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Seanad: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Jul 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister for the engagement.

Seanad: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Jul 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I note what the Minister has stated and I am happy to withdraw the amendment.

Seanad: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Jul 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I am happy to. I can press it, but will the Minister accept it? No.

Seanad: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Jul 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I take the Minister's word that it will be dealt with by regulation.

Seanad: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Jul 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I agree with Senator Daly and also thank the Minister. I have said it time and again. The Minister is amenable to having discussions outside these Chambers to explain the rationale and thought process of his policy and direction, which is helpful. I start by thanking his officials. That is where it is at. We do not have to be at loggerheads. It is lonesome to be in the Opposition....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I join with the Cathaoirleach in welcoming the guests. This is a special day because we are celebrating the anniversary, as the Cathaoirleach said, of the visit of John F. Kennedy, as President of the United States of America, to Ireland. I thank the Cathaoirleach for his leadership as well and especially for hosting the breakfast this morning that we shared with many people at the...

Seanad: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: This section just deals with training. The Minister will be familiar with it. This is the kernel of this important Bill. We do need training and I will loosely speak on the issue. We do need upskilling. We have ICOS Skillnet from the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society, we have the Irish Farmers' Association, IFA and the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association, ICMSA, and all the...

Seanad: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I too join in thanking the Minister. I have time and time again said that when a Minister works with parliamentarians it makes everything easier. I again acknowledge his hands-on engagement and discussions at our joint committee, which are always very meaningful, fruitful and respectful and that is important. As Senator Paul Daly said, and he is a member of the joint committee like myself,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Mr. Rushe and the team from the IFA. I know they have a lot of experience in horticulture, agriculture and retail. They come with great knowledge and experience, which is important. The shocking thing is that horticulture is in crisis. Let us be honest about it. To hear that we now have fewer than 100 growers of field vegetables is alarming in a country with a climate, soil and a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: So do I.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: In simple terms, Mr. McCormack thinks the strategy is a bit of a disaster. He thinks it is a vision rather than a plan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Is it even that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Am I to take it from that response that Mr. McCormack is not impressed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: That is grand. Let us move on to below-cost selling. Mr. Rushe said in his opening statement, "The IFA is calling for a ban on the below-cost selling and procurement of food and that the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022 be amended in the Seanad to address this." I am a Member of Seanad Éireann and am happy to run with that. I will support the IFA. Has Mr. Rushe a wording...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: We understand that. We are all in the same boat and we know that there is this need. We are advocates here, and we are partners with the witnesses. We are not at odds. Again, it would be helpful for the committee if the IFA could set out what it is proposing. We have our own context, politically, in this place. The IFA needs to crystallise the ask. I always say that we need clarity,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Mr. Rushe made the valid point about the pillars of sustainability: environmental, social and economic. That is where people have lost the run of it, somehow. They are all interlinked, and that is the issue. It is the environmental, the social and the economic. There is no point in having environmental and social if one does not have the economic. Everyone has to wash their face at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Mr. Rushe for his clarity on those three.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: What is the model the IFA is proposing?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I support the Order of Business. I particularly welcome that we are taking the Government motion relating to the proposal that the report of the Dublin Citizens' Assembly be referred to the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage, of which I am a member, but we need to be clear about something. I do not know the motive behind the Government motion other than the words that...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the CEG for a very important and timely motion. I do not want to talk too much about the motion, which the members of the CEG have done justice and spoken well about. I want to focus some of my time on the Government's amendment. I am disappointed. The amendment is not necessary. I thought the Seanad would speak with one voice, collectively, on this issue, given our commitments...