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Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I wish to thank my colleague, Senator Mullen, for putting forward this amendment. It is an excellent amendment. That is why I am supporting it. However, the issue is perhaps even more complex than Senator Mullen outlined. He touched on it when he mentioned the local authorities. I have many concerns about the Land Development Agency. However, one of the issues of note concerns the new...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I second the amendment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming: Discussion (15 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome this debate. It is timely with respect to organic farming, which contributes to the protection of the environment and climate and the long-term fertility of the soil, as referenced by Senator Daly who rightly placed great emphasis on it. It also relates to having high levels of biodiversity, a non-toxic environment and high animal welfare standards and, therefore, it must be of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming: Discussion (15 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I will be brief because I am conscious of time. We have had a really good debate. One might call it one of the great frauds or whatever but we have the clean, green Ireland image yet we are the second lowest in Europe for organic farming. That is really being hammered home today. I thank the various guests who have highlighted that but it is a real challenge to everyone involved in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Common Agricultural Policy (14 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I tabled this Commencement matter following a lot of engagement with small farmers. I visited a number of farms in the last few days in County Laois. The farms I am talking about are small, traditional land holdings with Land Commission houses. Such farms are common in counties Cavan and Kerry. I was in Cavan last week and was also in Kerry,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Common Agricultural Policy (14 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: That was quite complex. I appreciate the Minister of State had to cover a lot of ground. However, the real focus I am attempting in my question is on small farmers throughout this country who are sustaining rural communities with a maximum of 40 acres and cannot be given permission to build for in-house cattle. That is why they are out-wintering in the first place. We have cut stone in...

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Senator Warfield for his use of time. It was good because we are under pressure of time. If everyone listed here is to speak, we will not have time for the Minister. I would ask Members to be conscious of the time.

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Senator Dolan and everybody who partook in the debate, with 19 Senators speaking out of 20 who indicated, which was excellent.

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I support the Counterfeiting Bill 2020, which updates Irish law to reflect EU legislation in the area of counterfeiting. It is important and it is a good legislation. The purpose of the Counterfeiting Bill is to complete the transposition of Directive 2014/62/EU and to make provision for three additional EU instruments dealing with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Discussion (9 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the farmer representative bodies for coming in. I have a few points I want to make, and one single question that is not from me but from a group of farmers in the west. When I said I was meeting the boys here - and they are all boys, I did not mean that as a pun - I said I would put their question to the committee. This morning, the committee had a very good engagement with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Discussion (9 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I had another question about the 40-acres scenario. Somebody else can address that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Discussion (9 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I want to come back on a number of points. First, I asked a question that farmers from the west posed and I did not get an answer. This is not a politician's question; these are farmers' questions. A small farmer related a simple scenario involving a farm of 40 acres and I am going to tell him I could not get an answer, so that is of concern to me. Second, on the social dimension, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Discussion (9 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: Yes, absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I thank our guests. I return to the common theme running through the three submissions, that is, promoting politician participation and encouarging and supporting candidacy. That is what is coming back to me continuously. There are two words jumping out at me. Mr. Joyce has articulated this particularly well. It is about confidence and about participation. We see this with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: Mr. Doorley may want to take it. I will make contact with all the witnesses today in writing at any rate, because I really want to follow up with them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I am within my time so my colleague will come in with the second series of questions. I thank the Chairman.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State. I want to speak on amendments No. 37 and 38. Amendment No. 38 is in my name. These are critically important amendments because they deal with the kernel of this issue, which is affordability. This is the Affordable Housing Bill and it does not define affordability. I went to the Library and Research Service and acknowledge its assistance with any...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jun 2021)

Victor Boyhan: These two amendments deal with affordability. There is significant scope in it. The whole Bill is about affordability. I will not preface every sentence with "affordable" to appear to be on line. I am dead centre on line with regard to this amendment. I prepared it myself and therefore know what I am attempting to deal with. This is an important issue that we need to address. When we...