Results 101-120 of 158 for speaker:Eileen Lynch

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farm Safety: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I thank all the witnesses for being with us today and for their comprehensive statements. As my colleagues said, this is an incredibly important issue and affects every farm family and every farm, whether they have been directly affected or just from the perspective of the importance of safety on the farm. It was mentioned - this is not a phrase that should be associated with this - that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Priorities of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Jul 2025)

PJ Murphy: I thank the Minister for coming in. I am sorry I missed the earlier part of his address; I was engaged in the Seanad. I will start off by congratulating the Minister on the guidelines that propose to reduce the minimum size of apartments. I fully agree with this proposal. As he just pointed out, viability and affordability are key. Apartments that are not being built, irrespective of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Priorities of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Jul 2025)

PJ Murphy: We are on the same page. I fully agree with the Minister about oversight from Uisce Éireann. A specification would have to be provided by Uisce Éireann. The plant on completion would have to be taken in charge by Uisce Éireann. It is very important that whatever specification is provided by Uisce Éireann would be financially viable for the developer. My fear is that...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)

PJ Murphy: The Minister of State is very welcome. I thank him for coming to the Seanad this afternoon. Despite what has just been said by the Opposition, I stand here and compliment the Minister of State on the amendments before us. They will do exactly as intended: enable development. I will go to the bones of the amendment: "The holder of permission for residential development may apply to the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jul 2025)

PJ Murphy: I express concerns about what is coming down the track soon with the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023. From 1 September, the new regulations will deem all antiparasitic veterinary drugs to be prescription only. These are a large number of remedies used on farms on a day-to-day basis, such as sheep dip, dry cow mastitis tubes and ivermectin...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I thank the Minister of State and his team for being with us today and for his patience during what has been a very informative but lengthy session. Many of the issues have been raised but I want to touch on one issue that has already been addressed. With regard to the afforestation plan, we are not at delivery and we delivered just one fifth of the plan for 8,000 ha of forestry last year....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I thank the Minister of State. It provides great clarity. It is no harm to call it out in the manner in which he did. It is important that is done. What the Minister of State said about the graph and the way in which it actually works in reality makes perfect sense. It is important that message gets out there in light of the statement in the Irish Independent today. On ash dieback, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

PJ Murphy: I am from the south Galway area of the Gort-Kinvara municipal district, which is rural rent pressure zone within commuting distance of Galway city. In recent years, there has been a noticeable trend in the area regarding accident landlords. I refer here to people who came into ownership of houses as a result of family bereavements. Some of these people rented their properties to a single...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

PJ Murphy: Does the organisation have any proposals to improve the situation for these accidental landlords to which I referred?

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I thank the witnesses for being with us and for their presentation. The importance of Coimisiún na Mean's role cannot be understated. It is quite a difficult regulatory role. While many of the measures coming in under the new legislation are preliminary and very much at an exploratory stage in terms of their results, what mechanisms are in place for monitoring and enforcing...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Eileen Lynch: Are the witnesses confident that the resources are there to deal with these issues? I appreciate the DSA election guidelines are in place. There is also a situation, as the witnesses have outlined, whereby a platform can decide not to adhere to the guidelines because it has its own suite of measures to which it adheres for whatever reason. Who is the decision-maker in that case? What is...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I want to raise the role of Coimisiún na Meán regarding online sellers and online marketplaces based outside Ireland and the way they advertise online. Does Coimisiún na Meán have a role in ensuring that these online sellers comply with the same standards and regulations Irish providers have to comply with? That very much ties in with the online socials platforms as...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Eileen Lynch: More so with regard to third country traders, Mr. Moroney mentioned their compliance with the CCPC and the DSA but how does Coimisiún na Meán enforce that compliance and how does it ensure that traders outside Ireland or the EU in particular are held to the same standards? Once it has been identified, how does enforcement work?

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Eileen Lynch: What role does Coimisiún na Meán have in the protection of the consumer rights of online shoppers and health and environmental issues, particularly with regard to things like Cyber Week and Black Friday? A lot of that involves consumer protection but is there a role for Coimisiún na Meán to inform shoppers about their rights when it comes to what is going on with these...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Eileen Lynch: Are there actual campaigns based around that kind of literacy? I know we discussed it earlier regarding election literacy but is it that kind of digital literacy or a more general all-encompassing-----

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Financial Services (30 Sep 2025)

Eileen Lynch: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as a bheith linn inniu. This matter relates to the need for Ireland to introduce incentivised savings and investment accounts for Irish savers. It is reported that in excess of €163 billion worth of Irish household savings are currently lying in deposit accounts in banks, earning limited interest and not being invested in the economy. In...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Financial Services (30 Sep 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I am glad to see that, with respect to many of my previous comments, we seem to be very much on the same page. I note he acknowledged the report from the European Commission today. On the Minister of State’s comments on the reduction of the exit tax on investment funds, I welcome the measure, but this change will primarily benefit those...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

PJ Murphy: I rise today to discuss a topic of particular interest to me as a commercial beekeeper, and that is the response to the positive identification of an Asian hornet nest in Cork during recent months. After the positive identification of an individual Asian hornet, it took two weeks to find the location of the nest using the traditional triangulation method. Now, while that method did work, the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2025)

PJ Murphy: As the weather gets colder and the long nights approach, I would again like to bring attention to the turf that continues to lie wet on the banks of three south-east Galway bogs. On Ardgraigue, Barroughter and Cloonmoylan bogs, families have been prevented from returning to save the turf by a High Court injunction at the behest of the NPWS earlier this year. These families now face into the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2025)

Eileen Lynch: Today I want to speak about the increased incidence of road traffic accidents on the Macroom bypass and the N22 east and west of the town as a result of wild deer. Since the opening of the bypass almost two years ago, there has been a massive increase in the rate of incidents involving wild deer. The deer have been displaced and that is causing more of them to be on the road. Almost every...