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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP28: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I thank all the witnesses for their comprehensive statements and questions. I was interested around the tax on excess corporate profits and those international tools that are being used. I would like to pick the witnesses' brains not only on the idea of Ireland being a good neighbour but around wealth taxes, and the importance of collecting the data on wealth taxes. I know that my own...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP28: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Some 6,000 jets a year come to this country alone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP28: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: But it is still a significant number and it is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP28: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: This is slightly relevant but, because we have the time, I will ask the panel if it has any views on it. Data centres in Ireland is a big conversation and I will not go back there. I refer to AI and the amount of energy that is required for AI computer services. Should we be regulating what they are doing? In Ireland, should we have greater oversight of what the data centres are doing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP28: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Or Amazon Web Services making it more efficient to take fossil fuels out of the ground and move around the world as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP28: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: On the issue of real-time bidding, which is an international issue, we are talking about the emissions of a small- to medium-sized country purely on those real-time bidding advertisements that are tracking or engaged in surveillance of personal data. A ridiculously tiny percentage of the adverts that bid to show an individual an advert actually get to show that person an ad. It is a huge...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP28: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: No, but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP28: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: The KPMG report referenced tax breaks.

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...

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: 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...

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...

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: 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...

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?