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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I have a couple of questions. It has been a long meeting and I appreciate the witnesses' time. I will pick up on what Deputy Whitmore said about pricing in and the impact of demand on the prices. Did the EU regulation not clearly stated that reducing electricity demand at national level can have a positive nationwide effect on electricity prices? The EU has already made the connection that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I mean no disrespect to the witnesses because they are gracious every time they appear before the committee. When we try to get answers, however, we are always told by the relevant Minister that it is the CRU is accountable to the committee. For this reason, we cannot get answers from the Minister. The reason members always have a raft of questions when the CRU appears is that we cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: On the installation of the fossil-fuel boilers, are there any concerns for the future about locking people into high energy bills, particularly low-income households which are the ones eligible for these grants?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: These are existing houses, so these are pensioners or people on a fuel allowance payment. They are being locked into a fossil-fuel boiler arrangement that will last them for ten to 15 years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: It seems the tariff mechanism is not very clear for the average person looking at a bill. I have been stopped by people and asked when is the €50 being returned. In one sense there is an expectation that this refund is going to come up on the bill but this is not going to be the mechanism. It would be valuable, in the interest of transparency and from a consumer sentiment point of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: When examining the SOLR review, will the CRU consider bringing in a bond so that when companies leave the market, it is not going to be the SOLR customers who have to pick up the tab? Electric Ireland would not have hedged for those extra customers, which has a knock-on impact on everybody else.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I note the momentous occasion yesterday in the Pillar Room of the Rotunda Hospital when the families of the Stardust victims heard that after a four-decade long campaign, the new inquest into what happened to their loved ones that night when the fire took place in the Stardust Ballroom will finally begin. I pay tribute to all the families. They have never given up hope of finding answers to...

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I seek clarification from the Minister of State on the subject of transparency in respect of members' organisations that are engaged in lobbying. I refer to subsection (4)(b)(iii), which amends section 5 of the principal Act to create the new subsections (5)(2)(d) and (5)(2)(e). From my reading, this will amend the 2015 Act such that where a person is a representative body or an issue-based...

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Yes, and whether the obligation might be evaded by having any employee at all.

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I will be brief because I want to get to my amendment, No. 4. I support Senator McDowell's amendment on funding from State sources and it is important that people know where their money is being spent. I am flagging that we might expand on this on Report Stage because I am concerned about a particular expert body. This goes back to when I was asking for clarification on section 4 and if...

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 4: In page 6, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 16 of Principal Act 9.The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 16: “The code of conduct to protect the public interest from fossil fuel lobbying 16A.In this section— ‘fossil fuel lobbyist’ means a...

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I remind the Minister of State that there is the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and there are limits on the tobacco industry lobbying. Meetings with the tobacco industry are not allowed regarding the promotion of the product. That is exactly the reason I am making the point; we have accepted that there are certain industries that we are moving away from...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by GAA President, Mr. Larry McCarthy (26 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by GAA President, Mr. Larry McCarthy (26 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Well said.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by GAA President, Mr. Larry McCarthy (26 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Public Water Connection Charges: Motion (26 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I also welcome the motion and thank the Green Party Senators for bringing it to the House. It is a valid suggestion to waive the connection charges for local authorities and community groups that are seeking to provide a water connection to public water bottle refill stations. We all know, and many have spoken about, how plastic water bottles...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Safety Authority (19 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit go dtí an Teach. I wish to raise an important issue of road safety. As the Minister of State will probably be aware – or perhaps he is not – the Road Safety Authority, RSA, does not release data about collisions to researchers and it has not done so for years. We need better research on road safety to save lives and the key...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Safety Authority (19 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I appreciate that now we are getting an acceptance that the Road Safety Authority Act allows for the Minister to issue that direction to the RSA. However, I am not sensing any urgency about it. It is 12 months since the review took place. This is happening in every other European country; they are able to give those monthly accessible data. We need to see a little bit of urgency around...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Some Senators raised the surplus in the public accounts this morning. It comes as cold comfort to many families that are in arrears on their gas bills. At the end of December 2022, 139,785 domestic gas customers were in arrears. I am sure many Senators have constituents who are horrified by the large gas bills that are landing on their doorsteps. It was the subject of a commencement...

Seanad: Sheep Sector: Statements (19 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Curim fáilte roimh an Aire. I was delighted to see the exciting development in the Irish wool industry of the launch of the Irish-grown wool council, which is set to bring together industry representatives to build on the potential of the sector. As colleagues have noted, this all-island council will seek to improve the quality of Irish-farmed wool and facilitate collaboration in...