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Seanad: Youth Mental Health and Guidance Services in Secondary Schools: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Róisín Garvey: ...; the ex-quota system ringfenced hours for guidance counselling based on the number of students in the school; - a 2023 survey of guidance counsellors by the Institute of Guidance Counsellors found that only 52% of the hours allocated by the Department of Education were available to guidance counsellors; - this survey also found that only 4% of guidance counsellors reported they had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Local Link Transport Services: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Róisín Garvey: ...transport plays in rural development. I do not know whether the witnesses have appeared before this committee previously. Perhaps Mr. Boland or someone else from Irish Rural Link has. I live 5 km from the closest village and 17 km from the closest town. I am a member of the Green Party and there is this notion that we all live in Dublin and cycle everywhere, but I am more aware than...

Seanad: Covid-19 and the New Measures (Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (7 Dec 2021)

Róisín Garvey: ...the Minister is in the House. We need our communications to be much clearer and to speak with one voice as a coalition Government. I also have a suggestion with regard to the entertainment sector. Millions of euro have been promised to support this sector, which has been shut down only a few weeks after being opened. As Senator Crowe has pointed out, businesses in this sector must...

Seanad: Flood Risk Management: Motion (19 Oct 2021)

Róisín Garvey: ...problem in one place just moves the problem somewhere else, be that to farmlands or the next village or town. Prevention is better than cure. If we do not move towards proper whole river and catchment-based solutions as soon as possible, we will waste millions of euro blocking holes in a colander instead of investing properly in upstream and design solutions for entire areas. We need...

Seanad: Budget 2022: Statements (12 Oct 2021)

Róisín Garvey: ...spokesperson on enterprise, trade and employment. We did much work on submissions around helping the SME sector go green because that is the way we must now move forward. There will be €10 million in the climate transition fund to help businesses to decarbonise. I made a submission to the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment on this. It was good to see...

Seanad: Remote Working Strategy: Motion (15 Feb 2021)

Róisín Garvey: ...the creation of these digital hubs all over the place. I was involved in a pre-budget submission on these Wi-Fi hubs to the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Humphreys, who has approved €5 million for them. These digital hubs are specifically intended to target smaller rural places where people might be isolated in their homes. They will also be using existing community...

Seanad: Response to Covid-19 (Social Protection): Statements (1 Feb 2021)

Róisín Garvey: ...get one so far. I wanted to get an update on remote hubs. Great work has been done on DigiClare and in other places, with WiFi hubs being set up. There was a new announcement in the budget about €5 million that I had submitted a pre-budget submission about. Will that be given to local authorities or what will happen with that? My colleague raised the issue of the shortage of home...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Garvey: ...rural Wi-Fi hubs. I want to draw everybody's attention today to the fact that now is the time to carpe diem. The Minister, Deputy Humphreys, is strongly in support of this issue. She put €5 million into the budget because she knows it is one of the key issues for regional rebalance. Everybody, including the Government, has always been speaking about regional rebalancing and now,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Hubs, Broadband and Mobile Phone Coverage in Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Garvey: On the €5 million that was provided in the budget, two social enterprise hubs in Clare were forced to close because they could not compete with the low prices of the local authority Wi-Fi hub being developed in the area. Social enterprise is important as well. Can social enterprises apply for funding for hubs or is this provision only available through the broadband officers? When...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2020)

Róisín Garvey: As spokesperson for enterprise, trade and employment, I want to use my time to encourage people to really think about where they spend their money in the coming six weeks. We spend €5 billion doing online shopping. More than two thirds of this goes outside the country. If we are buying more online, we need to look at the Irish companies. As the Senator said earlier, there is a good...