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- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (23 Nov 2021)
Sharon Keogan: I too welcome this amendment. My colleagues and I were happy on Committee Stage when the Minister indicated a positive attitude towards this amendment. I am aware that Senator Boyhan has worked with the Minister on this provision and I am glad that the role of the local authority members is being represented in this legislation. The habit of SHD applications working outside the relevant...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (23 Nov 2021)
Sharon Keogan: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (23 Nov 2021)
Sharon Keogan: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (23 Nov 2021)
Sharon Keogan: I also call on the Minister to support and accept the amendment. It is a simple amendment, not one that forces the hand of or constrains the planning authority in any way. It simply adds an express reference to the elected members of the local authority where the legislation sets out that the planning authority may meet persons who have relevant information prior to the LRD meeting. When...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (23 Nov 2021)
Sharon Keogan: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (23 Nov 2021)
Sharon Keogan: I, too, hope the Minister will accept the amendment. It will allow for increased community consultation with regard to large-scale residential developments. It will be a great improvement on what is quite often a deficit in communication with regard to SHDs. Involving community stakeholders is a must in regard to developments of this size on account of the profound impacts they will have...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (23 Nov 2021)
Sharon Keogan: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Children in Care and Children Leaving Care: Statements (23 Nov 2021)
Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. Last week, I spoke about some of the horrors in our State care system and the fact that there were 30 deaths last year, seven of which were through suicide. It makes me very sad to see our young people dying in State care. This is an area with which I am familiar. I would love to think that everything was all rosy in the garden, but I hate to...
- Seanad: Children in Care and Children Leaving Care: Statements (23 Nov 2021)
Sharon Keogan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Children in Care and Children Leaving Care: Statements (23 Nov 2021)
Sharon Keogan: Hear, hear.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2021)
Sharon Keogan: I missed a lot of the opening statements because I was in the Seanad. My sincere apologies. I heard Ms Smith speaking. She is a wonderful role model and advocate for others. Her story needs to be told a lot more. Although she had to fight hard to get to where she is, she has managed to do so. There are barriers there but Ms Smith was able to break them down. I am very much aware of...
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2021)
Sharon Keogan: Okay. Regarding the support Tusla can offer to families in difficulty, do many families contact Tusla for such family support, or are they afraid to get in touch with that organisation?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2021)
Sharon Keogan: My goodness.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2021)
Sharon Keogan: That is a shame to hear. I am disappointed to hear it, to tell the truth. I know of several families that are getting family support from Tusla. The children are still with them and the agency is supporting those families and trying to keep them together. Tusla is supporting those families financially to ensure the children do not go without. Turning to the issue of maintenance, as a...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Equality Issues (18 Nov 2021)
Sharon Keogan: I wish to take this opportunity to put before the House the significant concerns of many people regarding the proposed reforms to the equality Acts. I understand the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, has set a deadline of 29 November for the consultation on the Acts and I wish to identify for the record a very important issue that has been identified with the proposed changes. One of the proposals...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Equality Issues (18 Nov 2021)
Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister for his comments. I understand the difficulties that youth and transpeople have with regard to their sexuality. I have had many children in my care who may have been even thrown out of their homes because of their sexuality. I have had a number of transchildren in my care as a foster parent. Obviously, I have raised some issues this morning that have caused deep...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Equality Issues (18 Nov 2021)
Sharon Keogan: My point this morning is all about the safeguarding of women and children here.
- Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (18 Nov 2021)
Sharon Keogan: It nearly feels like a Fianna Fáil Ard-Fheis in here, as I remember from many years ago.
- Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (18 Nov 2021)
Sharon Keogan: It is wonderful to have the Taoiseach in the Chamber. We would love to see more of him. He is very welcome here at any time. We would have liked if his appearance before us had occurred during happier times. With the reimposition of restrictions and the prospects of lockdowns not being ruled out in the run-up to Christmas, it certainly feels like Groundhog Day again. The vaccinations...