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Seanad: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I welcome the opportunity to debate this Bill. The establishment of a food regulator has been a long-standing demand of Sinn Féin. An enforcement body that protects farmers and communities from the stranglehold of dominant processors, particularly the meat factories and multinational retailers, must be a central plank in delivering a fair...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the Minister and Ministers of State. I have a question for the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, on the marine protected areas. There was a presentation in the AV room last week on the potential of carbon in fish. I think it is 16% of the carbon cycle. Will the Bill for marine protected areas the Oireachtas committee report recommendation, which is for 10% strictly protected...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I am sorry, but is that a matter of where the 10% is to be designated or whether or not there will be 10% strictly protected?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Yes, and also some people who live in private rental houses are not allowed to dry their clothes outside.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Well, not even just me. The Labour Party also has a Bill to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2021 to allow the conditions restricting peaceful enjoyment of a tenancy, so that it would not be permissible to ban people from drying their clothes outdoors.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: No. The Department says it has no role. That is the cause of my frustration. This is really low-hanging fruit, especially when we are paying money to roll out public advertisements telling people not to use their dryer, but we have all these people living in apartments saying that it is great but they are not allowed-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Does the Minister of State appreciate that because electricity demand reduction is key to us meeting our targets, and we have to reduce the amount of electricity that we require, this is a very easy measure by which to do that, and to factor that into new builds so that new apartment blocks will have facilities? Years ago with council flats, there were public drying spaces.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I suppose it is significant enough to warrant a public campaign telling people not to use their dryers. If the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications thought it was warranted to run an advertising campaign on RTÉ-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: It was about reducing our demand and production, but particularly-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: -----sorry, this is really important. Particularly because when people are drying or washing their clothes, it is generally at peak demand, and to reduce peak demand means reducing our reliance on gas and fossil fuels. There is an element, but we signed up to a 10% reduction, and we increased our demand by 6%. The big, key plank is that when one asks what the Department did to reach the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Okay.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I want to raise the need for Government policy to incorporate the contributions that people on different incomes make to the climate crisis. In order to do that, good quality data is essential. The climate justice question is often framed as the difference between wealthy countries in the global north like Ireland and America that have high...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the Minister of State for the response but we are conflating two different things. He spoke about the impact of climate action on different income groups. That is important to assess what the impact is but what I am asking about is assessing the contribution various groups within society make towards climate change. The facts are that high net-worth individuals contribute far more...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, released a report today that found there has been no significant improvement in the biological quality of our rivers or lakes in 2022. Ireland relies heavily on its clean and green image, both for its food production and for its tourism industry. Increasingly, however, the reality is the very opposite and all of our biological and environmental...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying, Legal and Constitutional Context: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I have a couple of questions. Obviously laws are developed based on moral principles or underpinnings within a particular society. I am looking at the principles of double effect. When one is trying to create law or regulate in a new area, the principles of double effect are when something that is intended to do good also causes harm, whether to people who are left behind, to society's...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Today I want to raise the RTB figures for eviction notices whereby 4,753 households have received an eviction notice. The worst is yet to come, the tsunami of people who are facing homelessness because of the lifting of the eviction ban. I want to put on the record once again that Sinn Féin is calling on the Government to see sense and reinstate the eviction ban to give people security...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Not the Dublin GAA fans anyway.

Seanad: Government Commitments on Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion (31 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I think we are all in agreement in the House, which is a nice position to be in. We all accept that Ireland has a massive potential to develop its offshore wind generating capacity. It is important to reflect that, as a country, we are lucky in that we have a very small minority of people who do not support both the climate targets and the potential for our offshore wind. If it is done...

Seanad: Garda Reserve: Statements (31 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I am speaking on behalf of Senator Ó Donnghaile. Although we have heard statements on the need to recruit to the Garda Reserve, the focus of Sinn Féin's comments will be the recruitment to the full-time An Garda Síochána. That is in no way to relegate the reserve element of An Garda Síochána. However, the policing operation that is required to deal with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Liquefied Natural Gas and Oil Prospecting: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Professor McMullin has answered a lot of our questions. I am particularly glad that he engaged on that point around the generation capacity problem that we have. There has been a lot of muddying of the waters in the media and so on about the need for LNG to prevent blackouts. Professor McMullin has made it very clear today that it is about the generation of electricity that leads to those...