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Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: If the Senator thinks the only chance Senators have had to speak about this Bill was in the past three days, he should note that is not true.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I am just clarifying that it is open to any Senator to attend meetings of the Oireachtas joint committee on housing, not just Senators like Senator Boyhan, who did work hard on this planning Bill and contributed to amendments thereto long before the beginning of this week. I want to refer to section 51 and, in particular, amendments Nos. 186 and 187. The matter I wish to raise has been...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I have told people that the home loan offered by councils under the home loan scheme is cheaper than a mortgage. If the banks people's mortgage application, they can get a loan through the home loan scheme. Many of my friends have accessed it. From 22 July, people will be able to access funding to buy derelict and empty houses. That is a game-changer for those who have a vision or dream...

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,...

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 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: 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: 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: 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...

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

Róisín Garvey: Seven minutes is never enough. I welcome the Minister and thank him for bringing his whole team with him. I cannot imagine how he gets his head around a whole Department in 13 weeks, so I will not be looking for plan Bs or plan As from him. It is great we are at full employment in the country. It is something we have to acknowledge and be positive about. It is always easy being...

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

Róisín Garvey: Last, will Enterprise Ireland support businesses I met that cannot access supports from the Department of agriculture because they are adding value to something? For example, if a yoghurt maker adds flavour, the Department of agriculture will not support him. Can we look at the businesses that are falling between the cracks, food producers in particular, and see what the Department of...

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

Róisín Garvey: I apologise for cutting in on the Minister and will not do so again as it is rude, but if he looks at the figures for the LEOs for the uptake of the audits that lead to these grants, the target for one county was 17 for the whole year, out of 4,000 SMEs in the county, and they did five workshops. I ask specifically whether we need to look at those targets. They are very low and they are not...

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.