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Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2024: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2025)

Victor Boyhan: In light of what the Minister of State has said and the fact that there will be another Stage of the Bill next week, I will withdraw the amendment, take some further advice and have another opportunity to come in here next week. We will all have another opportunity to have a chat and we can pursue it on the next Stage. I will not pursue the amendment at this point.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I raise the issue of house planning in Gaeltacht communities and rural communities. I call on the Minister for housing and planning to take practical steps to allow native Irish speakers to be allowed to submit a planning application but, more importantly, to be granted planning permission to build a single home on their lands. We need to be mindful of Government policy on the Gaeltacht...

Seanad: Care, Supports and Enhanced Provision of Services for Older People: Motion (5 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State to his important Ministry. I have no doubt he will do an exceptionally good job.He is fiercely committed and applies himself to the challenges put in front of him. I thank Fine Gael for using its Private Members' time to afford us an opportunity to discuss and debate care supports and enhanced provisions for services for older people. That is important....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Process (6 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State back to the House. He has vast experience in this area as a Minister of State in the Department. My Commencement matter sets out the need for the Minister to make a statement on the timeline for the full publication of the Planning and Development Act 2024 and progress on the Am Bord Pleanála IT project. When I submitted this, the Government had not at...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Process (6 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister of State very much. There is a lot of information in that, if I was ever convinced, or needed to be convinced, that the Department needed to exercise its governance and have a governance unit as regards An Bord Pleanála. I respectfully ask the Minister of State to take a message to the Department, including the senior manager, that it should initiate a full and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Process (6 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 1: In page 9, to delete lines 10 to 15.

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: As agreed, I will speak on amendments Nos. 1 and 2 together. I thank the Minister of State and the officials from the Law Reform Commission who are with us again today. We have had engagements with the Minister of State since we last spoke and I thank her office and staff for that. These have been meaningful and practical and we should reach some sort of reasonable compromise. This...

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: As the Minister of State said, we have had meaningful discussions about this. I do not want to delay the Bill - it would not be appropriate as a lot of work has been done - but the natural follow-on is for it to go to Dáil Éireann. This Bill was initiated in Seanad Éireann which is more unusual. Given there is a body of work to be done, may I respectfully suggest to the...

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I again thank the Minister of State and her officials. As we start a new term in the Seanad and Dáil, a lesson in politics is that there is much to be gained from practical and respectful engagement with Ministers. That is the way to go. This debate demonstrates again that, working together pragmatically, we can achieve collectively what we set out to do.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: Last year, the Department of agriculture confirmed it had suspended the operations of the Shannonside Foods plant in County Kildare. There was much discussion in this House, as there was at the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, of which I was a member. There was also a lot of discussion and debate about this issue in the Dáil. I acknowledge the amazing work of...

Seanad: Health (Scoliosis Treatment Services) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I think this is the first time I have been in the House since the Minister for Health took up her position in health. I wish her well. I have known her for some time. She is my local TD, so I see the work she does at the coalface in our constituency. I genuinely wish her well. I think she is the right person. She has the tenacity, commitment, intelligence and political nous necessary...

Seanad: Health (Scoliosis Treatment Services) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I do not want to let the opportunity go without thanking the Minister for her very productive engagement. It bodes well for us. We, on this side of the House, thank her and acknowledge and echo what she said about the people on the front line of the health service whom the Minister is dealing with and witnessing every day, who are doing important work. We must acknowledge that as it is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Emigrant Support Services (20 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Cathaoirleach for selecting this matter. I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for coming here to directly deal with this issue. My Commencement matter addresses the need for the Minister to make a statement on the Irish emigrant support programme, ESP, in the United Kingdom and the ongoing funding opportunities. I spent a week in London, including St. Patrick's...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Emigrant Support Services (20 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister of State for the detail and his passion for this important subject. He mentioned Dún Laoghaire Harbour. He and I know it because we both served on the council where the harbour is located. It is known locally as the harbour of tears and we understand why. So many people emigrated. They did not fly; they left mainly from Dún Laoghaire and Dublin ports. ...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I join with others in commending the Cathaoirleach on his round of engagements in the US. As always, he did us very proud there. He is fiercely committed to it and that special relationship with the United States of America. That prompted me as I was coming up the stairs where we now have a collection of photographs to consider again the John F. Kennedy battle flag that was on display for...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: We are happy too.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: Yes.

Seanad: Common Agricultural Policy National Plan: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I congratulate Deputy Heydon on his elevation and achievement. No better man is deserving of the post. I know quite a bit about him. I am sure he knows that my roots are in Kildare. He lives in Blackrath in Colbinstown, which falls between two great places in my life, mind and heart, namely, Grangecon in west Wicklow, which is close to where the Minister is from, and the lovely village of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: I raise the issue of the residential zoned land tax. Many of us who are involved in rural communities will know that this week is the last call for the residential zoned land tax. Farmers with land that may fall within the scope of this residential land tax should be fully up to speed on the implications of this tax and ensure their maps are updated in their local authority. This is very...