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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Will the Minister consider doing that to see whether agencies are in compliance with the climate Act and to get those progress reports?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Circular 01/2020 relates to procedures for offsetting emissions associated with official air travel. We all accept Ministers and agency representatives have to travel as part of their roles, but that circular requires the carbon tax sum reflecting the tonnage of the flight to be paid into the climate action fund. In my view, offsets are indulgences to clear one's conscience. Does the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: It relates to the climate action fund. The money goes into that fund to provide for measures in the climate action plan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: The circular requires that Departments pay money into the fund. That goes on to provide funding for climate education and local authorities’ carbon-neutral communities, which are in the climate action plan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I am concerned, however, that there may be double counting. The Minister has put a price on aviation emissions, which is what is paid into the climate action fund, but are the Departments that are paying that using it as part of their emissions reduction targets under strands 1 and 2 of the climate action fund while it is being counted a second time by the local authorities and in respect of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Waste Management (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit go dtí an Teach. We all know, and I have discussed previously with the Minister of State, that using raw materials unsustainably is the current model and that we need to overhaul our economic model from one that is based on "take, make, waste" to one that is circular. "Reduce, reuse, recycle" is probably the idea that is most commonly...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Waste Management (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the Minister of State for his response. It does not address the scavenging element. We know that certain perfectly legal organisations are doing this on a bespoke basis. I am looking for a more formalised universal approach to that so it is not subject to the geographical lottery of where someone lives, for example, near Ballymun or near the civic amenity centre where they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Can I ask the Chair if I will be getting to speak at all?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Senator Dooley should give that speech to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: It is important that agriculture and environment are around the same table and the more we see that, the better it will be for everybody. Nobody achieves anything by being at loggerheads. I do have to say, though, that it is deeply regrettable that a representative of the Committee of Professional Agricultural Organisations-General Confederation of Agricultural Cooperatives, COPA-COGECA,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: It was not vague. It was very specific in its very high, frightening targets. The reason why it was corrected is that other, independent people who viewed that committee contact the committee, and then the committee made contact with the individual. The individual did not come forward themselves to correct it. They corrected it because they were challenged, and very hardline figures were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: With hindsight, would it have been better then if he had not come in and given very specific information with very specific targets, if it was known there were going to be amendments to it, and that it was a movable feast? It was carried by the Irish Farmers' Journal, the Irish Independentand Agriland. The Irish Independentwas, I think, the only newspaper to cover the story of the fact that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I accept that but it was scaring people unnecessarily. If all the information was not out there, then maybe they should have turned down the request to speak at the committee until the information was available. It did have a negative impact, unfortunately, and that is what this meeting today is about, to try and have fact-based conversations and dialogue in order that we reach a position...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: No, it was COPA-COGECA.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: No. It was just an example of the importance of facts.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: The ongoing issue of Ireland’s neutrality seems to be constantly in the news. It is being pushed by various commentators, including the usual suspects in government who seem to always be flagging the issue that we need to somehow change our approach towards something of which the Irish people are very proud, namely, our neutral status. There has been a systematic attempt to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I thank Ms Sikow-Magny. Many of the questions have been answered, so I might just ask her to tease out some of the issues. Ms Sikow-Magny mentioned a revenue cap on wind projects. What will be the mechanism for auditing that? Will the energy owners have to report back to EU member states? Will there be any sanctions if they do not report? How exactly will that work? In her opening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: To follow up on that, one of our big concerns is the increasing number of data centres that are applying for gas connections and that they will be islanded data centres. That is what is leading to the main increase in gas demand – it is new customers, so to speak, coming on. We have agreed to this 15% gas demand reduction but we are actually going in the opposite direction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the Chair and all the speakers. I am going to pick up on a couple of questions that have already been asked. The first is to go back to the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, and the capacity to administer the scheme. I am going to repeat what Deputy Smith was saying, that we have heard from the CRU around concerns about resources. In December 2022, noteworthy.iereported...