Results 1-16 of 16 for cork speaker:Lynn Boylan

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Aviation Industry (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: ...Swift was in the headlines for taking a 13-minute flight in America. However, there were several similarly unjustifiable flights like that in Ireland in 2022. There were 11 between Kerry and Cork, at just over 79 km. A train takes just an 80 minutes to complete that journey. There were 14 flights between Dublin and Belfast in 2020, a distance of 137 km. A train can cover that ground...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Dec 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...is certainly not the level at which we want other EU countries to come up to and we want to set a much higher bar when it comes to breeding establishments. Last week, there was an incident in Cork where dogs were found soaked in urine and their fur was so matted they could not defecate properly. The case involved a breeding establishment that had been given a licence by Cork County...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare (Dogs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (5 Oct 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...in August 2022; 34 dogs were seized by a smuggler in July 2023; ten dogs were seized in Thurles in August 2023; 140 dogs were seized in north County Dublin in April 2021; a number of dogs were seized in Cork in March 2023; 19 dogs were seized in County Limerick in January 2023; a number of dogs and pups were seized in Clonmel in August 2023; and six dogs were seized in County Sligo in...

Seanad: Government Commitments on Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion (31 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...has the infrastructure that is needed and it is in Belfast. Without more offshore-ready ports, we will either completely miss our climate targets or the wind farms will be built elsewhere. We could be growing jobs in Wexford, Cork, Limerick and elsewhere, but instead, those jobs could go to Britain or mainland Europe. It is important we address that and get our ports up to capacity....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, announced last Friday that he would not grant a lease undertaking for the oil and gas prospecting due to happen off the Cork coast. This is, of course, the right decision. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, has said we can have no new oil or gas fields and that no more exploration should be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I get that 100%. How much scrutiny was given to the threat that this would end the oil refinery in Cork? Was it verified or backed up, other than what we heard from the oil refinery? I am not accusing the Department of lobbying or capture, but such organisations definitely had an influence on the design of the scheme. The oil refinery said it would shut down if we go the way we are going...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...as a Commencement matter and I will appeal the decision taken because I think the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine has a role in this case. It is in the Cathaoirleach's own county. Cork County Council issued a closure order on a puppy farm in Doneraile over the Christmas month, having sent improvement notices and flagged a number of different issues with the millionaire...

Seanad: Poverty and Social Exclusion: Motion (19 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...cost-of-living crisis, which has become acute in recent months, 42% of households now say they had difficulty in making ends meet in 2021. Anybody who was listening to RTÉ radio today and who heard the woman who runs the Cork Penny Dinners centre could not help but be both horrified and moved by the compassion of that organisation and the service it is providing.The 200 people...

Seanad: Passport Office: Motion (5 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...However, when the process goes wrong it is a very different story and one needs to be able to attend at an office to get things sorted. Currently people from the North, as well as from Donegal or Sligo, have to travel to Cork or Dublin to get issues resolved. I am not the only one whose soundtrack to this summer was the waiting music of the Passport Office. A lot of us in this Chamber...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...but then mentioned 18 TWh. What is a sustainable percentage for AD to be fulfilling if we are to meet all those other targets we want? The other concern relates to the silage. University College Cork, UCC, said that the fodder shortage we saw in 2018 is twice as likely to happen now because of climate change. If we have a crop failure for silage and we are short of fodder to feed the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010 and the Control of Dogs Act 1986: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...or the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and if there were an electronic register with all the relevant information. Regardless of whether there is a dog breeding establishment in Cork, Kerry or Dublin, the same data would be collected. Those same data would be available to members of the public so they could make informed decisions when purchasing pups. They would know...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Wildlife Protection (24 Feb 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...the Minister of State is aware of the existence of two separate reports outlining where the OPW has clearly breached wildlife protection laws, in both Emo Court, County Laois and Barryscourt Castle, County Cork, by disturbing bat roosts without the proper derogation licence. Before I get into the details of the Emo Court case in particular, which is a case I have been working on for a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...laws. In the past week, we have had two separate reports outlining where the Office of Public Works, OPW, has breached animal welfare laws, one in Emo Court and the second in Barryscourt Castle, Cork, by disturbing bat roosts without the proper licence. Work in Barryscourt began in 2016 but a bat specialist was not called into the 600-year-old castle until 2020. I am more familiar with...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...of Ireland, the Northside Family Resource Centre, Offaly ARC, Rape Crisis Mid West, Rape Crisis Network of Ireland, Rebels for Choice, Safe Ireland, Sligo Asking for Angela, Tipperary for Choice and West Cork Rebels for Choice. It also enjoys the support of elected representatives in both Houses and from across the political spectrum. I would like to commend my colleague Senator Gavan,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Impact of the Comprehensive Trade and Economic Agreement on Irish-Canadian Trade and Relations: Discussion (13 Apr 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...Mr. Collenette in particular. I had a look at the membership of the ICBA advisory council. In the interests of transparency, we know Irving Oil, a Canadian oil and gas company, has a refinery in Cork. Vermilion Energy is now the main shareholder of the Corrib gas field operation, with almost €700 million worth of assets in that field. Vermilion is also the company that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Nov 2020)

Lynn Boylan: ...in emergency accommodation have been reported in Dublin alone, and we are yet to reach the rough winter months. Increases in deaths among people known to homeless services have been reported in Cork and Galway as well. In January, the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, DRHE, stated that there had been 34 such deaths in 2019. On "Morning Ireland" yesterday, the DRHE revised that figure...