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Seanad: Progressing Disability Services for Children and Young People: Statements (9 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: The next speaker is Senator Warfield. He will be followed by Senators Conway and Kyne who will share time.

Seanad: Progressing Disability Services for Children and Young People: Statements (9 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: Senator Conway proposes to share with Senator Kyne. Is that agreed to? Agreed. They will be followed by Senator O'Loughlin.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for his opening statement on the Bill. I thank his Department and the officials in the civil justice legislation division of the Department for the very comprehensive briefing note provided. It is very helpful. As previous speakers have stated, it is a complex issue on which we need to tread softly and carefully. The Minister of State...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Deputy Leader for outlining the proposed Order of Business. My apologies for being delayed coming to the House. I know the Cathaoirleach, too, ran up the stairs. I do not think any Senator has delayed the start of the Seanad by ten minutes. I have just come from an amazing event. I thank the Cathaoirleach, the Ceann Comhairle and the Leader of the Seanad for presiding over...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I second that.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Registration of Births (16 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I thank the Cathaoirleach for agreeing to the taking of this Commencement matter today. This issue relates to the proposals for the State's response to illegal birth registrations in Ireland. There are many complexities and issues with respect to children in care but this issue is specifically focused on illegal birth registrations in Ireland....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Registration of Births (16 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister of State for her report. I do not doubt the commitment of the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, to it, but the time is up. It has gone on for too long. There comes a point when people want the information. It is about their identity and contacts. There are many people at a great age now, who will not be around for much longer, and they need support. The more we tell them...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I also wish to raise an issue on healthcare. I was thinking earlier how we are always asking for the Minister for Health. As I was leaving the Chamber earlier, he was in the anteroom and I thought about how when we want him, we cannot get him. However, he may have been there on other business. No one who listened to "Drivetime" on RTÉ radio yesterday evening could have failed to have...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 7: In page 6, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following: “(e) a statement setting out how the proposal will be consistent with the objectives of the relevant development plan or local area,”. I welcome the Minister to the House. When I reflect back to when the Minister and myself were members of the Oireachtas joint committee on housing, I...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister for his response in regard to amendment No. 7. I understand Report Stage has been postponed until next week, which means we have a little more time to work on a revised amendment. I thank the Minister for listening and responding. During the debate there was some suggestion that all applications are consistent. We know that not all applications are consistent with...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I withdraw the amendment with the right to re-enter it.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 15: In page 7, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(4) The planning authority shall ensure that the elected members of the Local Authority, Area Committee or Area Committees (established under section 50(1) of the Local Government Act 2001) or municipal district in respect of the area or areas concerned, in which the proposed large-scale...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: It would not be correct or fair of me to try to anticipate what the Minister is going to say. I do not propose to do that. Instead, I will read into the record a letter dated September 2021 to the Minister of State with responsibility for planning and local government, Deputy Burke. It states: Dear Minister, I have been asked by the AILG to respond to your Department's recent...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I hear what the Minister is saying but I do not agree with him. He has more or less the same officials in his Department as were there under the previous Administration. We heard all this previously with the strategic housing development process. They made a great glowing impression on us that the strategic housing development systems would involve power for the councils and that there...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I advise the Minister the councillors engaged with the process. He is not councillor and neither am I. It is no big deal for councillors to be informed of planning. It is a statutory obligation of the planning authority to notify everybody of a planning application. There are planning listings. The planning authorities have that statutory obligation. That is nothing new. It was always...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I am not arguing with anybody. I am just making the point. My understanding is that it was always the case. I receive a list of planning from my planning authority every Thursday. I receive it every single week as a citizen. It has nothing to do with my status as a politician and I see all the planning applications. It is about public participation and engagement. This is critically...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I want to be clear because as we talk here, others are listening outside. Amendments Nos. 15 and 16 are in response to the AILG and LAMA request of myself and our group. They seek to put in place a guarantee that there will be a meeting in public of the council or the municipal authority or the area committee of which an LRD, this application, will be discussed, at which a planner will be...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 16: In page 7, after line 42, to insert the following: “(2)The planning authority shall include in its LRD opinion a summary of the views of the relevant elected members on that proposed development as expressed at any meetings of each Area Committee concerned, or of the municipal district members for each municipal district concerned, as appropriate.”.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: This is an important amendment. Where I have advocated strongly for city and county councillors, I now do so for planners. I have spoken to planners up and down the country who are very concerned about this proposal. We are dealing, in principle, with primary legislation. I do not know why everything has to be done by regulation. This Bill is setting things out clearly and there are...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I am very concerned about section 6 and would have thought it would have been opposed. It raises very serious issues. I do not want to keep harping back to the SHDs but the Minister should consider the number of cases people in his constituency - I am familiar with a number of them - took to An Bord Pleanála at great personal expense and risk.The Minister talked about local authorities...