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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I do not have it in front of me but I do have it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I thank Ms Flynn. I want to ask Mr. Clyne about the implementation of the optional protocol. We all agree that each state should be fully accountable at a human level. An individual should never be denied his or her human rights. Like other speakers here, I am afraid that because of the costs and the difficulties with our domestic remedies, the international procedures with the optional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: It is very clear there is no reason to delay the ratification of the optional protocol. To think that the Government and State should have every single thing perfect before we do so is nonsense and is a bureaucratic blockage for no reason.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I express my deepest condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of Vicky Phelan. She fought hard to live and she fought for others to live. I hope she is at rest. My thoughts are with her family and loved ones. I thank her for her work on behalf of all the women of Ireland. It seems almost futile to go onto my next point after speaking about Vicky Phelan but I want to express...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters (Resumed): Agriculture Industry (22 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the Minister of State and thank her for coming to the House. I requested this Commencement debate because it is a very important topic for 35,000 sheep farmers in the country and is particularly of huge interest for farmers in County Louth who have nearly 70,000 sheep between them. Today I am asking what actions have been taken by the Department since the wool feasibility study...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters (Resumed): Agriculture Industry (22 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister of State. It is good news that the meeting will start next month and I look forward to it. It is very important. Unfortunately, the wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly, and I reiterate there is a space for supporting sheep farmers in the new sheep improvement scheme. Being able to shear sheep is a sheep welfare issue. When the Minister of State said agents usually...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Local Authorities (24 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: The Minister of State is welcome. I wish him to ask the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government to engage with local authorities to request clear actions, targets and reporting regarding implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD.It is about time the Departments, local authorities and State agencies got real and serious about...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Local Authorities (24 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I reiterate what I have said to Ministers over the past number of years. Visions are not mandatory. There is no sign in this of mandatory funding to be earmarked for capacity building, for training to help communities and to help staff make sure they are not making mistakes. Staff are not making mistakes and making things inaccessible for people on purpose. They are doing it because they...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Local Authorities (24 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Northern Ireland (24 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I support the Minister in what he has been doing. The legacy of hurt and pain will never be healed and those wounds will never clear up if we allow the British Government to pass this Bill. I support the Minister in all of his work in bringing it further to the UN and to the Council of Ministers. I thank the Minister for his work on this and we support him.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the Ukrainian ambassador and support the motion that calls on us to remember the Ukrainian atrocity of Holodomor. It is very important we do these things because we are quite possibly walking into a similar atrocity in Ukraine where people have no water, heat or light and they will literally freeze over the winter. It is very important we remember the past and stay strong in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I thank Deputy Hourigan for allowing me to take her slot, as I need to leave for another meeting. I thank the Minister of State and all the officials for their time. This is a really important issue. We speak quite often about mental health at this committee. It is at the intersection of every topic we come across. I thank the Minister of State at the Department of Health for her work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the witnesses.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Like other Senators, I am anxious to get the Bill through. As Senator Seery Kearney stated, every week, people are being made wards of court. We have to put an end to that desperate system. As has been noted, discrimination is built into the Bill as it stands. That is unfortunate, and it is upsetting for many people. People contacting my office on this matter are upset and afraid. They...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I accept an awful lot of what the Minister said at the meeting. I thank him for that time and thank his officials for that meeting. My only concern about all of this is that I am uncomfortable with the language and the term "her pregnancy" because in my opinion, that anonymises the baby, the wee life that is there, by not attaching a life to the pregnancy. One can be pregnant and have an...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I congratulate the Minister on bringing forward this important legislation. I have been fighting against things I do not necessarily agree with in it but, overall, what we are doing here is very important. We see people in our constituencies go into the ward of court system far too often.That is absolutely wrong and I am proud to be part of changing that. We have to work hard now to get...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Environmental Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister of State for being here today. As Senator Boyhan said, the Minister, Deputy McConalogue contacted me to say that he could not be here because he is launching an important climate action strategy. It is important that a member of the Green Party is taking this Commencement matter. I ask that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine update the House on the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Environmental Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I agree with the Minister of State that much work has been done. I will go back to my point that farmers still have no baseline and they do not know what they are doing on the farms. I will stress that knowledge is power. If the McGreehan farm knew what tit was putting out, then it could reduce and understand what it needed to do best. It could buy into that and could work with the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I raise a positive issue that I, along with a Fianna Fáil councillor, Councillor Teresa Costello, have been working on. This time last year the national screening advisory committee put out open calls for extra checks. It highlighted a number of issues where one could make a submission to ask for things to be changed. Councillor Costello and I worked together on a proposal for an...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I, too, want to highlight and talk about the shared island unit and today's 100-year anniversary. The €190 million that has been invested in people on this island is incredible. Projects that have been talked about for decades, particularly the Narrow Water Bridge, which I have spoken about constantly, are genuine, real and concrete proof that we are bringing people closer together....