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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Erin McGreehan: It is really important that we are here together to discuss this really important issue. It is one of the most common issues we come across as public representatives. Exhausted families and children with unmet needs come to us begging for help. This issue is not just about unmet needs or waiting lists. It is actually a human rights, quality of life and opportunities in life issue. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Erin McGreehan: It is really important that we are here together to discuss this really important issue. It is one of the most common issues we come across as public representatives. Exhausted families and children with unmet needs come to us begging for help. This issue is not just about unmet needs or waiting lists. It is actually a human rights, quality of life and opportunities in life issue. It is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jun 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the ambassador to the House. I offer my deepest condolences on the death of former Senator Jackman. I support Senator Ó Donnghaile about having a passport office in Belfast. Belfast is the second city on this island and it should have a passport office. I have supported this for many years. I concur with all the Senator's comments. I want to highlight rural Ireland at its...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Like Senator Seery Kearney, I welcome the concept of the amendment. We have worked with many people through pre-legislative scrutiny and all of our work on the Bill. It would be incredible to think there is no step beyond simply saying there is no birth certificate. A process, procedure, advice and somewhere to go to be able to gain more access or increased access to who one is, where one...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Erin McGreehan: At the committee we spoke at length about this section and the fact that the information session was going to be mandatory. In a perfect world none of this would be necessary and we would not have to work within the realms of our awful history. I would agree with Senator Seery Kearney about registered letters. In the opinion of most lay people, a registered letter makes common sense....

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Erin McGreehan: That is democracy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (26 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I apologise for not being here earlier; I was at a different committee meeting. I have read the opening statements. I do not want to go over questions that might have been asked so I will make more of a comment. It was depressing reading all the statements. It seems relentless. Every time people like the witnesses come in here, we feel we have such an uphill battle of unmet needs. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: It is a real pleasure to have Mr. O'Connor here and to listen to him. As Deputy Brendan Smith said, I hope this is being written down. I am from north Louth and I never thought that the Good Friday Agreement would happen. I remember sitting in my history class in Bush Post Primary School discussing this. There were only four of us in our history class and we had a little liberty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: We used discuss this and see how was it we were to make an agreement and was it possible. I was a stanch Fianna Fáiler but I did not think it would be possible. I remember sitting, talking to Mr. McGoey, thinking that we were not doing it. Then it did-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: -----and politics worked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: From that day on, I wanted to work in politics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: For me, I sat around the kitchen table talking about this. I did not have a vote on it but my family did. The removal of Articles 2 and 3 was a big issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: There was anger. There was fury. There was hope. Hope won out then in the end because we had to do this, we could not go on anymore and we had to make that compromise. For us sitting at the kitchen table in the Cooley Mountains, the Good Friday Agreement was a starting point and not the end point. It was the starting point to what we would have in Ireland and a re-unification. It put...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Yes, I will have to leave. I apologise for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I will listen back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I would love to. We are clearing out. Deputy Brendan Smith has the floor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I am an optimist when it comes to the Good Friday Agreement and wanted to see what the possibilities of that brought. I thank Mr. O'Connor for his part in that.