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Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: Again, we are hearing that there is no inconsistency with what we are trying to achieve and what the Government says it wants to achieve but there is an urgency here. There is no inconsistency with what the EU gas package, for which we must wait, wants to achieve and yet, while we dither and dawdle about restricting the connection of data centres to the gas grid, more and more of them are...

Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: What is the difference between introducing a moratorium on data centres connecting to the electricity grid and data centres connecting to the gas grid? No issues around discrimination of treatment arose with the electricity grid. We instructed EirGrid not to connect data centres to the electricity grid and no such issues were raised by the CRU or by Government Ministers at the time.There...

Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: That is certainly news to everybody on the climate committee because we have been repeatedly told that there is a moratorium on connections to the electricity grid by data centres. EirGrid only a week ago told the committee that its view was that it was detrimental to the Irish economy because it was not in a position to connect any data centres to the grid due to the moratorium it was...

Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: The Minister of State said he would check the ten-year network development plan. One has not been published since 2021, which, I would point out, is in breach of SI 16/2015 - European Communities (Internal Market in Natural Gas and Electricity) (Amendment) Regulations 2015. We are dragging our feet on this issue. The Minister of State is not going to accept the amendments; I get that. It...

Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 5: In page 12, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “(i) in subsection (1)— (I) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a): “(a) The Board shall own, operate, develop and maintain a system for the transmission and distribution of natural gas, being a system that is carbon budget-aligned, economical and...

Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 6: In page 13, after line 40, to insert the following: “(d) in section 10A— (i) in subsection (4), by the insertion of the following paragraphs after paragraph (h): “(i) the terms and conditions upon which applications for new connections or expansion of the gas network must be assessed to consider the expected emissions profile of...

Seanad: Special Measures in the Public Interest (Derrybrien Wind Farm) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. It is important to put some context around the Bill that we are being asked to support tonight. It is also important to look at Ireland's record on upholding environmental and nature laws. In January 2022, the EU official responsible for overseeing governance, enforcement action, and compliance on EU environmental legislation, told an...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: I raise the issue of customers in electricity arrears. Yesterday, the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, released the latest round of quarterly figures, which show that just under 250,000 households are in arrears on their electricity bills and 1,385 households were disconnected for non-payment in the past year. While the drop in the number of customers in arrears in the latest...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: Amendments Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.  Is that agreed?  Agreed.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: When is it proposed to take Report Stage?

Seanad: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: When is it proposed to take Fifth Stage?

Seanad: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: Is fáilte an Aire. I echo the commendations for the Civic Engagement Group on bringing this motion to the Seanad. They speak day in and day out about the horror that is unfolding in Gaza. The one thing we see Palestinians say is, "Don't stop talking about it. You are our voices. Our lives depend on this." I am not the only one in saying that the feeling of powerlessness, frustration...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: I welcome the decision of the Taoiseach to call on the European Commission to urgently review the EU-Israel association agreement, but I argue that real action would be to trigger Article 82 to immediately suspend the association agreement while a review is being conducted. It is worth comparing this with the actions in respect of UNRWA and the allegations relating to 12 UNRWA workers. That...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: Well said.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Building Regulations (27 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: Go raibh maith agat, agus fáiltím roimh an Aire Stáit. As the Minister of State will know, construction on the built environment accounts for 37% of Ireland's carbon emissions, and 14% of that is the embodied carbon emissions. Current analysis is showing we are not on target to reach our emissions reductions in this particular area. The Climate Change Advisory Council has...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Building Regulations (27 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the Minister of State for his response. We know that we do not have an awful lot of time to waste in terms of reaching our emissions targets. If we are waiting for the EU, through the energy performance of buildings directive and construction products regulation, by the time that is actually agreed and transposed into Irish legislation we will have probably already missed our 2030...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I remind Senators that this debate is due to adjourn at 5.45 p.m., if not previously concluded. Before we move to the amendments, I welcome to the Gallery members of the Together for Safety campaign for safe access zones. They are very welcome.

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: Amendment No. 1 is in the names of Senators Mullen and Keogan. Amendments Nos. 1 to 5 are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.