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Seanad: Deportation Moratorium (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: I will be supporting this legislation. I congratulate the Minister and Paul on their great news. My issue concerns the roughly 200 unaccompanied minors who come into the country every year. What happens to them? I am not sure what we can do about this situation, but I sometimes have the privilege of looking after these children when they arrive at Dublin Airport. They come into my home....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: I raise the issue of local authority rental sector arrears, which are becoming chronic. The 31 local authorities are the main providers of housing for people who cannot afford housing from their own means. As of December 2019, local authority rental sector arrears stood at almost €86 million, more than €20 million higher than the figure at the end of 2014. This is a further...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Planning Framework (16 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: I sincerely thank the Cathaoirleach for selecting my Commencement matter and welcome the Minister of State who has come here to respond to my question. I previously served as a county councillor in Meath and, therefore, realise how vitally important clarity is for everyone in the formation and execution of housing policy and development plans. I seek clarity for the public who need housing,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Planning Framework (16 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister for his response and I will try to respond in one minute. The original projections of the ESRI for the population were developed using best practice. The input assumptions of the adjustments made by the Department for policy-based intervention are questionable. It should be noted that the migration assumptions used were and continue to be far below the historical data...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Just Transition (17 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. I wish him and his family a very happy Christmas.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (17 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: I thank Senator Doherty for raising this question. I know of the great work Karen Byrne, the principal of that school, does. It is an important subject for all those in special education. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, for coming in and wish her and her family a very happy Christmas.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Defence Forces (17 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: The Senator may have 30 seconds.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Defence Forces (17 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister of State and the Senators. I wish the Minister of State, Ann and the children a very happy Christmas.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: I want to raise the value and importance of human connection. Kindness and love are the real currency of life. The importance of one human being in another person's life is more important when that person is a child. These human connections are formed in the earliest years of our lives. This human connection becomes more important when the child feels safe and confides in someone that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: I, too, wish everybody in the House a happy Christmas. I thank Martin, Bridget and all the staff here for making me feel so welcome over the past six months. I say to all my colleagues in the Seanad that I have enjoyed my time here over the past six months. The work is certainly challenging. These have been the most challenging of times for us all. One can hear the pain felt this morning...

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: I will try to be as quick as I can. Since I have come into the House, I have been advocating for councillors' pay. Today the ladies and gentlemen of Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party will pass this Bill. Why do they not just amend it now to include the issue of councillors' pay? They should stop talking and walk the walk. They have the power to do so. They should not pass...

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: They should stand up for the councillors of this country.

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: The Members can do it.

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: There is no point talking about it anymore. I have written to the Taoiseach and asked him for a meeting. I will go to his clinic in Cork if I need to do so to get a meeting about councillor's pay.

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: This is in the Government Senators' hands today.

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: No. Amendments from the Opposition were not allowed;, only amendments from the Government parties were. I ask the Government parties not to pass this Bill.

Seanad: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Second Stage (18 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: I welcome the Minister of State to the Seanad. At around 11 o'clock on the morning of 22 December 2012, I got the phone call about the death of Shane McEntee, our Minister for Justice's dad. I remember the amount of online abuse he received coming up to that time, which went on over a period of a few months. I knew the individual who continued to harass Shane McEntee at the time and I rang...

Seanad: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: Section 2, which creates a new offence, reads: (1) A person who distributes, publishes or threatens to distribute or publish an intimate image of another person— (a) without that other person’s consent, and (b) with intent to cause harm to, or being reckless as to whether or not harm is caused to, the other person, is guilty of an offence. I note that the maximum...

Seanad: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: I thought Senator Ruane had gone on to section 2.

Seanad: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: My apologies, Acting Chairman.