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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: Time is up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I thank the Cathaoirleach for letting me in to the committee. The Minister said something very interesting about requiring transformational change and that we cannot be doing business as usual. To that end, the civil servants have been there longer than the Minister. The Minister is new to the role. We have a monumental challenge that we never had before. We have never had a climate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I read that the Minister was inspired by the Burren farmers-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: -----so I know all about it, but how do we ensure the inspectors will understand what to do?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I will just make a couple of final points before the Minister goes. It is nice to have him in the room. Apart from increasing feed production in Ireland, what about increasing food production? For example, we import 140,000 tonnes of potatoes from the UK every year. It is not as if we do not know how to grow a spud in Ireland. If we are looking at carbon footprint, that would be one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: On the short supply chains, I know it sounds kitsch and romantic, but I think we are missing a trick with farmers' markets. There are not many farmers at most farmers' markets. There are lots of other cool things. The Minister talked about short supply chains. That is the whole problem. When there is a monopoly on slaughtering, it rules out a lot of the possibilities. The most...

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: Tá an-áthas orm a bheith anseo ar Lá Idirnáisiúnta na mBan. Is mór an onóir dom a bheith mar bhean sa Seomra seo. Tá níos mó ban ag teastáil. Mar a dúirt an tAire, níl ach 23% sa Dáil agus 39% sa Seanad. Is mór an trua é sin. It is a huge honour to be a woman in this House. I never in my life realised how...

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: Since women come from a patriarchy, we may sometimes undervalue women ourselves, because that is part of our societal expectation. One might presume that the doctor is a man and the nurse is a woman, and so on. People catch themselves on over the years once they become more aware of how embedded the patriarchy and inequality are in society. We are all sexist. I am not just blaming men for...

Seanad: Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: Díreach cosúil leis. Is cúpla sibh.

Seanad: Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: Tá áthas orm a bheith anseo inniu agus mé ag caint faoinár dteanga álainn. Ní gá go mbeadh an Seanadóir buartha. Is fearr i gcónaí Gaeilge bhriste ná Béarla cliste. Is cóir dó é sin a choimeád ina intinn. For people who are not speaking Irish today, it is better to speak a little bit of Irish than to speak...

Seanad: Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: The guilt people hold nearly puts me off speaking Irish because people feel so bad. People should stop blaming themselves if they cannot speak Irish. They just did not pick it up in school, whatever way it was taught at the time, which is why we need 50% of the marks to go to the spoken language. It does not matter what the cause of the guilt is but I wish people would stop feeling guilty...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: White Paper on Enterprise Policy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I thank the officials for coming in. I will focus on a couple of specific areas. The climate action and energy policy unit fed into this White Paper. Did it give the Department targets? How much of that was taken on board? I am thinking specifically of the constant challenge of economic growth, the climate emergency and reducing our carbon emissions. Let us call a spade a spade - that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: White Paper on Enterprise Policy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I meant in the digital sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: White Paper on Enterprise Policy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I do not envy the officials.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: White Paper on Enterprise Policy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: For two days. I know it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: White Paper on Enterprise Policy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: That was in my budget submission to the then Minister, the Taoiseach Deputy Varadkar. There is no point in having a green for micro programme if the companies do not know how to follow through.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: White Paper on Enterprise Policy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I did not mean to grow employment. I meant to reduce their energy bills.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: White Paper on Enterprise Policy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: It is great that we have consultants whom we can pay to do a lot of things but there needs to be deeper understanding within the LEOs on why it is important and the targets. I do not feel this is there. I cannot judge all of them but before I had the budget meeting with the Taoiseach when he was the Minister I did a lot of research on this. The LEOs admitted they did not have the expertise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: White Paper on Enterprise Policy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: It is everywhere.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: White Paper on Enterprise Policy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: Does the Department have experts on science or energy working for it? My fear is that every Department will spend millions on paying consultants because we do not have expertise within the Departments. It would make much more economic sense for every Department to look to employ people who have the expertise we need. A reduction of 35% is a massive challenge, when many people are content...