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

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 23: In page 16, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: "(i) existing levels of afforestation adjacent to domestic dwellings,". This amendment is proposing that one of the criteria to be taken into account before the Minister approves a scheme is the existing levels of afforestation adjacent to domestic dwellings. The amendment does not seek to constrain...

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

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 25: In page 16, to delete line 32 and substitute the following: “(S.I. No. 477 of 2011). (5) Regulations under subsection (1) shall not apply to planting on peat soils where the climate change implications are unclear.”,”. This amendment seeks to limit the operation of the unlicensed planting of forestry enabled by these provisions so that...

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

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 27: In page 16, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “(5) Any regulations made under this section must be laid before and agreed by both Houses of the Oireachtas.”,

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

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 29b: In page 17, to delete line 22 and substitute the following: “ Bay willow Salix pentandra Native Irish pine (Burren pine) ”.

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

Lynn Boylan: On the yew trees, I note with interest that it is a protected habitat type. I was fortunate to work in Reenadinna wood in Killarney National Park, the only native yew wood in the country. To be honest, it has not been very well protected by the State. In fact, as part of the millennium scheme, diggers were brought in across the limestone pavement to put up a fence to keep the deer out, but...

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

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 31: In page 17, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: " Hawthorn Crataegus Blackthorn Prunus spinosa ". This amendment seeks to do the opposite to Senator Boyhan's, which was to take off taxus baccata, and to add hawthorn and blackthorn to the list of native species that can be included in the areas....

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

Lynn Boylan: My experience from working in the national park was that hawthorn and blackthorn are trees, but Senator Boyhan has put it better than I could. On the agri-environmental schemes, there are issues in that regard given the situation in Ukraine etc. I do not understand why these two species could not be added to the list, because as I said they are not shrubs but trees. Perhaps the Minister of...

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

Lynn Boylan: Birch on peatlands is a pioneer species but my understanding is that this would allow for the full list of native trees to be planted on peatland. Is that correct? It is not just the likes of birch, which self-seed and are pioneers. It could be any of the listed trees.

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

Lynn Boylan: On the issue around peatlands discussed in relation to amendment No. 25, the Minister of State said birch are found on peatlands and can provide biodiversity, but birch is a pioneer species which self-seeds or is carried in by birds. It is generally scrub. My understanding is that we are exempting the planting of any trees on the native tree species list. Is that correct? That is where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the witnesses for their informative opening statements and also the supplementary material that was circulated. I have two questions for EirGrid. Mr. Foley referred to a renewables target of 80% and EirGrid's Shaping our Electricity Future strategy. It has a figure for onshore wind to be connected by 2030 of 1,300 MW. On the basis of that figure, presumably the grid reinforcements...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: By renewable gas, does Dr. Ryan mean blue hydrogen gas generators or purely green hydrogen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Mr. Ryan is confirming that EirGrid will amend its strategy to incorporate the 80% target. Is it looking at cost specifically? Given that the cost of renewable energy in Ireland is the highest in the EU, we need to bring down the cost to incentivise people to come in and access the market.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: EirGrid supports establishing a high-level cross-government body to meet regularly and feed into the Department on how to bring down the cost of renewable energy. It is an ask from the wind organisations that there needs to be a cross-government high-level body that identifies the costs involved in renewable energy and how we reduce those costs. Would EirGrid be supportive of such a body...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: In order for green hydrogen to be economically viable, we have to bring down the cost of the renewables, which in Ireland is the highest compared with, for example, Poland, Greece, Spain, which is the lowest, but right across the board. Our renewable energy is more expensive in Ireland, and if we want a green hydrogen strategy that will be viable, we have to bring down the cost of renewables.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: How many meetings have been had by the demand reduction sector with the Department in regard to a new demand-side strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I have three specific questions for the guests today. I commend them on the report. There is nothing in it a woman using public transport would not have experienced. I recommend that some of the committee members read Caroline Criado-Perez's book Invisible Womenbecause it is not just transport. It is the whole of society that is affected by the fact we do not have women at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I might not have been clear. What I meant was not segregation as such. Segregated cycleways are part of commuting, but we are seeing many greenways. The greenway along the Grand Canal is not a safe commuting route. I do not mean segregation as in gender or such a thing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I appreciate those responses. I will probably follow up with our guests afterwards if they do not mind to tease out some of those points.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Welcome back. My question related to the importance of collecting gender-specific data and women being part of the consultation and design process. The other witnesses spoke about the collection of data. I had flagged the census but they said there were other surveying methods we could use. I understand the NTA does a household survey every five years. In Scotland there is an annual...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: This is why every member should read Caroline Criado Perez's book.