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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I congratulate the Cathaoirleach and the Seanad Office on the incredible work that was done to celebrate yesterday. It was a great day. It was important to celebrate 100 years of this great House and its work, with over 300 Members over the last century doing their best, coming in here every day to try to have an impact on legislation and to make themselves heard. I want to raise the...

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Amendments Nos. 14 and 15 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Amendment Nos. 18 and 46 are related and may be discussed together.

Seanad: Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after “Seanad Éireann:” and substitute the following: “- welcomes the extensive commitments by the Government to address long-standing challenges in the early learning and childcare sector; - welcomes the increase to over €1bn per annum in State funding for the sector, reaching the investment target set in 2018,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I, too, want to highlight and talk about the shared island unit and today's 100-year anniversary. The €190 million that has been invested in people on this island is incredible. Projects that have been talked about for decades, particularly the Narrow Water Bridge, which I have spoken about constantly, are genuine, real and concrete proof that we are bringing people closer together....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Environmental Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister of State for being here today. As Senator Boyhan said, the Minister, Deputy McConalogue contacted me to say that he could not be here because he is launching an important climate action strategy. It is important that a member of the Green Party is taking this Commencement matter. I ask that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine update the House on the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Environmental Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I agree with the Minister of State that much work has been done. I will go back to my point that farmers still have no baseline and they do not know what they are doing on the farms. I will stress that knowledge is power. If the McGreehan farm knew what tit was putting out, then it could reduce and understand what it needed to do best. It could buy into that and could work with the...

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

Erin McGreehan: I raise a positive issue that I, along with a Fianna Fáil councillor, Councillor Teresa Costello, have been working on. This time last year the national screening advisory committee put out open calls for extra checks. It highlighted a number of issues where one could make a submission to ask for things to be changed. Councillor Costello and I worked together on a proposal for an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Inclusive Participation in Political and Public Life: Discussion (1 Dec 2022)

Erin McGreehan: The witnesses are welcome, as are those in the Public Gallery. When I hit 18 years of age, the first thing I wanted to do was get on the ballot paper. Actually, I did not mean to use the term "ballot paper", but that too. I wanted to start voting and to use my vote. It was such a major thing for me. Voting is a family occasion and a community occasion. We go to Bush Post-Primary School...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: Like other Senators, I am anxious to get the Bill through. As Senator Seery Kearney stated, every week, people are being made wards of court. We have to put an end to that desperate system. As has been noted, discrimination is built into the Bill as it stands. That is unfortunate, and it is upsetting for many people. People contacting my office on this matter are upset and afraid. They...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I accept an awful lot of what the Minister said at the meeting. I thank him for that time and thank his officials for that meeting. My only concern about all of this is that I am uncomfortable with the language and the term "her pregnancy" because in my opinion, that anonymises the baby, the wee life that is there, by not attaching a life to the pregnancy. One can be pregnant and have an...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I congratulate the Minister on bringing forward this important legislation. I have been fighting against things I do not necessarily agree with in it but, overall, what we are doing here is very important. We see people in our constituencies go into the ward of court system far too often.That is absolutely wrong and I am proud to be part of changing that. We have to work hard now to get...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Local Authorities (24 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: The Minister of State is welcome. I wish him to ask the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government to engage with local authorities to request clear actions, targets and reporting regarding implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD.It is about time the Departments, local authorities and State agencies got real and serious about...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Local Authorities (24 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I reiterate what I have said to Ministers over the past number of years. Visions are not mandatory. There is no sign in this of mandatory funding to be earmarked for capacity building, for training to help communities and to help staff make sure they are not making mistakes. Staff are not making mistakes and making things inaccessible for people on purpose. They are doing it because they...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Local Authorities (24 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Northern Ireland (24 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I support the Minister in what he has been doing. The legacy of hurt and pain will never be healed and those wounds will never clear up if we allow the British Government to pass this Bill. I support the Minister in all of his work in bringing it further to the UN and to the Council of Ministers. I thank the Minister for his work on this and we support him.

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

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the Ukrainian ambassador and support the motion that calls on us to remember the Ukrainian atrocity of Holodomor. It is very important we do these things because we are quite possibly walking into a similar atrocity in Ukraine where people have no water, heat or light and they will literally freeze over the winter. It is very important we remember the past and stay strong in the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters (Resumed): Agriculture Industry (22 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the Minister of State and thank her for coming to the House. I requested this Commencement debate because it is a very important topic for 35,000 sheep farmers in the country and is particularly of huge interest for farmers in County Louth who have nearly 70,000 sheep between them. Today I am asking what actions have been taken by the Department since the wool feasibility study...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters (Resumed): Agriculture Industry (22 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister of State. It is good news that the meeting will start next month and I look forward to it. It is very important. Unfortunately, the wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly, and I reiterate there is a space for supporting sheep farmers in the new sheep improvement scheme. Being able to shear sheep is a sheep welfare issue. When the Minister of State said agents usually...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)

Erin McGreehan: I thank Deputy Hourigan for allowing me to take her slot, as I need to leave for another meeting. I thank the Minister of State and all the officials for their time. This is a really important issue. We speak quite often about mental health at this committee. It is at the intersection of every topic we come across. I thank the Minister of State at the Department of Health for her work...