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Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (20 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I will be brief. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Smyth, to the House. This is very welcome legislation. It has bee a long time coming, and some political parties have dragged their heels for a hell of a long time. There have been many commitments, but we are now seeing it done, ultimately under the Minister of State's remit. I welcome it and I thank the Minister of State for how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Chair, and I want to thank Ms Timmons, Mr. Ó Coigligh, Ms Stapleton and their team for being here today and for laying out what they have achieved and done. However, we still have a major issue; we have a housing crisis. We have a Government now past its mid-term in office. There is huge expectation, understandably and rightly, from people who cannot either afford or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Ms Stapleton might come back to me. I particularly want, as I said, the Dublin ones.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Ms Stapleton does not know the figure. Could she tell the committee today what are the direct social houses built by Fingal County Council in 2022?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: That is great. I will give Ms Stapleton plenty of time. I will move on, as I am conscious of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: The figure for social housing direct build by Fingal County Council in 2022.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Okay. Ms Stapleton might just provide the committee with the most up-to-date figures she has for all of the authorities. That would be very helpful with regard to our considerations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I will move on to some points on today's statement. The Department talks about a new vacant property refurbishment grant. It has already been launched but the Department intends to expand it to homes that can be rented to private tenants. Will the witnesses touch on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: The Department might keep the committee up to speed as these changes are rolled out and the plan progressed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: The statement refers to modern methods of construction in the context of major funding to relieve local authorities with indebted lands. I presume that touches on the historic land aggregation sites. Will the witnesses touch on what is in mind when talking about modern methods of construction? We have an historic land aggregation scheme. The local authorities offered some lands back, some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Would the Department be able to supply the committee with a memo in respect of those 12 sites and the associated targets? That would be very helpful. I appreciate that most of these sites are being repaid on an interest-only basis. The capital is never repaid. It represents great indebtedness for the local authorities. Clearly, we have to address the issue of bringing forward housing on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Again, to the Department, is it aware of this illegal activity, and how does it monitor and deal with it?

Seanad: Election of Acting Chairperson (25 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I will do the job.

Seanad: Election of Acting Chairperson (25 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Senator very much for my proposal.

Seanad: Election of Acting Chairperson (25 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: By vote, by acclamation.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I wish to bring to the attention of the House the fact that Macra na Feirme will launch a major campaign about the representation of young farmers. It will leave from the area of Duke Street or Emily Square in Athy, which is a particularly nice town where Macra na Feirme was founded in the 1940s. This is just one of many groups within the agricultural sector that are frustrated and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: We know it. We know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister, the Ministers of State and his housing officials. Everybody here accepts we need to accelerate the supply of new homes across a range of homes and reduce the cost of construction. That is a given. I have said many times on this committee that I do not buy into any ideology. I do not exercise too much time on who is building the houses. It is about delivery of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I do not need to welcome the Minister of State because this is her House. I thank her for coming to address this issue. The focus of my Commencement matter today, and hopefully the Minister of State will deal with all this, is the need to confirm the number of forestry planting licences that have been granted since 1 January 2023. Can she confirm that Ireland has formally submitted its...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister of State. The question was precise, and the Minister of State confirmed again that it had been submitted. I asked the Minister of State when it was submitted. Will the Minister of State just tell us when the form was completely submitted? I cannot seem to get that direct answer. It is a simple question. It is in the Commencement matter. Secondly, there is no...