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Seanad: Right to Housing: Motion (4 Jun 2021)

Róisín Garvey: ...but no one Bill, no matter who wrote it, would solve the housing problem overnight. However, it is a big step in the right direction. The Bill will lead to more houses being built on public land, more people being able to buy their own houses and, for the first time ever, a brilliant cost-rental scheme with security of tenure. I support this motion. It is another step in the right...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation and Reactivation of Economy: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Róisín Garvey: ...very strongly about this issue. I will not go on about it; I just wanted to make the point about the middleman. On local enterprise offices, LEOs, there are more than 248,000 small businesses in Ireland with fewer than ten employees. That is a huge number of jobs and they are the heart and soul in much of the country. These companies are often much more reliable than the bigger guys...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (20 Apr 2021)

Róisín Garvey: ...of where Macra and younger farmers are coming from as well as continuing traditional methods? I believe in the beef and dairy industries. We have to give people many choices based on the types of land they have. We want to keep people on the land as much as possible and make it as viable as possible. I have seen at first hand many farmers turn to horticulture, creating far more...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Apr 2021)

Róisín Garvey: ...are coming into Dublin come in and just leave the country. There is such good value to be given to flights coming in to other regional airports. It is also less of a carbon footprint, for example, to land in Shannon Airport. I welcome that great news today of €6.3 million for Shannon Airport, and other regional airports also benefiting. The second issue I wanted to raise only...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Impact of Brexit on Business Sector: Discussion (29 Mar 2021)

Róisín Garvey: I am pleased to have an opportunity to speak with the CEO, the manager for planning and Government relations and the people working on start-ups in Enterprise Ireland. It is great that we get to speak to them. I am grateful to the Chairman, Senator Chambers, for creating these opportunities. As the saying goes, one cannot beat talking. We are not meeting physically so it is important that...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Impact of Brexit on Business Sector: Discussion (29 Mar 2021)

Róisín Garvey: The more products we buy, the more jobs we create. That is why labelling should be brought up by Enterprise Ireland. It is not just me and includes Bord Bia and other people. It is an old problem we have had for years. My sister has a very successful goat's cheese business, St. Tola Goat’s Cheese, and she has fought the labelling issue for years as a small producer. Imports are...

Seanad: National Development Plan: Statements (22 Mar 2021)

Róisín Garvey: ...as an amendment to our strategy on greenways in the Green Party policy on rural development. I urge the Minister to look at that because before we decide where greenways are going, we must engage with the landowners.Best practice is not sticking to the old railway line or trails and sometimes it can involve moving to the edge of the land. We need to consider that because once we have the...

Seanad: Covid-19 (Aviation): Statements (26 Feb 2021)

Róisín Garvey: I welcome the Minister of State. This is a very rough time for her to be landed with the aviation brief, if she will excuse the pun. I do not envy her at this time. No-one saw what was coming down the tracks or the runway as the case may be. We are where we are and I believe that both the Minister and Minister of State have done their utmost to deal with this unforeseen situation. I...

Seanad: Response to Covid-19 (Social Protection): Statements (1 Feb 2021)

Róisín Garvey: ...health are asking whether there is any way in which the Department can consider allowing them to join a scheme because it would be an outlet for them.They have the farm but there is no company on the land. The cows are great but that will only get one so far. I wanted to get an update on remote hubs. Great work has been done on DigiClare and in other places, with WiFi hubs being set up....

Seanad: Annual Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015: Statements (9 Dec 2020)

Róisín Garvey: ...and we have the solutions being practised already. I watched a broadcast on the FBD Young Farmer of the Year competition. The top farmer for biodiversity award was won by a farmer in Cratloe, County Clare. His land has a completely different type of soil so he utilises different farming methods but he won an award for biodiversity and farming. I say all this because we will have to...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Garvey: ..., climate change and who knows what else is coming down the road. To that end, I would value access to the figures the Department of Foreign Affairs has on exactly what we are importing from England. I hear all sorts of figures, such as 42,000 tonnes of potatoes and onions and all sorts of mad things. If we cannot grow potatoes in Ireland, there is something seriously wrong. I know the...

Seanad: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Róisín Garvey: ...programme the Government has implemented. These include a new €20 million ready for customs support scheme. This financial incentive of up to €9,000 is available through Enterprise Ireland. Skillnet Ireland has also launched a free online customs training programme called Clear Customs. The clear message from all of these groups is not to wait but it act now. For...

Seanad: Flooding: Statements (18 Nov 2020)

Róisín Garvey: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan. I do not know if our paths have crossed previously. Last winter was the wettest ever recorded in Ireland. Over 30 towns and villages experienced flooding, with over 600 homes evacuated. Some €48 million is due to be spent by 2021 on flood defences alone. Flooding and storm damage have cost the taxpayer over €3 billion in...

Seanad: Biodiversity: Motion (5 Nov 2020)

Róisín Garvey: ...are difficult or impossible to replace, and that the future of humanity is inseparable from the future of nature; - the decline of nature and biodiversity is primarily due to human drivers, including changes in land use such as agricultural expansion and urban growth, the direct exploitation of organisms via unsustainable harvesting, logging, hunting and fishing, the impact of climate...

Seanad: Biodiversity: Motion (5 Nov 2020)

Róisín Garvey: ...the Biodiversity Regeneration In a Dairying Environment, BRIDE, project after the lovely River Bride, which is a tributary of the beautiful River Blackwater. The BRIDE project uses a multispecies grassland mix, which contains several grass species, including Timothy and Cocksfoot, and several wildflower species such as plantain, red and white clover and yarrow to benefit pollinators and a...

Seanad: Biodiversity: Motion (5 Nov 2020)

Róisín Garvey: We will have to support the workers, the farmers. They are the most important people we need to engage with to protect our land and planet for future generations.

Seanad: Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Second Stage (30 Jul 2020)

Róisín Garvey: ...in the scheme because they have not been included up to now and I have had several phone calls from farmers who could use a cargo bike, regular bike or electric bike to go to their work around the land and care for cattle, carry food and so on. It would be nice if the Government could include farmers in that scheme. Second, while it is important that we have raised the amount of money...

Seanad: Skellig Star Direct Provision Centre and the Future of Direct Provision: Statements (30 Jul 2020)

Róisín Garvey: I have no doubt that the Minister and the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs are just as concerned as all the people in this room about the current issue that has been landed in their laps. I will read from a letter by a group of asylum seekers staying in a direct provision centre because their voice is not in this Chamber. It states, "Dear Ministers and IPAS. We are the residents of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jul 2020)

Róisín Garvey: ...coming into Dublin to places like Shannon.Shannon Airport is like a ghost town at the moment. In the west, we are very dependent on transatlantic flights from America. The fact is that if one lands a flight from America in Shannon as opposed to Dublin, carbon emissions are immediately reduced by 3%. That is something positive with regard to tourism, sustainable transport and the just...