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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Facilities (8 May 2024)

Róisín Garvey: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit agus ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a dhéanamh. I congratulate the Minister of State on his new appointment. It is nice to have him on side. I have always found him to be well able and most respectful. I wish him luck in his new role. A number of weeks ago the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, and the CEO of the HSE, Mr. Bernard...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Facilities (8 May 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I thank the Minister of State. My question was why only one MRI scanner was working. I presume, therefore, that the second scanner, which the Minister of State indicated was available, was broken on the day. The response did not answer that question but that is not the Minister of State's fault as he did not write it. He stated that one MRI scanner is owned by the UL Hospitals group and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I will make two short points. It is always good to acknowledge good news because everybody needs good news. The good news today is that the Minister is waiving all fees for outdoor furniture. When we have good news, we should celebrate. This is on top of the fact that during Covid, I brought to the parliamentary party the suggestion that we should do better to support small businesses....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I thank the witnesses for attending, and well done to them because it seems like a good process overall. The feedback from companies on it is good. I am interested in getting a breakdown of the size of the 62 companies that have availed of SCARP to date. I presume it is mainly bigger companies if the amount involved is €200 million. What was the biggest challenge? Do the witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I am not surprised the World Bank has no great insights. I do not know how concerned the World Bank has ever been about keeping small businesses afloat. I do not know if it is the best place to go. I imagine other departments of enterprise, trade and employment might have better insights into how successful their SCARP-type schemes might be. I would not go to the World Bank for that kind...

Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)

Róisín Garvey: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. He has an interesting brief – public health, well-being and the drugs task force. If you look at the Irish word for well-being, folláin, it is about being whole. As a nation I wonder how many people are getting that wholesomeness in their daily lives. Therefore, today we call for a commission on loneliness. As the...

Seanad: Smartphone and Social Media Use: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Garvey: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire go dtí an Teach. I commend her on all the work she has done to date on this. I commend the Fine Gael party on bringing forward this motion. It is a very serious matter of mental health and social health. The phone has taken over many people's lives. Many parents are not even sure how to manoeuvre them and control what appears on the phone, not to...

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...

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: ...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 Wildlife Service farm plan schemes,...

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: ...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 unpredictable nature of farming now. We used to have patterns and now they are gone. Farming was based...

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: 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: 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: ...;ochas 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 Gaeilge i gcomhair páistí. Is iad na páistí todhchaí na...

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...