Results 1-20 of 58 for speaker:Eileen Lynch

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jun 2025)

PJ Murphy: I wish to draw attention to the questionable special areas of conservation, SAC, protection status of three bogs in south-east Galway, namely Ardgraigue, Barroughter and Clonmoylan bogs. These were designated to be sites of community importance, SCIs, in 2002. Under the habitats directive and EU rules, if SCIs are intended to be made SACs, this must be done within six years of them being...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Social Welfare Eligibility (11 Jun 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber. My Commencement matter is about a review of the widow’s pension and the payment of same. There is a massive anomaly in the system when it comes to the payment of the widow’s pension insofar as if someone is in receipt of the widow’s pension, that person cannot receive any sick pay or illness benefit should she need to go...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Social Welfare Eligibility (11 Jun 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I appreciate the Minister of State’s engagement on this matter and, indeed, the many valid points he made. We are very much on the same page on this. It must be recognised that an anomaly exists. In that context, I refer to the unfairness of the situation whereby a person who is still working and paying PRSI cannot access illness benefit. I commend the Minister of State on the work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I thank the witnesses for being with us and for their informative presentation and notes on it. My big concern is the effect this will have on farmers and the inconvenience it is causing them. A good example is the way the dry cow tubes have worked and the extra costs that is placing on farmers. Previously, they could go to their chemist or co-op and get dry cow tubes, whereas now they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Eileen Lynch: Mr. Doyle touched on this, but having read the regulation that this statutory instrument implements, I wish to ask whether we are bordering on, or potentially in the field of, not being compliant with what the regulation sets out. I have a serious question as to whether the statutory instrument is properly implementing the EU regulation in terms of the spirit in which the regulation was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Eileen Lynch: The witnesses provided figures about the effect this will have on their businesses. Rural Ireland is the larger element. Their groups are feeling this on the ground already despite the fact that only part of it has been implemented at this point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I thank the representatives of Veterinary Ireland and the Veterinary Council of Ireland for being with us and for their comprehensive reports. As the witnesses are aware, we have heard from the Department and the merchants association. The arguments they put forward related to the monopoly in the provision of animal health services that has occurred as the result of the statutory...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Eileen Lynch: May I come in there? In the time that this has changed, the use of these products has remained constant, has it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Eileen Lynch: The whole point was that a farmer would have a vet on site on the farm saying that cows A, B and C required dry cow tubes. It was meant to reduce their use-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Eileen Lynch: -----because it would be more targeted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Eileen Lynch: Where are those statistics? Is that proven?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Eileen Lynch: Does Mr. Geraghty believe that the NVPS will realistically be able to work? I appreciate that it has only been mandatory since the start of the year. Given the volume it will need to deal with and the uptake up to this point, does he believe it is really viable from an efficiency point of view?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Eileen Lynch: My query was passed on to me by Deputy Newsome Drennan, who asked me to raise it on her behalf. We have been discussing the impact, both now and in the future, of the prescription of antiparasitic products. Is there a cap on the number of wormers one can have on a farm? Is there a proposal that it would be capped in terms of what is in the SI in that regard?

Seanad: Situation in Gaza: Statements (29 May 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I wish to first acknowledge the Tánaiste's statement on this matter. I thank him for being in the Seanad this morning and for his continuing commitment to peace. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, here today. Gaza, unfortunately, is now synonymous with suffering, displacement, human tragedy and genocide. Let me begin by reaffirming a belief shared across this...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2025)

PJ Murphy: I would like to raise the continued closure of one of Ireland's most iconic coastal castles, Dunguaire Castle, on the Wild Atlantic Way in Kinvara. Until 2023, Dunguaire Castle was open to the public throughout the tourism season and was run and managed under the ownership of the Shannon Group. In 2023, a decision was made that the ownership of Dunguaire Castle would be handed over to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I rise to address an important and prominent issue, which is the issue of the payment of the widow's pension. Unfortunately, a person can become a widow or lose their spouse or cohabiting partner at any age and they then receive this widow's pension based on the stamps of their deceased spouse or partner.An issue affecting many of my constituents and people right across the country, and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2025)

Eileen Lynch: It is disingenuous to say the double jeopardy rule applies in this case. I call on the Minister for Social Protection to come to the House to address the matter.

Seanad: Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2025: Second Stage (28 May 2025)

PJ Murphy: I second the amendment. As Fine Gael’s spokesperson on housing in the Seanad and as the owner of a construction business that specialises in the conservation and restoration of historic buildings, having read the Bill, I believe it is a well-considered Bill. I am very supportive of the vast majority of this Bill. Given the extent of dereliction in our towns and villages around the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I welcome the Minister and thank him for being with us. I congratulate him on his appointment and wish him luck for the term ahead. I do not want to repeat what has been said. I am conscious of time. The nitrates derogation is incredibly important for farmers, especially as I come from Cork. It is such a big issue in Cork and the wider Munster area. I am glad to hear the Minister's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I thank the Minister. I welcome his commitment to try to maintain ring-fenced funding through CAP. It is important that the funding is just for CAP. There are proposed measures that would include environment funding and we need to be strongly against that. I welcome the Minister's commitment in that regard. I will speak about TB, which I appreciate has been mentioned by many other...