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Seanad: Delivering a World-Class Education System: Statements (12 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I support what the Senator said 100%. Gender ideology should be kept out of education, particularly primary and post-primary education. There is only one thing I want to raise and that is the education of children in foster care and the disadvantage they face. Many children who go into foster care may not go into an emergency placement within their own jurisdiction. Very often, they are...

Seanad: Delivering a World-Class Education System: Statements (12 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: Please do.

Seanad: Delivering a World-Class Education System: Statements (12 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: What about the ideology in Bí Cineálta?

Seanad: Delivering a World-Class Education System: Statements (12 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I want to ask the Minister of State-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I rise today to call for the end of prohibition, a prohibition on the free and open discussion of one of the most vital questions of our time – sex, gender and gender ideology. In a place so deeply personal to so many people’s lives, instead of a fact-based discussion in which we have recognised that each of us has spoken in good faith, we have been treated to a decade of...

Seanad: Child Trafficking and Child Sexual Exploitation Material (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: Is the Senator going to speak on the amendment?

Seanad: Child Trafficking and Child Sexual Exploitation Material (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: No.

Seanad: Child Trafficking and Child Sexual Exploitation Material (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I will speak on the amendment. I rise to speak in strong support for this amendment and to commend the Senators who have brought forward this Bill today and the amendment for its improvement. The work here of Senators Flynn, Higgins, Ruane and Black is not just legislative. It is moral, principled and necessary. For too long our laws have used the term “child pornography”,...

Seanad: Child Trafficking and Child Sexual Exploitation Material (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I support the amendment. Shockingly, a report released today by Missing Children Europe tells us a child disappears in Europe every two minutes. We need to think about that. There are many reasons children disappear, including that they run away, there is parent abduction or as a result of child migration. Indeed, Europe has seen 50,000 unaccompanied minors over the past year. There...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I welcome my Independent colleague from Cork City Council, Councillor Albert Deasy, and his wife, Anne, this afternoon. To tell the God's honest truth, I am a little bit sick of Members coming in here asking for debates with the housing Minister when Sinn Féin Members' colleagues around the country are voting against housing developments. We had that this morning for 79 houses in...

Seanad: Ireland's Economic Outlook: Statements (28 May 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I seek permission to share my time with Senators McCarthy and Clonan.

Seanad: Ireland's Economic Outlook: Statements (28 May 2025)

Sharon Keogan: The Minister is very welcome. I will jump right to the point. The most important issue facing our national economic outlook is the tariffs and the looming trade war between and decoupling of the US and the EU. However, first let us stand aside for a moment from specific governments, leaders and politicians shaping the relationship between the EU and the US. Let us stand aside from...

Seanad: Economic Competitiveness: Statements (28 May 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I am glad to have the Minister here this afternoon. I am glad we are holding these statements on our nation's economic outlook and our competitiveness in succession as it really allows us to continue on from the earlier conversation we had with the Minister for Finance. When it comes to the question of competitiveness, I am sure there will be as much said on the question of how we balance...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I call for a debate with the Minister for the environment, Deputy O’Brien, to come in to talk to us about the big problems we are seeing with the return scheme. It turns out that 90% of the plastics collected have been shipped overseas because it is just not worth processing them here. In 2024, it is estimated that we sold 1.7 billion cans and bottles, but only about 900 million have...

Seanad: Local Democracy Task Force: Statements (27 May 2025)

Sharon Keogan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Local Democracy Task Force: Statements (27 May 2025)

Sharon Keogan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Local Democracy Task Force: Statements (27 May 2025)

Sharon Keogan: No, it is not agreed. This is a really important debate on the task force.

Seanad: Local Democracy Task Force: Statements (27 May 2025)

Sharon Keogan: It is a pity we were only allocated an hour and a half for this debate. If it is agreed, it is agreed.

Seanad: Local Democracy Task Force: Statements (27 May 2025)

Sharon Keogan: I rise not just as a Senator but as someone who, like many Senators, has worked on the front lines of local government. I say without hesitation the treatment of our local government and the continued centralisation of power is a disgrace. Successive Governments, including on the other side of the House and the Green Party, stripped communities of their voices, representation and ability to...