Róisín Garvey

Róisín Garvey (born 5 July 1973)^[1] is an Irish Green Party politician who has served as a Senator since June 2020, after being nominated by the Taoiseach.^[2][3] She was elected deputy leader of the Green Party on 14 July 2024.^[4]

Senator Róisín Garvey
Garvey in 2023
Senator
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 June 2020
Constituency	Nominated by the Taoiseach
Deputy leader of the Green Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 July 2024
Leader	Roderic O'Gorman
Preceded by	Catherine Martin
Personal details
Born	(1973-07-05) 5 July 1973 (age 51) County Clare, Ireland
Political party	Green Party
Children	1
Alma mater	NUI Galway

Early life

Garvey grew up in Inagh and attended Coláiste Muire, Ennis and NUI Galway.^[5] Her father, Flan Garvey, was a Fianna Fáil member of Clare County Council between 1985 and 2009. Garvey formerly worked for An Taisce.^[6]

Political career

She previously served as a member of Clare County Council from 2019 to 2020.^[7]

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.^[8]

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 by-election as an independent.^[9]

In 2022, she opposed plans for an eight wind-turbine 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".^[10]

On 14 July 2024, Garvey won the Green Party's deputy leadership election to succeed Catherine Martin.^[11]

Personal life

She has one son.^[1]

References

1. McMahon, Páraic (7 February 2020). "'I'm one of the strongest rural candidates the Greens have had' – Garvey". Clare Echo. Archived from the original on 6 August 2021. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
2. "Róisín Garvey". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
3. "Taoiseach Micheál Martin announces his 11 Seanad nominees". thejournal.ie. The Journal. 27 June 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
4. Horgan-Jones, Jack (14 July 2024). "Senator Róisín Garvey elected as Green Party's new deputy leader". The Irish Times. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
5. McMahon, Páraic (20 November 2018). "Garvey hoping to follow in her father's footsteps". Archived from the original on 26 February 2021.
6. Kolås, Robin Munkvold and Line (18 September 2015). ECGBL2015-9th European Conference on Games Based Learning: ECGBL2015. Academic Conferences and publishing limited. ISBN 9781910810583 – via Google Books.
7. "Ennistymon Electoral Area Elected Members". Clare County Council. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
8. "Donegal TD to take part in TG4 election debate". Donegal Live. February 2020.
9. McQuinn, Cormac (25 March 2021). "Eamon Ryan 'tells Greens' no pact on supporting Coalition candidates for Seanad". The Irish Times. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
10. "Green Party Senator objects to wind farm overlooking Wild Atlantic Way". BreakingNews.ie. 18 January 2022.
11. Hurley, Sandra (14 July 2024). "Garvey sees off Hourigan to become Green deputy leader". RTÉ News. Retrieved 14 July 2024.