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Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 99: In page 37, line 1, after “incorrect” to insert “or illegal”.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 100: In page 38, line 1, after “incorrect” to insert “or illegal”.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 101: In page 38, line 5, after “incorrect” to insert “or illegal”.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 102: In page 39, line 13, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 103: In page 40, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(iv) his or her right to submit a subject access request for all personal data held by the Authority,”.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 104: In page 45, to delete lines 10 to 14 and substitute the following: “(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a preference of a person in relation to contact with any other person that is recorded in the National Adoption Contact Preference Register, shall not be deemed to be, and shall not be recorded in the entry in the register where that person has not...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 105: In page 45, line 20, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”. This amendment again relates to the use of "may" instead of "shall". The Minister has addressed that at length.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 106: In page 45, line 28, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 107: In page 47, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “(b) person other than an information source who is in possession of a relevant record is obliged to transfer to the Authority all relevant records in its possession,”. Amendment No. 107 inserts a new subsection, 47(1)(b), which would oblige a person other than an information source who...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I call for a debate in the House on special education. My party leader and colleague, Deputy Bacik, has also been calling for such a debate in the Dáil. We see from the published special needs assistant, SNA, allocations that they have been frozen for the third year in a row. For an awful lot of SNAs, if issues have arisen, there will not be enough time for them to appeal and be in...

Seanad: Protection of the Native Irish Honey Bee Bill 2021: Second Stage (2 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I pay tribute to the beekeepers outside and to Senator Martin for bringing forward this legislation. As an inner-city Dub, biodiversity and bees do not come naturally to me and I found it a learning experience over recent days with the emails we have been getting and the threat the Irish honeybee is under. The Civil Service response is to the effect that it contravenes EU law. Trade should...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: There is a little bit of déjà vuwith this. In 2016, when the housing crisis was becoming very apparent, industry representatives lobbied and said they would not be able to deliver housing until, for example, minimum standards were revised and guidelines came from the Department which provided for co-living, build to rent, and student accommodation. Yet we are still sitting here...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (26 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Department's officials for the presentation and for coming in to explain this to us today. I have a couple of questions and a couple of observations. The Planning and Development Act 2000 now runs to 715 pages and the supporting regulations run to 609 pages. These are extremely complicated. Even today, I was looking at a Bill related to the Planning and Development Act and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (26 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Last night, I attempted to download the chief executive's report on a development plan. My computer would not even download it. It just froze. The report was 900 pages long. That is not accessible to anybody who has not done this before. Such people will not be able to read and get through something like that and pick out what will actually impact them and their area. That is a separate...

Seanad: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: The Labour Party welcomes and will be supporting this Bill. It is vital that we as a country move to a fairer, more sustainable and equitable economic waste system. The importance of this is now being felt acutely by ordinary working people across the country who are struggling as a result of the rising cost of living and high levels of inflation. It is hard to understate the importance of...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (14 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome our friends and colleagues from Ukraine, the Ukrainian ambassador and the people in the Gallery who are watching these proceedings. I am pleased and honoured to welcome them to the Seanad on behalf of the Labour Party. I pay tribute to the bravery of all of our Ukrainian colleagues and the Ukrainian people and their dedication to a free, fair and independent democracy. In recent...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: I sympathise with the colleagues and friends of Jo Cox, whose sixth anniversary is today. A quote from Jo Cox before she was tragically and brutally murdered by a fascist was, “We are far more united and have far more in common than that which divides us.” We all know and understand that whipping up fear and hate in a political context can lead to tragic consequences. On the...

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...

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the Chamber. This legislation, the intention of which is to modernise our democracy, is very welcome. For this reason, it is vitally important that we get the legislation right and get it done on a non-partisan basis. What I do not want to see happen is what happened at the pre-legislative scrutiny stage when members took political positions on...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the ambassador to the Distinguished Visitors Gallery. I want to raise the issue of the 206 Irish women who travelled to the UK in 2021 to receive basic healthcare. A total of 50% received it under ground C, which is the 12-week limit, and 50% received it under ground D, which deals with terminations for medical reasons. It is clear that the legislation is failing some people. It...