Results 81-100 of 5,171 for speaker:Victor Boyhan
- Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2025)
Victor Boyhan: On the basis that we will collaborate on that, I am happy to withdraw this amendment.
- Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2025)
Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 23: In page 9, between lines 28 and 29 to insert the following: “Report on increased supports for all former residents and survivors of institutional, industrial and reformatory schools 7. Within nine months of the commencement of this Act, the Minister shall, lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas detailing how all the supports, services and...
- Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2025)
Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 24: In page 9, between lines 28 and 29 to insert the following: “Supports for the excluded 7. Sage Advocacy shall be able to make recommendations to Government so that health services and education supports can be allocated to former residents who’ve been excluded from this Bill and previous redress schemes. The Minister shall have the ability to...
- Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2025)
Victor Boyhan: At the core of this is redress and acknowledgement of a wrong.Earlier, I referred to the indemnity scheme of this State that was signed at Merrion Square, Dublin 2, on 5 June 2002 by the then Ministers for Finance and Education and Science, predecessors of the Minister present. I have in front of me copies of the signatures, the seals of office on the Government's legal advice and the...
- Seanad: Food Promotion and New Markets: Statements (18 Jun 2025)
Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Grealish, to the Seanad today. We go back a hell of a long time. I will not tell anyone here but we have known each other for many years and we have soldiered together on many things in politics. I very much look forward to engaging with him today on all aspects of his brief. As he has said, his brief is primarily focused on food production, new...
- Seanad: Food Promotion and New Markets: Statements (18 Jun 2025)
Victor Boyhan: The Minister of State is so good. We will listen to him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Victor Boyhan: I welcome Mr. Michael Cronin, the chair of the TB forum, and Mr. O'Mahony from the Department of agriculture. We have read their statements and have them in front of us. We have had time to tease them out. If Mr. Cronin will forgive me, I will concentrate on directing one or two key questions to Mr. O'Mahony from the Department. I suppose there were really only two key takeaways from his...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Victor Boyhan: I thank Mr. O'Mahony. I am conscious of time and my key question is on timelines. What is the timeline for this process? Time is not on our side. What timelines does Mr. O'Mahony or the Minister have in mind? Can he share them with the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Victor Boyhan: When will that be? Can we get an indication of the timeline?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Victor Boyhan: I thank Mr. O'Mahony.
- Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)
Victor Boyhan: I thank the witnesses. I want to thank them for the quality of the BIM report. It is great to have it online, but I request more hard copies for those coming to the meeting. It is an excellent production. This morning three people stopped me to ask where I got it. I said it came in the post from somebody and that I am on the committee. The production, the way it is done and the...
- Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)
Victor Boyhan: That is perfect. That is enough for me at the moment. There are a few takeaways from this report which I thought jumped out and I want to share. A total of €423 million was invested in the sector, with €190 million coming from private investment. I presume the rest of that comes from the Government or EU funding. I ask the witnesses to detail the make-up of the rest of that...
- Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)
Victor Boyhan: Regarding the BAR fund that we are all familiar with, has all of that dried up now?
- Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)
Victor Boyhan: I raised the following question at the previous committee, which dealt with fisheries and agriculture together. Is there now a concise breakdown of BAR fund spending? There were some issues around it. There was the limited extension period. It went over that. I live in Dún Laoghaire, near the harbour, and I know there was infrastructural money drawn down. It was a very broad angle...
- Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)
Victor Boyhan: However, in terms of an ask by the committee, what if we wanted to see a spreadsheet giving a complete account of that huge amount? I think Ms Bocquel said €180 million.
- Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)
Victor Boyhan: Where could we see how that money was apportioned? I am not interested in the value-for-money aspect, though that is important. I would like to see where has that gone and where is it now to analyse the benefits of it and see whether it has been wisely used or apportioned to aid the sector. I would be very interested, and if BIM could facilitate the committee in accessing that information,...
- Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)
Victor Boyhan: It is so we can look at it and learn from it.
- Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)
Victor Boyhan: There is always a learning in these things. I would really appreciate it if that could be facilitated.
- Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)
Victor Boyhan: It is therefore an area BIM is keeping a strong focus on.