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Seanad: Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 14: In page 23, after line 21, to insert the following: “Report on the distribution of revenues 27.The Minister shall, within two months of the passage of this Act, lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on how the revenues from the temporary solidarity contribution are to be distributed.” I thank the Acting Chairperson for giving me a...

Seanad: Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2023)

Lynn Boylan: This is the second time this has happened. On Second Stage last week, I asked the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, to clarify.that the windfall tax would go to households and not to subsidising corporations.I highlighted that the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, has form in subsidising large energy users. In 2009 he set up a windfall tax on...

Seanad: Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jul 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I ask the Minister of State again if we are getting a cast-iron guarantee that this windfall tax will be used for households and not to subsidise the energy bills of large energy users?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I want to raise two issues relating to energy. The first, which I have raised on numerous occasions, is the need for Ireland to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty. Once again, the European Commission is going to make a proposal that the EU withdraw from that treaty as a bloc, which would, of course, be the most effective way for a withdrawal. Once again, the Government seems to want...

Seanad: Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Second Stage (6 Jul 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Before we move to our next speaker, I welcome pupils from Deravoy National School to the Seanad. We are discussing the windfall tax on energy. I hope they can understand what we are saying. Our next speaker is Senator Seán Kyne.

Seanad: Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Second Stage (6 Jul 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. The introduction of this measure and the process leading up to this legislation has been quite the saga. We are aware the EU introduced its regulation in October 2022 and the Government announced its intentions in November. However, here we are and it is coming up to summer recess and the finishing touches are still only being made to the...

Seanad: Ban on Dumping New Products Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I also welcome our guests from VOICE, the environmental NGO. This is an important debate. The Sinn Féin Seanad team has tabled this Bill because we are fully supportive of the need to move to a circular economy. Our planet has finite resources and we cannot continue to waste them in a...

Seanad: Ban on Dumping New Products Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I will pick up on the EU regulation element. The Minister of State has confirmed it just applies to textiles, which was my understanding. That is deeply disappointing. As he rightly pointed out, France has gone further than that on a national level. The argument that products will simply be shipped to another country does not stack up. If...

Seanad: Ban on Dumping New Products Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Jul 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I am speaking in favour of the amendment. It is a very good suggestion. Access to justice is such an important issue and fees should not be a barrier to it. However, we need consistency across the board. I look forward to hearing what the Minister says about this particular amendment. We should also open the discussion up to forestry, planning and freedom of information complaints. If...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Environmental Policy (29 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. As the Minister of State is well aware, the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss has completed its work, and I want to acknowledge and commend the remarkable 100 individuals involved who, over the seven meetings from May to January of this year, produced a report which includes 159 agreed recommendations from its 99 members. It is crucial for...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Environmental Policy (29 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: For some reason, the Minister of State seems to think that a review of the Arterial Drainage Act means a complete cessation of all flood management works but that is just scaremongering. It is the same type of scaremongering that we are seeing with regard to the nature restoration law by the European People's Party group in Brussels. What we are talking about is a review of the Act so that...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Environmental Policy (29 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: It breaks the law.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Environmental Policy (29 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I have the proof. I have the proof and it has been printed in the newspapers. If it is not true, the OPW would have taken a case against-----

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Environmental Policy (29 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: The OPW breached the law and was not prosecuted.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Environmental Policy (29 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: That is why I am getting so hot and bothered about it.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Environmental Policy (29 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I brought the evidence to the Department.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Environmental Policy (29 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: On a point of order-----

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Environmental Policy (29 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: On a point of order-----

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Environmental Policy (29 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: On a point of order, I have the evidence-----