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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: It is important that agriculture and environment are around the same table and the more we see that, the better it will be for everybody. Nobody achieves anything by being at loggerheads. I do have to say, though, that it is deeply regrettable that a representative of the Committee of Professional Agricultural Organisations-General Confederation of Agricultural Cooperatives, COPA-COGECA,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: It was not vague. It was very specific in its very high, frightening targets. The reason why it was corrected is that other, independent people who viewed that committee contact the committee, and then the committee made contact with the individual. The individual did not come forward themselves to correct it. They corrected it because they were challenged, and very hardline figures were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: With hindsight, would it have been better then if he had not come in and given very specific information with very specific targets, if it was known there were going to be amendments to it, and that it was a movable feast? It was carried by the Irish Farmers' Journal, the Irish Independentand Agriland. The Irish Independentwas, I think, the only newspaper to cover the story of the fact that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I accept that but it was scaring people unnecessarily. If all the information was not out there, then maybe they should have turned down the request to speak at the committee until the information was available. It did have a negative impact, unfortunately, and that is what this meeting today is about, to try and have fact-based conversations and dialogue in order that we reach a position...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: No, it was COPA-COGECA.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: No. It was just an example of the importance of facts.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Waste Management (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit go dtí an Teach. We all know, and I have discussed previously with the Minister of State, that using raw materials unsustainably is the current model and that we need to overhaul our economic model from one that is based on "take, make, waste" to one that is circular. "Reduce, reuse, recycle" is probably the idea that is most commonly...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Waste Management (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the Minister of State for his response. It does not address the scavenging element. We know that certain perfectly legal organisations are doing this on a bespoke basis. I am looking for a more formalised universal approach to that so it is not subject to the geographical lottery of where someone lives, for example, near Ballymun or near the civic amenity centre where they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I was going to ask a similar question around the regional equity issue. We are hampered by having poor local government. It does not have the powers to do this properly, but there is merit in the Minister examining ways of addressing this issue. We could look at the meter point reference number, MPRN, as a way of identifying people with EVs and their addresses. I encourage the Minister to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Yes, but we know-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Let us face it, this is the reality. Volvos, Teslas and BMWs are very expensive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I know the rules have changed, but grants are still available. In Dublin, while public transport is not perfect, it is far better than in rural areas, and now we are getting more of the grants, because the data shows this. I will move on, though, because the Minister answered this query for Deputy Whitmore. I have one question on the importance of having accurate data on road injuries...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: That would be great. The information in Britain and France is updated monthly and is available online and, therefore, academics have access to it. Section 15(2) of the climate Act allows the Minister to direct a relevant body to submit a report specifying the measures it has taken or adopted for the purposes of compliance with the Act. In 2016, the Minister asked whether the then...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Will the Minister consider doing that to see whether agencies are in compliance with the climate Act and to get those progress reports?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Circular 01/2020 relates to procedures for offsetting emissions associated with official air travel. We all accept Ministers and agency representatives have to travel as part of their roles, but that circular requires the carbon tax sum reflecting the tonnage of the flight to be paid into the climate action fund. In my view, offsets are indulgences to clear one's conscience. Does the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: It relates to the climate action fund. The money goes into that fund to provide for measures in the climate action plan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: The circular requires that Departments pay money into the fund. That goes on to provide funding for climate education and local authorities’ carbon-neutral communities, which are in the climate action plan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I am concerned, however, that there may be double counting. The Minister has put a price on aviation emissions, which is what is paid into the climate action fund, but are the Departments that are paying that using it as part of their emissions reduction targets under strands 1 and 2 of the climate action fund while it is being counted a second time by the local authorities and in respect of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I second Senator Gavan's amendment to the Order Paper. I ask for an update from the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, on the timing of a referendum on water ownership. Today is World Water Day and the trade union umbrella group, Keep Water Public, was outside Leinster House. I hope Members got out to meet them and to show their support for a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Hear, hear.