Róisín Garvey | |
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Senator | |
Assumed office 29 June 2020 | |
Constituency | Nominated by the Taoiseach |
Personal details | |
Born | [1] County Clare, Ireland | 5 July 1973
Political party | Green Party |
Children | 1 |
Alma mater | NUI Galway |
Róisín Garvey (born 5 July 1973) is an Irish Green Party politician who has served as a Senator since June 2020, after being nominated by the Taoiseach. [2] [3]
Garvey grew up in Inagh and attended Coláiste Muire, Ennis and NUI Galway. [4] Her father, Flan Garvey, was a Fianna Fáil member of Clare County Council between 1985 and 2009. Garvey formerly worked for An Taisce. [5]
She previously served as a member of Clare County Council from 2019 to 2020. [6]
Garvey was an unsuccessful Green Party candidate in the 2020 general election for the Clare constituency. A fluent Irish speaker, she represented the Greens on the Irish-language TV debate on TG4 prior to that election. [7]
On 24 March 2021, Garvey was one of three Green Party senators to table a motion of no confidence against party chairperson Hazel Chu, after Chu announced her candidacy in a Seanad bye-election as an independent. [8]
In 2022, she opposed plans for an eight wind-turbine wind farm in County Clare. She said, "There are a lot of people locally who don't want it there because they already have enough of wind-turbines in the area... I have never been out demanding wind farms in my life and I don't intend to start now". [9]
She has one son. [1]