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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: Do the marine protected areas, MPAs, not need to be sorted before anything like that can be progressed? We have not passed the Bill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: It is the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, under the Department of housing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: Yes, but we have not done any work on MPAs and we will have to get that done first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: The Green Party has been pushing that for years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: The marine protected areas, however, have to be put in place in order that we will not make a mess of the sea as it is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: That has to be expedited. I hope the Minister will take that back to the Cabinet. I will read from the minutes of a meeting in a county council local enterprise office regarding productivity supports. During April and the beginning of 2024, business advisers in an LEO visited several local businesses to promote the current productivity supports, which the Minister's Department is funding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: More promotions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: If the Minister is doing all that, maybe we need to reassess the LEOs and all the money going into them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: Will there be duplication there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: That is there with the LEOs. They always answer the phone, all right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: There is a gap there. Primary processors of food-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I have deep concerns about the new national planning framework. I feel as a Government we have failed. We seem to continue with the narrative that all roads need to lead to Dublin. Under this revised framework, which only comes out every six years and has just been published, there will be no change in this idea. We set out figures for the regions and cities, including Dublin. The plans...

Seanad: Migration: Statements (10 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I thank the Minister for coming before the House to speak about this important topic. The first thing I think about this s my memory of going to England and seeing the signs that read "No dogs, no blacks, no Irish". I do not know a single Irish person who did not find that deeply offensive and extremely racist. Unfortunately, because of the stuff on social media now, there are huge...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Rental Sector (11 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I thank the Minister of State for coming in. I would have loved if had the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, come into the House to deal with this issue. It is an ongoing issue because there is a lot of scaremongering and a lot of unknowns around the Airbnb sector. We have no sight of any exemptions or plans as what is happening with regard to planning permissions or exemptions to planning for...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Rental Sector (11 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: The question I am asking today is when there will be guidance around planning exemptions for short-term lets for people who have got Airbnbs that cannot be rented out long-term. The answer has not come in that there is no timeline there. Another season has gone with lots of people who have Airbnbs living in fear and wondering whether this will be their last term. Have we sight of any...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Rental Sector (11 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: No, just the timelines.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I commend Senator Currie on the amendment. It is often the case that these decisions are made by someone in an office far removed from the situation. We see these telecommunication structures going up and, regardless of whether they are good, bad, indifferent or needed, people presume the worst about them because of the lack of communication with local communities. I have attended many...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I was going to speak to amendment No. 57.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I am sorry; I will let the other Senators finish first.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I move amendment No. 57: In page 65, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “ “transport infrastructure” is infrastructure for cyclists, pedestrians, public transport and road traffic;”. On page 65 of the Bill, between lines 28 and 29, I want to make sure that we clarify that ""transport infrastructure” is infrastructure for cyclists,...