Results 21-40 of 145 for long speaker:Lynn Boylan

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. Many of the speakers have said that the Bill has been a long time coming and that it is long overdue. I remember at the time of the EU's tobacco directive I and Sinn Féin were on the side of arguing for these vaping products to be included in the regulations at that stage because all of the anti-tobacco industry were warning that this was the tobacco...

Seanad: Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...are not favourable in the context of enticing renewable energy companies to invest here, we all know that the reasons do not relate to the price for the auctions; it is the fact that it takes too long to get projects through our planning system. We need An Bord Pleanála and the environmental NGOs that have to make submissions to the planning process to be resourced. We know that the...

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

Lynn Boylan: ...and electronic equipment like laptops, iPads, phones, Dyson hoovers, hair dryers and flatscreen TVs, are all going straight to landfill simply because they are last year's model or have spent too long on the shelf of a warehouse facility.Amazon is the largest offender of this practice. Its business model is designed that it becomes more costly to store the item for third-party sellers. I...

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

Lynn Boylan: ...knows how many items have been dumped in that time. As the Minister of State said, it is absolutely imperative that commercial bodies segregate their waste, as householders have been doing for a long time, but this is not waste we are talking about but unsold products. What we have heard from the French evaluation process is that there has not been a single case of textiles being dumped...

Seanad: Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Second Stage (26 Oct 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I am grateful to address this long-awaited legislation today. The prolonged delay has been very disconcerting, particularly against the backdrop of our persistent cost-of-living crisis. As other Senators said, energy prices in Ireland rank among the highest in Europe, with households facing an average bill of more than €2,000 annually, and little respite in sight. Shockingly, one in...

Seanad: Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...into what happened - we know that Israel has bombed hospitals in the past. It has done that, so regardless of whether it bombed this particular hospital, we know it has bombed other hospitals. For too long, the EU has turned a blind eye to the war crimes perpetuated by the State of Israel. The visit of EU Commission President, Ms Ursula von der Leyen, to Israel and her unqualified...

Seanad: Access to Third Level Places and Student Accommodation: Statements (4 Oct 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...those who can afford the student contribution fees and extortionate rents can avail of further education. By contrast, as we have heard from others today, those who cannot afford them must either face long and often unsustainable daily commutes that impact both their education and experience of college life or they need to forgo third level education altogether. Unfortunately, more and...

Seanad: Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Motion (4 Oct 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...their children's healthcare is the subject of repeated news cycles. However, the reality is that this goes much deeper than the 19 families and the care they received; rather, it results from the decade-long failure on the part of the Government to deliver on the commitment of the former Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, to the effect that children in need of spinal surgery would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (19 Sep 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I have two short questions. I ask Mr. Joyce and Ms Jones if, from their experience of having been on the citizens’ assembly, they have changed their approach or what was the long-lasting impact of this, apart from the fact that they are so well informed on the issue of the biodiversity crisis. Have they extended that knowledge out to family members as it would be very interesting to...

Seanad: Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Second Stage (6 Jul 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...their contributions under this legislation. This raises concerns about their ability to reduce the proportion of their profits that can be targeted. These profits were made during times of war and a pandemic, alongside a cost-of-living crisis. The Government needs to justify this approach, as it appears to be business as usual in the energy sector. The prolonged lag in reducing energy...

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

Lynn Boylan: ...that the EU Council's position that was agreed in May only covers the dumping of textiles. I understand that it does not cover the dumping of all of the other items that are included in the Bill. EU legislation takes a very long time to work through the system and to be eventually transposed into national law. Given the scale of the problem with dumping we do not have this time to wait....

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Before we move on, can we give a big fáilte to Dooagh National School from Achill Island. They are all welcome here. It was a long journey for them, so I hope they are getting great enjoyment out of being in the Houses of the Oireachtas. Tá fáilte rompu.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Decarbonisation of the Heat Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...plumbers saying, "Well, that is my livelihood down the road". Is there a body of work to look at that workforce so that if we get the district heating system off the ground and running, there is long-term viability for them if they acquire whatever skills are needed to bring them up to speed on district heating? At least their careers can continue. We will not put them out of business.

Seanad: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I welcome the opportunity to debate this Bill. The establishment of a food regulator has been a long-standing demand of Sinn Féin. An enforcement body that protects farmers and communities from the stranglehold of dominant processors, particularly the meat factories and multinational retailers, must be a central plank in delivering a fair...

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

Lynn Boylan: ...low price or a price of €86, I think. However, we have concerns still around onshore wind and its price. It is one of the highest in Europe. We again call on the Minister to do what we have been calling for for a long time in Sinn Féin, which is that cross-government high level task force to work with industry and stakeholders to identify what is causing renewables,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Liquefied Natural Gas and Oil Prospecting: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications and with Gas Networks Ireland, they have said their counterparts meet on a daily basis, civil servants meet very regularly and there is a long-standing political agreement. If Britain was to turn off that pipe, it would turning it off to the North of Ireland and the Isle of Man as well. Professor McMullin says this could be...

Seanad: Naming of National Children's Hospital for Dr. Kathleen Lynn: Motion (24 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit and the guests in the Gallery. I welcome this motion. It has been long-standing Sinn Féin policy to name the children's hospital after Dr. Kathleen Lynn. When a motion came before Dublin City Council, it was indicative that only Fine Gael opposed it. The motion passed by 11 votes to four. As was said in the emails we received, the...

Seanad: Climate Action and Biodiversity (Mandates of Certain Organisations) Bill 2023: Second Stage (16 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...do is turn off the pumps and create that wilderness park that the people of the area want so much. A matter flagged to me by the Irish Wildlife Trust and other organisations that campaigned for this wilderness park for so long is that the mandate of Bord na Móna needs to change so that it has to put climate action and biodiversity front and centre as part its work programme. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I have a couple of questions. It has been a long meeting and I appreciate the witnesses' time. I will pick up on what Deputy Whitmore said about pricing in and the impact of demand on the prices. Did the EU regulation not clearly stated that reducing electricity demand at national level can have a positive nationwide effect on electricity prices? The EU has already made the connection that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I note the momentous occasion yesterday in the Pillar Room of the Rotunda Hospital when the families of the Stardust victims heard that after a four-decade long campaign, the new inquest into what happened to their loved ones that night when the fire took place in the Stardust Ballroom will finally begin. I pay tribute to all the families. They have never given up hope of finding answers to...