Results 81-100 of 147 for long speaker:Lynn Boylan

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ..., the data showed 0.0004% of free travel journeys were fraudulent. When we look at the timing of this mass surveillance of free travel pass holders, what is most striking is that it came not long after the now Tánaiste, Deputy Varadkar, launched his "Welfare Cheats Cheat Us All” campaign. That campaign was roundly and rightly criticised at the time and it was called a hate...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...needs to be strengthened as it is virtually impossible to prosecute anyone under the current legislation. Ear-cropping is a mutilation that denies a dog its basic means of communication and can have lifelong impacts on the dog’s welfare. I ask that we have a long overdue debate in the House on the issue of animal welfare but, in particular, dog welfare. We in Ireland need to hang...

Seanad: Impact on Farming Sector Arising from the Situation in Ukraine: Statements (29 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...towards. The policy recommendations - endorsed by Ireland - in Agroecological and other innovative approaches for sustainable agriculture and food systems that enhance food security and nutrition - which is the long title - recommends that governments redirect their policies, budgets and investments towards those agroecological approaches. I call on the Government to follow through on...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report Stage (29 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...there is a concern not just in the short term for the workers in mink farming who are directly affected, but also about the precedent it sets for workers with the just transition. In the medium to long term, we will watch how the forestry provisions of this Bill are implemented. It goes back to the fact that there was no pre-legislative scrutiny and whether this legislation is coming...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...this Bill. There is unity across this House about being in favour of ending mink farming. Nobody here is calling for an extension of mink farming.I would have liked to have seen it abolished a long time ago given my experiences as an ecologist dealing with escaped mink and the damage they do to the natural environment. There is a unity of voice in the Chamber when it comes to mink...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...regulations will change very much. It seems that people are set in their minds as to how this is going to go. If the Minister of State were to share the draft regulations, I think it would go a long way towards building trust across the House and everybody who has concerns for the workers and concerns about the precedent of ensuring that a just transition is not just a sound bite but...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...the need for a licence. As I said, we are seeking assurances that planting will not go over 1 ha just because tree planting is in a strip. My reading of the Bill is it could end up incentivising the planting of trees in long strips given that situations where a 20 m strip can be planted are not specified. Significant environmental sensitivities and legal requirements need to be...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Wildlife Protection (1 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...Burke. The background to this matter is that works carried out in Emo Court appear to have been done without the necessary derogation licence and inevitably led to the disturbance of a significant long-eared brown bat roost. In regard to the timeline, the works were detected in November 2019 and an inspection by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, followed in December 2019....

Seanad: Coroners (Provision for Jury Selection) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...the State think it would be appropriate that after 41 years fighting for justice, the families would be expected to send in their payslips and details of the car they drove just so they could access long-awaited justice? That leads me to the reason we are here today. I am proud to introduce this Bill but I should not have to do so. The Stardust inquest will be the largest and longest...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Before I came into the House, I had the misfortune to listen to the Joe Duffy show. It is not something I do very often. Comments were made about the Irish Women's Parliamentary Caucus. As long as the caucus excludes parliamentary and secretarial assistants and all the other women who work in these Houses, it is exclusionary and, therefore, I will not participate in it. Monday was the...

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Feb 2022)

Lynn Boylan: .... This is a position that has been researched and which I will stand over. We are talking today about energy poverty and people facing hardship. It is worth pointing out that over a year ago, not long after I was elected, I was raising this issue with the Minister. I conducted a study on energy poverty. The responses received then were harrowing, even before all the hikes in energy...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Policy (9 Feb 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...fund a year ago. At the time, the Tánaiste said the would take this proposal on board and look at it, yet it has not happened. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul has been calling for this for a long time. I also raise the issue of reforming the public service obligation, PSO, a regressive tax that subsidises renewable energies. The PSO does not take ability to pay into account....

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (8 Feb 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...have said in welcoming the aspects of the Bill that relate to a ban on fur farming. It is a barbaric practice and it is about time we, as legislators, caught up with where the public has been for a long time.

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (8 Feb 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...and unfortunately that experience showed me the devastation that mink escapes have caused to our biodiversity. It is welcome that at least our ground-nesting birds, waterfowl and fish will no longer have the threat of any more large-scale releases of mink. However, we also need to focus on eradicating the mink that are out there in the wild because it is an invasive species and it does...

Seanad: Violence Against Women: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...followed by anger. The anger relates to the fact that we continue to live in a misogynistic society. While as a country we have come so far on so many issues, the reality is that we still have a long way to go to break the silence of violence against women. Some 244 women have been murdered in Ireland since 1996 and 152 of them were killed in their own home; the place they are meant to...

Seanad: Climate and Agriculture: Statements (25 Jan 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...We all accept that fairness and social justice have to be at the heart of climate action, not just because it is the right thing to do - because it is - but also because we have to bring communities along with us on this process. That means that no sector can get a bye-ball. Special treatment for one sector inevitably means that somebody else in society has to take up the slack. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021 refers to "relevant bodies" and how they "perform ... [their] functions in a manner consistent with" the climate action plan and the long-term strategy. Does the Department have a definitive list of the relevant bodies? Commercial semi-State bodies, such as Bord na Móna and Coillte, will play a significant role in...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Dec 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...from poverty. Despite a growing cost of living, current social welfare rates are far behind where they need to be. Working age payments need to be set to the minimum essential standard of living, based on long-standing work by Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice. Given the Minister's commitment to work with the Vincentian Partnership, we are happy to withdraw the amendment.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Dec 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...for a Widow’s, Widower's or Surviving Civil Partner’s Pension, including the Non-Contributory and Contributory payments, specifically the marriage requirement and explore removing this clause to acknowledge long term partnerships and dependent children and that the report shall be presented to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Social Protection within nine months of the...

Seanad: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2021: Motion (8 Dec 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...that is taking place in the greyhound industry. That transparency would allow us to learn that the majority of greyhounds never make the cut and end up having to be rehomed, if they are lucky enough to be rehomed. It is long overdue that consideration is given to putting a cap on the number of greyhounds that are bred, yet instead we have a situation whereby permission can be sought for...