Results 761-780 of 1,773 for speaker:Lynn Boylan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Will the DAA be asking for those figures so that we can get a full picture of just how bad the events of the weekend were?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the EU Commissioner for Energy (2 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the Chairman and I apologise to our guests for arriving late. We were debating the protection of the Irish native honeybee. I want to go back to the Energy Charter Treaty. In 2018, Commissioner Malmström announced that investor-state dispute settlement, ISDS, was over and dead. Investor-state dispute settlement is not even on the negotiation proposals under the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the EU Commissioner for Energy (2 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: That is being ignored though. That ruling has been ignored repeatedly by the tribunals because EU law is a separate code of law from international law. It has been rejected and the tribunals are progressing. I know there is agreement at EU level for countries to appeal that but they have all been rejected.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the EU Commissioner for Energy (2 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: The tribunals are still taking place and finding against member states on intra-EU disagreements. All they need to do is get the compensation from a country that is outside the EU and that could be Britain or Switzerland. Spain has 48 cases pending against it so it could be a Latin American country where it has assets. The tribunals are still happening even though the European Court of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the EU Commissioner for Energy (2 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: So we are excepting that some countries will carry out significant harm.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Give him the bell.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: We are being very rude today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I have been blown away and I have taken many notes on what has been said. I agree with much of it. On the question of young people engaging in politics, anybody who argues that allowing voting at 16 is not a runner should listen to the quality of today's debate. I do not want to plamás or patronise the witnesses because I hate when young people are told how wonderful they are in that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: That is Deputy Alan Farrell's fault.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Biodiversity: Engagement with Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I thank Dr. Lynn for her presentation. I apologise for arriving late to the meeting. I echo what others have said, and welcome the NPWS review having been done and recommended increased funding and a strengthened role for that agency concerning wildlife crime. I would be interested to hear, however, whether Dr. Lynn thinks that the service will have the ability to undertake those types of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Biodiversity: Engagement with Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Okay. Regarding the opening statement and what was said about a-whole-of-government approach, my query again is whether Dr. Lynn believes that the NPWS will be able to go to those other Departments to ensure there is such an approach. One example concerns rodenticide, and its use and impact, particularly on the barn owl project, but also on other raptors. Despite this impact, the CAP...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Biodiversity: Engagement with Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I have raised the issue of rodenticide with the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Malcolm Noonan, but also that of formaldehyde, glyphosate and all these chemicals that are readily available. It is possible to walk down to any high street store and buy them cheaply. I have asked for a public awareness campaign, and I think the Minister of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Biodiversity: Engagement with Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: We can follow up on that.

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I apologise on behalf of Senator Warfield, who cannot be here today. Amendment No. 39 will insert after the word "violent" the words "accidental, homicidal, undetermined or suspicious deaths". This will expand the criteria listed in the section by which An Garda Síochána would have to be alerted to evidence of human remains. The current requirements are quite limited and,...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 17: "In page 15, to delete lines 31 to 34 and substitute the following: “(5) The Government shall make every effort where a site proves problematic to resolve difficulties and thoroughly examine burials on the land, before it is determined that memorialisation of the burials on the land, is more appropriate.”." This amendment seeks to delete lines...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Could the Minister elaborate on how we categorise substantive reasons for not engaging in an intervention? How do we balance that? I am aware that there are sites where exhumation is not the agreed outcome by everybody involved. How does one balance that to make sure that we get as much information about those burial sites as possible in order to be in compliance with our EU and UN conventions?

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: It is again about reassurances on making sure that all the families, as far as is possible, would be contacted and all their opinions taken on board and not just perhaps a more vocal cohort of the families. It is just about reassurances that the safeguards are there to make sure that, if that was put as a substantive reason, all the voices are around the table and nobody is excluded from...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 21: In page 16, line 13, to delete “, at the time of such burial,”. The rationale for deleting "at the time of such burial" is that there is no principled reason to specify that contemporary burial practice from the 1940s, 1950s and-or earlier or later should apply to any potential burial lands. Public awareness and perception of common decency and...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 23: In page 16, lines 18 and 19, to delete “and would reasonably have been so considered at the time the burials took place”.

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 25: In page 16, lines 27 to 38, to delete all words from and including “important” in line 27 down to and including line 38 and substitute the following: “significant burial sites, the Government shall make every effort to thoroughly examine and make interventions using the full resources and powers of the Director.”.