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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I wish to highlight an issue I have been raising in the Seanad for a long time now, together with lots of other people, namely, the number of households living in fuel poverty in the State. It is now at pandemic levels. We have a serious issue where people living in very vulnerable households are moving into and staying in fuel poverty. I ask the Seanad this morning to support me in my...

Seanad: Passport Office: Motion (5 Oct 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I am a huge supporter of the motion and it is very simple for me. It is this island's second city and I support the motion and always have done. I am biased, being from County Louth and living between the two capital cities of this island, I believe we should have a passport office in Belfast. I am more prescriptive than the Senator who...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I, too, welcome breast cancer awareness month. It is something that is very close to my heart. My colleague, Councillor Teresa Costello, and I had a breast cancer awareness stand last weekend at the Fianna Fáil Ard-Fheis. It is incredible the number of people who came over to share their stories and knowledge and they asked questions about how to self-check. We had a nurse and a...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I wish to share a thought. This Bill is supposed to be empowering for so many people. We all could speak at length about our disappointment. However, I just want to put on the record that we are dangling a carrot in front of people, telling them that we are working towards and listening to their will and wants, and we are improving our advance healthcare directives. We are then kicking it...

Seanad: Impact of Cost of Living Issues on Young People in Ireland: Motion (28 Sep 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House to discuss this very important issue. I wrote a few notes as I listened to Senator Clonan's contribution. In conversations with friends and colleagues yesterday evening, one of the complaints I heard about the budget was the lack of new thinking in it around people with disabilities. Rather than punishing people, we should incentivise them to...

Seanad: Energy: Motion (14 Sep 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I move: That Seanad Éireann: agrees that: -while Ireland rebounded strongly from the challenges of the pandemic, in recent months it has become increasingly clear that the increase in energy prices is rendering the international economic outlook very serious; - these inflationary pressures on the price of energy have been exacerbated, to an enormous degree, by the illegal and...

Seanad: Energy: Motion (14 Sep 2022)

Erin McGreehan: The Minister is very welcome to the House. It is great to be here and starting Seanad Private Members' business on a very important issue. All of a sudden, it seems that energy is the cornerstone of everything in the economy and society in terms of how we survive but, in reality, that has always been the way. It is the fuel that feeds us, drives us, heats us and it has always been central...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Chair for his indulgence, as I am not a committee member. The Minister spoke recently at the energy summit. He referenced the work of EnergyCloud and how we should use the surplus renewable energy rather than dumping it when, as we all recognise, there are so many people in energy poverty. I looked at the retail value of what was dumped in 2020, and it is way over €300...

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jul 2022)

Erin McGreehan: The Minister is welcome to the House. I will not speak for too long but I really welcome the Bill. It is important we work to enact this Bill to address the significant inadequacies outlined by the Minister. Fantastic effort is made by so many of our GALs around the country in looking after children who need that care. It is important to empower both the child and the guardian ad litemto...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Erin McGreehan: The Minister is welcome. The committee often speaks about education and how it is the key to many things and a life that people might now have expected but because the door was opened, it is there. I am an example of someone where education was opened to me because of grants which enabled me to go to university. As I said last week, there is absolutely nothing that makes me better than...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Erin McGreehan: The funding and PATH 4 is something the third-level institution will draw down, perhaps annually. It would be positive if funding could not be drawn down if targets were not met. A total of 771 staff is not a huge number -----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Erin McGreehan: ----when you think of the number of staff in, say DkIT or the Louth and Meath Education and Training Board, LMETB, further education. That is quite a minimum number of staff. Were there targets which were not met and funding not released? As the Minister knows, the people go after the money. I would appreciate it if the Department could look into that and put in targets and a clear...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (13 Jul 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important issue that involves saving lives. It is of utmost importance to many women, men and families all round the country. I have worked with my Fianna Fáil colleague, Councillor Teresa Costello, in South Dublin County Council on many breast care issues. This is another issue that she and I...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (13 Jul 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister of State. It is good news that the advisory group will report. I very much welcome the ongoing work by the Department in all services to reduce waiting lists, increase care and improve outcomes for many patients. I will follow up with the Department on specific details about the waiting lists and ask which services will be expanded in the short term before the advisory...

Seanad: Teachtaireachtaí ón Dáil - Messages from Dáil (13 Jul 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Dáil Éireann has agreed, on this 13th day of July 2022, to the amendments made by Seanad Éireann to the Sick Leave Bill 2022. Dáil Éireann has agreed, on this 13th day of July 2022, to the amendments made by Seanad Éireann to the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022. Dáil Éireann has agreed, on this 13th day of July 2022, to the amendments made...

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Jul 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Amendment No. a1 on the first additional list of amendments, dated today, is in the name of Senator Mullen, but the Senator is not in the House to move the amendment.

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Jul 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Amendment No. b1 is in the name of Senator Mullen. He is not here to move it.

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Jul 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Amendment No. c1 is in the name of Senator Mullen. He is not present so he cannot move it.

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Jul 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Yes.

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Jul 2022)

Erin McGreehan: You may speak to amendment No. 1a to section 7 when it comes up.