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Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Okay. Well, I-----

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: The Chair just interrupted me.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: The Chair just interrupted me in a way that-----

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: -----he did not interrupt Senator Mullen.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Can I speak, please?

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Can I speak?

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Senator.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I will speak to amendment No. 1 and the speech that was made on it, and particularly the accusation that this Bill, overall, if we do not adopt amendment No. 1, will be akin to flirting with fascism. I want to be clear. These amendments are nothing to do with what Senator Mullen said about one third of people being ignored, about such people being unable to express their conscience and...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I will be very brief. Abortion is healthcare and people are accessing healthcare facilities. People can pray wherever they want. This is not about prayer. This is simply about intimidation. It is about a chill effect. It is part of the tactics they always use. Do not buy into this thing that there is an overreach in terms people's right to pray. There is a very particular reason...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I was not going to come back in but I want to take issue with something Senator Mullen said; that other Members do not care about this issue as much he and Senator Keogan do. We are not going away when it comes to this. We will continue to fight for free, legal, safe and local abortion. The Senator might think he can run down the clock and put a chilling effect on Members in this Chamber,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: My apologies, I was at something else and now I have to go to the Seanad. To clarify, is the Department not here, it is just the SEAI?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: That is no problem. I prepared a couple of questions and some were for the Department. I might read them out anyhow. Do we expect the Department will be able to come in? Maybe the Department can come back to us. It is in regard to the resource intensity of the construction sector. This is not a question for the Chair but it would be interesting to get an indication on how the Department...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Perfect. As I was late I was unaware of that. I have a question for the SEAI. There is a research study investigating lifestyle carbon impact on new and renovated buildings to be published. Can I have an indication from the SEAI on when it envisages this report will be published? The carbon intensity of new-builds and what we see in many of the developments coming through is that we have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I am not asking about the standard of new homes being built. It is about the replacing of existing buildings that could be repurposed as opposed to being pulled down, and the intensity of the use of building materials in that process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Maybe the witnesses can answer the Chair's questions with the time remaining. I do not have anything further to add.

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

Rebecca Moynihan: I raise the issue of the tenant in situscheme, which I have raised previously in the House. The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has given directions to local authorities that they are no longer allowed to buy second-hand properties and have to focus on one-bedroom properties and apartments. While on paper that can seem very laudable, it does have the unintended and very...

Seanad: Europe Day 2022: Statements (11 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber a couple of days after Europe Day to speak about the value Europe has brought to us, as a country. This year more than ever we realise Europe was set up as a peace project. That was the main driver of it. Ireland has specifically benefited from that peace project, economically, infrastructurally and culturally. This year we are having these...

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Motion (11 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: The Chair will thank me for my timing as well because I do not wish to go over what other people have said either. I thank the Sinn Féin Senators for tabling the motion. Yet again we face a situation where our neighbours and their virtue-signalling towards the little Englanders on their own island have impacted our island in ways they cannot understand because they simply do not care....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I second the proposed amendment to the Order of Business. I wish to raise the issue of the latest Daft report. It comes on the back of a number of reports from both Daft and the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, which show that rents in the country are rising exponentially. They are a huge contributor to the cost-of-living crisis. They are up 11% nationwide. In particular, there is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing Provision for Older People: Discussion (10 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the officials for their presentations. The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has never really co-ordinated the opportunities there are for developers in downsizing and in older persons' housing. One of the critical mistakes the Minister made was not applying the bulk fund for investors in properties that were coming onto the market to apartments and that will hit...