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Seanad: Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: I am sorry; I do not interrupt anybody. Senators can come in after me. Consent, obviously, is the most important thing. I want to read out a tweet the WHO sent out this week: As school holidays approach, we must also acknowledge that children contaminate their parents and grandparents at home, with a ten times increased risk for these adults to develop severe disease, be hospitalized or...

Seanad: TRIPS Waiver: Motion (15 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: Is amendment No. 1 agreed to?

Seanad: TRIPS Waiver: Motion (15 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: Under the rules, it has to be withdrawn.

Seanad: TRIPS Waiver: Motion (15 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: As we prepare for Christmas, I must once again voice my serious concerns about the division we have created in our country in the past year. Perhaps one of the scariest things is that it almost seems normal now. We have already become used to being told we can do this and we cannot do that. Seeing the online discussions in the UK, which is planning its own Covid pass, and the legitimate...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: Amendments Nos. 31 to 33, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Seanad: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: Is Senator Higgins pressing the amendment?

Seanad: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: Is the Senator withdrawing the amendment?

Seanad: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: Amendment No. 43 in the name of Senator Higgins has been ruled out of order.

Seanad: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: As it is now 5 p.m. I am required to put the following question in accordance with the order of the Seanad of this day: "That amendment No. 45 is hereby negatived in Committee, that section 48 is hereby agreed to in Committee, in respect of each of the sections undisposed of, the section is hereby agreed to in Committee, Schedules 1 to 12, inclusive, are hereby agreed to in Committee, and the...

Seanad: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2021)

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

Seanad: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: Amendments Nos. 37 and 39 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Seanad: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: Amendments Nos. 45, 46 and 52 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Seanad: Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: I welcome the Minister to the Chamber. You would have to laugh, if it were not so serious, at the phrase "extraordinary time-limited measures" contained in this Bill's explanatory memorandum. As each Bill was passed, that "time-limited nature" was stressed so heavily and yet each sunset clause extension was used in its entirety - every single one, for the full amount. When we were debating...

Seanad: Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: Of course, once July arrives the legislation will lapse and we will be free from restrictions - wink wink, nudge nudge. I hope the Minister realises there is no coming back from this. After this, no one will take a sunset clause seriously again; no one in this room or outside it. Once you throw this integral element of legislation under the bus, there is no pulling it back. Future...

Seanad: Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: I asked the Minister something and he did not address it. Could he address it? It concerns people medically-exempt from vaccination. It has been introduced in the UK. Will the Minister look at that in Ireland?

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. Mary is a very good secretary I am sure. I thank the Minister for looking after the local authority members in this country and giving them at living wage for the first time ever. When I was elected here I had very little knowledge of what the role would entail. I will have been here two years in March. I have been navigating my way through what is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: I would also like to talk about the health committee and the Minister for Health commencing phase 1 of the review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018. I find it slightly ironic that Senator Pauline O'Reilly talked about animal welfare straight after talking about abortion and had no thought for the welfare of the unborn. There are legitimate concerns that the...