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Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)

Lynn Boylan: Our concern relates to the repeal of the prescription period of 12 years given to users against private owners of land in seeking to retain the prescriptive period of 30 years and 60 years for foreshore. Again, our concerns and the reasons we are flagging this is that we do not believe there has been proper consultation with the people who will be directly impacted by this. I ask the...

Seanad: Forestry Licensing: Statements (11 Nov 2021)

Lynn Boylan: .... We are facing a significant challenge as we seek to get as close to zero emissions as possible. Some hard-to-escape emissions will need to be compensated for with removals from forests. The land use, land-use change and forestry, LULUCF, sector is currently a net source of emissions so we face a major challenge to get that down. The climate action plan, which was released recently,...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I have similar concerns regarding the different prescription period proposed for State-owned land in section 3, which includes the foreshore. I echo what Senator Higgins has said. I would much prefer that we had designated protected areas before we gave planning permission for offshore wind, but that is why we are particularly concerned about this section. There is going to be so much...

Seanad: Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2019: An Dara Céim - Official Languages (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ..., have been "rendered into garbled and discordant forms". We have seen the disasters of developments being flooded after being built on flood plains that would have been understood from their placenames as Gaeilge. This takes on new significance as we aim to repair our relationship with the environment. The living-language-land project at COP26 has highlighted the way in which...

Seanad: Housing For All - a New Housing Plan for Ireland: Statements (29 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...this plan that the Government is out of touch and out of ideas. It is becoming more and more apparent to the public. Again and again, the Government sides with the interests of big developers, large landowners and international institutional investors over the needs of ordinary workers and families. The Government does not have the mettle to stand up and do what is necessary to address...

Seanad: National Maternity Hospital: Statements (2 Jul 2021)

Lynn Boylan: Sometimes it can feel like Groundhog Day in Ireland because every time we take a leap forward and become a more open and progressive society for our people, and especially our women, we seem to get dragged back to an Ireland of the past. That is what it feels like to stand here and have to make the case for why the national maternity hospital must be publicly owned and, more important,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...on proceeding with the scheme. The Minister also needs to tell the House how he will ensure that the houses on the Poolbeg site will be genuinely affordable. The National Asset Management Agency offered that land to the previous housing Minister, Eoghan Murphy, at a 50% discount. However, even when it would benefit his constituents, Mr. Murphy refused the offer. Instead, Ronan Group...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (21 Jun 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...'s climate emissions are 50% higher than the EU average and yet other EU countries have managed to successfully transition. The absence of concrete targets and a framework to achieve them is what has landed us in the situation we are in today, where we are going to have to climb a much steeper mountain than we would have if previous governments had done what was necessary. I have become...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Sale and Supply of Pets and Animal Welfare: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I want to pick up on the points in Ms Bristow's submission about how dogs, as companion animals, are in a sort of no man's land, in that they are not treated as livestock but there is no VAT on them and this leads to a lack of invoicing from those DBEs on the bigger scale. When I went looking on some of the platforms, I saw one particular seller had €60,000 worth of dogs for sale in...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 May 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...'s houses annually. How is that for othering people who avail of supports to get housing?We make no apologies for wanting to make sure that affordable homes remain permanently affordable. To achieve this, the land will remain in public ownership for future generations. That is sustainable affordability into the long term.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...proposal for this hugely important historical site. The Moore Street terrace and laneways are the physical environs of one the seminal chapters in Irish history and our struggle for independence. The hoarding of the land and the initial proposal to destroy this site and create an enormous shopping centre represented the worst of the Celtic tiger excesses. When I brought that proposal to...

Seanad: National Climate and Air Roadmap for the Agriculture Sector: Statements (22 Feb 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...be based on farmers. The whole system is geared towards over-production. It is time farmers and the environmental sectors worked together. As has been said already, farmers are custodians of the landscape and they can play an important role in protecting nature. However, the system of incentives often prevents them from doing that. We heard already about the ridiculous situation...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jan 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...100 per week to go and work on the front line while one individual is apparently worth €90,000 extra per year to this Government. The timing of the pay increase also comes in the same week that tax bills will be landing through the letterboxes of many homes. I listened with great interest to the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Humphreys, when she spoke on the radio...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2020)

Lynn Boylan: ...and said that they were compliant? Why would access be charged for applications when the portal will provide the information? Deputy Carthy mentioned the fact that the report on managed forest land in Ireland is now a net emitter of carbon. I refer to a response to a parliamentary question by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, who cited that the reason forestry should remain...

Seanad: Biodiversity: Motion (5 Nov 2020)

Lynn Boylan: ...perverse incentives, for example, a forestry system that is set up to store carbon but which incentivises the planting of non-native species or the planting of trees on biodiversity-rich marginal land. If this sounds familiar, it is because that is the state of forestry in Ireland. As I said, I wholeheartedly welcome this motion but, with no disrespect to those who drafted it, I wish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Oct 2020)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the speakers. I wish to elaborate a little further on Professor Buckley's point around the land mapping and whether to write it into legislation. I am not sure if Professor Buckley is familiar with the New Zealand Act. It makes a specific reference to being cognisant of the ecosystems, including marine ecosystems, and biodiversity in its recital but then in its adaptation and its...

Seanad: National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Services Bill 2020: Second Stage (17 Jul 2020)

Lynn Boylan: ...with the bill for cleaning up while methane continues to leak into the atmosphere. Can the Minister outline how the National Oil Reserves Agency will ensure that the oil and gas companies in Ireland are adequately funded? Will we have a cast-iron, ring-fenced fund to ensure that we are not left with a situation similar to that in the USA? I am keen to flag some concerns I have regarding...