Results 21-40 of 4,959 for speaker:Victor Boyhan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I love what Ms Walsh says about an evidence-based approach. I will keep that line because it is right, it is correct and it is consistent. I was interested to see that engagement there and how Ms Walsh stuck to the line so I fully agree with her on that. These are funny times, in Parliament and in this committee. We are now discussing these issues, which are important. I do not have many...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: That is the story. I do not represent a rural constituency and I do not necessarily buy into that but that is the line. Maybe in a few-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I am not that mad and there is a method in that madness. I do not tend to ask questions I do not know the answers to either but what I was going to say is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: Will the witnesses comment on that? There are rural communities, TDs and Senators who will be going out door-to-door in the coming days and weeks and they will be put to it. The IFA, ICMSA and farm organisations have asked for this. All groups have said privately here that it should happen but it has not happened. Why has it not happened and is there a place for all of that in here? I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: The local, national and regional-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: It is very relevant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: We now know from this confirmation, yet again - which is one of about 50 letters I have in my office - that these guidelines are subject to legal review. We have been talking about this review for a long time, and ministerial approval. The Minister of course did move after I had put the pressure on and asked that they go to a period of public consultation. The Minister has now added the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I am not asking about the income government. We are still at the end of the current regime. What is Mr. Hogan's understanding and knowledge of these planning guidelines?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: My understanding is that they are subject to legal review, as we have-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: It is no more than that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: This amounts to really nothing. After five years of asking questions, we have not made progress with regard to the publication of them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: We will park it there. We will be nice and we are on the way out of here as such. I will now go back to the Climate Change Advisory Council and I thank Deputy Ó Broin for his intervention.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: He is not a bad guy, after all, is he?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I thank Ms Kelly very much. Just before I go, I want to take this opportunity at what will possibly be our last meeting to acknowledge the enormous work the Cathaoirleach has done in leading this committee which is exceptionally hard working. There is no question but that he has given it his all and I want to put that on the record. I know that others will join me in that. It has been a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I would gladly do that.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Authorities (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for coming to the House to deal with this important Commencement matter. I would also like to thank the Cathaoirleach, Senator Jerry Buttimer, for selecting this Commencement matter. As others here will know, I have always made it one of my key objectives in politics for more power to be given to local government and its councillors, and I...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Authorities (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minster of State for the way in which he has addressed and outlined some of the issues. My key ask today concerns what the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe identified in its report. It was sent to Government. I happen to sit on the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage, so I am familiar with some of the...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: It is nice to start on a celebratory note. I acknowledge the important Irish jockey, Robbie Dolan, who rides Knight's Choice. What a fantastic victory he had in the Lexus Melbourne Cup. As someone interested in equestrian sport, it is a great opportunity to celebrate him, and I know the Acting Leader is from Kildare and champions the equestrian and bloodstock industry. It is a wonderful...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)
Victor Boyhan: No dosh.