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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Agreements (29 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I welcome the recent energy security report and the findings that a non-commercial LNG terminal, and not a commercial one, will be the way to go. I have stated that in this House previously. The Minister of State mentioned that the memorandum of understanding is an EU memorandum of understanding and not an Irish one. We all know that because we are a member state, EU policy dictates the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...giving us a brief overview of his next column in The Irish Times. I raise first the electricity security review. I welcome that the Government is supporting a non-commercial liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminal as opposed to a commercial one. That is very welcome for our carbon emissions targets. My main focus and the area I would like to address is the revelation shared by the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Sep 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...in the planning system too. We need to have the legal timeframes recognised and complied with. Finally, while I am talking about An Bord Pleanála and the delays, I want to welcome its rejection of the Shannon LNG terminal. It was a great decision and one that recognises that we cannot lock ourselves into a fossil fuel future.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...capacity licence to provide emergency power generation by 2025 was granted recently. The successful applicant for that capacity generation is the same company that is behind the liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminal in Shannon. This is a terminal that we do not need and will lock us into a carbon-rich future. The Commission for the Regulation of Utilities, CRU, which is the energy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Liquefied Natural Gas and Oil Prospecting: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...I am particularly glad that he engaged on that point around the generation capacity problem that we have. There has been a lot of muddying of the waters in the media and so on about the need for LNG to prevent blackouts. Professor McMullin has made it very clear today that it is about the generation of electricity that leads to those short-term blackouts. To pick up on the point on...

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (17 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...comments frequently on energy security on this island and often takes a position that is pro-fossil fuel and the continuation of fossil fuel, particularly in the context of the liquified natural gas, LNG, terminal, yet one cannot get an answer when one asks who is funding it, from where is its money coming and whether it is coming from industry. Although I only have an interest in energy...

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (17 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...report on the code of conduct from fossil fuel lobbying. We have seen quite recently in these Houses that the audiovisual room was used by a fossil fuel lobby organisation to promote the use of an LNG terminal. It spread misinformation at that meeting as well. It tried to blame climate change on population growth instead of the use of fossil fuels and stated that our focus should be on...

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (17 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...I have asked the academy who is funding its subscriptions. If it gave me that information, I would not be worried about where its agenda is coming from, but it will not. On a commercially owned LNG terminal, I am trying to have a code of conduct for fossil fuel lobbyists because, again, they have spread misinformation. We do not have an issue around energy security in this country. In...

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...2022, 11 months later, she was lobbying with Murray Consultants on behalf of Europa Oil and Gas. This is all detailed on her LinkedIn account. From the lobbying register we can also see multiple requests from Mag Mell Energy, which is a developer of liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminals, seeking meetings with senior politicians. We have also seen them present in the audiovisual room in...

Seanad: Wind Energy: Statements (25 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...significant potential to realise full energy independence. It is welcome that everybody who has contributed to the debate has not used it as an excuse, which we have seen in the past, to lobby for LNG terminals or other nonsensical arguments. We have the potential for 100% renewables in this country. To achieve that energy independence and energy security should be the focus of...

Seanad: Energy: Motion (14 Sep 2022)

Lynn Boylan: While I am going to speak mostly about the issue of the cost of electricity, it is important to address some of the points that were raised today, particularly around liquified natural gas, LNG. There is a lot of misinformation out there and a lot of people are exploiting the current situation to try to argue the case for an LNG terminal in Shannon. What they are not saying is that LNG will...

Seanad: EirGrid, Electricity and Turf (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Jul 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...Development (Amendment) Bill 2022. I must register my concern that this is not the way in which we should be passing legislation. I listened with interest to Senator Buttimer talk about the need for a LNG terminal.We have to be honest about why we are passing this legislation. It is an emergency measure. No one wants the lights to go off in the winter. However, the main aim of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the EU Commissioner for Energy (2 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...the modernisation process. It is my understanding that the EU is hoping the UN is going to deal with that. If, however, we are now in a situation where we are talking about new liquified natural gas, LNG terminals, whether they are in Ireland or in other EU member states, we are locking in those provisions under the Energy Charter Treaty for all of those new LNG terminals by not...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: International Agreements (1 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...next month, it will not address the biggest issue with this treaty. Ireland is looking at introducing seven temporary gas-fired power plants and there is potentially planning permission in for an LNG terminal in Shannon. They will all be protected by ISDS for years. These are huge projects and they are not temporary. If a future Government decides that it wants to phase out those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Engagement with the Climate Change Advisory Council (7 Dec 2021)

Lynn Boylan: I will not keep her long. I will pick up on the point about LNG. There seems to be a suggestion that LNG terminals actually increase security, which is not the case because those boats are sailing around and can go where they want. Surely the point is to reduce demand and the need for the gas in the first place. We keep having the circular argument that brings us back to the point that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets and Climate Action Plan: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (16 Nov 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...Will we now move to join France and Spain in leaving the Energy Charter Treaty? With our commitment to the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, will we follow through with the implementation of a full LNG ban?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Nov 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...to come out of the COP26 talks. Its demands are simple: green jobs; a just transition; free, green and frequent public transport; a moratorium on data centres; a ban on liquefied natural gas, LNG; and sustainable agriculture and fisheries communities. I am sure everybody would agree with all of those demands. I look forward to seeing Members on Saturday.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament (2 Nov 2021)

Lynn Boylan: .... If we had proper scrutiny in advance of legislation and directives, it would remove that from the conversation. We are certainly seeing that now in the case of the ban on liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminals. The Attorney General says we cannot ban them because of EU law, when I have it in writing from the EU that they absolutely can be banned and that it is entirely up to a member...

Seanad: Energy Security: Statements (2 Nov 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...we have a huge problem with the pollution that comes with it. It is a distraction from the very ambitious goals we have around renewable energy targets. We should focus on them. Nor is building LNG terminals the answer, as they would lock us into importing fossil fuels for decades. They are infrastructural projects with a 30-year lifespan whereas we only have a short-term energy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...security question, which is what we were also asked to look at today, my fear is that if we continue to allow the data centres to expand without having the moratorium, it will make the argument for building LNG terminals - in respect of which there are two planning applications at present - stronger because we have this energy demand coming from the data centres and, as a result, we need...