Results 1-18 of 18 for epa speaker:Lynn Boylan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Role of Chairperson and Future Contributions of Inland Fisheries Ireland and the Board: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: On greater co-operation between different organisations and IFI, including the NPWS, EPA and local authorities, a few months ago, someone from the IFI was before the committee talking about how it is common sense that IFI inspectors work together with the NPWS. That would double the resources tackling wildlife crime. It made complete sense for that to be the direction of travel. In his new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP28: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...a good neighbour but around wealth taxes, and the importance of collecting the data on wealth taxes. I know that my own party certainly repeatedly has tried to have wealth taxes costed by the Department but it has refused to do it. The Department has stated it does not actually collect the data. It was the same with the private jet tax. We were told that the Department does not monitor...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...so we can inform policy-making to target these high-net-worth individuals and this overconsumption. We cannot do this unless we have the data. I have repeatedly called here for the need for the EPA and the CSO to collect the data so we can have the likes of wealth taxes, which Sinn Féin has repeatedly called for but the Government refuses to cost. I refer as well to taxes on...

Seanad: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...very issue. As some said, the other element of this legislation is the national fertiliser database. It is essential that we monitor the application of fertilisers. It was only late last week that the EPA produced a report that showed there has been no improvement in water quality. It has very clearly stated that it is agricultural practices that is causing the deterioration and the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...fruit. Current climate policies are not paying sufficient attention to who emits what, rich or poor. It is all based on the lowest cost approach. The recent report of the Environmental Protection Authority, EPA, exemplified that again. We need the EPA and the Central Statistics Office, CSO, to produce the data so that we can develop policy that will target the emissions of the wealthy...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, released a report today that found there has been no significant improvement in the biological quality of our rivers or lakes in 2022. Ireland relies heavily on its clean and green image, both for its food production and for its tourism industry. Increasingly, however, the reality is the very opposite and all of our biological and environmental...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Waste Management (23 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...the same connotations, and it is an activity we should encourage. One-off organisations such as the Ballymun Rediscovery Centre show we can give a new lease of life to furniture, clothes and bicycles. The EPA-licensed site report on waste enforcement cites scavenging permitted on site as one area of non-compliance with the licence. In an era when we are more urgently trying to make our...

Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (9 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...has changed? Perhaps it has to do with the subject of the recent Business Postarticle that stated data centres have been in touch with the Minister, Deputy Coveney, about how long it is taking to get EPA industrial emissions licences for their emergency backup generation. Are we freeing up the EPA so it can focus on these industrial emissions licences? There are many questions that...

Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...to override section 15 of the 2015 Act, which relates to relevant bodies. There is already a great deal of flexibility in section 15, in that a relevant body - in this case, the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA - need only have regard to the various plans and strategies and not be consistent with them. Professor John Sweeney described this get-out clause at the time as "weasel...

Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...day, however. Undoubtedly, it will be trotted out again, and by various think tanks as well, whose representatives are regularly on the airwaves. This amendment is trying to ensure that the EPA, which already has a weak enough reference to take account of the climate legislation, does so and that this obligation is not removed. The Minister of State said all the data centres now must...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Role of Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...penalising people and using the taxation model, whereby we make things cheaper or provide those extreme incentives that have been shown to be more productive. The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, research on turf cutting clearly stated that a ban without alternatives was going to be a disaster, and we are seeing that play out. Is the ESRI looking at evidence around the model the...

Seanad: Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...Bill has reflected those recommendations. Unfortunately, it states that only two of the recommendations were fully incorporated into the Bill. I request that, before Committee Stage of the Bill in the Seanad, the Department of the Minister of State furnish the Seanad with a memorandum outlining which recommendations from that pre-legislative scrutiny report it perceives as having been...

Seanad: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...24: In page 16, line 4, to delete “Agency” and substitute “Minister”. The amendment seeks to assign responsibility for the circular economy programme to the Minister as opposed to the EPA. This is an issue that arose during the pre-legislative scrutiny stage and may have been one of the recommendations. We feel that it is appropriate while understanding...

Seanad: Horticultural Peat (Temporary Measures) Bill 2021: Second Stage (30 Nov 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...year. The significance of the High Court ruling is that there must be a dual consent process in place, with planning permission granted under the Planning and Development Acts and licensing granted through the EPA. In October, the Minister of State, Deputy Burke, said that while he was not opposed to a single consent process, any such system must ensure full compliance with EU...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...I wanted to bring up in the first round was use of the phrase "from time to time." It seems a vague use of language, and open-ended, for holding a Minister to account or even, in one case, the EPA, which may evaluate its programme from time to time but at least every six years. I am wondering if there is scope to tighten that up. We are saying we do not want to put too much work on...

Seanad: Planning and Development, Heritage and Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 May 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...and Wildlife Service, NPWS. A review into this is under way but I add my voice to that of the Irish Wildlife Trust in calling for the service to be placed on a similar statutory footing to that of the EPA. For too long, the NPWS has been underfunded and its research ignored. This has impacted on morale within the organisation and has also negatively impacted on our biodiversity. One...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Implications of Climate Action Plan for Agricultural Sector: Teagasc (14 Apr 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ..., what does that mean for our reputation of having a pasture-fed beef and dairy herd? Another topic is not climate-related but relates to ammonia. I hear that the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, has recalculated its figures for ammonia upwards. I am not sure if those figures have been reported lately, but they are significantly higher than was estimated. Teagasc has mentioned a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2020)

Lynn Boylan: I want to tease out further the make up of the advisory committee. The importance of its independence has been mentioned and that there would be a preference that it would not be fitted in with the EPA but that it would be a standalone entity. Do either of the witnesses have an opinion on the membership and the ex officiomembers of the committee and what impact they would have on its...