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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: ...-off housing or small clusters of housing. We do not need everyone to live in larger towns or villages. We need to support rural communities.We need to support families who have access to or own land on family farms that is suitable, as I have already mentioned, for housing. I am a member of the Oireachtas committee on agricultural as well as the Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local...

Seanad: Flooding on Lough Funshinagh: Statements (30 Apr 2024)

Victor Boyhan: ...tuned in to our proceedings today, for their hospitality and their tea and coffee and their chats. I also thank my colleague, Independent Councillor Laurence Fallon, who is their neighbour and has land of his own surrounded by water. Most important, I felt the resilience of the people and their determination. They are up for a fight if a fight is necessary, but I hope one will not be. ...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Apr 2024)

Victor Boyhan: .... It will be a guide and great help to the Leader and other candidates. I take this opportunity to wish the Leader and Deputy Leader well in the European elections. This is the bible for rural Ireland and what farmers and rural communities are looking for. It addresses: CAP; overregulation; the issue and challenges around the simplification of agricultural policy; the nitrates...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Victor Boyhan: ...Féin Senators for tabling this timely motion. It is right this issue should be debated, in a respectful way. It highlights many issues. Many of us will remember a document called Rebuilding Ireland. That promised that within six or eight months we would have no homeless people. Nobody would be living in a hotel or sleeping in a hotel. None of that happened. There was no...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Victor Boyhan: ..., that the people of my generation - I am 33 years of age - are leaving this country because of the housing crisis and moving to Australia because housing is so good there and Australia is a promised land.

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (21 Feb 2024)

Victor Boyhan: ...is not going to be easy. There will be many setbacks and challenges but I do believe it is about innovation. My colleagues on the right-hand side of me are fiercely committed to regeneration, the Land Development Agency, and new houses, whether public, private or affordable. We do not get hung up on ideology. We want to see more homes, schools, investment, jobs and greater...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Victor Boyhan: ...by members of the Local Authority before it is submitted to the Department". We are just asking for a report, not for the mayor to do a solo run. I am also conscious of issues around the Land Development Agency. We will come to that later so I will not dwell on it too much now other than to again say that local authorities have to offer any lands available to the Land Development...

Seanad: Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Victor Boyhan: ...the man. It is strange when we look back on the life of John Bruton but he was the Minister for agriculture that we never had. He never served as Minister for agriculture. He had a love of the land, the soil and animals. His father was hugely involved as a land agent. That was not a nice place to be, and to be in a family and reared around people who acted as land agents, particularly...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Agriculture Schemes (12 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ..., as is every representative body in the area of agriculture. They are listened to and receive an audience here. People are committed to agriculture. It is a very important industry in Ireland. The crux of the matter relates to the agri-climate rural environment scheme, ACRES, the Government's flagship environmental scheme, with which the Minister of State will be very familiar.Its...

Seanad: Local Government Matters and City and County Councillors: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...in it and I like it. What greater honour than to be elected by a community that accepts you and you are part of? Circumstances bring us to different places and different communities. I had the pleasure of landing in Dún Laoghaire at a few days old - my origins are from Kildare – and I took to that place. I love it. It is my home town and I represent it. As I said, I would...

Seanad: Restoration of Oireachtas Library and Reading Room: Motion (28 Nov 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...is put back in that room, we are guaranteed the services we are used to and we can get on with doing the work we are elected to do, which is to defend democracy and bring new laws into this land but on the basis that we are well informed and have the background information necessary to do the work.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...on the problem we have. The Government needs to respond to the challenges and difficulties experienced by those seeking to build rural housing projects and one-off housing in the countryside.Ireland's rural housing policy planning guidelines are from 2005 and we are still expected to be working to them. They are no longer fit for purpose. The restrictive policies for rural housing are a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and various stakeholders in this sector. One of the issues that has been continuously raised, and which was raised again in the context of Scotland, Wales and Ireland, since those three jurisdictions were very much central to this debate, is the frustration at the inability of individual farm or land owners, or generations of their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine's Response to Ash Dieback: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners (25 Oct 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...these were only potential breaches. The whole area was unregulated. Mr. White went into private forestry, as did many other people, in good faith and in the hope that he would have a sustainable land use enterprise. I am familiar with this business and I know too many people who have suffered and are broken in spirit following their attempt to start an enterprise. The LTWO...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine's Response to Ash Dieback: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners (25 Oct 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I want to push on. Everything went into planting ash. It was being planted for profit. Mr. White's business is an enterprise and a mechanism for active land use. Clearly, that has not happened so there are substantial losses to Mr. White. Does he get any comfort from the idea of compensation? What kind of redress or compensation might he be eligible for?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tax Code (17 Oct 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...him for agreeing to deal with this simple Commencement matter. I understand that, in his Budget Statement, the Minister for Finance agreed to extend the liability date of the residential zoned land, RZL, tax by one year to allow for the planned 2024 review of maps to take place and to afford the affected people a further opportunity to engage in the RZL tax process. Nowhere in his speech...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tax Code (17 Oct 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister of State for that comprehensive response. I acknowledge and accept that this is a key pillar of Government policy in respect of bringing more land into active use for residential housing. I refer now to my only request. The Taoiseach is on record as saying he is proposing some changes to this tax. The RZLT is a universal, one-size-fits-all tax that does not take into...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (28 Sep 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...Constitution. It is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is done as Gaeilge too. I appeal to the Taoiseach to arrange to have one of these issued to every home in Ireland. Every home should have one of these. I reference this very simple childlike book on the convention that was issued by the Government some years ago on a daily basis in here. It is one of my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ..., we know there are these issues of concern. Does Dr. Cotter accept the contamination is not all from agriculture? Clearly, we have the runoff from rainwater onto porous and not so porous land. Different conditions in different soils will impact on how porous it is and the runoff of water to that. Both have an impact in terms of penetration down or runoff across. Dr. Cotter will be...