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- Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: -----in the Chamber.
- Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: Or using a member of the public's name.
- Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: Again, Senator, I do not think members of the public can be named, particularly around-----
- Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: I do not think Sinn Féin was mentioned in the amendment.
- Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: It is the woman.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: I raise the issue of customers in electricity arrears. Yesterday, the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, released the latest round of quarterly figures, which show that just under 250,000 households are in arrears on their electricity bills and 1,385 households were disconnected for non-payment in the past year. While the drop in the number of customers in arrears in the latest...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: Amendments Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: When is it proposed to take Report Stage?
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: When is it proposed to take Fifth Stage?
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: Is fáilte an Aire. I echo the commendations for the Civic Engagement Group on bringing this motion to the Seanad. They speak day in and day out about the horror that is unfolding in Gaza. The one thing we see Palestinians say is, "Don't stop talking about it. You are our voices. Our lives depend on this." I am not the only one in saying that the feeling of powerlessness, frustration...
- Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: I welcome the decision of the Taoiseach to call on the European Commission to urgently review the EU-Israel association agreement, but I argue that real action would be to trigger Article 82 to immediately suspend the association agreement while a review is being conducted. It is worth comparing this with the actions in respect of UNRWA and the allegations relating to 12 UNRWA workers. That...
- Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: Well said.
- Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 1: In page 8, line 7, after “Heritage” to insert “, Minister for Finance”. This amendment seeks to amend section 9(2) by including a provision that the Minister for Finance may not be appointed by the Government as the majority-shareholding Minister of Gas Networks Ireland. Currently the subsection provides it may not be the Minister for...
- Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: The concern, which we will get to when we give the example of the shareholder letter of expectation of Coillte from 2022, is if the Minister for Finance is the majority-shareholding Minister, he or she could try to generate the maximum number of shares for the public, as opposed to balancing that with the climate Act.That gives us cause for concern because of the way in which GNI is working...
- Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 2: In page 8, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(4) An order made under subsections (2)or (3) shall require approval by resolution of both Houses of the Oireachtas.”.
- Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 3: In page 8, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following: “(4) The majority-shareholding Minister shall, on a bi-annual basis, lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas any shareholder letters of expectation issued in respect of Gas Networks Ireland.”. The amendment follows on from our concerns about the Minister for Finance being the...
- Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 4: In page 12, to delete lines 30 and 31 and substitute the following: “(ii) by the insertion of the following definitions: “ ‘Act of 2014’ means the Companies Act 2014; ‘carbon budget’ has the meaning assigned to it in section 1 of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 (as amended), and means the total...
- Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2024)
Lynn Boylan: The Minister of State has said repeatedly that Gas Networks Ireland is consistent with the climate action plan, that it is in line and its policies are in line.