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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State, Ms Byrne, Ms Fay and Ms Wisdom to the committee. I think the Minister of State will feel the sense of frustration in the committee. Clearly, three Ministers and three Departments are overlapping and while I understand the reason for that, they do not operate in a silo. They are in government and the Ministers and Ministers of State have cross functions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Victor Boyhan: It is commercially sensitive. Is the Department carrying out research by a State agency?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Victor Boyhan: It is commercially sensitive. Is the Minister of State unable to give any assurance on how all of that is going?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Will Ms Byrne comment on how this research is being monitored and engaged, qualitatively, in terms of research papers? As a committee, we could get out there and go to those research stations and see it first hand. We have to believe in it. We are advocates for agriculture and the agrifood sector. We are in a role as strong advocates and political advocates for agriculture and the food...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I am familiar with compliance PO requirements. Will Ms Byrne confirm where these trials are taking place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Victor Boyhan: What is the location?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Is the Department in a position to furnish the initial results? When will the Department be in a position to furnish the initial results of some of those trials?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Ms Byrne for her engagement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Victor Boyhan: My final question is to the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, on how we can move on from here in a positive light. I understand where she is coming from. In many ways she has a unique role, in that she is ultimately responsible for the horticulture sector and she also has a lot of knowledge about it, based on her constituency. How can we improve and how can she assure committee members...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. We are dealing with Second Stage but all Stages of the Bill are being pushed through the House. While I am supportive of the Bill, this is not the way to do business. I accept these are unprecedented times and this is an emergency but I want the message to go back that it is not the way we should process legislation. I will support it but I...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: The Cathaoirleach can exercise his discretion.

Seanad: Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I fully understand the importance of this legislation but the point needs to be made, particularly from the Opposition side, that we live in a parliamentary democracy and how the legislation is being put through is not good practice. I recall that when the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, was a member of a previous Government, one of his constant...

Seanad: Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Now.

Seanad: Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I move amendment No. 6: In page 7, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “Energy Storage System 12.The Minister shall, within twelve months of the passing of this Act, produce a report detailing how Ireland shall adapt a grid-connected battery designed to increase grid stability under adverse weather conditions and energy shortages or outages similar to the Hornsdale...

Seanad: Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister of State for his response, which illustrates what I set out today about whether any of the amendments be taken on board. The Minister of State has been given a script to read, which I respect; I know how this all works. I welcome his comments regarding the need for a policy paper on battery storage. As a matter of fact, I thought his commentary, or that of the civil...

Seanad: Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I will.

Seanad: Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: When will it start?

Seanad: Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Will it be this side of Christmas?

Seanad: Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: We will not have enough time to get ready. I thank the Minister of State for that.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Quality (26 Oct 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I can tell the Leas-Chathaoirleach that I have broken it up phonetically for myself as tri-halo-methane. Trihalomethane is the issue before us today. This matter is the result of an engagement with the National Federation of Group Water Schemes, with which the Leas-Chathaoirleach will be very familiar, as we all are. I want to put on the record our thanks to that organisation for the...