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Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I support the Counterfeiting Bill 2020, which updates Irish law to reflect EU legislation in the area of counterfeiting. It is important and it is a good legislation. The purpose of the Counterfeiting Bill is to complete the transposition of Directive 2014/62/EU and to make provision for three additional EU instruments dealing with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Discussion (9 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the farmer representative bodies for coming in. I have a few points I want to make, and one single question that is not from me but from a group of farmers in the west. When I said I was meeting the boys here - and they are all boys, I did not mean that as a pun - I said I would put their question to the committee. This morning, the committee had a very good engagement with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Discussion (9 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I had another question about the 40-acres scenario. Somebody else can address that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Discussion (9 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I want to come back on a number of points. First, I asked a question that farmers from the west posed and I did not get an answer. This is not a politician's question; these are farmers' questions. A small farmer related a simple scenario involving a farm of 40 acres and I am going to tell him I could not get an answer, so that is of concern to me. Second, on the social dimension, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Discussion (9 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: Yes, absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I thank our guests. I return to the common theme running through the three submissions, that is, promoting politician participation and encouarging and supporting candidacy. That is what is coming back to me continuously. There are two words jumping out at me. Mr. Joyce has articulated this particularly well. It is about confidence and about participation. We see this with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: Mr. Doorley may want to take it. I will make contact with all the witnesses today in writing at any rate, because I really want to follow up with them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I am within my time so my colleague will come in with the second series of questions. I thank the Chairman.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State. I want to speak on amendments No. 37 and 38. Amendment No. 38 is in my name. These are critically important amendments because they deal with the kernel of this issue, which is affordability. This is the Affordable Housing Bill and it does not define affordability. I went to the Library and Research Service and acknowledge its assistance with any...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: These two amendments deal with affordability. There is significant scope in it. The whole Bill is about affordability. I will not preface every sentence with "affordable" to appear to be on line. I am dead centre on line with regard to this amendment. I prepared it myself and therefore know what I am attempting to deal with. This is an important issue that we need to address. When we...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: That is not a point of order.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I want to focus on amendment No. 38. The reality speaks for itself. It is in black and white and in English. The amendment has been circulated. There is no difficulty. If people believe what is suggested and the amount in question to be a cap, we can include a provision in the legislation. Let us have clarity regarding the legislation. Amendment No. 38 deals with several issues and I...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 38: In page 12, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “(9) Regulations undersubsection (7)will have regard to: (a) ensuring that the proportion of the applicant’s net income represented by housing costs not exceed 35 per cent of the total, and; (b) ensuring that the applicant’s income falls within the bottom 40 per cent of national...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I will also speak to amendment No. 43. The Senator is right. As she has said, if this amendment is successful it would give the housing authority greater autonomy and that is important. We talk about giving greater autonomy to local government in these Houses. This amendment would give housing authorities greater autonomy from the Minister when making the scheme of priority. That is...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I support Senator Moynihan's amendment No. 47. It proposes to cap the affordable dwelling contribution. It makes sense and is a reasonable amendment.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I will speak to amendments Nos. 69, 70 and 71. I tabled amendment No. 71, so my focus will be on it. It is in the same spirit as my previous amendment No. 38 and aims to ensure the cost to persons availing of this housing is affordable.That is the kernel of this debate. Senators Moynihan and Higgins are the sponsors of the other amendments in this group. Obviously they have the same goal...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister of State for setting out his view. It is a disappointing one.I know the Minister of State is a part of a line of people from the Department and Ministers. A strategy has clearly been worked out and that is reasonable and fair. I have no difficulty with that. I will repeat that I am favourably disposed towards, and supportive of, cost-rental in the truest sense....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Sale and Supply of Pets and Animal Welfare: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Chair. First, I want to welcome Ms Bristow and Mr. Brennan. I thank them and acknowledge the enormous work they do in Dogs Trust. It is an impressive charity. I know a certain amount about it because I know people who are involved in it. More than 1,000 dogs were rehomed in 2020. That is a phenomenal success story in itself. The two areas on which I want to concentrate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Sale and Supply of Pets and Animal Welfare: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: Ms Bristow might give us an idea of the cost to run its operations for the year. If that is sensitive information, I will not push it. I am pleased that all its money is coming from the voluntary sector, but is it its intention to seek State funding? It does good work but maybe it is happy enough. I would like to have an understanding, because we hear of animal welfare groups which are...