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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I follow on from the comments of Senators regarding the shocking news of what is happening in Ukraine. I express my solidarity to the people of Ukraine on what they are going through. It has been a difficult number of weeks but today is different from the events of recent weeks because it is actually happening. People's lives have been drastically changed in the past 24 hours. I have...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: This was committed to in the national development plan last October. One cannot just change one's mind overnight but tell no one about it, with Oireachtas Members finding out about it in an email a week before Christmas. That is not the way government performs and it is not the way the Green Party should be treating us in government. This is a really significant investment in the area and...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament (23 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I thank all the MEPs for their contributions. It has been a very worthwhile discussion. To follow on from what Senator Malcolm Byrne said, I ask that they call out some of their colleagues, who went a different route in terms of supporting Russia and others. I was at the launch of a regional enterprise plan last Friday for the mid-west region of Tipperary, Clare and Limerick. The region...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I welcome the three young McGreehans to Seanad Éireann today. They should be very proud of their mother. From looking at them and how well behaved they are, I think Fianna Fáil will be well represented in Louth for the years to come. The town and village renewal scheme is an important scheme for towns and villages in my county of Tipperary. It is part of a number of schemes in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Work Permits (17 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, and thank her for taking this Commencement matter. I understand that the Tánaiste is abroad. I thank him, his staff and the Minister of State, Deputy English. While I wish to discuss the frustration among employers and people who are coming to the country with the work permit system, it is first important to acknowledge that the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Work Permits (17 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I thank the Minister of State. Her final comments are significant. A tripling of the staff numbers will obviously have an impact. It will make a big difference in March. That is to be welcomed. One of the frustrations very often expressed to us by employers is the reason they are refused. For example, in one case the owner of a steel company in Tipperary put forward three candidates for...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I support Senator Gavan's comments on University Hospital Limerick. I have no reason to disbelieve the comments he made. From all the reports I have ever heard from management in that hospital, it is believable that this happened. In fairness to the Minister for Health, the Senator would not have found out that information-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: -----if he had not come down himself without telling them. We had a meeting with him yesterday in which he said he was arriving this morning to meet them so he obviously kept what he was doing quiet and that has triggered them trying to hide patients, which is an utter disgrace. I want to ask the Acting Leader two questions. It was reported last night by Daniel McConnell that at the Fianna...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I welcome two announcements over the past 24 hours. Yesterday, Cahir, County Tipperary, was announced as being the best location in Europe in which to film. It won the European Film Commissions Network's best filming location award. It is significant for Cahir and especially for Cahir Castle. Films have been produced at the beautiful setting for years, which will only increase over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I thank Mr. Clancy and Mr. McElwee for their opening contributions and wish Mr. Clancy well in his new role. I know it is seven or eight months now but in Tipperary we are always impressed and delighted when one of our own gets to such a good and significant role. It is not that Mr. Clancy will have any bias towards his home county but he was talking about regional and rural development and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: Thanks very much.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: Hyperemesis gravidarum is a condition that around 10% of women suffer from during pregnancy. Most people who have never been through it call it morning sickness. It is nothing like morning sickness. It is a severe illness that women have for nine months of their pregnancy. It probably became well known because Kate Middleton had it the first time she had a child. Currently, there are...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I wish to raise an issue that I bring up quite a bit, namely, childcare. I wish to raise it again because almost every week it is getting worse for childcare on three levels. Parents are at their wits' end because they cannot get childcare for their kids. Parents who have been working from home for the past two years but who are now going back into the workplace and need to get childcare...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: Over recent weeks people across the country have been shocked and upset by the sad passing of Ashling Murphy and the subsequent alleged assaults against women in Kilkenny and across the country. People have been rightly upset and moved. However, on the alleged assault in Fermoy, there is somewhat of a positive story in that the two young 16-year-old boys intervened. They made a decision...

Seanad: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber and thank him for the work he has done in his Department over almost the past two years. The Fine Gael Party will not oppose this legislation. I commend Senator Mullen on the work he has done on this Bill. It seems strange that these provisions are not already in place. It seems to make perfect sense that if information is to be given it must...

Seanad: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I am even more humble than Senator Mullen but, in all seriousness, it would be very hard to disagree with this. If we can come together, we can certainly find a solution.

Seanad: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: Tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I thank the officials for their contributions. One official spoke about how this can have a real impact on rural regions. I am from an area in south Tipperary where we are an hour from Cork, Waterford, Limerick and Kilkenny. There are thousands of people who travel - or, certainly before Covid, travelled - to work. People are saying that the draft legislation as it is at the moment is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I have two quick questions on that. Mr. Mulligan spoke about remote hubs and the amount of money that is being put into them. Does he think it needs to be ramped up even more? Where I live in Tipperary, we have two excellent remote hub areas. However, the demand is increasing week on week and month on month. To manage that for companies looking to facilitate remote working, whether it is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: We have a problem, which will develop even more over the next number weeks, relating to people under the age of 40 who are looking to get recovery certificates after contracting Covid, especially during Christmas. We have a situation at present, through no fault of the people concerned, where those under the age of 40 who have had their first and second vaccines, and were going to get...