Results 1-7 of 7 for drugs speaker:Lynn Boylan

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Boylan: ...at the news coming out of Brussels with regard to the negotiations that the Government is siding with countries that want to reduce the regulation to allow non-vets to administer the euthanasia drug pentobarbital. This is concerning. We are a small country and we cannot use the excuse of remote facilities. It is also concerning given our history. We have seen this drug abused in the...

Seanad: Crime and Policing: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...gardaí for front line duties. The community safety wardens scheme should have established effective grassroots communication with State and community services, including youth workers. We know Dublin's inner city has been without a local drug and alcohol task force for over a year. That is not good enough. We also need to focus on diversionary processes. When it comes to crime...

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

Lynn Boylan: ...and getting it right all along the food chain, the traceability, and the administration of medicines to livestock is so important. They would point to the fact that farmers were able to administer drugs to entire herds in their country. They would point to the fact that the use of chlorination was a way of overcoming the farm to fork strategy. It did not matter how the poultry was...

Seanad: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Motion (30 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: .... As to the claims that 10% of the funding goes toward animal welfare and integrity, the 10% needs to be ring-fenced completely for animal welfare, because I think we are conflating different issues. When one looks at integrity, it also deals with the issue of the drugging of dogs. If the drugging of dogs is considered an animal welfare issue, why are dogs that are found to have cocaine...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Dec 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...Stage. In the Six Counties, my colleague and Sinn Féin MLA, Ms Karen Mullan, introduced free period products to all schools, yet here in the South, schools, food banks, homeless shelters, drug projects and community centres all still rely on Homeless Period Ireland to ensure everybody who has their period can have it with dignity. Universal access to period products is a women's...

Seanad: EU Regulations: Motion (20 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...;ilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Criminals, as the people of this State and the North know only too well, are becoming increasingly sophisticated as they ply their dangerous trade, whether it is peddling drugs on the streets or killing each other and many innocent people over personal and territorial disputes.Even last night we saw with the BBC "Spotlight" programme that they are now...

Seanad: Future of Gambling Regulation: Statements (23 Apr 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...neighbour the number of people aged 11 to 16 with gambling problems has quadrupled in the last few years. Gambling rates there are higher in young people than they are for alcohol, smoking or drugs. Recent data for Ireland shows that problem gambling among male teens has more than doubled in four to five years. In 2017, I held a conference called "We Need to Talk About Gambling". At...