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Seanad: Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 20: In page 29, lines 17 to 19, to delete all words from and including “prescribe” in line 17 down to and including “with,” in line 19 and substitute the following: “prescribe a scheme for the due disbursement of amounts from the Fund for the purposes of lowering the electricity purchase costs to final domestic electricity customers,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I have three questions. One of them goes back to rhododendrons in Killarney National Park. As somebody who participated in the clearance for years, in respect of the current scheme, is the NPWS working in the areas that ground work had previously maintained clear, which are the most valuable woodlands in the national park? My understanding is that while we were there, we worked in those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Is there an acceptance by the management of Killarney National Park that areas must be revisited and maintained on a regular basis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: That was not the practice-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Regarding the definition of a national park, I know the NPWS's website states that it uses the International Union for the Conservation of Nature criteria and that those standards have been endorsed and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage will abide by them. These criteria state that ecosystems should not be materially altered by human exploitation and occupation. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: So the State is going to be-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: The State will be carrying out agriculture within a national park.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: In a response from the Minister to a parliamentary question, he did not categorically say that there would be no rent paid by a private entity on the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: That is fine. The reply stated that the contractual arrangements for the purchase are currently being finalised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Okay. But can Mr. Ó Donnchú say categorically that as of now, there will be no private involvement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Okay. That is very good to hear. The last point I want to raise, which others have also brought up, is about wildlife crime. I want to get some understanding of the process. If somebody comes to the NPWS either to report what he or she believes to be a wildlife crime or the NPWS ranger goes out and investigates, who is responsible for making the decisions on prosecutions? Is it the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Okay. We know there have been reports suggesting that morale in the NPWS was previously very low. A lot has been done to improve that situation. Does Mr. Ó Donnchú feel that the NPWS, as it currently stands, has enough autonomy to pursue wildlife prosecutions, in particular those that might involve another State body or local authority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: If it was an annex IV species under the habitats directive, which I do not believe has discretion from prosecution and if a recommendation was made by an NPWS ranger that an annex IV species was deliberately interfered with, disturbed or killed, who would make the decision not to act on that ranger's recommendation?

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. Many of the speakers have said that the Bill has been a long time coming and that it is long overdue. I remember at the time of the EU's tobacco directive I and Sinn Féin were on the side of arguing for these vaping products to be included in the regulations at that stage because all of the anti-tobacco industry were warning that this was the tobacco...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I thank Senator McDowell for giving us a brief overview of his next column in The Irish Times. I raise first the electricity security review. I welcome that the Government is supporting a non-commercial liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminal as opposed to a commercial one. That is very welcome for our carbon emissions targets. My main focus and the area I would like to address is the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I commend the representatives from the Children and Young People's Assembly on Biodiversity Loss who presented to the climate committee yesterday. They presented their report to the members of the committee, and I must say it was heartening to hear the depth of their knowledge on biodiversity and the range of topics they covered in the recommendations. I encourage everyone to read that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Most of them have been covered by other speakers. For the benefit of the committee in producing its report on the back of these sessions on the Arterial Drainage Act 1945, the biodiversity action plan, as Dr. Ó Cinnéide said, does not go as far as calling for a review, whereas the citizens' assembly does do so. Any time I have even tried to broach this subject, my experience has...

Seanad: Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach Gníomhach agus fearaim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. We welcome tonight's motion from the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party and, in particular, the calls for a national awareness campaign and the need for more work to be done in the area of AI. Sinn Féin also welcomes the recent Government decision to establish an artificial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I thank our guests for the presentations. I will go back to the recommendations around education. I used to work in Killarney National Park education centre. I am not sure if that was where the assembly held its second session but if it was, our guests were very lucky to be there. What others have said is that our guests opted in and were lucky to be selected. They are like me in having...