Results 101-120 of 1,003 for speaker:Róisín Garvey

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I thank the witnesses for coming in today. It is great to have them here and to have an opportunity to speak. There have been reports in recent months about the level of road traffic injuries being underestimated, given that analysis was being done on Garda records of collisions only. There have been recent reports that the RSA has completed research from both Garda and hospital records...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Garvey: Yes, I am sorry. The RSA gets funding from the NCT and driving licences. I wonder is that swaying its priorities? It does seem that it is all about driving, and not just about other modes of transport.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I know that, yes. It is not in every school in the way the driver theory test is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Garvey: That is my point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Garvey: It is not just about them cycling. If you drive a car, you are not aware of what it is like to be a cyclist-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Garvey: -----whereas if you cycle a bike, you behave much differently as the driver of a car. Personally, I think you should have to do cycle training to get a driving licence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I can tell Ms O'Connor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Garvey: This is the whole thing. I said to the RSA 15 years ago that it needed to broaden its scope. Increased car use is causing fatalities and injuries. The RSA is practically encouraging everybody to drive but not encouraging everybody to cycle or use public transport.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I know the programme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Garvey: Action 41 says that the RSA has part of the responsibility for the modal shift. It is not just the RSA's job to talk about driving but under action 41, it is also its job to promote other things. If the RSA is getting driver theory tests into every school, please get the cycle training, the Leap cards and the use of public transport in. It is part of the RSA's responsibility under action 41.

Seanad: Cost of Doing Business: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I welcome the Minister and congratulate him on his promotion. It is great to have him on board the enterprise, trade and employment challenge. I worked with his predecessors. I will focus on a few matters as the Green Party's spokesperson on that portfolio and also its rural development spokesperson. Both of these briefs tie in nicely with the importance of small businesses. Not only are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Farm Assist and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I am sorry; I have questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Farm Assist and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Garvey: Yes, it is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Farm Assist and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Garvey: Means testing is very important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Farm Assist and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Garvey: Farmers are losing land to flooding because of soil deposition in rivers as well. This is all linked in. Means testing is very important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Farm Assist and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I thank the Cathaoirleach for bringing me back because I am very passionate about this subject.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Farm Assist and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Róisín Garvey: Yes. We have got to get this right to keep rural Ireland alive. There will be nobody left in my community if the farmers and their wives, husbands and children leave. On the means tests, we have capped direct payments, agri-climate rural environment scheme, ACRES, payments, areas of natural constraints payments of €250 million this year alone. We have the National Parks and...