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Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: It might change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Revitalising Derelict and Vacant Homes on Farmland: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome Mr. Davitt and Mr. Kennedy. I thank them for the excellent presentation. I sit on the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Clearly, all of the issues the witnesses are touching on we also have touched on. I draw the witnesses' attention to a report on town and village regeneration that was published earlier this year, on which we made 39...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Revitalising Derelict and Vacant Homes on Farmland: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Mr. Kennedy is suggesting an amnesty of one year or possibly two years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Revitalising Derelict and Vacant Homes on Farmland: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Would that apply in specific designated areas of the country? I happen to live in south County Dublin, in Dún Laoghaire. I would love a waiver on capital gains before I move on. Let us tease that out. People will not buy that so are we talking about areas of disadvantage? Leitrim has the highest levels of dereliction. Would it make a stronger argument to propose a concentrated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Revitalising Derelict and Vacant Homes on Farmland: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I am going to be very brief. I want to thank all of the people for their submissions, and I want to particularly single out the IFA. It put it quite succinctly in a presentation to us when it summed it up in five key messages. It is about farmhouse revitalisation. That is really essential, and that is what we are talking about. I am conscious of not going beyond the remit of the bigger...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tax Code (18 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: The next Commencement matter relates to the introduction of a 30% income tax rate. Senator Maria Byrne has four minutes to make her case.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tax Code (18 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I again thank the Minister of State for coming to the House and responding to the various matters in a comprehensive fashion. It is appreciated. The final matter is in the name of Senator Garvey. As she is not present, I propose that the proceedings of the House stand suspended until 10.30 a.m.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: At 7.45 this morning, I visited the international protection offices in Mount Street. The first thing I encountered were 31 tents, some of them elevated on wooden decking and plastic. These are occupied by people who are waiting for emergency accommodation and a humanitarian response by the Irish people under the international protection protocols the country has signed up to. We have an...

Seanad: Tourism: Statements (18 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister to the House. I only have a few things to say with regard to tourism and the Minister's brief. They are a little bit disjointed - I would not like to think I was too disjointed - but I want to share with the Minister two or three things. First, I was at the recent British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly. We gathered in Jersey for a few days. The issue of tourism was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Revitalising Derelict and Vacant Homes on Farmland: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: That is a good point too. I will take that on board.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I want to go back to Ms Foster and Mr. Heneghan first but then to Mr. Mandal and Ms Cadell. At the very heart of their conversation, the witnesses have been talking today about the voice of the members - I presume that is the members of the council - the voice of the citizen, and subsidiarity. What is a city and county development plan but a contract with the people. It sets out a sense of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: As colleagues know, Kerrygold is synonymous with Irish butter. They may ask why I am saying that today. I join in congratulating, and I hope this House will, our internationally recognised garden designer in Kerry, our good friend, Billy Alexander, an Irish supreme horticulturist, botanist and plantsman, who this morning was awarded the highest award – the gold medal – at the...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister to the House for the debate on this timely legislation. I thank him for setting out its provisions in his opening remarks. I acknowledge and salute his work and commitment as Minister for Justice since he took the job. I do not mean to embarrass him in saying this. He hit the ground running on day one. I remember seeing a report on the 9 o'clock news showing him...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I endorse all those excellent amendments. They are logical, fair, they make sense. All those issues were echoed and touched on in the excellent report by the children's committee of which Members of this House were members, which is teased out to a great extent in the Bill digest on the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022. I hope we will hear from them at some point in...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I will touch generally on the response to the three amendments with which the Minister dealt. First, I acknowledge that he has confirmed that he has written to the Catholic and the Church of Ireland Primates of All Ireland. I would be interested to see how that is all going. I am sure there are ways of finding out all that. That is no big government secret, and I am confident we could...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I hear what the Minister is saying but to go back to the point, many of these vaccine trials took place on children from zero up to six months so they are excluded. There is no redress. The Government has no scheme for them. Let us say a list was to be put in front of the Minister in ten days' time with 38 children on it and it was validated that they were all in State care and subject to...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Senator Higgins put it very well and set our her stall on both amendments. I am very heavily reliant in discussing the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill on the Bill digest that was done by the Library and Research Service. I acknowledge and thank Dr. Deirdre Halloran and Ms Michelle Lynch, senior parliamentary researchers in law in the Oireachtas, for their very extensive...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I have no difficulty with that. The committee made 21 recommendations, including that the six-month residency requirement for children be removed. The committee stated clearly it must be removed. The report was signed off by all those Oireachtas Members, who went around saying they were going to transform everything. I expected more of them and I am...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (24 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Senator Lombard.