Results 1-20 of 27 for going forward speaker:Rebecca Moynihan

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...and they do not necessarily apply the rule that people have to meet one third affordability. That is causing an issue in the scheme and the Government should be willing to look at it because costs are going up.I acknowledge that construction costs are going up and that delivering housing is not a question of simply saying, "We will make it €300,000." There are other issues around...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: ..., the NWCI held the Purple for Public campaign. A significant amount of work has been done on this issue by the NWCI and SIPTU’s Big Start campaign. The childcare crisis is not new. It has been going on for many years. We know thousands of places throughout Dublin are closing down. Why is that the case? It is because childcare has been left up to the ebb and flow of the free...

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (16 Dec 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Like others, I will be brief because I am conscious this has been a much longer session than we all expected. I spoke earlier about the incoming and outgoing Cathaoirligh and the Leaders of the House. I take this opportunity to pay tribute to Senator Joe O'Reilly as our outgoing Leas-Chathaoirleach. Joe always approached the job with openness and humour. In doing the very unglamorous job...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Nov 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Yesterday several Members of the House and members of the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage received an invitation from Ned Iveagh to go the Iveagh Markets next week to determine how a gift from his forefathers to the people of Dublin can be saved. I have raised this issue, both in this House and at the committee, on a number of occasions because the Iveagh Markets...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...at the press conference today were access to social housing and people in the insecure private rented sector. I have raised this many times on the floor of the House. There are two key things the Government could be doing that it has not done. Since 2011 we have not reviewed the income thresholds for social housing, with the exception of five counties that secured special dispensations...

Seanad: Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...follows on from the EirGrid legislation last summer. It is the second Bill on energy that indicates we are failing to take long-term energy policy seriously. Instead, we are legislating as we go in response to events. On Tuesday night, "Prime Time" had a report on the Derrybrien wind farm, which is not operational at the moment. When we try to get around or ignore EU environmental...

Seanad: Situation in Iran: Motion (11 Oct 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...detention of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratclifffe, who only this year was released back to her family. During a visit to her family in Iran, she was detained unlawfully for five years. A former British Government and Prime Minister left her there, and nearly caused her to be held there for much longer. The recent death in custody of Mahsa Amini is just a new iteration of the same oppressive...

Seanad: Annual Transition Statement: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: .... It is unfortunate that we are dealing with the figures from 2019 and not the present-day ones because it is difficult to have a look at an honest, realistic benchmark. I say that because the Government came into power in 2020. It has made significant progress from a green perspective in putting climate change on the agenda and trying to mainstream it across all Departments. From that...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Built Heritage Protection) Bill 2022: Second Stage (16 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Independent Members, in particular Senator Norris, for bringing forward this Bill, which is comprehensive, wide-ranging and contains stick measures in it as well for failure to protect the built heritage. I am very pleased the Bill is before the House and we are strongly supportive of it, as well as of a review and consolidation of wider planning legislation that the Joint...

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)

Rebecca Moynihan: I do not want to go over the ground that members have already covered but it is important to come back to the point made by Deputy McAuliffe in respect of essentially devolving this to local authorities. While the waivers of fee are welcome, it was a short-term and temporary measure, albeit one that identified a problem of which many people had been aware for a long time. I refer to the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...on abortion rights generally, what is happening in Poland and Texas, and certain state legislatures rowing back on access, for example, Oklahoma and Tennessee, where people from Texas had been going. It is very concerning for women in the US, many of whom are very frightened, in particular low-income women. Having an absolute ban on abortion does not stop abortions but makes them unsafe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I look forward to seeing the housing delivery action plans in April. Each local authority has been given housing targets but in the same month Dublin City Council had to as part of its competitive tender process on its largest site at O'Devaney Gardens sell a portion of the site to deliver the social and affordable units on that site. There is many a slip twixt cup and lip so does Mr....

Seanad: Housing Policy: Motion (2 Mar 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the people in the Gallery. I also commend the Civil Engagement Group which, as always, has put forward a well-thought out, policy-driven motion and a Private Members' Bill. I will focus on one specific aspect and type of housing, which is renting. That is where there is huge insecurity and precariousness. Just as we came into this Chamber, the Parliamentary Budget Office put out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Sep 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...Conway from Dublin City Council, who is an exemplary planner and has been involved in a number of development plans at a city council level. Therefore, I take very seriously what the CCMA has put forward. While Ms Conway has addressed the increase by 15% to 30%, can the CCMA representatives flesh out whether they believe that should be specified? Should it be only commercial use or...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...The Minister has moved significantly, however, in terms of bringing rent increases in line with inflation and the consumer price index. He is making a very welcome move on behalf of renters. I am going to withdraw my amendments. I ask the Minister to bear in mind trying to get a mechanism for a rent freeze for people who are in financial difficulty. I am aware that we will be coming...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: .... We have a major issue with security of tenure for renters. I was glad last week to be able to text somebody who was worried about losing their house over the 8% rent increase to say the law was going to change, they would not be facing 8% and the increase would possibly be less than 1%, depending on what the calculator came up with. It is a relief to a considerable number of people....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Local Government (Directly Elected Mayor with Executive Functions in Limerick City and County) Bill 2021 (18 May 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...of State for attending. This is an exciting proposal for political reform which has the ability to transfer local government, not just in County Limerick and I hope this will be used as a template going forward. I hope I misunderstood the Minister of State when he referred earlier to the powers that "he" may exercise in the context of what we are discussing because it is just as likely...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 May 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I would appreciate if the Cathaoirleach gave me extra time. Against the advice of all of the experts, the Minister has persisted in going forward with the shared equity portion of the Bill. The evaluation of an equivalent scheme by the UK's Department with responsibility for housing was that 60% of the beneficiaries could have bought a property without the scheme. Furthermore, it stated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I am going to focus some questions on what was not in the review, and I would like the Minister to give us clarity in that regard, if he can. When the Minister was in opposition, he introduced a Bill which effectively had another Part V to stop cuckoo funds buying up large estates. I heard the Minister talking about the issue this week. Is he going to bring forward that legislation again...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: ^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Mar 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: .... We need a dynamic electoral commission, involved and able to keep up with technology and the different methods more nefarious actors involved in online advertising will be able to exploit going forward. In that respect, the heads of Bill are perhaps too limited. As Deputy Ó Broin stated, it is quite a conservative change. I am not sure it will be able to keep up with the...