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Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Vincent P Martin: Apart from opening hours and levels of anticipated pedestrian and vehicular traffic, the Senator makes a good point. It could be that it is a vital cultural and arts centre and we do not want to move that, explicitly, to a betting shop.

Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (17 Jul 2024)

Vincent P Martin: Like other members, I thank the Minister of State for her attendance, but I also thank her for her full engagement. I recognise and accept her bona fides in this matter, but I have to disagree with Senator O’Reilly’s comment about this being a semantic point. It is a substantive point, not an interpretation of linguistics. It is a serious issue that goes to the core of why...

Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (17 Jul 2024)

Vincent P Martin: Hear, hear.

Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (17 Jul 2024)

Vincent P Martin: We cannot have everything comprised in the regulation, when we get it.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)

Vincent P Martin: I seek leave from the House to introduce a Bill entitled the Domestic Violence (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2024, which proposes to amend the Domestic Violence Act 2018 in relation to the offence of coercive control, by extending the meaning assigned in section 39 of the Act to the term "relevant person" in order to broaden the definition of "relevant person". The current range of relationships...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)

Vincent P Martin: It has to be enacted and the Government is slow and stalling that. There is no reason to stall the legislation. This is a murderous regime, directed by a bloodthirsty leader, who clearly places no value on life. Israel is a rogue state purporting to be a democratic one. It has long since abandoned the rule of law. It is a blatant hypocrisy to treat Israel any differently from North Korea...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)

Vincent P Martin: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2024: First Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Vincent P Martin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Domestic Violence Act 2018 in relation to the offence of coercive control by extending the meaning assigned in section 39 of that Act to the term "relevant person" and to provide for related matters.

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2024: First Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Vincent P Martin: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2024)

Vincent P Martin: I seek leave of the House to take No. 13 on the Order of Business before No. 1 so that I can introduce and publish my Bill entitled transport (vehicle registration plate suppliers) Bill 2024, which will provide for some much-needed regulation in the area of manufacturing, selling and supplying vehicle registration plates. In its investigation of criminal activity, An Garda Síochána...

Seanad: Transport (Vehicle Registration Plate Suppliers) Bill 2024: First Stage (2 Oct 2024)

Vincent P Martin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the regulation of persons who manufacture, sell or otherwise supply vehicle registration plates and for that purpose to provide for the establishment by the Minister for Finance of a register of persons who manufacture for sale or supply, or who sell or supply, such plates and to provide for the keeping and...

Seanad: Transport (Vehicle Registration Plate Suppliers) Bill 2024: First Stage (2 Oct 2024)

Vincent P Martin: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2024)

Vincent P Martin: I seek leave to take No. 12 on the agenda before No. 1. I formally request that the Order of Business be so amended. That will permit me to introduce my Bill entitled Planning and Development (Stationary Battery Energy Storage Systems) Bill 2024. Currently, battery energy storage systems, BESSs, do not require an environmental impact assessment, EIA, as they are not listed in annex 1 or 2...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Stationary Battery Energy Storage Systems) Bill 2024: First Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Vincent P Martin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to include in the classes of development requiring an environmental impact assessment report certain installations of stationary battery energy storage systems, and to provide for related matters.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Stationary Battery Energy Storage Systems) Bill 2024: First Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Vincent P Martin: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Oct 2024)

Vincent P Martin: On behalf of the Green Party group, I wish to convey our deepest sympathy to the family of the late Councillor John Naughten. The family is highly respected and has contributed a great deal to the Oireachtas. They are a family full of decency and integrity and we would like to express our deepest sympathy to Denis, John's family and all concerned at this dreadful time. The horrific loss...

Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Vincent P Martin: I am one of many who campaigned to retain the House. At that time I did not realise I would later become a Member of the House. I have witnessed the House in operation up close and realise the great, invaluable work we do under the radar, but also the huge, unfulfilled potential. Naturally, I welcome any reform. Reform comes drippingly slow. The irony is not lost on me that we start to...

Seanad: Protection of the Native Irish Honey Bee Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Vincent P Martin: Now.

Seanad: Protection of the Native Irish Honey Bee Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Vincent P Martin: I ask the Green Party group leader to lead off.

Seanad: Protection of the Native Irish Honey Bee Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Vincent P Martin: I thank the Acting Chairperson. When the Seanad debated my Bill on Second and Committee Stages, it was known then that Ireland had a significant population of Apis mellifera mellifera, a subspecies that used to be very common in northern Europe but was rapidly becoming extinct. Ireland is one of the last strongholds because the bee has become so endangered in other places. Our native bee...