Results 1,101-1,120 of 1,884 for speaker:Sharon Keogan
- 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-----
- Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: We have had a very respectful-----
- Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: We had a very respectful debate and you are being very disrespectful to Senator Mullen. I did not realise he could not come in. You should not have treated him so rudely.
- Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: The Acting Chair does not have to swear.
- Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: That is very condescending.
- Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: This is not parliamentary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: Good morning to Ms de Boer-Buquicchio. I thank her for coming here. Much of the discussion of this committee has treated commercial international surrogacy as a fait accompli; that it does and will occur and we must legislate around it. I must say the Verona principles paint a stark picture of the closeness of the practice of commercial international surrogacy with the sale of children....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I have a comment on Ms de Boer-Buquicchio’s statement. Can I come back in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: That is no problem. I thank the Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: I thank Ms de Boer-Buquicchio for her comprehensive answering of all the questions. It certainly helps us to understand the issue a lot better. I have read the statement and I do not know how many times in the document I have read references to "child selling", "transfer of the child", and "sale of the child". That is a massive worry for me. Article 2 of the CRC clearly refers to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: Does she find commercial surrogacy exploitative of the child and of the surrogate mother?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: What about in poorer countries?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: Ms de Boer-Buquicchio said something about the birth registration, which worried me as well. It concerned identity. It was stated that all parties do not need to be mentioned on the birth registration. Could she elaborate on that? Does she believe a child who is born through surrogacy is not entitled to its full true identity?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: Does Ms de Boer-Buquicchio have an issue with having the donors on the birth certificate, or does she think they should be on another document.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: But the birth mother must be on the birth certificate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: That is all right. I thank Ms de Boer-Buquicchio for answering my questions.