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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Employment Rights (25 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister of State for that comprehensive response. I knew it would come from him because he is totally immersed in agriculture. Let us keep having ongoing public engagement and consultation with the horticultural sector and the equine sector, as the Minister of State rightly pointed out. He would be very familiar with that, coming as he does from south County Kildare. There...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Will the Acting Leader organise a debate on the Irish horticultural sector? It is a critical sector. I discussed it briefly with the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Martin Heydon, through a Commencement matter this morning. Some of our lowest-paid workers are in the fruit picking business and in the meat sector. I am not talking about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the members from the CCMA and thank them their very concise submission. I like that it has a few asks and it raises concerns. We get a lot of submissions in here and at the end of them we are not really too sure what the ask is. I am very much a person who likes to get to the bottom of an issue and the ask. At the outset I want to say that I do not think you can look at this tax...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I understand. I will go through a series of points and questions and group them together. Regarding the commitment to conduct the five year review, is five years simply too long? Now I know people will say things have to bed down and settle in but I would like to consider the five year review. We need to bear in mind that we are doing pre-legislative scrutiny here. What are the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the witnesses.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (24 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Senator Lombard.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (24 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Senator Lombard. The Minister of State has four minutes to respond.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (24 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Senator Lombard.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tourism Industry (24 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister of State and Senator McGreehan. That was a very interesting and engaging Commencement matter. The final Commencement matter in the name of Senator Dolan on Covid-19 pandemic special recognition payments cannot be taken today because the Department has not provided a speaking note on it. It will be carried over. I welcome the students from the Holy Family School. They...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Is that Monkstown in Dublin or Cork?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I live there.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the students from Monkstown. I went to school in Monkstown myself. There are a number of schools there so I do not know if they are in Scoil Lorcáin or one of the parish national schools. I can see the uniform there and it is Scoil Lorcáin. They are very welcome. I certainly would have loved the opportunity to get in here as a student. I did not get in until many...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Absolutely. I also live in Monkstown. It is a particularly beautiful part of the world, Baile na Manach. I want to raise the issue of the very controversial residential zoned land, RZL, tax. It is a new tax which is planned to be introduced and I am calling for a debate on it. The Leader represents a rural constituency. Many people here live in rural communities and represent rural...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I will not repeat everything Senator Higgins said. I support both of these amendments, and I am the co-signatory to amendment No. 39. I want to push on that point about mixed-race children and their experience, and return to this particular group which represents mixed-race children who are now adults. I am thinking of Mr. Bryan in particular, who has come to see me and others in Leinster...

Seanad: Naming of National Children's Hospital for Dr. Kathleen Lynn: Motion (24 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome our guests who are seated in the Gallery I thank Senator Fitzpatrick for tabling this motion. I remind the House that in December 2022 the Seanad Independent Group, in a similar motion, called for the national children's hospital to be named after Dr. Kathleen Lynn. The motion was proposed by my colleague, Senator Keogan, seconded and passed. It is great that we are revisiting...

Seanad: Naming of National Children's Hospital for Dr. Kathleen Lynn: Motion (24 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: -----for decent equality and justice for children who were brought up in care. Dr. Lynn dealt with many of them in her later work. Growing up in the aftermath of the famine, Kathleen was deeply saddened by the deadly diseases and poverty suffered by the people. She also heard many stories about this from her family before her. She achieved her ambition and graduated as one of the first...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome our guests, who are clearly very passionate about the subject. I read in an interview with Mr. Fleming in the Irish Examiner today that there are major issues. The headline of the article was "Retirements and a lack of newly qualified vets leave profession in crisis". We have got the message loud and clear. The question must then be asked as to what the Veterinary Council thinks...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Does Mr. Quinn see that as a positive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: That is to be welcomed.