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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (15 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the Minister for his opening statement. I want to refer to a study that the Department of public expenditure did back in 2020. I think it was by the economic and evaluation service staff in the Department. They looked at the social impact assessment of SEAI programmes that were targeting energy poverty. At the time, it came out with the rather staggering conclusion that because of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (15 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: I am looking first for the Minister to accept that we do not have the level of data to assess whether grants are just transferring public money to private homeowners and are not reducing energy poverty. We should be trying to reduce both our emissions and our energy poverty levels. That report called for a second impact assessment to be undertaken. Is the Department of public expenditure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (15 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: My second question refers to a circular from the Minister's Department that went out to all Departments on the offsetting of emissions associated with official air travel. You then pay into a scheme which is a system offsetting the carbon emissions from that. I personally have an issue with offsetting as they are indulgences in my opinion. That aside, is the Minister using an outside...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pension Provisions (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: The Senator's time is up.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Aviation Industry (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: This matter relates to Dublin Airport and the impact of private jets on the passenger cap that applies. There has been a great deal of talk about the cap on passengers at the airport, but there has not been much discussion of how private jets are feeding into that. The Dublin Airport Authority, DAA, told the transport committee that it would have to consider limiting so-called general...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Aviation Industry (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the Minister of State. I know general aviation includes medical and military flights and such. However, I am sure the National Business Aviation Association is not writing to defend them. When it writes to and lobbies ambassadors in Washington and sends letters to the press looking to double the capacity for private jets, it is not for medical flights. It is specifically for those...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: If the Minister of State does not mind, before she responds, I welcome the students from Sacred Heart Senior National School, Tallaght. I am also a Tallaght girl. It is great to see fellow Tallafornians in to visit us in the Seanad. You are very welcome to the Chamber.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: I, too, want to raise the issue of Palestine this morning. At this point, our hearts are broken as we have watched the genocide unfold in front of our eyes over the last number of months. It has called into question the myth of western democracy when we sit back and watch what the Israeli occupied forces are meting out to the Palestinian people. There is a level of hypocrisy by the West in...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 42: In page 24, lines 27 and 28, to delete “comments or observations” and substitute “comments, observations and potential amendments”.

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: I will press it.

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 43: In page 24, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “(6) The Mayor shall, before finalising the Mayoral programme, undertake a process of non-statutory public consultation with the people of Limerick City and County regarding the Mayoral programme.”.

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: Is amendment No. 48 in this grouping?

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: I can speak to amendment No. 48, which is the Sinn Féin amendment. It proposes that members of Limerick City and County Council would be appointed by the d'Hondt system. With reference to local democracy, it is important that there is a democratic element to the selection of members of the Limerick mayoral advisory and implementation committee. We believe the current wording is too...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: It is interesting that Senator Cummins is making the argument for why the amendment should be supported.

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: I thank my colleague for speaking in support of the amendment and of the d'Hondt system. He made it clear in his contribution. What we seek to do with amendment No. 50 is to include a wider swathe of public opinion to these positions to ensure that communities, unions and employers would also be represented. It is a simple amendment to insert "including, but not limited to, businesses,...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 50: In page 25, line 12, after “subsection (4),” to insert “including, but not limited to, businesses, trade unions, Community and Voluntary Sector organisations,”.

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 65: In page 26, to delete lines 15 and 16 and substitute the following: “(9) The Mayor may at any time, subject to the approval of elected members, dissolve a committee or subcommittee established under this section.”.

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I thank Senator Martin for bringing this Bill before the Seanad. Sinn Féin was pleased to sign it and add our names to it. There is a consensus across all political parties that we need to do more in relation to domestic violence in the State. We in this House are quite good at bringing forward legislation and having Members from different political...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: I want to call for a debate with the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, about yesterday's report on the huge disparity across the country in local authorities in the collection of fines under the control of dogs regulations. Dublin County Council is doing a great job, with 105 spot fines being issued. Fingal County Council issued 90 but South Dublin County Council only issued 18 and Dún...

Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: Apologies, I am trying to triple-job. As others have said, this Bill focuses on technical responsibilities for Gas Networks Ireland in the context of its separation from Ervia. I welcome section 21 and that the Freedom of Information Act is being amended to delete Ervia from the list of exempted bodies as GNI was already a relevant body and it is welcome that it will remain so. However,...