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Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I will brief, as Senator Higgins has covered many of the points I was going to make. The Minister of State has made the case as to why this amendment is essential. Nobody would want to take the Government to court. We would rather the Government do what it signed up to do in legislation but, unfortunately, the reality is that citizens have had to hold Governments to account. The Minister...

Seanad: National Maternity Hospital: Statements (2 Jul 2021)

Lynn Boylan: Sometimes it can feel like Groundhog Day in Ireland because every time we take a leap forward and become a more open and progressive society for our people, and especially our women, we seem to get dragged back to an Ireland of the past. That is what it feels like to stand here and have to make the case for why the national maternity hospital must be publicly owned and, more important,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I raise the latest daft.ieand myhome.iehouse price reports released today because they made for very depressing reading. House prices have increased by 13% in the past year with people now paying an average €34,000 more for a home than last year. In Dublin, average prices now range from between €350,000 and €600,000. Of course, Covid has had some impact on supply but...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Worker Co-Operatives and Right To Buy Bill 2021: First Stage (28 Jun 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I second the motion.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (25 Jun 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I commend the USI and the Opposition in the Dáil for the improvements that they have made to this Bill. We in Sinn Féin support the Bill but it is disappointing that the Minister has not taken this opportunity to help renters even more. The problem with the protections that he is extending, through this legislation, is that many vulnerable tenants, including those affected by...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jun 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I wish to remind people that this is Pride month and we should never forget that the first Pride was not a parade but a protest. While Pride is for many rightly a month to celebrate, and businesses have increasingly joined in the celebration of LGBTQI rights, the fight for full equality and justice continues. In some federal states in the US and in EU countries we have seen a rise in...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (21 Jun 2021)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. Everyone would admit that this is incredibly important legislation and is probably one of the most important Bills we will pass this year. It is long overdue and successive governments have been rightfully referred to as laggards. I take exception to Senator McDowell's point that Ireland's actions would be minuscule. He did not acknowledge that Ireland's...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I raise the delay in implementing a national autism empowerment strategy. The issues affecting autistic children and adults are long-standing. Families, children and adults have had to battle for years for basic rights and entitlements. On World Autism Day 2019, my colleague in the Dáil, Deputy Funchion, secured unanimous support for her motion calling for a national autism strategy....

Seanad: Right to Housing: Motion (4 Jun 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the right to housing because Sinn Féin has long supported such a referendum. A referendum has been discussed by committees for years and now a motion is being discussed in the Seanad. I respectfully suggest it would be a better service if we could see the legislation promised in the programme for Government to deliver a referendum on the right to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jun 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I raise the Government's announcement that the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, will be reduced by €50 from September. The principle behind the creation of the PUP was sound. As long as the Government imposed barriers in the form of public health restrictions preventing people from working, then there would be supports for people to get by. However, many people will be anxious...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Sale and Supply of Pets and Animal Welfare: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the committee for accepting my request for this session, particularly in light of the fact that we are more than a year into the online sale of pets. It is a good time to take stock of the position in this regard. I welcome Mr. Brennan and Ms Bristow. They have done a great deal of work on the online sale and supply of pets and where matters could be improved. The Dogs Trust's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Sale and Supply of Pets and Animal Welfare: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I will ask one supplementary question on that. Again, for the record, if we want this to work properly, before the sale goes live this information should be verified by the platform. When the advertisement goes up, the public should know the information has been verified.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Sale and Supply of Pets and Animal Welfare: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I want to pick up on the points in Ms Bristow's submission about how dogs, as companion animals, are in a sort of no man's land, in that they are not treated as livestock but there is no VAT on them and this leads to a lack of invoicing from those DBEs on the bigger scale. When I went looking on some of the platforms, I saw one particular seller had €60,000 worth of dogs for sale in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Sale and Supply of Pets and Animal Welfare: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I am more au faitwith the position regarding dogs than horses. I must take issue with one of the comments made. There was a warning about linking the dog licence and the microchip in terms of proof of ownership and increasing cost. A dog licence costs €20. The current online system has the space for the microchip. It is the law that the person selling the dog must microchip it....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Sale and Supply of Pets and Animal Welfare: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Lynn Boylan: Is the issue similar to what we hear about the dogs, that the ads need to be verified.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Sale and Supply of Pets and Animal Welfare: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Lynn Boylan: DNA is something that is in the mix but taking that out of it, is the issue not that where someone is able to put an advert online, whether it relates to a horse or a dog, we want the online platforms to be able to verify that the information is correct in advance of the advert going live. My experience with the dogs is that you report an ad and that it takes a couple of hours because it has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Sale and Supply of Pets and Animal Welfare: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Lynn Boylan: Exactly.

Seanad: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (31 May 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I welcome the Minister. I echo what others have said about thanking those who have been vaccinating and running the vaccination centres. I drove someone to Citywest to get a vaccination. There is definitely a lovely atmosphere there and it is well organised. We are lucky that we have low vaccine hesitancy rates and that most people one talks to are chomping at the bit to get the call to...

Seanad: Civil Legal Aid (Exclusion of Value of Free or Partly Free Board) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (31 May 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I thank my colleague for saving the day. I think everybody in this country would agree that the civil legal aid system is in drastic need of reform. It is not just the issue we are discussing today. It is under resourced and restrictive. There are delays of up to 42 days, according to the Free Legal Advice Centres, FLAC. Access to justice is a fundamental human right and is recognised as...