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

Rebecca Moynihan: How dare Senator Clifford-Lee say I am using inflammatory language. This affected me. How dare she say that.

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

Rebecca Moynihan: I did not use inflammatory language. I will read out what is in this Bill and how the amendment clarifies it. I will tell the Senator why I am asking for a specific change in language from "travels to the State for an unavoidable, imperative and time-sensitive medical reason". The previous language used in regulations was "who, being ordinarily resident in ... [this] State, is returning to...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: I am pressing this amendment because, legally, if any bad faith actors were to do something, there is a difference between travelling to the State as opposed to having returned to the State. I acknowledge that it is also possible to make that difference clear within regulations because the initial language comes from regulations. I would like to see that clarified. I am pushing the...

Seanad: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: The Labour Party supports this Bill and we welcome its intent and the various matters it addresses. As many Government Members have said, this Bill is 90 years in the making, particularly with regard to the pressing need to stop delaying the development of large-scale renewable energy capacity such as wind farms. It is also about protecting our biodiversity. Green Party Members have a...

Seanad: Maternity-Paternity Leave for County and City Councillors: Motion (7 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I pay tribute to Senator O'Loughlin for taking the initiative on this issue as a panel discussion. It is appropriate that we are discussing this issue at this time of night because this is the time that an awful lot of full council meetings take place. On many occasions, I have held many babies in the council chamber and assisted their mothers with newborns outside. It always seemed crazy...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: Like Senator O’Reilly, I would like to remind Senator Mullen we had a referendum and its outcome very clearly showed the women and people of Ireland wanted people to have access to have safe, legal, local abortion in Ireland. I was disappointed that in the discussion at the Joint Committee on Health today the Minister indicated the policy of the Act would not be reviewed only the...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Minister for coming in today to directly hear about this. I understand that as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, he is extremely busy dealing with the substantial increase in spending across all Departments. I think he can hear where people are coming from and see that we are passionate advocates on behalf of our secretarial assistants. I do not want to go over all...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thought about it and wondered what if somebody was a victim of domestic violence and was working for a Senator, and his or her name was published stating that he or she was working for X Deputy or X Senator or whoever? People have this idea that they are public property and that they have ownership over them for such low salary and low wages. We all put ourselves on a ballot paper, be it...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I pay tribute to Senator Warfield. It is often not easy to call something like that out but he is a credit to the community that brought him up and rather than pulling up the ladder behind him, he is leading the way on supporting young LGBT men, women and non-binary people coming up. It is a bit embarrassing to follow it up because I will be following up with the technical and local issue...

Seanad: TRIPS Waiver: Motion (15 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I pay tribute to Senator Higgins for drafting this motion. As Senator Gavan has said, she went out of her way to draft a motion that Senators on the other side of the House could support. This is not a matter of party political differences but a moral issue among a group of humans sitting in this Chamber in the middle of a pandemic. With Covid-19, the ultimate question is when we will end...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Protected Areas: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (30 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I am not overly familiar with this area and am learning as I go along. I will ask a couple of questions but I ask the witnesses to reply to me in such a way that takes into account the fact that I am a girl from the inner city, not from any of the coastal or fishing communities. I therefore ask, as a preface to my contribution, that the witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Protected Areas: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (30 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: It does. I may come in for another round. I am interested in the who, when, why and what of monitoring once areas are designated. One of my colleagues has to go to a meeting and wants to come in for the second round. Maybe we will come back to that issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft Planning and Development (LRD Fees) Regulations 2021: Motion (2 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for coming in. I apologise as I am suffering from a cold. I have a couple of relatively short and easy questions, given other aspects have been covered. I want to reiterate Senator Cummins’s point of view, which is that these changes are welcome but they will not work unless local authorities are adequately resourced to stick with the timelines. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft Planning and Development (LRD Fees) Regulations 2021: Motion (2 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I am sorry. As I am a very sick, I can barely make sense of myself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft Planning and Development (LRD Fees) Regulations 2021: Motion (2 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: That is no problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft Planning and Development (LRD Fees) Regulations 2021: Motion (2 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I will do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Joint Committee
Update from Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive update on his area. I also want to pay tribute to the Minister of State as he is active and interested in the area he is covering. The report he provided shows the width and breadth of what he has been doing. I would like to focus on something I have previously asked the Minister of State about and it concerns a local matter that is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Joint Committee
Update from Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: That fully answers my question. Could the Minister of State update people who live in the locality on progress? I understand the matter is before the courts but it would be great to get an update in general.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I will start by prefacing it because we often look at this issue a bit backwards. It is about enticing people to reuse a property. For example, in Amsterdam people are required to register a property and if it has fallen into vacancy, not necessarily dereliction, people are encouraged to bring it back into use. We need to begin to look at it that way. In the middle of a housing crisis,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I was using that as an example of Dublin City Council having a site and believing it could not be developed. Then it took four years to pull it back from the developer. I know that it is being brought back into use and that there are proposals for the site, but it is an example of how difficult it can be to bring such buildings back into use, even if there is a CPO and the owns them.