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Seanad: Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after “Seanad Éireann:” and substitute the following: “- welcomes the extensive commitments by the Government to address long-standing challenges in the early learning and childcare sector; - welcomes the increase to over €1bn per annum in State funding for the sector, reaching the investment target set in 2018,...

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Amendments Nos. 14 and 15 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Amendment Nos. 18 and 46 are related and may be discussed together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Inclusive Participation in Political and Public Life: Discussion (1 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: The witnesses are welcome, as are those in the Public Gallery. When I hit 18 years of age, the first thing I wanted to do was get on the ballot paper. Actually, I did not mean to use the term "ballot paper", but that too. I wanted to start voting and to use my vote. It was such a major thing for me. Voting is a family occasion and a community occasion. We go to Bush Post-Primary School...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I congratulate the Cathaoirleach and the Seanad Office on the incredible work that was done to celebrate yesterday. It was a great day. It was important to celebrate 100 years of this great House and its work, with over 300 Members over the last century doing their best, coming in here every day to try to have an impact on legislation and to make themselves heard. I want to raise the...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: The Minister is welcome to the House. I also very much welcome the Bill. It is another step along the way of trying to make our legislation more equitable, look to families and people's lives and the all-elusive work-life balance we all strive for. I am sure that as Members we fail at that. I laugh at the irony of us bringing in this legislation while our lives are very much imbalanced....

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare (Dogs) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister of State for being here for this important discussion. Every so often we see horrendous acts by dogs or unto dogs and this entire topic comes to the fore. It is all over the media and in the papers and then it goes. I genuinely believe that each Department then breathes a sigh of relief that it can sit in the mess for a wee while longer. We have been delaying change...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare (Dogs) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Wind Energy: Statements (25 Jan 2023)

Erin McGreehan: I will be brief as I know we have a time schedule. I welcome the Minister to the House. I spoke to him previously of my belief in the power of wind energy and what it can do in this country. I am so ambitious for what we have. We do not have many natural resources on this island but we have wind and it blows for free. We have always had it but it is only now that we are able to harness...

Seanad: Transport Police Service: Motion (25 Jan 2023)

Erin McGreehan: I congratulate Senator Fitzpatrick on the work she has done on the motion. The Fianna Fáil Dublin group has been doing a lot of work in this area: conducting research and speaking to all the stakeholders. There is consensus across the House that transport workers should feel safe. As previous Senators said, nobody should go to work filled with fear of the unknown or be afraid that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the witnesses to the committee. As a mammy, it has been an interesting listen. I have learned a few things. This type of learning is for every parent. We engage in courses to do many different things and parenting courses, as Mr. Buttery said, are often looked at with prejudice or scepticism, and they should not be. We should all be learning to improve ourselves in many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Erin McGreehan: Where is the funding coming from for that? Why is it not State-led? Obviously, the witnesses' organisations have gone to the State for the roll-out. Again, we are going to the volunteer sector to ensure this is reaching the right families at the right time, although probably too late. I am interested in the case study in Australia, which stated 38% of the population. Again we are seeing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Erin McGreehan: The witnesses are very welcome. It is great to have them with us. I will not delay with any pontification but go straight to questions. In the context of recruitment Mr. O'Regan touched on many points I was thinking of asking about. Has the HSE undertaken research to see what are the blockages? Is it just that pool? If the HSE got any answers, have any changes been made to the posts...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Erin McGreehan: It is a Department of Health policy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Erin McGreehan: It is hard to implement it for legal clarity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Erin McGreehan: I want to follow up on one comment Professor MacLachlan made. He mentioned the pressure on the teams. We have massive caseloads. How is the HSE managing the risk from so many children being on the waiting list with such large caseloads? Where is the clinical and ethical guidance on all of that? It must be a huge burden and it is a societal burden because it involves the staff and the...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 Jan 2023)

Erin McGreehan: I understand what we are talking about with regard to residing in the same household, but there are situations where an individual who is the sole person picking up the slack is not any of the persons specified, although there are not many such situations so we are not opening up the Bill in an extreme way. Particularly in rural areas, that person might be an elderly man who is no relation...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 Jan 2023)

Erin McGreehan: I echo what other Senators have been saying. I wish to speak on behalf of women in Dundalk Women's Aid with whom I work quite often and who struggle to get out of domestic violence. We heralded this legislation as positive - which it is. However, we are putting up an extra barrier with a potential financial penalty and, possibly, safety risks and a lack of privacy. I cannot remember the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Feb 2023)

Erin McGreehan: I will continue the conversation about how we support our local communities. This morning the Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, launched a guide for inclusive community engagement in local planning and decision making. It is a good start to many things but I briefly glanced through the document and there is nothing compulsory in it. It is guidance. There is no financial support to...