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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Victor Boyhan: I suggest that we take this pillar by pillar. To follow on what Deputy Cowen said, as we go through each pillar we should deal with, or attempt to deal with, the summary of the proposed legislative change. If we take pillar 1 through to pillar 5, it will give us a system or process to work through. On each pillar we can raise our concerns with the Minister and, where possible, the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Victor Boyhan: I want some guidance first from the Chairman. Is she allowing members to drift into pillars 2 and 3 and if so-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Victor Boyhan: I have a number of questions about pillars 2 and 3, so we can hold them for another day or-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Victor Boyhan: Are we just dealing with pillar 1?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Victor Boyhan: We agreed to deal with pillar 1 and we have been waiting to deal with pillar 2. Some members have been at liberty to talk about pillars two and three while others have been disadvantaged and have not been able to partake in this meeting at all. If we are sticking to pillar 1, let us have a ruling and let us deal with it and then move to pillar 2.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Victor Boyhan: Okay. I will hold my questions on pillar 2 until the next meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Victor Boyhan: No. I can do so on the next occasion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Ervia: Chairperson Designate (21 Sep 2016)

Victor Boyhan: I do not have any questions. I am familiar with the State companies and I have been a director with one for two terms, so I know the challenges, the complexities and the tensions that can arise between a board and delivering for shareholders. I do not know what the dividend is, and I am amazed and shocked at the number of State companies that do not deliver any dividend to the State....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)

Victor Boyhan: Mindful of what the Cathaoirleach said at the earlier session about keeping it very focused, I have a series of questions on pillar 2. Is it okay if I ask questions about pillar 2 first?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)

Victor Boyhan: On reference page 51 of the action plan for housing, action item No. 2.7 covers the land aggregation scheme in some detail. There is enormous potential for that. The Minister will know that his predecessors rejected a number of applications for the land aggregation scheme from local authorities. They were considered huge investments for local authorities and not sustainable in many cases,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)

Victor Boyhan: It is Senator Victor Boyhan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (21 Sep 2016)

Victor Boyhan: The Chairman is saying that a lot. We share the same constituency. I welcome the Minister and thank him for his comprehensive report. I will be brief. It is clear that the Minister is driving a multi-stranded action approach to housing and providing the appropriate funding in that context, which is to be welcomed. I would like to ask about the funding of local authorities, the matter...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services (6 Oct 2016)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister and thank him for coming to the House. I have not spoken to him about this issue in the Seanad, but the Minister of State has been here. The issue I am raising is the transfer of lands for the redevelopment of the national rehabilitation service facility on Rochestown Avenue in Dún Laoghaire, in respect of which there is huge expectation, as there have been...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services (6 Oct 2016)

Victor Boyhan: I am delighted to hear the Minister say he is going to visit the NRH. I really think it would be helpful. It would add impetus if he could visit in the next few months, although I know that he is a busy Minister. I have two issues. We know that the congregation that owns this property is a signatory to an indemnity scheme under the Residential Institutions Redress Board and has offered...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Victor Boyhan: I ask the Leader to make arrangements for a debate with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. I was elected to the Seanad on the Agriculture Panel. The horticultural and food sector is in crisis. Two major mushroom growers have closed in recent weeks. The programme for Government features only four sentences on horticulture. It includes a commitment to the Origin Green...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Victor Boyhan: I will go downstairs to my office in a few minutes and welcome it because it is extremely important. Senators, Deputies and local councillors should call on the Government to make this a major priority in the budget.

Seanad: Action Plan for Education: Statements (6 Oct 2016)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister to the House. I thank him for this positive report. The Minister has set out his five key goals. He has set out his objectives. He has set out timelines, a brave thing for any Minister to do. I was talking to the Minister with responsibility for housing, Deputy Simon Coveney, about the first quarter, the second quarter and the third quarter. I put it to him that...

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Victor Boyhan: The budget pie has been cut so thinly that no one is going to get fat on it. The Seanad does not have the power to introduce Money Bills. I am somewhat perplexed by the complexity of this. For the past few weeks we have been told about the Government’s engagement with Fianna Fáil to work through a budget. We heard earlier on "Morning Ireland" that there was ongoing...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments and Threatened Industrial Action by An Garda Síochána: Statements (12 Oct 2016)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister for Justice and Equality to the House. I want to make a number of comments on judicial appointments with reference to the programme for Government.I welcome the Minister's comments on the judicial council. There is no mention of the judicial council in the programme for Government, only three paragraphs about judicial appointments. Articles 34 and 37 of the 1937...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Discussion (12 Oct 2016)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the representatives of the Department and the IPI for their attendance. I had considered the IPI's correspondence and report to us in advance and am highly impressed with it. It is very important to ask what are the real issues. The report of the housing supply co-ordination task force for Dublin stated there was the potential for 46,000 homes on land zoned, with essential services...