domestic surrogacy but any amendment to this draft legislation would have to be willing to embrace commercial surrogacy arrangements and that is the first inconsistency the State will have to be willing to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Potential Double Standards in Protections for Surrogate Mothers in Domestic Arrangements: Discussion (26 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Potential Double Standards in Protections for Surrogate Mothers in Domestic Arrangements: Discussion (26 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I agree.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Potential Double Standards in Protections for Surrogate Mothers in Domestic Arrangements: Discussion (26 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: Dr. Tobin's views seem to be totally different from others. We had Mr. Gearóid Kenny Moore from Irish Gay Dads, along with Mr. Shane Lennon, before us and they were adamant that they had no problem with the birth mother being on the birth certificate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Potential Double Standards in Protections for Surrogate Mothers in Domestic Arrangements: Discussion (26 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I think they did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Potential Double Standards in Protections for Surrogate Mothers in Domestic Arrangements: Discussion (26 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I thank Dr. Tobin. Professor Madden has answered some of the questions so I will not bother her again.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I would like the Ministers for Finance and Agriculture, Food and the Marine to come to the House for a debate about what Ireland is doing to prepare for a possible recession. Economists have for months now been warning of the prospect of a recession in late 2022, an assertion echoed earlier this month by the UK's National Institute for Economic and Social Research. The chief executive of...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Abortion Services (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister of State for being here today. I would have like to have seen the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, here to discuss this very important matter and answer the questions I put down. I raised the issue in March in this House about the state of telemedicine provisions for abortion in Ireland and the risk surrounding its operation. Telemedicine abortion was introduced in March...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Abortion Services (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I was not expecting anything else from the Department, to tell the truth. I am very disappointed. I understand the review is ongoing. I am unfamiliar with how long it will take to conclude the review or when the results will be published. There are safeguarding issues here, specifically with regard to coercive control and domestic violence, and there are also difficulties in identifying...
- Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I move: That Seanad Éireann: acknowledges that: - to meet our demands for energy and the targets set out in carbon budgets, Ireland needs to generate more electricity while also reducing carbon emissions; - while the Climate Action Plan 2021 does not list individual targets for each sector, it details emission reductions that are needed from each sector of the economy; emissions...
- Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: It is not about being popular or unpopular. It is about what is right for the nation.
- Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I thank the majority of my colleagues for engaging with my motion and the respectful debate we had until our last speaker. I did not consider my motion to be "muck", and no Senator who puts down a motion should have it so described. It is disrespectful. We have to think past this Government because there is no doubt we are here to legislate for the now. There are people who will not be in...
- Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: With the greatest of respect-----