Results 1-20 of 37 for pension speaker:Victor Boyhan

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Victor Boyhan: ...time. This is democracy at work. People in rural constituencies are giving it to politicians in the neck, so well done. The devastation caused by this fungus has a major impact on the incomes of pension funds, investors, farmers and foresters. That is why I cautiously welcome the package. Quite frankly, it is not enough. A farmer and county councillor from County Roscommon wrote to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Victor Boyhan: ...Canal Dock are just outrageous. Will Mr. Gleeson share with us just one or two examples and concerns about the potential difficulties these fees could cause? I refer, in particular, to old age pensioners and older and more vulnerable people, those who would not have much income. How are going to be able to sustain their lives and cope in the context of what is, effectively, a crisis for...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...the table. I will continue to advocate strongly for a level playing pitch for Coillte, State forestry projects and the private forestry sector, which makes a huge contribution and in which many of our pension plans are involved. We need a balanced debate about public and private forestry. We need a focused debate on the challenges around ash dieback and how we are going to deal with...

Seanad: National Forestry Fund: Motion (8 Feb 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...like some guarantee for the initial outlay, bond or premium they are investing. It is important with regard to the environment and many would view it as ethical. It is a choice for others. Many of us here have pension funds. Now when we are reviewing our pension schemes we are asked whether we would like to shift some of the investment into sustainable, environmental or ethical...

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...effective. That is what the public expects and wants, and it is something I would support. We need to clearly hear what was going on and what happens next. People going off into the sunset, taking pensions, going on holidays, taking sick or extended leave and running from interrogation, examination, transparency and accountability is simply not good enough. That said, there are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...committee the number of homes they have in their property portfolios? That is for the four organisations. There is also something else I want to take up with Tuath, namely, the issue of ethical pension fund investment. This is important. I have read a little about it in the UK. I have certainly read a little about it in Denmark. I do not know whether any financial modelling has been...

Seanad: Cost of Living: Motion (15 Jun 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...and I know, and I do not wish to give her or the Members of this House a history lesson, that the cost of renting a home is too high and it is nigh impossible for most people to purchase a home. Pension and social welfare payments are not sufficient to meet the costs of living. Too many people simply cannot survive on the minimum wage and it has failed to keep pace with the cost of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Dec 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...the new year. I appreciate the difficulties the Leader has but she has been an advocate and I want to acknowledge that. Senator Kyne was talking about the Civil Service needing to know and determine its pensions. We will have a debate later on today about secretarial assistants and I will not tell the House what they can expect because I have it in front of me and I will put it on the...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2021)

Victor Boyhan: .... We need to review the whole matter, with a new title, grade and pay scale for the job. That is an important point to make. I have some figures to hand in regard to the annual occupational pension entitlements of secretarial assistants. For someone who has five years' service and whose pension is calculated at €6,827.30, his or her annual occupational pension will be...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (8 Dec 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...from all parties across the House and they seem to share the same view and concern. Their pay is nothing short of a disgrace, particularly and more importantly when one puts it up against the pensions. Politicians on all sides of both Houses have been criticised time and time again by the media and other people outside with regard to our pensions. I took the time today to look at the...

Seanad: Councillors' Pay: Motion (22 Feb 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...to join forces to unite and be in solidarity with our councillors up and down the country. We need to agree to financially support councillors who want to continue to serve. We need to provide an enhanced package and pension for those who wish to retire. We must proactively, encourage and support new entrants into the noble profession of city and county councillor.

Seanad: Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Statements (19 Jan 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...for telling their story, laying bare their vulnerability, which is so important to them, and shining a light on their lives and on our shared history. Our response must be redress, support, enhanced pensions, enhanced opportunities for housing and all that goes with all of that. Finally - and I know no one here will be shy or will fall short in this regard - our response and the...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Dec 2020)

Victor Boyhan: ...is, however, that people on the islands are experiencing difficulties and are at a slight disadvantage. I ask the Minister to keep this matter under review going forward into next year. Finally, the repeal in respect of the increase in the State pension age under section 17 is positive. I heard a previous speaker stating that they had an issue with the Commission on Pensions. I welcome...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Dec 2020)

Victor Boyhan: ...will have received numerous emails this week to the effect that people of 65 years of age are obliged to apply for jobseeker's allowance until they are 66 years of age and qualify for the State pension. Senators will recall that during the elections and the political promises, there was a promise on an interim payment that seems to be forgotten, and that this would issue for the period...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Property Tax (10 Nov 2020)

Victor Boyhan: ...to the local property tax section 8 exemptions. Some elderly people in their 70s, 80s and 90s living in locations like the one in which I live, Dún Laoghaire, have no income other than the State pension and are paying the tax. They can apply for a deferral which is not always granted. As the Minister of State will know, many people do not like to leave unfinished business behind...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Property Tax (10 Nov 2020)

Victor Boyhan: ...than the real average but we can use it as the figure - this equates to €4 million gone that the local authority could do with. I will read an extract from a letter in The Irish Timesthe other day from a pensioner. It states: I believe in paying my fair share but this is unjust. I urge the Government to modify this local property tax in a fair and just manner, and to have regard...

Seanad: Ábhair Ghnó an tSeanaid - Matters on the Business of the Seanad (5 Nov 2020)

Victor Boyhan: ...to reform the LPT. I am opposed to this tax in principle. I am not opposed to bringing in income to local authorities but the system used is very unfair. A neighbour of mine is a very elderly pensioner on a very low income. She is paying the tax. I spoke to two professionals recently who live in Foxrock and who have an income in excess of €200,000. They do not pay the LPT....

Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Sep 2020)

Victor Boyhan: ...many people read today's article in The Irish Timesabout Mr. Jim McCaffrey, but I recommend it. His land is surrounded and blacked out by 60 ft spruce trees. Communities in Leitrim have been wiped out by forestry and German pension funds coming in and buying up land. I have spoken to farmers who have tried to increase their landholdings only to find they cannot buy any. We will have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)

Victor Boyhan: ...up, I would like to suggest three things that her agency might consider in its next audit. These are only suggestions, because I have no statutory function in all of this. The value and cost of pensions to local authorities is a ticking bomb.