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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: Will it defined what constitutes a refill or reusable so it is not that one reuses it once?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: Brilliant. On a more general question, Senator Pauline O'Reilly referred to VAT. She made good points about VAT for repair operations and making it economically viable for those organisations to be able to do that. Is the Department in consultation with the EU in regard to the VAT schemes? One of the issues we have around sustainable period products is that they are charged at 12.5%...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I thank our guests for their contributions. I have a number of specific questions that I would like to tease out. I worked on the single-use plastic directive when I was an MEP and one of the things that was exposed through freedom of information, FOI, was the negative role that Repak, particularly in Ireland, played in trying to delay the targets. My first question is on the discretionary...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I too will reserve my comments on the budget until later. I cannot let go uncountered what was said in this Chamber today about a particular author. It is important that facts matters. It is clear from the statement made by the author that it is not the language to which she objected in regard to the translation of her book. This is part of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, BDS,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: The book is open to being translated into Hebrew by any publisher that is not covered by the BDS campaign. Today, I want to focus on the comments last night of Mr. Owen Keegan, the chief executive of Dublin City Council, to the UCD students' union. I support the Sinn Féin council team in saying that his position is now untenable. He has proven himself to be ideologically opposed to...

Seanad: Budget 2022: Statements (12 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: For all the climate measures in the budget today, we are still completely in the dark about what it will achieve in terms of emissions reductions. Renters in particular are no better off in terms of knowing how private rental accommodation will be retrofitted and how the split incentive can be addressed. It is disheartening to see the disconnect between today’s fiscal budget and the...

Seanad: Budget 2022: Statements (12 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: On a point of information, I used to work for the NPWS.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I would like to raise two issues. First, on behalf of the Sinn Féin team, I wish our best to the families of the Stardust fire, who have another pre-inquest hearing today. Yet again, they are not going to be sure whether their lawyers are going to get paid, despite the fact the legal team have been working on this inquest for three years without receiving a single penny for their work....

Seanad: Peat Harvesting: Statements (13 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I acknowledge that the situation with horticultural peat for some businesses has reached a critical point. I accept that it must be an extremely stressful time for those business owners and their employees. I also acknowledge, as have others, the importance of the agrifood industry to Ireland's economy. That said, it is essential that we understand how we have reached the situation we are...

Seanad: British Government Legacy Proposals: Motion (13 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I commend Senator Emer Currie on bringing forward this motion tonight. It is important to remember that in the message coming from this House, our strength is in the unity of that message. The British Government's amnesty proposals to cover up the murder of civilians in the North is breathtaking in its arrogance and intent. Not only has it united human...

Seanad: British Government Legacy Proposals: Motion (13 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: The agreement flowed from the Good Friday Agreement and was an international agreement predicated on international human rights obligations. Its strength was in its unity of purpose. It provided, for the first time, access to justice for victims of the conflict who had hitherto faced perfunctory investigations into the killing of their loved ones, which failed to comply with the law, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: In regard to one EU member state doing something different in labelling and the Single Market, we might not have other countries with that problem but we have had other countries which addressed labelling issues. The process is you notify the European Commission that you are doing it, that it is on either health or environmental reasons, you run a trial for a set period and then you review...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I thank both speakers. It has been informative. I have a couple of points. I am glad Ms O'Brien said she would rather not have compostable be the minimum for use because she is correct that things do not get composted. Nothing in the Leinster House complex gets composted. I have come from the European Parliament where thousands of people work and the canteens there reuse. People pay a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: And the jobs.

Seanad: Flood Risk Management: Motion (19 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I commend this motion from the Green Party. Many here have said that we know that climate change means flooding will be an increasingly frequent issue. This summer alone we bore witness to the extreme flash flood events not only close to home in western Europe but also across the world, in China and Turkey. They are a devastating embodiment of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Renewable Energy Generation (20 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Across the country, homes, schools, community buildings, farms and businesses are crying out to generate their own solar energy but, unfortunately, the restrictive planning framework for solar generation has undermined progress in this regard. Planning regulations currently require planning permission for all but the smallest of solar panel...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Renewable Energy Generation (20 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the Minister of State for outlining all of the roadblocks that are in place and for saying there is a deadline of early 2022. I hope that deadline will actually be the deadline and that it will not move again, as it has previously. This will come as little comfort to schools and community groups that are desperate to be part of the transition and to do their part for climate action....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I listened with interest to some of my colleagues speaking about the roadshow that Deputy McConalogue is currently undertaking. I wish he would include a stop in this House as part of his roadshow because I cannot get a response to the emails I have sent to him. I have requested a meeting with him three times regarding the lack of enforcement of animal welfare laws, particularly in respect...

Seanad: EU Regulations: Motion (20 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Criminals, as the people of this State and the North know only too well, are becoming increasingly sophisticated as they ply their dangerous trade, whether it is peddling drugs on the streets or killing each other and many innocent people over personal and territorial disputes.Even last night we saw with the BBC "Spotlight" programme that they are...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (20 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte ar ais go dtí an Teach roimh an Aire Stáit. Sinn Féin will support the Bill and I am speaking on behalf of my colleague, Senator Warfield, who could not be here and wanted to speak on this issue because it is of great importance to him. We are absolutely behind the proposal to restrict applications for the change of use of student accommodation and commend...