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

Victor Boyhan: And veterinary technicians.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Partnerships with Coillte: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I will finish with a question for Mr. Anhold. Was Coillte aware that the witnesses were coming here today?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: As colleagues know, Kerrygold is synonymous with Irish butter. They may ask why I am saying that today. I join in congratulating, and I hope this House will, our internationally recognised garden designer in Kerry, our good friend, Billy Alexander, an Irish supreme horticulturist, botanist and plantsman, who this morning was awarded the highest award – the gold medal – at the...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister to the House for the debate on this timely legislation. I thank him for setting out its provisions in his opening remarks. I acknowledge and salute his work and commitment as Minister for Justice since he took the job. I do not mean to embarrass him in saying this. He hit the ground running on day one. I remember seeing a report on the 9 o'clock news showing him...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I endorse all those excellent amendments. They are logical, fair, they make sense. All those issues were echoed and touched on in the excellent report by the children's committee of which Members of this House were members, which is teased out to a great extent in the Bill digest on the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022. I hope we will hear from them at some point in...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I will touch generally on the response to the three amendments with which the Minister dealt. First, I acknowledge that he has confirmed that he has written to the Catholic and the Church of Ireland Primates of All Ireland. I would be interested to see how that is all going. I am sure there are ways of finding out all that. That is no big government secret, and I am confident we could...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I hear what the Minister is saying but to go back to the point, many of these vaccine trials took place on children from zero up to six months so they are excluded. There is no redress. The Government has no scheme for them. Let us say a list was to be put in front of the Minister in ten days' time with 38 children on it and it was validated that they were all in State care and subject to...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Senator Higgins put it very well and set our her stall on both amendments. I am very heavily reliant in discussing the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill on the Bill digest that was done by the Library and Research Service. I acknowledge and thank Dr. Deirdre Halloran and Ms Michelle Lynch, senior parliamentary researchers in law in the Oireachtas, for their very extensive...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I have no difficulty with that. The committee made 21 recommendations, including that the six-month residency requirement for children be removed. The committee stated clearly it must be removed. The report was signed off by all those Oireachtas Members, who went around saying they were going to transform everything. I expected more of them and I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome our guests from Dublin Fire Brigade and thank them for the report, which raises many issues. We do not have all the answers but they are certainly very frank in setting out their issues. The witnesses identified areas and said they were in no order of priority so I presume they are all equal in priority and should be included and strengthened in the final document. They set them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I appreciate that. We have only a few minutes left.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I will stay for the next round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I am conscious that I asked a lot of questions. Is Dublin Fire Brigade confident it has the necessary resources, personnel and supports in place to deal with fire safety and protect life and property within its jurisdiction? Clearly, fire safety and the protection of life and property are both important. Most people do not draw a distinction between them. I would like that teased out. A...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: It is not the Department. Mr. Keeley deals with the Dublin city chief executive and the other chief executives. What if he does not feel he has the necessary support or funding? He has to make a professional judgment. He is trained and charged with this responsibility of protecting life and property. Where is his next line?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I am sure he is tuning in, and I hope he is tuning in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Is Mr. Keeley telling he is happy, in as far as he can be, in terms of the infrastructure and plant? They are up to speed and he is reasonably satisfied that Dublin Fire Brigade has the resources, plant, mechanisms and machinery to carry out a professional firefighting service for Dublin city and county.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I understand it is more than just the expansion of the physical fire stations as such. Recently, I looked at a schedule produced as part of a press release by the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, with priorities A1, B1, C1 and so forth. Some of the local authorities and stations seemed to be falling back. I do not wish to name any specific one, as that is not necessarily appropriate and I...