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Seanad: Planning and Development (Built Heritage Protection) Bill 2022: First Stage (18 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2021 to improve the level of protection afforded to Ireland's built heritage, to prescribe the role of architectural conservation officers, to strengthen the protection afforded by architectural conservation area designation, to increase the enforcement mechanisms...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Built Heritage Protection) Bill 2022: First Stage (18 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I will be brief. We have a lot of work ahead of us this afternoon. I will follow on from Senator Higgins's point, especially in respect of amendments Nos. 56 and 57. In the context of all this, we have to remember there is perhaps not as much information held as we might like to think or wish for. I will share some experiences. As I said to the Minister the other day, I am one of seven...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I want to come back to the point Senator Seery Kearney made. I agree with her and she has articulated her point well. I was just touching on some examples but I agree with her that it is about managing that expectation and being responsible. In time, when this process starts to unravel, we will eventually know the institutions that kept forensic records. I could tell the Senator 20 of...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Senators Warfield, Boylan, Gavan and Ó Donnghaile for amendment No. 14. The amendment is extensive and cuts to the very core of many of the issues with this legislation. I do not know how we can justify calling it "incorrect" rather than "illegal". I will share an experience. I met a family last weekend. There were six children, all of whom were illegally adopted from thet...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I will pick up on some of the comments that have been made in the debate across the House. We can have "incorrect" and we can have "illegal". I think that is a good proposition. I do not think the terms are mutually exclusive. I think that is important. We need to be careful here. We are legislators and we are dealing with this Bill, but there are many hundreds of people listening in,...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I do not disagree with Senator McGreehan on most issues but I cannot stress enough that for someone to take a child that does not belong to them without parental consent - someone who is not acting in loco parentisand is without any legal status - and then to arrange and facilitate the adoption of that child is not the end of game or a process but is simply illegal. Children have...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister because he set it out very well, and that is the great thing about debating these issues. I am a lot clearer following his explanation, and I want to acknowledge that. People in opposition are not always perceived to be supportive of Government, and I am in this case. The Minister has set out clearly some of the issues. However, Senator Higgins has made a point for...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I will focus on two issues and speak to amendments Nos. 23 and 24, which are extensive and cover many areas. I will focus on a recurring theme in both amendments, that of the details applicable in terms of vaccines. Amendment No. 23 reads: “the relevant person’s medical records from birth until the time of placement, including x-rays, tests, vaccines”. Amendment No. 24...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Yes.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister for many of the clarifications around that. Amendment No. 24 refers to "records of any vaccine trials in which the relevant person was a research subject". Senator Seery Kearney touched on it as well. I was not necessarily touching on medical vaccines or ones given by consent. I am talking about research, as does that amendment. The House should remember we now know...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Waste Management (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, to the Seanad Chamber. This Commencement matter relates to the burning of green waste and, in particular, the derogation he is aware the Minister signed in January or February. I am a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine. This issue has exercised that committee but it has also exercised farmers...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Waste Management (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: As I said, I am a member of the Oireachtas joint committee. It was my understanding from the paper briefing I have that a group would be established. We have now heard it will be a study. There is a very subtle difference between a focused named group of people and a study. There is some ambiguity about that. The Minister of State might ask the Department to come back to us on that. If...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Waste Management (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Regulation of Display of Electoral and Polling Posters and Other Advertisements Bill 2022: Second Stage (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank Senator Pauline O'Reilly and the Green Party Senators for using their Private Members' time to initiate this debate because it is important and people go very slowly. Despite what people might say, there is huge resistance to controlling posters. I am in favour of the substantial controlling of public posters. The product used in...

Seanad: Regulation of Display of Electoral and Polling Posters and Other Advertisements Bill 2022: Second Stage (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I did not say that.

Seanad: Regulation of Display of Electoral and Polling Posters and Other Advertisements Bill 2022: Second Stage (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: This is great.

Seanad: Regulation of Display of Electoral and Polling Posters and Other Advertisements Bill 2022: Second Stage (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: They thought that too.

Seanad: Childcare Provision: Statements (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister for his opening statement and for coming to the House.I thank the Leader and her office for organising this engagement. Many Members requested a debate or statements on childcare and I thank the Leader for facilitating these statements on childcare provision. It is important that we are increasingly learning of the importance of early experiences, development and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Oversight Audit Commission’s 2021 Annual Report: Discussion (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: First, I wish to welcome the witnesses to the meeting. I am great advocate of NOAC. It does amazing work. If there is any shortcoming, it is that there is a deficit in how we highlight the work of NOAC. I am glad the witnesses are here today. Representatives from LGAS, including Ms Niamh Larkin, will be attending the second session. I think the two organisations are inextricably linked....