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- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State and I acknowledge that it is not an easy time to be in that role. It is certainly not an easy time to be a Minister of State from the Green Party in this portfolio and I acknowledge that as well. I know the difficulties and also something of the tensions involving environmentalists and environmental activism. Many of such activists joined the Green Party and...
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: Senator Pauline O'Reilly should withdraw that remark.
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: On a point of order-----
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: On a point of order-----
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: -----I cannot sit here in the Parliament and hear a Senator suggest untruths. It is a very serious allegation to make.
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: I am not stating that the allegation was aimed at any of my colleagues on any side of the House. I wish for it to be withdrawn.Otherwise we will have to seek a remedy. We have the Official Report and the recordings. It does not sit well to suggest, and if the Senator is going to make an allegation, she should substantiate it. Otherwise, withdraw it.
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 3: In page 4, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: "(1C) The Minister, in making appointments to the Forestry Appeals Committee, shall consider the skills and experience necessary to undertake appeals of forestry licenses, and shall ensure it has members with experience and skills particularly in respect of biodiversity, water quality, climate change, and...
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: I am sorry I only dealt with amendment No. 3 when I should also have spoken on amendments Nos. 5, 10 and 95. Senator Boylan put her finger on the matter with a very good suggestion about a panel system.This is about giving confidence to people and, in particular, the environmental pillars, which have been active. We saw the number of submissions that they sent as individuals and collective...
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: That is exceptionally disappointing. If the House agrees, we will have a vótáil because this is now critical to the issue of confidence and a belief in standing firm with the environmental pillars. Of course, regrettably, we are still awaiting a response from the Minister of State's Department to an email in regard to the index of the submissions. I apologise to the thousands of...
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: It is critically important to this. It relates to amendments Nos. 3, 5, 10, 95 and 97.
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: I will refer to the just transition submission that we did not get, but which relates absolutely to this matter and has been signed off by members of the Minister of State's party. It relates to amendments Nos. 3, 5, 10, 95 and 97, for the purposes of keeping everyone on focus. The members of the environmental pillars have asked us to pursue this matter. The Minister of State tells me...
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 5: In page 4, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: "(1C) (a) The Minister shall establish panels of expert bodies to propose nominees for appointment as members of the Forestry Appeals Committee, similar to the panels used to appoint members of the Board of An Bord Pleanála who determine appeals in planning matters. (b) Such panels should...
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 10: In page 4, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “(2G) Notwithstanding anything in this section, the Minister shall ensure any and all divisions of the Forestry Appeals Committee organised to hear any appeal, include members with skills and expertise particularly in the fields of biodiversity, water quality, climate change, and environmental...
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 11: In page 4, line 38, to delete “28 days” and substitute “60 days”. Section 3 proposes to insert a new subsection (4)(a) in section 14A of the Act. The new subsection states: "Where a person is dissatisfied by a decision made by the Minister under an enactment or statutory instrument specified in Schedule (2) (referred to in this section...
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: I have heard what the Minister of State had to say. We will see whether others wish to contribute.
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: Senator Higgins has made a very good point on amendment No. 16, which intends to insert in the Bill that "The Minister may, having regard to the public interest and fairness of procedures, prescribe a period which is longer than the period specified in paragraph (a), in order to ensure wide access to the appeal mechanism of the Forestry Appeals Committee, and in light of the cumulative effect...
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: I did not say it either.
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 12: In page 4, line 38, to delete “28 days” and substitute “42 days”.
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Victor Boyhan: We have the numbers. The Tá's outnumber the Níl's.