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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Prices (1 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I am convinced someone is trying to sabotage me because we keep changing the order every week. We are here this morning because it has been impossible not to notice the welcome news in the newspapers that €50 is going back into every household's electricity accounts as a result of an error made by ESB Networks.The bigger question is as to why domestic customers were subsidising large...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Prices (1 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: In its submission, the Department criticised the CRU for unwinding what it called a ministerial direction. That information was obtained, via a freedom-of-information request, from email correspondence. The CRU is independent, and yet it implemented this decision on the instruction of a Minister in 2009. It is being blamed upon unwinding a ministerial direction and told that this measure...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I echo what others have said and wish everybody a Lá Fhéile Bríde sona. It is very welcome that we are now going to celebrate St. Brigid who was a powerful feminist who challenged the status quo, respected the environment and wildlife, established leading community movements and, I believe, inspired Grace O'Malley, Maud Gonne, Brigitte Bardot and suffrages all over the world....

Seanad: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 59: In page 57, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following:“(12A) The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act,commission and publish a report on the regulatory and legislative changes required in order to establish an online portal for the uploading of dash cam and helmet camera footage to aid in the investigation and prosecution of...

Seanad: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 60: In page 57, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following:“(12A) The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act,commission and publish a report on the regulatory and legislative changes required in order to establish a mechanism for the use of dash cam footage obtained from public transport buses to aid in the investigation and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (31 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Where did the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment get the figure of €70 million contained in its submission?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I apologise to Senator McGreehan. I thank Ms Creedon for her informative opening statement. One of the key reasons I requested that we have a session on dog bites, dangerous dogs, sheep-worrying and related issues is that I want us to react with an evidence-based approach to this. We are all in agreement that we want these dog attacks to end if we can stop them, but there have been a lot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Sorry, I know I fired a load of questions at Ms Creedon. One of them was about the dog bite prevention body. Are such bodies running in other jurisdictions that we can examine? We have a tendency in Ireland to look to Britain because of the language comparison and because it uses a similar system with a dangerous dog breed list, but it has not reduced the number of dog attacks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: It feeds into what Ms Creedon said about responsible breeders in that with responsible breeders people nearly have to interview to get the dog. It is the same with shelters and pounds. They will gasp at the photographs of where the dog will be kept. There is no keeping the dog outside overnight. There are all those questions, and they will not re-home an adult dog with young children....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I thank all our guests for their very detailed submissions. The first issue I wish to raise involves dog breeding establishments, DBEs. This committee produced an animal welfare report while the DSPCA recently called for the DBE regulations and legislation to go to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Do Mr. Geraghty and Mr. Ryan support that being in the one Department? It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dangerous Dog Breeds and Sheep Worrying: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I accept that the ratio is a crude measure but I have heard the same said about capping the number of breeding bitches. I have concerns about Mr. Ryan's statement that automation improves socialisation. The behavioural expert made the point, which makes sense, that it is about introducing dogs to different environments and noises and being handled more. We know that when dogs go into...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Before I raise an issue on the Order of Business, I add my support to Senator Sherlock's comments about the importance of people being careful with their language at the moment. We are sitting on a tinder box and we must be mindful of what we are saying. I will raise an issue that I have raised on numerous occasions in this Chamber through Commencement matters and at committee level,...

Seanad: Communications Regulation and Digital Hub Development Agency (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Curim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. As others have said, the Bill aims to provide ComReg with more powers, which is a move that Sinn Féin welcomes. ComReg needs stronger regulatory and consumer protection powers if it is to be able to do its job. I recently had reason to contact ComReg regarding power outages that were impacting the ability of people to contact emergency...

Seanad: National Forestry Fund: Motion (8 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. This is a timely motion, and I commend Senator Boyhan on bringing such positive proposals forward. We need to ensure that communities and environmental ambition are at the heart of any proposal that emerges in this regard. The motion does not make any direct reference to the topical Coillte joint venture but it is important to take the opportunity to raise...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I will raise a story that appeared on the front page of The Independentabout a ground-breaking decision taken by the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland, ASAI, with regard to greenwashing. It is very important, when we are all trying to do the right thing on climate change, that we are not being misled by companies that are trying to greenwash and are saying they are doing things...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the officials from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage for coming in to the committee today. I will pick up on embodied carbon, especially in existing buildings. We are constantly seeing buildings in the city being demolished rather than reused. Stephen Court is a beautiful building around the corner for which planning permission has just been received to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Does Mr. Armstrong think it goes far enough? We constantly see buildings being demolished and not reused. The report from the Oireachtas committee clearly asked for the Department to carry out changes to the planning system to ensure demolition would be justified. Do we need to strengthen this aspect? Whatever is in there is not working because we are seeing all the buildings being...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I know others have mentioned that today is St. Valentine's Day. I am also mindful that it is the anniversary of the Stardust fire that took place in the early hours of 14 February 1981, when 48 young people went out and did not come home and hundreds more were injured. I was with the families at the vigil last Saturday where a large memorial has been unveiled to them. They are all feeling...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Policy (16 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I wish to raise an issue that has been in the news for the past number of weeks. In 2009, a Government memo was sent to Cabinet seeking the Government to approve the permanent rebalancing of network tariffs towards large energy users, and that rebalancing was to be paid by domestic household consumers. The Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, made a decision, correctly, last year to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Policy (16 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I know he is not from the line Department. I find the contradictions in regard to this matter bizarre. When my colleague, Deputy Carthy, raised this matter with the Minister a couple of weeks ago, the latter agreed the subvention is unfair and that the Department had instructed the CRU to unwind it. We then had the situation whereby it...