Results 741-760 of 1,003 for speaker:Róisín Garvey

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.

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

Róisín Garvey: Is the two day energy audit being scrapped? Is that what Mr. Clancy is saying?

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

Róisín Garvey: I got a bit carried away in the first section. I will try to talk less and let the witnesses talk more. Coming from that event, there was a sense that there is an emergency. I worry about the LEOs. I do not know if they have the capacity. They were working with businesses of between one and ten employees; now that figure is up to 50. I do not know if they have the resources or people...

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

Róisín Garvey: I deal with small businesses all the time. My sister runs two of them. They are the backbone of north Clare, where I come from. In Clare, nearly all our jobs are in the small business sector. They feel too many workshops are being offered on mentoring. Many small businesses know what they need to do; they just need financial help. There are start-ups that need help and might not know...

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

Róisín Garvey: How is 17 small businesses out of 4,000 a good target? I feel the LEOs’ targets are quite low.

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

Róisín Garvey: Energy costs are the biggest challenge they face so now is a good time. They should be dying for this kind of stuff.

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

Róisín Garvey: I make the point that the market does not need to demand it anymore actually, because the climate emergency is demanding it.

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

Róisín Garvey: The fact is that in the next seven to ten years in Ireland, we will see small businesses that are not climate resilient closing down. That is the most important thing. It needs to be clarified that it is not about economics and being market driven. We are where we are.

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

Róisín Garvey: Small businesses that are not preparing something for export have often been told that the LEOs are only dealing with startups preparing something that can be potentially exported. I do not know if they go to Enterprise Ireland or where they fit in. Some businesses have come to me looking for supports that have been told they are not preparing something that can be potentially exported....

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

Róisín Garvey: Is there a system through Enterprise Ireland where that certification is available? Does it exist?

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

Róisín Garvey: Several businesses have contacted me to say they have been told that is not the case. A baker and a cheesemaker went through a LEO and they were told: "Sorry, we do not fund second-hand." Will I tell them that is not true?

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

Róisín Garvey: Mr. Magee is the president, is he?

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

Róisín Garvey: Brilliant.

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...

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...