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Seanad: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (29 Mar 2021)

Róisín Garvey: Will the Minister stand up, please? I am sorry; I really apologise for that.

Seanad: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (29 Mar 2021)

Róisín Garvey: I thank the Minister for that.

Seanad: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (29 Mar 2021)

Róisín Garvey: I ask the Senator to allow the Minister to continue without interruption.

Seanad: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (29 Mar 2021)

Róisín Garvey: The Minister must conclude in two minutes as there is a sos scheduled to allow for sanitisation of the Chamber before the next business commences.

Seanad: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (29 Mar 2021)

Róisín Garvey: One minute. I will be killed, but anyway-----

Seanad: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (29 Mar 2021)

Róisín Garvey: I thank the Minister for his time. Before I ask the acting Leader of the House to suspend the sitting, I wish to say it is important that we recognise that all people in the House are humans and deserve respect. It is good to be reminded that the Minister is also a human who deserves respect. My heart went out to him when I heard that his house had been targeted. There is no "us" and...

Seanad: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (29 Mar 2021)

Róisín Garvey: I would like Senator Mullen to respect me while I am in the Chair.

Seanad: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (29 Mar 2021)

Róisín Garvey: May I finish my sentence? The Senator has been in this system much longer than I have. He knows we are having statements. Nowhere here does it say we can have a one-on-one with the Minister during the statements. I am just doing my job as I am instructed to do by the people who know way better than Senator Mullen how to run this House. We should bear that in mind.

Seanad: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (29 Mar 2021)

Róisín Garvey: I thank the Minister for his time, and I am really sorry about today.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Mar 2021)

Róisín Garvey: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Tá áthas orm deis a bheith agam labhairt ar an mBille seo. It is a fairly straightforward Bill which provides for an extension of the emergency provisions by three months. Those provisions may need to be reviewed again in three months' time but we all hope we will be back to some kind of semi-normal state by 12 July and that rent...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Mar 2021)

Róisín Garvey: I want to highlight the prohibition of rent increases is important and the fact that people cannot increase rent at this time. We are coming into the summer and where I live, there are individuals who see dollar signs and think about hoisting people out of houses in May for June, July and August in order to charge ridiculous rents. We see it happening all over north Clare and it has led to...

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: Carpe diem. I do not know when I will see the witnesses again.

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

Róisín Garvey: That is for greening of companies.

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: That is super. Is that all on the website?

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 would love that. I will promote Enterprise Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roadmap to Social Inclusion: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Róisín Garvey: I thank the Minister of State for coming here and giving of his time, particularly at this hour. Some very interesting topics have been raised. In the past I have worked with the FoodCloud and meals-on-wheels. Both entities go hand in hand. I have seen firsthand the amazing resources they supply to the community sector that create magic meals for people, which is phenomenal. We have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roadmap to Social Inclusion: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Róisín Garvey: From my experience of community employment schemes and how they operate in my home constituency, on an annual basis each CE manager decides the programme of work for the CE scheme workers. Can the scheme take into account biodiversity and climate issues? I ask because many of the schemes involve spraying Roundup on weeds, cutting lawns and maintaining green spaces, which is great but I want...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Waste Management (22 Mar 2021)

Róisín Garvey: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire agus gabhaim buíochas leis as ucht an t-am a thabhairt don ábhar an-tábhachtach seo. I thank the Minister for his time on this important issue. All plastics come from fossil fuels. To produce a plastic bottle takes the equivalent of filling one-quarter of the bottle with oil. It takes up to 500 years for plastic to disappear. Recycling just...