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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Animal Health and Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (15 Jul 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I thank Deputy Flaherty; I really appreciate that. While the Minister is here, I will take the opportunity to discuss an issue with him. This relates to pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of the animal health and welfare Bill. Would the Minister be open to meeting me and to taking on board amendments when the Bill comes to the Seanad on another area of concern in the animal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Animal Health and Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (15 Jul 2021)

Lynn Boylan: That is great. If the Minister is happy to meet with me, I have the legislation ready to go.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the Minister. Everybody who is watching this at home would say that it stinks, and I do not believe anything we have heard today would change their opinion. In fact, there are now questions for the Minister for Finance as well as to what his role was in this process. For the ordinary Joe and Jane Soaps watching this, what they see is somebody who has access to very senior...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I want to come in as a lot of that is being repeated. When the Minister spoke to Katherine Zappone, did he say to her it would not be appropriate for him to set up an introduction with Samantha Power?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: When the Minister had the conversation with her on 26 February, the fact Katherine Zappone had initially reached out to him looking for an introduction to Samantha Power did not come up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: So it did come up in the course of the conversation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: At that point the Minister discussed the fact there might be a role for her within the Irish Government instead of introducing her to USAID.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: On 4 March, things had moved swiftly between the first phone call the Minister had with Katherine Zappone and his conversation with his Secretary General. Katherine Zappone believed - mistakenly, according to the Minister - she had been offered a job but it was subject to a Department review of whether such a role was required. Yet she queried the time period of the appointment and what the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: When someone contacted various Ministers and the ambassador inquiring about a job she had not been formally offered, did the Department not at any point think it might be appropriate to go back to Katherine Zappone, ask her to cool the jets and tell her there was no job yet, that it had not been finalised and that the process was still being gone through relating to terms and conditions and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: Why did she then, on 3 March, say to the Minister, when she was delighted about this job she did not have, that that was great and she had spoken to Deputy Donohoe as well? If she was to be involved in a conceptual process to explore whether there was to be an envoy, what role would the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, have had in that? Why would she have needed to speak to him and to tell the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: International Agreements (22 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I take it the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, will not be here to respond to my matter either. This is not my first time questioning the Government and being unable to address the Minister responsible. I again ask about the Government's position regarding the Energy Charter Treaty. I was disappointed by the response I received the last time that Ireland is happy to continue to throw its lot...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: International Agreements (22 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the Minister. I say this with no disrespect to her - I appreciate she came in to read the statement - but it is deeply disappointing that Ireland will continue to push ahead with the reform process that is going nowhere. Japan is not for moving and change requires unanimity. The European Commission's proposals, which are supported by the EU Council, meaning that our Minister would...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: My first point is to note the Sinn Féin Seanad team’s disappointment at the manner in which our MEP, Mr. Chris MacManus, was invited to today’s debate on the future of Europe. As someone who was an MEP, I know how difficult it is to manage a calendar that sees one in three different countries every month and it was a disappointment that Mr. MacManus was put at a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy: Women in Agriculture Stakeholders Group (21 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I welcome the speakers. As somebody from Dublin it is very interesting to be listening to this discussion on women in farming. I sympathise with Ms Crowley. I was one of two women who took the Coillte ground felling and chainsaw course. While it did not bother me, I could see why it would put other women off doing the same course with Coillte. The witnesses have answered a lot of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the Chair and both of our witnesses. My question is for Mr. Maughan. I would like to tease out where he got that 737 million allocation for Ireland under the social climate fund. Why is only 25% of the ETS going to be allocated to the social climate fund? On the allocation key Mr. Maughan referred to in the opening statement, we do not really know the extent of fuel poverty in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I just want to clarify something. Mr. Maughan is saying the allocation is 1% of the overall fund because it is based on population, so is it population or the allocation key which is deciding how much money Ireland would get? To reiterate, if Ireland is expected to submit a social climate plan to be eligible to access that social climate fund, how are we going to do that if we do not the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I want to pick up again on the 25% to the social climate fund. To put aside the fact that I and my party have issues around the emissions trading scheme, is it not the case that under the current emissions trading scheme 50% of the revenue raised is supposed to be allocated for climate projects? Ireland is an outlier in that we do not ring-fence and we have been called out by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: To follow up on Deputy Whitmore's question about the additional amount being ring-fenced for the carbon tax, has any data been collected by the Department? Given that carbon tax is supposed to be a behavioural tax, you should be seeing the revenue decreasing as it is having the effect it is supposed to have. Is any modelling being done by the Department on that? Mr. Maughan gave the figure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I was not expecting to get in. My first point, building on what Dr. Bresnihan was talking about, is on getting the buy-in from the population and obtaining a cost-benefit analysis in respect of these data centres. There is a KPMG report which states that 60% to 80% of the capital costs of data centres can be written off against taxes. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, was not able...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Fuel Poverty (28 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I encourage Senator Garvey to hang on, because I have some comments about the PSO levy as well as on something the Government could do to bring down the cost of energy. This is not my first time raising energy poverty in this House. I published a report earlier this year that detailed real lived experiences of people who are living in energy poverty. The latest figures suggest that 2,800...