Results 1-20 of 58 for mapping speaker:Victor Boyhan

Seanad: Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 May 2025)

Victor Boyhan: ...State and the Department for progressing it. It is particularly important for small communities that do not have access to banks and do not have transport links to big towns, and we have to geographically map and mark them out. There is a commitment in the legislation that there will be a certain distribution of ATMs around the country, but I do not know, and am not sure if anyone else...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Mar 2025)

Victor Boyhan: ...call for the residential zoned land tax. Farmers with land that may fall within the scope of this residential land tax should be fully up to speed on the implications of this tax and ensure their maps are updated in their local authority. This is very important, and I want to flag the need to look at them because this is a tax on active farmland in some cases, which it should not be. I...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Bodies (26 Feb 2025)

Victor Boyhan: ...that point will be taken on board. The Minister of State will be very familiar with Tailte Éireann. It is the State agency responsible for property registration, property valuation and the national mapping service. It was established on 1 March 2023 and I was centrally involved in the pre-legislative scrutiny of all those matters as part of the Oireachtas joint committee on housing...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: ...that is provided for. I wish to flag that as something that may be an issue. Planning is, of course, about sustainable planning development but it is also about our economic development and how we map out land use, which is another important aspect as the Minister will be well aware, in terms of the residential zoned land tax. I welcome that because it is a genuine effort. The...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Victor Boyhan: ...seashore, mountain, lakeshore, riverbank, monument or other places of natural beauty or recreational utility, which public rights of way shall be identified both by marking them on at least one of the maps forming part of the development management statement and by indicating their location on a list appended to the development management statement.”.

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

Victor Boyhan: ...the quantum of land within the scope of the residential property tax. No one seems to know the quantum. This relates to another issue, in that no one seems to know how much land in the country is mapped and zoned for agriculture. The common response is that it is a matter for local government. If we want land use strategies and policies, though, then we need to get the data and facts....

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: ...of development plans over the years. A famous case mentioned legitimate expectations. The citizens have a legitimate expectation of their city and county development plans and how they will map out and set out proper planning and sustainable development for their areas. I restate that I am here on behalf of the AILG to articulate its views on this particular aspect of the Bill. Its...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: ...There is a huge amount of unregulated telecommunications infrastructure around the country. In my local authority area of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, there has been a constant call for strategic grid mapping of this infrastructure. We see it on roofs. Litigation has been taken against parish churches to have the stuff taken off, internally and externally, including on many protected...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Jul 2024)

Victor Boyhan: ...the old one for two years. The Minister was very anxious. Those of us who are members of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine discussed this at great length. This will map out terms of engagement and what farmers can expect with regard to payment schemes and the various processes. It is important. I congratulate the Minister and the officials in the...

Seanad: Hypothermia Scalp Cooling Therapy: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...it. The Minister was honest and frank and he has said what the case is. It needs to be kept on the agenda. I fully support the Greens in this; it is an important intervention. We should now be mapping out where we could get money and make a case for it. I congratulate Senator O'Reilly on tabling this Private Members' motion. I fully support it. I thank the Minister for at least being...

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

Victor Boyhan: ...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 was there mention of the anomalies or difficulties, though....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of National Planning Framework and Climate Targets: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...go to the Irish Planning Institute and Mr. Lawlor first. I want to tease out two or three things that were raised in his submission. Point 4 of the submission highlights that “The absence of mapping - including of potentially overlapping or competing policies, designations, objectives etc. - was identified as a weakness in the NPF”, which is the national planning framework....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of National Planning Framework and Climate Targets: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Victor Boyhan: That is a good takeaway and is helpful for us. The first part of the question, which Dr. O'Leary is going to address, is the absence of mapping. The submission refers to overlapping and competing policies, designations and objectives. Again, the Irish Planning Institute has identified the concern and it is echoed twice in the submission. Mr. O'Leary might take us through that and give us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...else or I likes it; that is Government policy. That is her agenda and she has to deliver on it. That is her mandate. It is important that we go back to the targets. It all goes down to this thing about mapping, data and the GIS issue. I think we are seeing this more in development of strategic, local authority and county development plans. Everything is data and information....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...set-up promoting the charity's work. When I asked them what their ask was, they said they had no ask and they just wanted to say "Thank you" to the people of Ireland who support the cause. There is a map showing how the charity has impacted on people here county by county. I ask that Senators make their way over there at some point and meet the team from Ronald McDonald House, which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Revitalising Derelict and Vacant Homes on Farmland: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...on. We discussed a league table in its presentation, which was from the Central Statistics Office. It talked about the vacancy rates across the country. It is extraordinary to look at this map we have in front of us, and we can make this available to the witnesses. We see that at the top of the scale in terms of percentages is Leitrim, with 15.5%. Roscommon has 13.4%, and Mayo has...

Seanad: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...protected monuments in the appendix of their City/County Development Plans. (2) It will be a requirement of Planning Authorities to reference protected monuments on their City/County Development Plan maps.”.

Seanad: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...parts of the appendix are listed the record of protected structures and the record of monuments. This is very helpful. It sets out the list of protected monuments and places. It also sets out the map number in the county development plan and the location. It further sets out the record of monuments and places reference numbers and the classification. In many cases, these monuments are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...conservation architectural appraisals, assessments and inventories are critical to cataloguing these protected structures. What is the potential for spatial data, which Mr. McLaren touched upon, and GIS, mapping? We have an Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill going through the Houses at the moment, and again, there is talk about tracking the data and the archaeology and to have...