Results 241-260 of 1,195 for speaker:Erin McGreehan

Seanad: Air Accident Investigation Unit Final Report into R116 Air Accident: Statements (18 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: The Minister of State is very welcome for what is an incredibly important debate. Not only is it about recognising the lives lost and grieving families but it is also important so the Government can listen and implement all the recommendations. We must listen to the expertise in this House as well, as Members have clearly highlighted and articulated some really valid points. We must create...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, namely, that the Horticultural Peat (Temporary Measures) Bill 2021 be taken before No. 1 on the Order Paper. We all know the Bill is really important. I commend the Leader on her work on it. It is necessary to stop the hypocritical practice of importing peat. I wish to highlight the report of the Ombudsman, Mr. Peter Tyndall, called...

Seanad: Horticultural Peat (Temporary Measures) Bill 2021: First Stage (23 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2021 and the Environmental Protection Agency Acts 1992 to 2011 to make exceptional provision for peat extraction for the purpose of horticulture for a temporary period in the public interest in order to mitigate the adverse consequences resulting, or likely to result from an...

Seanad: Horticultural Peat (Temporary Measures) Bill 2021: First Stage (23 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Children in Care and Children Leaving Care: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: The Minister is very welcome. It is a very important issue and Senator Keogan really highlights it. I always enjoy listening to her on this issue because she teaches us all an awful lot. I was struck by her commentary last week on the Order of Business in respect of the lives we are losing under State care. The Minister has a great responsibility. It is almost relentless. There are...

Seanad: Paediatric Scoliosis Services: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the Minister of State. I will be brief, given much has been said. The fact is we are again talking about this issue in the House but we should not be. We should not have to stand here, time and again, on behalf of families and make phone calls on their behalf. As Senator Maria Byrne noted, their children are becoming disabled because of a failure of the State and the HSE to do...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: I too want to lend my support to the secretarial assistants. As a former secretarial assistant who also worked in this House I am fully behind them and they need proper pay. The main reason I stand in the Chamber this morning is to ask the Deputy Leader for a debate on energy and on our fuel and energy security. The hauliers are coming to Dublin today beeping their horns and highlighting...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: Does Senator Mark Wall have anything more to add?

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: He did.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: Does the Minister of State want to speak on the amendment?

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: Amendment No. 17 has already been discussed with amendment No. 8.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: It has already been discussed with amendment No. 8.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: It has already been discussed. Does the Senator wish to comment generally?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: Hear, hear. I agree with the Cathaoirleach's sentiments. Today is day 1 of 16 days of action against gender-based violence. For the next 16 days, I urge Senators as basic humans, as legislators, as parents and as sisters or brothers to consider how we can act at an individual level to eradicate gender-based violence. They say that domestic violence has been the shadow pandemic for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: I want to declare the beginning of the meeting that my sister, Lorna McGreehan, is one of witnesses. I am very proud of my sister who has come in today and it is great to have sisters doing it for themselves today. I will not be directing any of my questions towards Lorna as I do that regularly anyway. I thank the members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: Everyone knows why I wanted to be a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Disability Matters. My sister inspires me. She is my driving force every time I engage with the committee and in every act I do in this regard. I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. I am grateful for all of their comments. What has come across is being othered, not being heard, not being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: The witnesses are very welcome to the meeting this morning. It has been very educational. I met with Headway and the Neurological Association of Ireland previously and they highlighted many of the issues, but it is good to hear the personalised real-life stories and the practical difficulties for people. To be honest, it is overwhelming to be confronted with those stories. I cannot...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Northern Ireland Protocol and Ongoing Implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Withdrawal Agreement: Engagement with Mr. Maroš Šefovi (15 Nov 2021)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the Commissioner. As someone who lives on the Border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, I very much appreciate the work that the Commissioner and his officials and the Commission have been doing in recent times. There is an old 17th century saying Perfidious Albion which relates to the disingenuous way that the British Government and British Monarchy have acted in...