Results 161-180 of 930 for speaker:Róisín Garvey

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)

Róisín Garvey: Just because Ireland is not an outlier for Europe, that means all of Europe could be dealing with disability badly as well. That is highly likely too. It should be good to ask specific questions as to whether a person has any tests or CT scans done and to make sure to include them. I have looked at the application form and it is not that clear. We often get caught up in convoluted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I welcome the Minister of State. It is great to have him in. I have been trying to get him in for a couple of years and so it is great that we finally got a meeting with him on the agenda. He has done a lot and is leading the way. We have never had a Minister of State with responsibility for the circular economy before us, so it is super that we finally have one now. Deputy O'Reilly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Róisín Garvey: That is what it does. I spoke to the owner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Róisín Garvey: Okay. I did not name the company; I named the festival.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I have a second round as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I am thankful for this good opportunity to talk about the circular economy. It is a very interesting subject. The circular economy concept deals with everything. It has a huge remit, including talking about recycling and reusing. It is an extensive remit, so it is good we have a Minister of State to do this properly now, because we have been struggling for years while looking at Germany,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Róisín Garvey: Sorry, can I come in again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I come from a secondary school teaching background. I used to teach maths and physics and then I spent years promoting active travel in secondary schools. I noticed that people who were getting high grades in honours physics in their leaving certificate exams were not able to use a spanner. Is there an education piece around the circular economy that needs to be brought in? The curriculum...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I asked about single use plastics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I purposely did not name the company. I have another idea. I love the waste management sites. I am like a Womble. I have got bikes, food mixers and televisions from them. I have even made a bicycle-powered smoothie maker out of stuff I got from landfill sites. However, there is no setup there to encourage people to come onto site to reuse such things as timber and bicycles. The lads...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Róisín Garvey: They must not be biodegradable, compostable or non-bleached cups.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (28 Sep 2023)

Róisín Garvey: It is a great opportunity and the sign of a democracy that we can have the leader of our country come into the Seanad in order that Senators can ask him for things and say things. In most countries these days, democracy is suffering. When we look around the world, we see that one of the last bastions of democracy is freedom of speech, in some ways. Even my European friends are often amazed...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (28 Sep 2023)

Róisín Garvey: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (28 Sep 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I am compared to the rest of ye. It is as if there is a cartoon depicting what it would be like if climate change was a hoax and we would still have clean air, happy homes and all these good things that come as a result. In debates on the issue, we often mention the Chinese, we say that we are small and ask what the point is. I want to focus on the fact that climate change is real and it...

Seanad: Road Safety: Statements (27 Sep 2023)

Róisín Garvey: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit chuig an Teach. I was delighted to hear some of the announcements he made recently around speed reduction and I thank him for that. I worked full-time for 12 years on behavioural change around car use before I became a Senator. I have worked with town, city, and village schools, and those up the mountain and where nobody else is around. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: SME Energy and Carbon Demands, Green Initiatives and Technology: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I will try to keep to the time, which I am very bad at doing. I wanted to speak to the representatives before the committee on this topic for three years so I am very excited they are here. I just tore back from a PwC Business in the Community event. What was said there is not exactly the same as what the witnesses said. I got a greater sense of urgency at that event than I am getting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: SME Energy and Carbon Demands, Green Initiatives and Technology: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Róisín Garvey: This will take two minutes. Are there national figures for the green for micro programme? Is it just County Clare where it is doing badly? What are the realistic targets? Green for micro seems like a very good, free, two-day energy audit, which is brilliant, that includes free follow-up advice and direct grants. Something I got in the budget was to make it easier for grants to be linked...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: SME Energy and Carbon Demands, Green Initiatives and Technology: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Róisín Garvey: Does Mr. Clancy mean sectorial targets?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: SME Energy and Carbon Demands, Green Initiatives and Technology: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I know they are.