Results 1-20 of 25 for destroyed speaker:Victor Boyhan

Seanad: Special Measures in the Public Interest (Derrybrien Wind Farm) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Victor Boyhan: ...clearly stated its objective to promote wind energy and associated infrastructure and investment, and to protect that infrastructure and investment. Our Bill seeks to do exactly that. Let us not destroy the capability to provide green energy - a Green Minister of State advocating green energy. I have so far not seen any Green Senators in this House for this important debate. Let us not...

Seanad: Ban on Dumping New Products Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...issue. Clearly, there is a massive global overproduction of many consumer goods, such as cloths, but also clothing, textile products, etc. Every year, millions of unsustainable unsold products are destroyed. They are not passed on. They are not given to anyone, and that is a deliberate policy. The Minister of State understands that policy well, as everyone in this House does. One...

Seanad: Ban on Dumping New Products Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ..., ink cartridges, textiles, books and furniture and a €3,000 fine for breaches. Those are very simple asks. There is nothing complicated about that. There is a lot of focus on the practice of destroying used products, especially in the fashion industry. It has been the norm to maintain brand value. There are issues around why producers dump products to keep prices up, which is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Programme (21 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...of where wills are held. They are clearly confidential documents. Much of the litigation and dispute is around succession and the right to ascertain a will or to find out that wills have been destroyed because they did not favour one person over another. The area is contentious and there is a need for a register. I acknowledge the enormous work done by former Senator Leyden. He drove...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...on the door and seek them". We talked about the trauma and the forced separation. We talked about the denial of family records. The Minister talks about getting records and I salute him but many have been destroyed or burnt. Many a lie has been hidden for generations and generations. Let us consider the injustice of it, the injustice of detention and the failure of ongoing engagement....

Seanad: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ..., the most recent survey on the destruction of archaeological sites carried out by the Heritage Council in 2001, which surveyed 1.4% of all known monuments in the State, found that 34% of ringforts had been destroyed since the first record of the ordnance surveys beginning in the 1820s. The rate of destruction increased over decades, reaching 6.5% in the late 1990s. We need to ensure...

Seanad: Citizens Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (23 Feb 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...They were not responses of the "not in my back yard" variety. I would not tolerate that or advocate for it. These are people who recognise and have seen first-hand the scourge of drugs that has destroyed communities and families. Indeed, the problem has come right into many of our family homes. There is no family home that has not been touched by some form of drug abuse and the...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Victor Boyhan: .... There is a suggestion that there is information somewhere for everybody who was in institutional care. There is not. There are many reasons the information is not there. In some cases it was destroyed. Places moved on and people got rid of the stuff. There was all sorts of motivation, good bad and indifferent. That is the critical thing. It is about the truth and it is about...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...expectations in a responsible manner. We know that for many years there has simply been no information. That is not to say there was not information originally. Much of the information has been destroyed. Many of the people involved in these illegal acts are in the wrong or the people responsible for them, their sponsors and supporters have run away from the things that were done. The...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...residential quarters. They protected themselves, in many ways. There were constant changes in staff and trustees, who were good and well-meaning people, but many of them thought it was easier to destroy documents. People told me over the years it was a terrible situation for that particular man or woman, whatever the circumstances were, and it was better to throw the information in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...some extent and concern about public health and all the issues around all of that. Of course, we are aware of the toxicity in terms of the seed and the flower and the restrictions, and how do we destroy the flowers of hemp. I refer to the role of the Garda Síochána in terms of licensing and permits. Of course, there is an element of all that seeping out, and there are...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...devastated because of what is going to happen to their income, the people they trained up and their stock. Their valuable stock cannot be sold outside the State. Under this legislation, that stock must be destroyed humanely, and rightly and properly so. They cannot get any value from these well-bred and well-stocked animals that are very successful. Those who know a little about mink...

Seanad: Uyghur Tribunal: Motion (9 Feb 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...shocking. Hundreds of thousands of Uyghur children have been taken from their families and placed in Han-run boarding schools. Burial grounds have been bulldozed or built over, mosques have been destroyed and religious practice has been banned. That is what this tribunal has uncovered - human suffering and breaches of international human rights law. As elected politicians, people place...

Seanad: Registration of Wills Bill 2021: Second Stage (6 Oct 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...to find a will. I heard a terrible story of two women. One sister had minded her mother for 40 years and the other sister came home six weeks before the mother's death, admitting afterwards that she removed and destroyed the only will they had in the dining room. That case went to litigation at great cost to both of the women. The two sisters fell out and the courts forced the sale of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Animal Health and Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (15 Jul 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...monoxide, chloroform and carbon dioxide. They are options I do not necessarily support but they are set out in these regulations. Two of the people told us today that they are using carbon monoxide to destroy these animals. What is clear in these regulations or in whatever the Minister and his officials intend to do is that we need to have veterinary and animal welfare people oversee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...register to the Clerk of the Dáil. I contacted the people dealing with this yesterday. The marked registers are then kept here. The Clerk is specifically given guidelines to the effect that he must destroy those registers within six months. He must get a certificate confirming that they are both manually destroyed and that they are removed from our IT systems. I checked all of...

Seanad: Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Statements (19 Jan 2021)

Victor Boyhan: .... It did not investigate the number of institutions I lived in, which were owned by the same group. It was limited in its accessing of information. That was partly because much of it was destroyed, although not all deliberately. Things move on and there are new personnel, new changes and people responsible so it was limited in that respect also. Many of its personal testimonies were...

Seanad: Reopening Ireland (Department of Health): Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Victor Boyhan: ...at local or national levels, that none of us is immune to the facts and reality experienced by the many people who have been deeply hurt by the Covid pandemic. It has hurt and broken many people, destroyed many businesses and livelihoods and people are suffering. I am particularly conscious of the number of people who have suffered and are suffering with their personal and mental health....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2019)

Victor Boyhan: ..., his guardians had loved and cared for him but he had to pay all the taxes and was left with nothing. It was very unfair. The men told me they did not have a medical card. They had been broken and destroyed by a system. They wanted independent counselling they could trust - not just the assistance that was given to them - and they needed greater help and support. They asked for...

Seanad: Incorrect Birth Registrations: Statements (Resumed) (30 May 2018)

Victor Boyhan: ...been through many loops and survived many a battle. I am now playing some sort of role in the democracy of which we can be so proud. That is a personal achievement for me. Not everyone is totally destroyed by the process of institutional care. As I said earlier, it is important to say that many people have had good experiences. The Minister referred to balancing rights. I am not...