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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: We are talking about this for the past four years. To be helpful, I ask the Minister to visit this at some stage. He is just up the road from it. He would be appalled to see what is happening at these units. Another block in McIntosh Park has the same type of properties, built by the same developer, and everybody in them is very happy. They are not knocking them down.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed) (27 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I stated this earlier but I will do so again as the Minister is here. He stated last week that, as Minister, he would look at everything new. There is clearly a need for publicly built, publicly owned and privately rented accommodation on public lands. We should stop getting hung up on that issue. Deputy Boyd Barrett raised an alarming issue on the record of this meeting that there is a...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Lord Alderdice, Former Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly (22 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I warmly welcome Lord Alderdice to the Seanad. We go back a long time and were members of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party, ELDR, when I was a member of the Progressive Democrats Party which was affiliated to the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. I am also a member of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly and have the opportunity to be in the House of Commons from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: Could the Chairman call out the names and the order in which we are waiting? We need to know if we need to leave. We are here since 2 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: It is a long day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: What time is the meeting running to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: We have business to deal with-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: That is pillar 3.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I think it would be better.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: We will be refreshed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: Yes, but Deputy O'Dowd will be even more refreshed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I suggest that we do not have another meeting on Thursday. We cannot have people here. We were sitting here on Thursday. Thursday afternoon is a no-no. I respect that Deputies and Ministers have to be in for both, but we cannot be left sitting in here like we were today. We were waiting around at 2 p.m. and looking at "Vótáil" on the screen. We are here and we are busy. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: The Senator did not ask any questions.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I wish to raise three issues: the judicial council; Rebuilding Ireland, the Government's policy to tackle the housing crisis and homelessness; and agriculture and food. I will not rehearse what today's edition of The Irish Timesreports the Chief Justice, Mrs. Justice Susan Denham, as having said. We need to heed what she said in touching on the separation of powers. That is important to...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I rise to address one issue here today. First, I congratulate all the Ministers of State who were appointed yesterday. In particular, I congratulate Deputy John Paul Phelan who has been appointed Minister of State with responsibility for local government. He has been specifically delegated to deal with local government. That is important and I acknowledge-----

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: Local government and reform. If I am allowed finish I will get to the reform, which Senator Coghlan will be particularly interested in. That is important. I am delighted that Senator Coghlan should remind me of the reform element of the Minister of State's brief. What am I going to say?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: Senator Coghlan will certainly remind people. I would appreciate if the Leader could organise for the Minister of State, Deputy John Paul Phelan, to come to the House to discuss local government, and in particular greater devolved powers and subsidiarity to local government, to empower it as it represents local communities and local citizens to make decisions in local communities. Last year...

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I formally second the Bill. I thank Senator Freeman and acknowledge input of the co-sponsors of the Bill, Senators Craughwell and Marie-Louise O'Donnell. I warmly welcome the new Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, and wish him well in his challenging post. This issue has to be about the rights of children and putting children at the centre in terms of care. Ideally, no child should be in...

Seanad: Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Michael D'Arcy, and congratulate him on his appointment. I will not go into great detail because Senator Conway-Walsh has eloquently set out the purpose of the Bill and I fully support it. It is important to say that the Bill was unanimously agreed in Dáil Éireann. I acknowledge the work Deputy Pearse Doherty put into the Bill. There is a...

Seanad: Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Victor Boyhan: I am very happy to sit among them. They have an exceptional record in local government where I worked with them for many years and across the country, as I would with any other group. The bottom line is that we should talk about policy more than personalities. It is not about playing politics. Everyone in here has a mandate. We are elected by the people. Members of Sinn Féin are...