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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Mr. Moloney. Finally, again, regarding the vision and the investment that he is talking about, that all has to be linked in to some sort of strategic plan. It would be very helpful for IFFPG, but it would certainly be very helpful for us as a committee to understand it, and get some sort of measure of confidence about the plan. I presume IFFPG has a strategy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Could Mr. Moloney share that with the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: It is really important that IFFPG puts out its best performance here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I would welcome an opportunity to look at that. Again, I want to thank Mr. Moloney and Ms Kiely from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for engaging. It has been helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Again, to the Department, is it aware of this illegal activity, and how does it monitor and deal with it?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Tomorrow an important piece of legislation will be put before the House, which is the redress scheme. I will not go into it now because it is for debate tomorrow. Many Members have received a lot of correspondence. The parties have received a lot of correspondence. There will be quite a few people listening in to this debate tomorrow externally and internally. When the Taoiseach came to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Chair, and I want to thank Ms Timmons, Mr. Ó Coigligh, Ms Stapleton and their team for being here today and for laying out what they have achieved and done. However, we still have a major issue; we have a housing crisis. We have a Government now past its mid-term in office. There is huge expectation, understandably and rightly, from people who cannot either afford or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Ms Stapleton might come back to me. I particularly want, as I said, the Dublin ones.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Ms Stapleton does not know the figure. Could she tell the committee today what are the direct social houses built by Fingal County Council in 2022?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: That is great. I will give Ms Stapleton plenty of time. I will move on, as I am conscious of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: The figure for social housing direct build by Fingal County Council in 2022.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Okay. Ms Stapleton might just provide the committee with the most up-to-date figures she has for all of the authorities. That would be very helpful with regard to our considerations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I will move on to some points on today's statement. The Department talks about a new vacant property refurbishment grant. It has already been launched but the Department intends to expand it to homes that can be rented to private tenants. Will the witnesses touch on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: The Department might keep the committee up to speed as these changes are rolled out and the plan progressed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: The statement refers to modern methods of construction in the context of major funding to relieve local authorities with indebted lands. I presume that touches on the historic land aggregation sites. Will the witnesses touch on what is in mind when talking about modern methods of construction? We have an historic land aggregation scheme. The local authorities offered some lands back, some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Would the Department be able to supply the committee with a memo in respect of those 12 sites and the associated targets? That would be very helpful. I appreciate that most of these sites are being repaid on an interest-only basis. The capital is never repaid. It represents great indebtedness for the local authorities. Clearly, we have to address the issue of bringing forward housing on...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Authorities (30 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State on this bright spring morning. It is great to see him back in the House. The matter I raise relates to the derelict site levy. As he will know, there are 31 local authorities, so there are varying performances in respect of its collection. It is more of a challenge for big urban areas and cities than it is for some rural areas, given land values,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Authorities (30 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister of State for the comprehensive response. It is a little weak but not on his part. I am glad we have had this dialogue because there are derelict sites and a housing crisis. There are motions every second week in the Dáil on the housing crisis. It points up a weakness that reports on derelict sites were done by the CCMA in 2021 and 2022, and it will soon issue an...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister. It is good news in what is a difficult portfolio. The Minister has had his external critics and his own critics within his party. That is always a difficulty for a Minister. He was resolute; he stood at the job. The Tánaiste, Deputy Micheál Martin, stood by him, and that was clear. I have observed in the past few years that the Minister is tenacious. He...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Illegal Dumping (29 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister of State. Of course, he is in a position of influence himself-----