Results 4,381-4,400 of 5,040 for speaker:Victor Boyhan
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: It will already have been discussed with amendment No. 5.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: No.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: They are the rules.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: It is.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: I will dig it out for the Senator.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: I will get out the rule for Senator David Norris. It is long-standing practice.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: The mover of an amendment has the right of reply.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: I wish to raise the statistics that were published by the National Treatment Purchase Fund up to the end of January 2018. Some of those figures were published in two newspapers over the weekend. The difficulty is that one can never quite tell to what exact period of time they refer. There is a slight variance in the two publications that I read in the Sunday newspapers yesterday in that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: It is disappointing that we have had a breakdown in respect of devolved government in Northern Ireland. It is a time for cool heads and calm words. At stake are the issues in terms of Northern Ireland and its people on all sides. There is great volatility and danger in Northern Ireland; there are the challenges of peace and economic prosperity and the challenges that come with Brexit. One...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: It is my understanding that the national planning framework must be approved by both Houses of the Oireachtas. There are differing views on this and I have spoken to several people about it. The matter was raised this morning at a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government. We were told that both Houses are required to approve this plan. This...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: That is right. It will be launched on Friday yet it has not been approved by the Houses of the Oireachtas. I am not critical of the national planning framework. I support it. There is a lot of good in it, but I ask the Leader to engage with the Minister who is coming into the House to deal with the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill later this afternoon. At the outset we might...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: I endorse what Senator Warfield has said. Clearly, the Mahon tribunal report made many recommendations, and we see some of those recommendations echoed with regard to the legislation. This is a really important opportunity for us to give effect to those recommendations in primary legislation. I am supportive of this amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: Senator Humphreys has covered much of what I was going to suggest. I welcome this debate and spoke to Senator Reilly about it. He elaborated on this proposal in greater detail at its previous outing. It is a good one. Over many years on a local authority I saw people present themselves as planners. Some of them were qualified but some unqualified, who had been in the business for 20 or...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 30:In page 44, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 13 of Principal Act 8. Section 13 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (1):“(1A) The initiation of a variation under this section shall be a reserved function.”.”. The Minister of State will be aware...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: I do not have one issue with anything the Minister of State has said. I was a county councillor for many years and I have worked an awful lot with Fine Gael councillors, which is the political party to which the Minister of State belongs. I shall not withdraw my amendment. Instead, I shall go away, think about it and come back with the views expressed by members of his party. As I have...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: I will take two weeks' holidays.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: I want to talk about the national development plan. At the very outset, I welcome it. We do not know the full and final detail of it, but we have had a lot of discussion. I am a member of the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government. It has been discussed there. We had an exhaustive debate about it and people expressed their views and concerns. As someone who travels up...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: That is what I said.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: That is an affront. The Senator cannot breeze in here and say that.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)
Victor Boyhan: On a point of order, may I clarify what is actually happening here? The Leader has just stormed in here suddenly-----