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Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2018)

Victor Boyhan: No, I am not. I am asking him to indicate when the report will formally be announced and what the mechanism for that announcement will be.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Victor Boyhan: I wish to speak to my amendment No. 27 if that is in order.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State and his officials who have done a great deal of background work. I thank them for their co-operation and the ongoing discussions on these matters. The making of variations to development plans is an important function and one which is a reserved function of the council executive. Many aspects of the Bill address the outcome of the Mahon tribunal....

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 27:In page 44, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 13 of the Principal Act 8.Section 13 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following subsection after subsection (1):“(1A) (a) The members of a planning authority may at any time, for stated reasons, submit a resolution to the manager of the planning authority...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Victor Boyhan: I wish formally to second amendment No. 30 and indicate that I will also formally second amendment No. 31. I will be brief as I am conscious there are time constraints and that we want to make progress. I have always supported the national planning framework. It is a very good and positive document. I genuinely believe a mistake was made about it. As I have said previously, there was an...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Victor Boyhan: It was a lost opportunity because I believe Fianna Fáil would have-----

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Victor Boyhan: -----fully supported Fine Gael on it. It is a fantastic plan. I was in Athy and Sligo the other day and they are wonderful towns but they are falling down on their knees, as it were. I was also in Ennistymon the other day. There seems to be no sense of there being a bigger national plan. We need a national plan. This is a big document. Another mistake that was made is that it was too...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2018)

Victor Boyhan: Like the Leas-Chathaoirleach, I have just come from the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly which has been in session for the past two or three days. One of the matters discussed over the weekend was the whole issue of spatial planning. I raised in particular at the assembly the matter of marine spatial planning and indicated to the members from the various jurisdictions that this very day...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jun 2018)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State and his officials to the House again. The Minister of State might confirm something for me. I acknowledge that it is the Minister of State's entitlement to bring amendments at this Stage of the Bill. That is a fact and I acknowledge it no matter how disappointed we might be but that is the process we have to operate under. In terms of the marine spatial...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jun 2018)

Victor Boyhan: Amendments Nos. 6 to 16, inclusive, 23 to 25, inclusive, 28, 32 and 34 are related. Amendment No. 10 is consequential on amendment No. 8, amendment No. 11 is consequential on amendment No. 13, and amendment No. 16 is consequential on amendment No. 4. Amendments Nos. 6 to 16, inclusive, 23 to 25, inclusive, 28, 32 and 34 may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jun 2018)

Victor Boyhan: I will be brief because we have a lot of work to do in the next few days. On the face of it, the amendment sounds to me like common sense. I would like to hear what the Minister of State has to say but on the basis of what I have heard it makes sense. I will listen to what he has to say before I decide how I will vote.

Seanad: Marine Spatial Planning: Statements (12 Jun 2018)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister of State for his attendance. It is ironic that we are debating a marine spatial plan immediately after debating planning legislation. Perhaps if we had taken these statements first, we would not have spent so much time debating the planning Bill. I welcome the decision to produce a national marine plan as such a plan will be very important. I am a member of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Reform: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (31 May 2018)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State and his officials. I thank him. I do not doubt his commitment. We have soldiered together. I think we were both elected to local authorities in 1999. I have known about the Minister of State's commitment to and track record in local government for a long time. I have read comprehensively the local authority boundaries paper that has been circulated to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Reform: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (31 May 2018)

Victor Boyhan: It will be May. Perhaps the Minister of State could confirm this in his response. How does the Minister of State envisage the legislative process? Before I move on to more of the focus points, how does the Minister of State see this committee involved in it? I am delighted he is here today to update us on the brief, but what role does he see for the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Reform: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (31 May 2018)

Victor Boyhan: And everything else. The remuneration is an appalling recognition of the work these people do in our communities. There are more than 900 councillors sitting on local authorities around the State. The Minister of State has given a commitment to these organisations that he will set up a committee and appoint an independent chairperson. Is the Minister of State in a position to tell us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Reform: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (31 May 2018)

Victor Boyhan: Can the Minister of State at least tell us that he has a person? Has he or she agreed to do the job? What is the deadline? The Minister of State will be aware that previous Ministers have said that it is either up to the Minister for Finance, the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, or another Minister. We must stop playing games here. These elected local authority members are entitled to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Reform: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (31 May 2018)

Victor Boyhan: Thanks for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Reform: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (31 May 2018)

Victor Boyhan: Does that apply to the Minister of State too?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Reform: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (31 May 2018)

Victor Boyhan: I want the Minister of State to tell us that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Reform: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (31 May 2018)

Victor Boyhan: There has to be point where there are final recommendations and if they are made earlier than 2019, there is the question of their implementation. The Minister of State will consider the recommendations and may accept some or all of them but when will he implement them? I know what he is going to tell me that it will be after June 2019 when half of the candidates have given up and the other...