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

Róisín Garvey: ...and PRSI. We all need to get together to look at solutions and I have seen many good solutions. The Korean method is an amazing method which is low-cost and effective. Great farmers in County Kerry are looking at microbes to increase the topsoil because if the topsoil is improved, fewer nitrates are needed and water quality improves. The use of mixed swards instead of just growing...

Seanad: Public Water Connection Charges: Motion (26 Apr 2023)

Róisín Garvey: ...issue of the waste of money and the waste of plastic. We do not need to pilot this in any shape or form. There has already been loads of piloting. There is a great slide by Denis Murphy, a great Kerry musician, called "Going to the Well for Water". Would it not be great if we were all to meet socially going to our water fountains for water? It would be another lovely social link, and...

Seanad: National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Garvey: ...cars to areas of natural beauty? Why can tourists not be brought to these areas by way of small electric buses? Where are the restrictions on giant tour buses? One-way systems are in operation in County Kerry but we cannot do the same in County Clare. We have asked the tourism operators to do this but they have refused. The Burren eco-tourism network has also asked them but they said...

Seanad: Antarctic Treaty: Motion (8 Dec 2021)

Róisín Garvey: ...presence of the Minister and his giving his time. I thank my colleague, Senator Martin, for his work on the motion. Great people from all over Ireland went to Antarctic, not just Kildare people. The Kerry people would kill me if I did not mention Tom Crean as well. It is an important treaty and it is great that the Minister is here today to give us guidance on what he is going to do to...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Nov 2021)

Róisín Garvey: ...a land use reform Bill by several Departments as they examine land use in Ireland, not just because of climate change but everything is changing. Our land use will change as well, and access to land. Land was compulsorily purchased in County Kerry for a greenway. Nobody wants to go down that route. We must look at how we are dealing with land. Senator Hackett and myself several years...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jul 2020)

Róisín Garvey: ..., however. It is the very tool that is missing in rural Ireland to restitch the fabric of communities. I have visited all the existing greenways, located in the midlands and counties Waterford, Kerry, Limerick and Mayo several times. I wish for the day to come when we will have them all over Ireland and this is a good step in that direction. This will create thousands of jobs and bring...

Seanad: Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Jul 2020)

Róisín Garvey: ...forward to working with him. Coming from a small village in north Clare, all we have ever had are microenterprises. There are just about no multinationals anywhere along the western seaboard from Kerry up to Donegal. Microenterprises are the original circular economy. Someone goes to a local butcher or corner shop, picks up a newspaper and drops money in, and that money goes into the...