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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Challenges: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the witnesses. Most of my questions are for the CRU. The first concerns EU non-compliance. The only reference on the CRU website to Brexit is that trade will be unaffected and gas will continue to flow. Has the EU made contact with the CRU regarding non-compliance on energy security? On the response the CRU sent to the committee on the Energy Charter Treaty, section 9 of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Challenges: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: The EU has not contacted the CRU.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Challenges: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: The CRU still stands over what is on the website, which is that trade will be unaffected and gas will continue to flow.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Challenges: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Will the CRU seek a derogation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Challenges: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I wish to return to the n-1 conversation we had earlier. I understand that Britain and Ireland entered into bilateral agreements in 1996 and 1998, the transportation agreement and the connected systems agreement. The EU then recognised them under regulation 2010/994. Is Mr. Melvin saying that we no longer conform with the n-1 standard at a regional level because of Brexit even though these...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Challenges: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: However, it is only on that basis. It is not that there has been an increase in risk to our security, because these bilateral agreements stand. The only change is in terms of Brexit. Previously the CRU did not believe Brexit would have any impact on trade or gas flows; these bilateral agreements still stand. Therefore, it is just a technicality in the EU that we are not now a region. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Challenges: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: The risk has not increased.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Challenges: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: If Brexit had not happened, would the CRU be making that point to the European Commission?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Challenges: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: We would still have reached it on a regional basis though.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Prices (24 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I do not need to tell the Minister of State that the cost of energy is spiralling out of control. We know that renewables are cheaper than oil. The economic argument for transitioning to renewables has never been stronger and made more sense. However, the more we can produce electricity from renewables, the more we can protect households from the high prices of imported fossil fuels. My...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Prices (24 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the Minister of State for his response. However, I do not see many answers in it. He outlined how the programme works in terms of how we get the RESS auctions. He is right that renewable energy will protect households from price fluctuations, but it will not guarantee lower prices. We have the highest renewable energy prices in the EU. While some say we are the Saudi Arabia of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I wish to raise the issue of blood donation. As someone who has been a blood donor since I was 18, I encourage anyone who is eligible to contact the blood bank and make an appointment to donate. Only this morning, I got a text to tell me that stocks of my blood type are down to 1.6 days of supply when they should be seven days. I cannot believe there has been no public campaign to inform...

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

Lynn Boylan: I echo what we said the last time we debated 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...

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

Lynn Boylan: I echo what others have said when the Minister of State referred to the three-year method for calculating compensation. With regard to our amendments that were ruled out of order, I am aware that a ten-year cycle is taken in other jurisdictions. As others have said, it appears that the years selected on which to base the compensation seem to be the loss-making years. Will the Minister of...

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

Lynn Boylan: I am not saying the Minister of State is not correct but he is saying Department officials visited all the farms, but it was not about fur farming. In terms of inspections around fur farming, has anybody visited all three farms regarding demolition costs? My understanding is the Grant Thornton report, which cost €100,000, was a desk-based exercise from Dublin that did not involve...

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

Lynn Boylan: I will follow on from Senator Boyhan's comments on the importance of trust and communication. I know it is the Minister of State's first time debating this legislation in this House. When it comes to trust and communication, however, the deadline for Report Stage amendments was today at 11.30 a.m. That is the indication the Department is giving in respect of listening to the Members of...

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

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 7: In page 15, to delete lines 6 to 14 and substitute the following: “ “ ‘native tree area’ means land under trees— (a) with an area of not less than 0.1 hectare and not greater than 1 hectare, and (b) where the trees concerned are native tree species only, of which not more than 25 per cent are Scots pine;”. The Bill...

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

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 15: In page 15, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(i) shall, on an annual basis, lay a report before Dáil Éireann on the level of afforestation per Local Electoral Area, the level of which is broadleaf, and as to how this aligns with government policy and objectives,”. The purpose of this is to make data on forestry more...

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

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 16: In page 15, line 30, after “grants,” to insert “subject to Oireachtas approval and”. The amendment asks that the Minister bring any scheme arising from this legislation before the Dáil for approval. The reason we are doing that is that forestry policy, as has been discussed here at length for the past two years, has failed...

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

Lynn Boylan: I will speak as well to amendment No. 27, as tabled by Senator Higgins, which is similar and provides that the regulations under this section be laid before and be agreed by both Houses of the Oireachtas. Article 15 of the Constitution vests the sole and exclusive power for making legislation in the Oireachtas. With these provisions the Minister is seeking extraordinary discretion in the...