• Green Party Senator (Labour Panel)
• Entered the Seanad on 30 March 2020 — General election
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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Draft National Energy and Climate Plan: Discussion (14 May 2024)

“I thank the witnesses for their contributions. Sometimes when we see something down on paper we say "Why not just do this?" and "Why not just do more consultation and do it better?" or "Why not just put the resources into mapping how we get to X, Y or Z?" The answer in my experience is that it is almost always politics . We have done the political equivalent of pushing a boulder up a hill...”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Draft National Energy and Climate Plan: Discussion (14 May 2024)

“I thank our guests and appreciate their contributions. All of us probably agree completely with everything our guests have said. I do not think anybody is disagreeing. It is a case of hearing our guests' expertise about how to implement change and deal with the challenges of trying to get some of those changes implemented. As I said, it is important to say it and to have these things on...”

Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)

“I move: That Seanad Éireann: notes with concern: - that over 20 percent of Irish people reported feeling lonely most or all of the time, the highest level in the European Union (EU), where the average is only 13 percent; - that nearly one-third of Irish adults over 50 feel emotionally lonely occasionally, with 7 percent frequently experiencing loneliness; - the 2018 A Connected...”

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