Results 141-160 of 426 for long speaker:Victor Boyhan

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

Victor Boyhan: ...carried a certain shame and guilt. I remember my mother when she was very elderly - I had a great relationship with my parents in the end and I am the youngest of seven - asking me a question not long before she died when she was sick in Tallaght hospital. She asked me if I had ever got the information I was looking for. I looked at the woman and thought, "You don't need to know that....

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

Victor Boyhan: ...is a very substantial amount of information but we know also there is a very substantial amount of this information in the hands of institutions that are still operating, albeit historically a long time, are in receipt of State funds and are still very much part of the care system and the health system. I thank the Minister for clarifying that. He might just reiterate that point. It is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Waste Management (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...shredding it. The Minister of State knows enough about the land to know that in certain circumstances it is not possible to get machinery in, particularly on damp or boggy land. There has been a long tradition of burning well dried-out vegetation that has been cleared by farmers, and this is a concern. This year, it came as a surprise to farmers that the statutory instrument was out of...

Seanad: Childcare Provision: Statements (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...the Minister about it; he knows it already, as do all present. There is no doubt that there are issues in respect of childcare. It is in crisis. The Government has identified it as a key issue. Along with housing and health, childcare and education are key issues on which the Government will be judged. I acknowledge the enormous amount of work the Minister has done in this area but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service Report: Discussion (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: We know that some audit committees delay their meetings, and this prolongs and delays the process. Some of these audit reports are pretty powerful and they are pretty damning. I am not suggesting anything but at some point they have to surface and be dealt with. I do not know if Ms Larkin has any comment on this, but I would like to see some sort of guidelines in relation to a designated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...permanent development. We have seen many badly-designed, hooked-up bits of wood, timber and awnings which are not very stable. This is grand in an emergency but it is not how we should have it in the long term. I am mindful that if we let things slip, before long seven years will pass and we will have these makeshift structures around the place. I am very conscious of this in areas of...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...honourable in his dealings here. He has been fiercely committed and a wonderful advocate. However, he has had to learn himself. He has gone on this journey over the last two years and come a long way. I do not doubt his commitment to get this legislation right. On the face of things, and subject to a few possible amendments, I support this Bill because I believe that it is the right...

Seanad: Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (5 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...by Ms Róisín Lacey, senior counsel, and delivered to the Department on 25 August 2010 but remains unpublished. The report was commissioned by the then Minister for Transport, Deputy Noel Dempsey, a long time ago. The Lacey report made some very substantial recommendations, one of which was that there would be an investigation office, independent of the Department in every way....

Seanad: Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (5 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...will withdraw my amendment but I will keep a keen eye on this legislation. To be honest, I will stir things up if I do not see progress made in the next 12 months. We should not have to wait that long. This is an important issue. I want to send the very clear message to the coastal communities that I have raised this issue. I am never shy when it comes to public relations, advocating...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...structures. These structures could go higher or lower depending on engineering design. I think there is potential for a lot of work because the ground will not be moved, tilled or ploughed for a long time. There are environmental opportunities on the back of all that. Is it an area that Teagasc would look at?

Seanad: Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Apr 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...were deemed to be outside the remit of the Bill. I wish to touch on the issues with regard to having confidence in the Marine Casualty Investigation Board. My amendment refers to two years. That is a hell of a long time and I will be extremely disappointed if the Minister of State tells me today that she cannot facilitate an amendment that applies out to two years. That could possibly...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Apr 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I only have one issue to raise. It relates to the census. Well done to everyone involved in what is very important work. It will be a long time before it is all read, of course. I received a call from a lady in the west who is now a widow and lives on her own. She asked me what I thought she should write in the census time capsule. I told her to write whatever she wanted to. She spoke...

Seanad: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. This is important and timely legislation. It has been a long time coming. At the outset, I acknowledge the enormous work of a former colleague of the Minister of State, and former Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government, Maria Bailey. I am looking at her name on the report and the seven key...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed) (30 Mar 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...Council initiated nine authorised officer investigations in 2021 into matters requiring investigation in the public interest and three sets of District Court proceedings. What is happening? They are a long time going. What is the outcome of any of these? Are these all ongoing investigations? I want to hear what sanctions are in place. We hear about investigations but we do not always...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Authorities (22 Mar 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...money for essential infrastructure projects. We have to learn about best practice. There has to be alternative infrastructure financing that we can use in respect of strategies in developing long-term infrastructural development that communities and local government need. I wish to focus on three issues today. How can we look at the need for new funding sources to generate resources...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...and those of their families and to acknowledge the major investment they have put into the sector. Neither I nor anyone else here is in favour of continuing mink farming. That debate is long over. I am also conscious this matter was debated at length in the Dáil. I have taken the time to look at what Deputies said during that debate. I cannot pass judgment on what they decided to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Network (10 Mar 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...some of it and my understanding of it. The Dublin eastern bypass, or the Dublin Bay motorway, as it was called, was a proposal originally considered and drafted in 1971. That is a hell of a long time ago, over 40 years ago. The idea was that the bypass would complete the Dublin sea road across Dublin Bay and back through what we now know as Booterstown Marsh, up into the back of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...enough questions. There are some issues. I am concerned with the power the Department is investing in local authority officials, not in the councillors but in the officials. They have had this for a long time. I ask the officials to look specifically at the properties that are under the ownership of local authorities and to come back to us in three months with a detailed report. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...the local authority members. We must remember there will always be a healthy tension between the executive of a local authority and its elected members. That healthy tension is a good thing and long may it last. Those members are watchdogs and are holding the executive to account. That is a part of their remit and function. However, they are somehow left out of the picture in terms of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Victor Boyhan: To tag along with what Ms Graham just said, she put her finger on a nail there, in that it is not necessarily about the skill sets but it is about the enthusiasm. I can think of someone in my own area with great ideas. Sometimes we are top-heavy in local government. Our chief executives are dominant characters by their very nature in how they have come up to that position, as most of them...