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Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)

Róisín Garvey: ...I meet with Macra na Feirme regularly. Figures from its survey show that 27% of people nationwide put down loneliness as their biggest fear about growing old in their community. That is one quarter of the young farmers of Ireland. When asked what their concerns were, their biggest fear was being lonely in old age – and we are trying to keep people on the land. Some 98% of...

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: 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: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Róisín Garvey: ...court that South Africa has been engaging with more recently. It is good that is happening. The court will hear from more than 50 countries over the course of the hearings. It will hear Ireland's Attorney General, Mr. Rossa Fanning SC, tomorrow morning. It is something, one is clutching at straws here. I also found it amazing to see all the ordinary people of Ireland fundraising and...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Garvey: ...should be. If we want to reverse rural decline and better manage regional development, we need to give more powers and autonomy to local councils, which, of course, starts with funding. In Ireland, only 8% of public spending is done by local government, yet every county councillor and local authority staff member is meant to be able to sort everything out immediately. The creation of a...

Seanad: Road Safety: Statements (27 Sep 2023)

Róisín Garvey: ...said I would have to get one that was 4 m wide because two wheelchairs have to be able to pass each other out. The local authority would have to issue a compulsory purchase order, CPO, for lots of land. I do not know what the priority is anymore because I see the local authority CPOing land for motorways but we will not do it for a footpath that will connect people to their village or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: SME Energy and Carbon Demands, Green Initiatives and Technology: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Róisín Garvey: ...three years. I agree with Deputy Bruton. I do not see clear targets. I will start by asking a few questions. The future-proofing of business is not happening quick enough. Does Enterprise Ireland have the expertise it needs? The girl who was there previously was a lovely woman but she had come from 15 years working for the Irish Farmers' Association, IFA, and had nothing done on...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Motions (13 Jul 2023)

Róisín Garvey: ...Fine Gael, Sinn Féin and others. The Irish MEPs made the difference for that restoration law. We also have the Bill before the House today. For the first time in history, we have a large amount of land being put aside for the birds of our country. When people are celebrating seeing a sparrow when they used to be common as muck, we have issues. Someone told me they saw two...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Quality (28 Jun 2023)

Róisín Garvey: .... The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, only has 11 enforcement officers for the entire country. The most recent EPA report on water shows we still have huge issues with water quality all over Ireland. In my county, we had beaches closed due to E.coli and other issues in recent weeks and a massive fish kill in the Ballymacraven river going into the Inagh river, which goes from Inagh...

Seanad: Local Government Matters: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Róisín Garvey: ..., Shannon and Kilrush, and that is about it when it comes to towns. There is great stuff being done on housing. It is really good in urban areas but my concern is that a lot of the activity through the Land Development Agency is not relevant in my county. Good work is being done in Clare. We have reached our targets on social housing. However, cost-rental and affordable provision is...

Seanad: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Jun 2023)

Róisín Garvey: ...believed that sustainable farming methods that focus on smaller-scale quality-based production will provide greater financial security to those in the agriculture sector and will safeguard the use of farming land, marine environments and family farms. People talk about farmers versus Greens and so on but there is a difference between a 30 head of cattle farm and 1,000 cattle in a shed....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: ...had before. We have never had a climate action plan. We need huge diversification. Whatever about climate scientists being asked about it in the Department, I do believe that we need experts in land use and alternative farming methods. The core of the Government's approach to agriculture is to facilitate diversification. We cannot have business as usual. The Department officials and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Róisín Garvey: I will just make a couple of final points before the Minister goes. It is nice to have him in the room. Apart from increasing feed production in Ireland, what about increasing food production? For example, we import 140,000 tonnes of potatoes from the UK every year. It is not as if we do not know how to grow a spud in Ireland. If we are looking at carbon footprint, that would be one...

Seanad: Rail Network: Statements (23 Feb 2023)

Róisín Garvey: .... If I had driven it would have taken me about five hours, given the day I was leaving. We cannot underestimate the value trains can bring. The Minister touched on it when he talked about how land can be redeveloped around the trains. I was talking to the chief executive, Jim Meade, another great Clare person, a few weeks ago. He was talking about the difference it makes to places...

Seanad: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2023)

Róisín Garvey: .... I meant to raise it when we were discussing hedgerows and trees. With regard to An Bord Pleanála, for the record I want to make sure that it is very clear that we should only be acquiring land in instances where it is needed for BusConnects or active travel. We must ensure that it is not going to increase carbon emissions. Otherwise, we are going against the climate action plan....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Transport (20 Oct 2022)

Róisín Garvey: The Minister of State has been landed with duties which are not the responsibility of his Department. The Ministers are busy people. Can the Minister of State please explain to me, in light of the huge uptake of free transport, which is a great thing in theory, what the Department of Education is doing about school transport in order to increase the number of available bus drivers? My...

Seanad: Carbon Budgets: Motion (5 Apr 2022)

Róisín Garvey: ...Let us stop playing political football with something that is actually threatening human life. It is not just global because we are going to have a huge issue here. Even in my own county, I see farmers losing much more land than ever before to flooding and coastal areas are in serious trouble. Towns and villages all over Ireland are going to be threatened unless we plan properly and...