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Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local and Community Development Programme (6 Dec 2017)

Victor Boyhan: A Chathaoirligh, I thank you for selecting this item for the Commencement debate today. I welcome the Minister and thank him for coming to the House to address this matter. I welcome that the Minister has initiated a review of the local community and development committees, LCDCs. They are a very important aspect of local government. They are relatively new in that they have only been in...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local and Community Development Programme (6 Dec 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister for that very comprehensive reply and the great clarity with which he delivered his response. The initiative of taking someone from local government and from community development is really important and will be a very welcome move.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospitals Building Programme (6 Dec 2017)

Victor Boyhan: After the National Rehabilitation Hospital.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2017)

Victor Boyhan: The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, published the third interim report of the commission of investigation into the mother and baby homes yesterday. I will not go into the report, which is available for us all to read, but I have some concern at the suggestion that this work will not be completed until 2019. That is too long to wait for many women, given their...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (6 Dec 2017)

Victor Boyhan: First, I welcome Mona, Mary, John, Mona and Des's grandchildren, and Deputies Mattie McGrath and Jackie Cahill. It is always said that one can judge people by their friends and the company they keep. I can honestly say that has always been my experience of the Hanafins. They have always been joyful, positive people who bring added value to life's experiences through their company in both...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I, too, wish to talk about Brexit today and I start by acknowledging the work of the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Simon Coveney. He must be congratulated on his work to date. It is important that we continue to advance the interests of the Irish people, but we can advance the interests of the people and Irish Republic as well as advancing the interests of...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I cannot help but comment that the last time I heard the words "in such good condition" someone was commenting about a bull in the Balmoral agricultural show, so I would take that as a compliment. This week, the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Phil Hogan, issued a White Paper on the future of food and farming that outlines proposals for the Common Agricultural...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Road Projects Status (29 Nov 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister and thank him for coming to the House to deal with this Commencement matter. It is brief. I am raising this issue on behalf of public representatives in Athy, County Kildare. I have some claim to fame there in that my family is originally from there and is in business and in the commercial life of the town itself in Duke Street. I know it well. As I am there on a...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Road Projects Status (29 Nov 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister. It has been helpful as it gives a focus and an indicative timeline. The local council and people living there are keen to know and at least there is no ambiguity now. We have an indicative timeline for it and in respect of the role of Kildare County Council. When one talks to a council it can say one thing while one hears another from the Minister. We at least have...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I second the amendment to have the Minister for Justice and Equality brought here. I also wish to discuss the policing issue. It will affect many major urban centres, particularly Dublin. Gardaí went home yesterday distraught, annoyed and frustrated at the fact that their work regarding the security of the State and its citizens would be compromised. Garda sources have told me that...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I will support a move to have the Minister attend today.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I would like to send my good wishes to Senator Denis Landy. I am sorry to hear he has resigned. He was an exceptionally hardworking Senator, and a good county councillor and representative of the Local Authorities Members Association, LAMA, for many years. He advocated strongly for city, county and local councillors in terms of their remuneration, conditions of employment and developing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Vacant Housing (Refurbishment) Bill 2017: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Deputy Cowen for this imaginative, practical and focused Bill. Any measure which will rejuvenate and get buildings back into use is to be welcomed and is important. However, it has to be an appropriate use and about proper planning and sustainable development. It is not any use but appropriate use. Being familiar with section 57, dealing with protected structures and...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2017)

Victor Boyhan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I ask the Leader to extend, with the approval of the House, an invitation to An Taoiseach, Deputy Leo Varadkar. He would be very welcome here and it would be a great opportunity for the House to hear what he has to say and for him to engage with this important part of the Houses of the Oireachtas and, possibly, have an exchange of questions and answers. It would be great to see him-----

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2017)

Victor Boyhan: -----before the end of the year or, if he could not fit it into his schedule, very early in the new year. One must admire his communication skills and how he engages with social media, his weekly press releases to the nation and his statements from his office and from Europe, but it is also important that we do not forget the people within the Houses of the Oireachtas. Will the Leader...

Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Second Stage (22 Nov 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister. I will not be taking the eight minutes and I will not repeat what everyone else has said-----

Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Second Stage (22 Nov 2017)

Victor Boyhan: Okay six minutes. I am sorry.

Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Second Stage (22 Nov 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I shall not repeat what everyone else has said, although it has all been very valid. I welcome the Minister and I welcome this legislation. The very first thing I did when I came into the House was to propose a motion under Private Members' business, which was passed by this House, when the Tánaiste, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, was the Minister for Justice and Equality. The motion was...

Seanad: Defence Forces (Veterans Lapel Badge) Bill 2017: Second Stage (22 Nov 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I also acknowledge the enormous work that Senator Gerard P. Craughwell, a colleague of mine, has done on a broad spectrum of issues relating to the Defence Forces. Across all parties and none, we can all vouch clearly for his huge commitment. This is a man who has served as a soldier himself, who has personally experienced many issues with...