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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I fully understand the issue. I am asking what the ICSA is proposing for how we address it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I fully agree. I shall now turn to Mr. Feeney from ACA. The fast-tracking of planning is a recurring theme. Mr. Feeney might touch on fast-tracked planning and TAMS applications for slurry storage on farms. The VAT reclaim facility he talked about makes absolute sense. How is the ACA running its campaign in conjunction with other farm organisations to drive the importance of this? It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister. The Bill puts in place the required legislation to establish the agriculture appeals review panel, which is good. I have a few comments. From farmers who have been in touch with or come before the committee, we know they are very anxious to see farm representation on this 12-person appeals board. That is a message that has come loud and clear to us all, so the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Victor Boyhan: If I could add to that, a lot of this again comes up in the context of process, fairness and engagement. It brings me back to that point, which I will not open up today for debate, about the farmers’ charter. That is the recurring theme and it is the book about which farmers want to be able to say this is all set out, with processes and fairness. I know the Minister is working on it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I know the Minister has a timeline and is anxious to get this thing through. I think there is generally broad support here. The Minister can initiate this legislation in either House. We are not snowed under with work in the Seanad. This legislation is ultimately a call for the Minister and his party colleagues but the legislation could be initiated in the Seanad and I ask the Minister to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Victor Boyhan: It is possibility. I appreciate that.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Electoral Process (6 Mar 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, for agreeing to take this Commencement matter. Ironically, I met the Minister of State with responsibility for electoral reform in the Seanad anteroom and we had an opportunity to discuss some of this. He had a decided view; that is his view and I am not here to communicate his view, but I would share his view, which is encouraging. I have...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Electoral Process (6 Mar 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I appreciate where the Minister of State is coming from. She is delivering this response on behalf of the Department, which is not her Department. It is interesting, however, that all the political parties and Independents do not know the date. What is the reason for the reluctance of the Minister to confirm? Surely it is about participation, democracy and encouraging people. I will scan...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I join the Irish National Teachers Organisation, INTO, in its call for age-appropriate mental health support for children in teachers' care. The INTO has been to the fore regarding the mental health of children in school. It has continually expressed concern and sought additional resources for the welfare of the children in teachers' care. I am a great supporter of the INTO, which does...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Yes.

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank Sinn Féin Senators for tabling this timely motion. It is right this issue should be debated, in a respectful way. It highlights many issues. Many of us will remember a document called Rebuilding Ireland. That promised that within six or eight months we would have no homeless people. Nobody would be living in a hotel or sleeping...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Senator Ahearn without interruption.

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Without interruption.

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Can Senator Ahearn stop engaging in debate? Speak through the Chair please.

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Without interruption.

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I did not invite an interruption, so the Senator, without interruption.

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Without interruption, Senator Gavan.

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Victor Boyhan: Without interruption, Senator Cummins. Through the Chair.

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I call Senator McGahon, who has six minutes.I will address a couple of points that I raised in this House and that Sinn Féin mentioned both in this House and the Lower House, namely, that the people of my generation - I am 33 years of age - are leaving this country because of the housing crisis and moving to Australia because housing is so good there and Australia is a promised land.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Victor Boyhan: I thank committee members. I will make clear that while we are using the Chamber for the meeting, this is not a committee of the Seanad but a committee of consultation. I want to be clear on that. There are no "happy day" Senators at all today. Our guests are very welcome. They all bring a breadth of vast experience to the process. There is a recurring theme all the time, which Mr....