Results 121-140 of 1,003 for speaker:Róisín Garvey

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

Róisín Garvey: That it is being done in other sectors as well.

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

Róisín Garvey: Is there a precedent?

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

Róisín Garvey: Is there a precedent for means testing on net income in other sectors in Ireland? I asked that in my original speech. Do witnesses need help to promote farm assist? Do they need help with the bureaucracy of it? What are the witnesses' asks? Should we ask for more Teagasc staff to help people? I know bureaucracy is ruining everything in every sector. I know that farmers traditionally...

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

Róisín Garvey: It is very interesting to listen to all the witnesses individually. I welcome their input. I live on a farm and all my neighbours are farmers. I am deeply concerned about farming in Ireland, especially for small farmers. My neighbours are worried about it. It is not as though it was going great guns anyway and now we have the whole mess-up with climate change and the ridiculously...

Seanad: An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: An Dara Céim - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Róisín Garvey: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as teacht isteach. I thank the Minister of State for the work done on this Bill. Ours is a small country but it has always been a country of innovators and original thinkers. We always come out on top. The Government has done so much in the context of investing in digital hubs. I meet small business owners and inventors. This Bill is about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing Businesses in Relation to Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Róisín Garvey: The micro things build up, when you think 70% of all the companies in Ireland are SMEs and 2.3 million people are employed in them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing Businesses in Relation to Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I was a finalist on Social Entrepreneurs Ireland, I just remembered. That was a few years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing Businesses in Relation to Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I know they want to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing Businesses in Relation to Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I wish to raise a couple of points. I spent 12 years working full time on behavioural change in regard to climate and human rights issues in the school and college environment. What I discovered is that it was the lecturers, parents and teachers who needed the education piece far more than the children themselves. In some ways, it might be the same in Ireland when it comes to the IDA,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing Businesses in Relation to Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Róisín Garvey: Is Open Doors educating the staff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing Businesses in Relation to Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Róisín Garvey: Open Doors is doing great work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing Businesses in Relation to Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Róisín Garvey: Remove the title CEO for a start.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing Businesses in Relation to Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Róisín Garvey: Do the witnesses work with the LEOs? They are embedded into local authorities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing Businesses in Relation to Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Róisín Garvey: What advice would they give Government about getting this right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing Businesses in Relation to Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I thank the witnesses for coming here today. I apologise for my tardiness. I had other things happening but I am here now. It is great to have the witnesses here today. This is one of the things I am very passionate about. I am the Green Party spokesperson for enterprise, trade and employment and for rural development. I have worked with many small companies and social entrepreneurs...

Seanad: Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (6 Mar 2024)

Róisín Garvey: Tá an Ghaeilge fós ag méadú i gContae an Chláir, buíochas le Dia. Ar an chéad dul síos, fáiltím roimh an Aire, an Teachta Martin. Caithfidh mé comhghairdeas a ghabháil léi as an tacaíocht ar fad a thug sí ó thaobh "Cúla4" de. Is stáisiún teilifíse nua é atá go hiomlán as...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Regeneration Projects (5 Mar 2024)

Róisín Garvey: It would have been great to have the Minister for housing in, but I am sure he is very busy. This relates to upstairs living. I ask the Minister what has been done to achieve the programme for Government commitment to ensure underused building stock in small and large urban centres is brought into use. Specifically, what progress has been made under the Town Centre First policy commitments...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Regeneration Projects (5 Mar 2024)

Róisín Garvey: While it is not the fault of the Minister of State, the lines from the Department do not answer the question. They are telling me things I already know. It is an insult to somebody who is passionate about this and fought for it in the programme for Government to have a civil servant tell me stuff I already know. I know about the Croí Cónaithe scheme and the CPO grant, which...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Róisín Garvey: Today, yet again I raise the issue of trolley numbers in UHL. It is not the first time for me, Senator Dooley and many other colleagues to raise this issue. I do not know if it is because we are so far from Dublin or what is going on, but we have the worst trolley numbers in the country by far. It is an old news story yet it is making the news again today. The hospital can take no more...