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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Victor Boyhan: The next thing I want to talk about is the importance of timely reports. It is important that reports come in a timely manner. Mr. McCarthy will be familiar with how local government chief executives move on after seven to ten-year cycles. It is difficult to deal with reports when a lot of the relevant people are gone. On NOAC’s report, it is important that we have timely reports....

Seanad: Election of Cathaoirleach (16 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I do not think so.

Seanad: Election of Cathaoirleach (16 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I will and I need some grass seed as well.

Seanad: Election of Cathaoirleach (16 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Senator Norris. I welcome all of our guests and acknowledge the Ministers who are present. I acknowledge the presence of Senator Buttimer's husband, family and friends. I want to acknowledge the great Fine Gael support that is here and acknowledge all of the Senators. I thank the father of the House who is in the Chair. It was a great honour for me when I was first nominated, in...

Seanad: Election of Cathaoirleach (16 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: He led this House. He elevated its status. He applied himself with energy and enthusiasm. In politics there is so much sniping at the edges so I want to say clearly here that he did a great job and whoever succeeds him will have a difficult act to follow. Again, I say to the father of the House, that it is great to see him in the Chair. Senator Norris is one of my greatest political...

Seanad: Election of Cathaoirleach (16 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: First, I welcome the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Ministers of Government, Senators and Deputies, and, of course, the bigger Oireachtas parliamentary family that is here in such numbers. I do not think I have ever seen as many people in the room. It has the sense of a carnival or a festival here today.Well done to Senator Buttimer. We have heard some...

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (16 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: He saw talent.

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (16 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (16 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I will be brief. I am conscious of time. I support the motion and our previous Cathaoirleach, Senator Mark Daly. If he is looking forward to a rest, I am certainly looking forward to a rest. I was looking at my diary this morning. I think I have been on every sub-committee he organised since he came to the House.

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (16 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I do not think I have missed any of them either. I am really looking forward to the break. I will be leaving today and will not be back until 17 January. It has always been a pleasure to work with Senator Mark Daly. He is full of enthusiasm. They were not always easy times because there were challenges. When one pushes out the parameters, there will always be challenges and resistance....

Seanad: Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I note the Cathoirleach's ruling about the two minutes. I will take that time. I cannot thank the Minister of State enough. He has been a real champion of councillors. I do not just say that here today. That is the case on a whole range of fronts. It is important that is acknowledged. He was a councillor himself and therefore he has come up through the system. I genuinely thank him...

Seanad: Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Fine Gael did not elect one woman to the Seanad. That was a disappointment but, how and ever, the Taoiseach nominates 11 and the party nominates ten. I genuinely acknowledge the very substantial contribution by all of the ten women in the Seanad. That is fantastic. I like competition; it is good for politics. Hopefully, we will bring people up through local government and they will then...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Leader for organising a moment of silence for Private Seán Rooney, which is important. I have family in Lebanon and I have been there on many occasions. I value and understand the work that is carried out there, as do many of the people in Lebanon. There are huge Irish connections there because of our relationship with Lebanon's UN peacekeeping force, so this is important....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I think I might go for my lunch.

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State and Mr. Terry Sheridan from the Department to the House. The amendments are clustered and I shall touch on a number of recurring issues. I am a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage and Senator Fitzpatrick is another member who is present. We did our very best and worked exceptionally hard on a cross-party basis....

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: It is very dangerous.

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I echo some of the concerns of the two previous speakers. Do I need a lesson in short notice for meetings, and virtual ones at that? That is a question for another day. I sit on three audit committees, one of which is the Oireachtas audit committee. It deals with audits relating to Oireachtas Members, their pay, security and a whole range of other issues but I am sure Members would be...

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I second the amendment.