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Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome this Bill and the opportunity to speak to it. The Labour Party supports this Bill and its provisions, and the Government commitment in some of the communications about this to examine the wider area of rights of way.Before I discuss the matter, I want to speak on behalf of my senatorial colleague, Senator Higgins, who is attending COP26 in Glasgow. She has been very active in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, that No. 86, motion 3 be taken before No. 1. It is moving the writ for the by-election on the University of Dublin panel, further to the election of Deputy Bacik to the Dáil.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: On behalf of the Labour Party, I reiterate the kind words about Austin Currie. I pass on our condolences to our colleague Senator Currie. Austin Currie was one of the pioneers on housing and in the civil rights movement in the North. The housing situation was blatantly discriminatory against Catholics. We have lost a giant of Irish politics. Along with John Hume and Seamus Mallon, he was...

Seanad: Vacancy in Membership of Seanad Éireann: Motion (10 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move: That the Clerk of Seanad Éireann do send to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage notice of a vacancy in the membership of Seanad Éireann occasioned by the election to Dáil Éireann of Senator Ivana Bacik, a member elected for the University of Dublin constituency at the General Election for Seanad Éireann, April, 2020.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank Senator Warfield for allowing me to go ahead. I apologise to the Minister that I have a compulsory purchase order, CPO, meeting at 5 p.m., so I will have to go by then, but I will look back at this debate I am cautiously in favour of this Bill. I hope that it will not be beset by the same problems that plagued the strategic housing development, SHD, process. These were the granting...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the Minister to the House. I will start by paying tribute to a woman we only know as Isabella who died because of the rollback on abortion provision in Poland as a result of a Supreme Court judgment, a woman whose name, like Savita, we should not know. From Texas to Poland, in between and worldwide, reproductive and abortion rights are contested and that is why this Bill is so...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (17 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank her for taking this matter. I understand that at the moment, given the current Covid numbers, she is particularly busy with managing the opening of the education and school system and keeping it going. I pay tribute to her and teachers throughout the country, who have kept schools going. One of the most important issues relates to keeping...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (17 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Minister. I understand her comments. I did not frame the Commencement matter in a specific way because such matters are sometimes ruled out of order. I also did not expect it to be selected for that reason. I understand that I sprung the issue on the Minister. I will email her and the Department after this debate. We can continue the engagement because I do not expect a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I often say when I rise to speak after a Sinn Féin Senator that I have the same issue to raise. I will also raise the local employment service because the issue is affecting the whole country and there is a time-sensitivity to it. I understand that local employment services have received an extension to their current contracts until the new year, but after the new year they are unsure...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. I thank the Minister for coming in-----

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: Okay.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Minister for coming into the House again. As he said, he has probably been in here as often as most Senators while initiating this legislation. I broadly welcome the move by the Minister to cap rent increases at 2%. It is an especially welcome response in the context of the rate of inflation having hit 5.1% in October, which was the highest recorded since 2007. When he brought...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Leader for outlining the Order of Business. Members will have to excuse me as I am recovering from a cold - not Covid - and my voice is not great today. I raise the issue of the loophole in the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 that allows landlords who have not previously increased rent to compound it over recent years. We are living in a time when the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I want to raise the issue of the 40th anniversary of the emergence of another pandemic, which is the AIDS pandemic. Today is World AIDS Day and it is important that we mark the day in this Chamber, in particular the stigma that still surrounds HIV and AIDS. When HIV and AIDS first emerged in the late 1980s it was a pandemic that was laden with both moral and social judgment. I am somebody...

Seanad: Human Rights in China: Motion (1 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: The Labour Party supports this motion. I raise with the Minister of State a specific issue related to an article in The Irish Timeson Saturday about the sacking of an Irish woman from Belfast, Emma Reilly, who was working with the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. There was a dispute between her and the human rights commission. Essentially, she was a whistle-blower because she noticed...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The Labour Party will support this legislation today, as we continue to support Government efforts to tackle the pandemic. However, the virus is already tearing through the country, tearing through schools and tearing through this building. It is difficult to get a PCR test. Proper ventilation still is not part of our response. It seems to me...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I will push it to a vote today.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I want it explicitly stated on the record by a Minister that travelling for an abortion is considered a time-sensitive imperative medical reason. No Minister has done so for 18 months. Last month, I asked the Minister in the House directly and he did not come back. Senator Gavan offered to give him time and he still refused to say or acknowledge it. He had to go to check it out. He never...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 3) 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 3: In page 16, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(fa) who, being ordinarily resident in the State, is returning to the State having travelled to another state for— (i) an unavoidable, imperative and time-sensitive medical reason, or (ii) a termination of pregnancy, and the reason is certified by a person who is a registered medical...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 3) 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: How dare Senator Clifford-Lee say that I am stoking up fear or using inflammatory language.