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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 am just thinking if you do have to get big business to try and reduce their carbon emissions, many of them have a lot of green spaces. Much of it is car parks too but you will see less car parking spaces and more small buses and hopefully there will be increased infrastructure for walking and cycling so there might be more space to turn into green areas and you could be increasing...

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

Róisín Garvey: There are some experts in the private sector. I have seen some amazing big companies which have been led by experts from abroad and they have done phenomenal work that the public sector is way behind on. I totally agree on that. The Department has a big challenge. I thank everyone for coming in. It is great to hear they are trying.

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 hope the Department will do so.

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

Róisín Garvey: Yes. It is way past desirable now. We need informed people to help us get there. We will not get there otherwise.

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

Róisín Garvey: There are 12 digital hubs in Clare. They are excellent and I have used them. The pods were fully confidential and soundproof. I used one in Ennistymon yesterday and felt there were no GDPR issues. There are good examples of hubs but it is probably not enough to leave the responsibility to the Department of Rural and Community Development alone, because remote working will be a major...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Services and Supports Provided by the State for Autistic People: Discussion (2 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: Speaking in public is a very difficult thing. I find intimidating and I have been a Senator for the past two and a half years. The first autism unit was started in my village of Inagh about 25 years ago. I am trying not to get very emotional. I am standing by a friend of mine, Dr. Susan Crawford. Dr. Crawford and her father started the first autism unit 24 years ago and she is still...

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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I thank the Department. With all the stuff we have been dealing with, it has done very successful work. There have been increases in social welfare payments, fuel allowance and the living alone allowance. I see a lot of funding coming to community and voluntary groups in my county. I cannot keep up with the demand for help to fill out forms for funding because there is so much available...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: That was one of the points I was making. When we talk about grants and funding, I believe that the SDGs must be more clearly embedded so that people can see the links. I know that Mr. Mulherin is saying that subtly all the funding is covering the SDGs, but if we want people to clearly understand the SDGs then it might be better to have the sustainable development goals embedded in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: What I see in some cases is a little bit of tokenism. People might say that it is lovely to see that little bit there which is for the bees and the birds, but then everything else is manicured and sprayed with Roundup. We must up the game as soon as possible where everything is done for biodiversity. It does not mean that it goes crazy and wild like the Serengeti, which is what some people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: Yes, but there is less work involved if they go with biodiversity.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Infrastructure (23 Feb 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I thank the Minister for his time. I know that in his role, he travels all over the country and he is up the walls so I appreciate his time. My Commencement matter is fairly straightforward. I ask him to inform the House of what plans are in place to enable farmers to have small-scale anaerobic digester plants to enable them to create their own energy. We see efforts to build giant...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Infrastructure (23 Feb 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I thank the Minister for that information. He said the strategy for the 5.7 TWh “will be agri-led, farmer-centric and will contribute positively to the sectoral emissions ceiling". It is great that it will be agri-led. We want it to be led by farmers and, in general, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. It is part of the energy thing but has to be led by that...

Seanad: Rail Network: Statements (23 Feb 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I thank the Minister for coming in. I thank him also for being the first Minister for Transport to invest in rail transport in about 70 years. It has been going rapidly downhill for a long time. There had been little meaningful difference made, and I can say that as someone who has been using the train for the last 30 years to travel to Dublin, Limerick and Galway from Clare. I have been...