Results 201-220 of 1,003 for speaker:Róisín Garvey
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: Is that by 2030?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: Seven years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: I could not find that on the SEAI's website at all. I literally could not find it anywhere.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: It was hard to find the counties they served as well. We have it to make it customer-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: A one-stop-shop, for example.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: I thank Mr. Sharkey.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: Does Skillnet receive funding from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications at all?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: Skillnet has not received any funding for climate related activities from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. I think enterprise received funding from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications before it was given to Skillnet. There seems to be some overlap. Have the various organisations met to figure out how not to waste resources, including...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: That was a third level qualification.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: For example, civil or mechanical engineers who have worked in their areas for many years who want to become electricians, plumbers or qualify in some other registered trade have to go back to become an apprentice with the 16-year olds who left school without a junior certificate to get the recognition to be a tradesperson. We do not have enough tradespeople. Everyone here will agree and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: Is the SEAI aiming for businesses with more than 50 employees because the LEOs are now dealing with businesses with up to 50 employees?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: It is energy spend. The number of employees is irrelevant, so there is a bit of overlap.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: I have met them
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: My experience is from Clare local development and volunteers who have reached out to me for planning information they could not get from the SEAI to make events happen locally. Perhaps there is an SEAI mentor, but Clare local development, community workers and volunteers, like me and others, are on the ground making it happen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: I will turn it around. I am wondering how we can help, what else needs to be done and what more supports the representatives need. They have huge challenges. In some ways, everybody in every business wants to go green for lots of different reasons. It is the witnesses' job to make it happen and to make sure the skills are there. I know there are targets for engagement but the carbon...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: Will the SEAI let people know that? Many people have said to me that they cannot afford to do that deep retrofit and sorry, but they are out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: Should we promote that on national television and places like that? This is so people do not think they have to borrow €100,000 to go for a deep retrofit and there is no other choice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: I understand all that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: You can just change your fridge, or lightbulbs or whatever.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Róisín Garvey: If people are leasing a building, the building owner does not care about the bills for the business. Lots of small businesses are doing that now. Is any work being done on engaging landlords to show them that it is worth their while financially to increase the value of the building?