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Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: -----and we want to conduct our business. I am not ceding to any point of order.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I am responding to the Minister.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Please allow me to speak.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I am responding to the Minister.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: That is okay, and I will finish on this point. Call it out for what it is.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I went down to the Library and Research Service. There are 554 pages of pre-legislative scrutiny of this Bill. This Bill has been exhaustive. Everyone has had an opportunity to speak on it. Many Members who are present were members of that joint committee. Let us call it out for what it is. For those who are listening in, some people might not like the quality, or the outcome of some of...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: As my colleague on the right-hand side of the House has said, this Bill has been approved by the Government. It is a tripartite Government.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: You have your snouts in the nuts and you can either put up or shut up.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Cathaoirleach for facilitating my intervention.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: We have an Order of Business and opportunities tomorrow morning.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: We will have the Order of Business tomorrow. That is when the Seanad-----

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: We have some forms in our office.

Seanad: Hypothermia Scalp Cooling Therapy: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Green Party for using its Private Members' time for what is a very important proposal, which it has covered well. I also thank the Minister for setting out his stall honestly and frankly, if not somewhat disappointingly. He has been honest and frank and what more can we ask of a Minister? He said that Senators will be aware that there is a finite budget and we all know that. I...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I formally second my colleague Senator McDowell's amendment to the Order of Business. I want to raise issues relating to the Committee Stage of the policing Bill yesterday. I left the Oireachtas at 11.15 p.m. last night. I just checked into my office before I left to see an email that withdrew the motion due to go before the House regarding how we would reconvene. The Deputy Leader should...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I am happy to stay here until 3 o'clock. I am happy to oppose the proposal and I am up for it. I just want to flag that to the Deputy Leader.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: We are not here any other day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the new president of the IFA, to whom I say "well done" on a fabulous campaign. Looking from the outside, I never saw the IFA more invigorated and enthusiastic. Elections do things for politicians and the IFA. I thought it was an interesting and very engaging campaign. Having followed much of the campaign through various sources at a remove, it was clear that IFA farmers were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Can I just wrap up, because I am conscious other members would like to come in? Mr. Fleming has said something really alarming there, but it is something we sort of knew anyway. He is now questioning the integrity of the inspection system. I share his concerns, so that is not a criticism of him, but Mr. Fleming is putting it out there to us. That is a challenge to us. Why are we importing...