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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Aviation Industry (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: .... Taylor Swift was in the headlines for taking a 13-minute flight in America. However, there were several similarly unjustifiable flights like that in Ireland in 2022. There were 11 between Kerry and Cork, at just over 79 km. A train takes just an 80 minutes to complete that journey. There were 14 flights between Dublin and Belfast in 2020, a distance of 137 km. A train can cover...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...and passion for nature and wildlife to everybody else to try to encourage classmates, friends and neighbours to have the same passion and interest in biodiversity? Those people in Wicklow and Kerry are very lucky, but Conor and I live in Dublin and do not have the same resources around us. Is it important to facilitate people to go to education centres, to get up close and personal with...

Seanad: Good Friday Agreement and Windsor Framework: Motion (8 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...of a majority of the people. All around us we know that people are discussing what a new and agreed Ireland might look like. They are imagining something better for their society, whether that is from Kerry or Derry.All around us, people are discussing what a new and agreed Ireland might look like and imagining something better for our society, from Kerry to Derry. The Good Friday...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pesticide Use (26 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...that. There are knock-on impacts right along the food chain. The original re-introduction programme from 2007 to 2011 involved releasing 100 young white-tailed eagles in Killarney National Park in County Kerry. I was lucky at the time as I was working in the national park and got to see the chicks. They are big babies and are fed deer legs. They are not like little chicks we see on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010 and the Control of Dogs Act 1986: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and if there were an electronic register with all the relevant information. Regardless of whether there is a dog breeding establishment in Cork, Kerry or Dublin, the same data would be collected. Those same data would be available to members of the public so they could make informed decisions when purchasing pups. They would know...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...for Choice, Amnesty Ireland, Clare ARC, Clare Women's Network, Disabled Women Ireland, Donegal ARC, Dr. Mary Favier of Doctors for Choice, Dublin Well Woman Centre, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Kerry for Choice, Leitrim ARC, Limerick Feminist Network, Limerick Women's Network, the National Women's Council of Ireland, the Northside Family Resource Centre, Offaly ARC, Rape Crisis...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Military Service at Jadotville in 1961: Statements (11 Nov 2020)

Lynn Boylan: ...portrait of Commandant Quinlan was installed in the Congo room of the Irish Defence Forces UN school. In October 2017, a plaque commemorating Commandant Quinlan was unveiled in his native County Kerry by the former Taoiseach, Enda Kenny. They were presented with special medals, An Bonn Jadotville, at a special ceremony. The Minister for Defence, Deputy Coveney, said the matter of bravery...

Seanad: Election of Cathaoirleach (29 Jun 2020)

Lynn Boylan: ...ally to me when we were doing the "Free Ibrahim" campaign and I hope we can continue to work together on such human rights issues. I remember in 2009 when I was tallying in a community centre in Kerry and I realised then that there is no challenge more futile than a Dub trying to get elected in Kerry. That is my Kerry story for the record today. It is an immensely proud day for me. I...