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Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: I will not keep the House because it is important we finish the Bill. I thank the Government for bringing forward the Bill as quickly as it has done. I hope it will be passed by the end of this term. I live in an area with a lot of student-specific accommodation. It was not built to serve a particular need for students in the area but the developers were able to build it at a much higher...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Chair. One of the worst things about coming in so late is that everybody else has asked the questions I have listed here. I might come back to some of them, if that is okay with the witnesses. Mr. Keegan said there has been a 60% increase in complaints to the RTB since 2019. Is that right? Is it a 60% increase since 2019?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: Perfect. That seems an extraordinarily high figure to me. I wonder if there is any particular reason behind that. Is it down to greater investigation by the RTB or are there particular reasons that are being flagged up in those increases? As legislators, since 2020 we have had numerous changes to rental laws come before us. It would be interesting from our perspective as legislators to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: It is not actually a question of them being valid. It is whether the person being evicted could qualify under the tenant in situ scheme with regard to moving that on. I know it is not a legislative requirement, but does the RTB have informal mechanisms to deal with people it knows are at risk of homelessness? Does it leave it to the person to deal with that or is there a mechanism, for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: That is really interesting because it has been very hard to capture where that happens. It is really good to have a figure, that 5.5%. I have one final question. I know the RTB is to do some work on a rental price index. Is Mr. Keegan in favour of a rental price register like the property price register? I can have a look at what a house has sold for. If something goes sale agreed, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: It would be really helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: That is grand. A question on proactive registration of landlords has already been asked. Is there any mapping exercise or random sample done from things like land registration or planning applications with regard to proactive registration of landlords? Is there any work being done with local authorities on the breakdown of people who qualify for the tenant in situ scheme? We tried to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: We have submitted amendments to things to say there should be such a register. Would it be helpful?

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Jun 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: We all got the memo to go through how large a Bill this is. It is more than 700 pages. I wish to draw attention to the 1,200 amendments that were tabled at the select committee, which was only Dáil TDs. Not everyone was allowed in; only 12 TDs were allowed in. They put in a huge workload scrutinising this legislation. Members of that committee told me as they were going through it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Review: Discussion (25 Jun 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: I want to return to the question of the resources and funding provided by the Government. The witnesses say that all restoration measures will be voluntary but that landowners who do participate will be incentivised and resourced. Are the witnesses confident that those incentives and resources provided for the NPWS within its funding are provided by the Government and sufficient to convince...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Review: Discussion (25 Jun 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: Sorry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Review: Discussion (25 Jun 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: I meant outside this room. The questioning here has been fine.

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: The Labour Party is a pro-European party and we believe in the European project. We recognise the need to take collective action on an issue, which is faced not only by us but all countries in the European Union. We agree with the Government position that we do not operate in isolation when it comes to the issue of migration. While we may bluntly vote the same way as others later, we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: It is clear from the statement that we simply do not have the water infrastructure to meet housing demand and population growth. I am in agreement with Deputy Leddin. A period of 25 years is short-term thinking when it comes to something as important as water infrastructure considering that we are relying on water infrastructure that is in some cases 100 or 150 years old. The warnings...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: The emergency preparedness for Dublin specifically.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: It is certainly not what we hear across the board in this committee with regard to water connections. That is an interesting issue for us to explore further.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: Not really, but it is grand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: It was just on the funding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: What is the overall anticipated cost of the project to get it operational?

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Former President Mary Robinson (12 Jun 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank former Senator and former President, Mary Robinson. It is a pleasure and honour to have her here, although at times it may have felt like she was the Leader of the House taking the Order of Business. I welcome the former President back to the House and thank her for raising such important issues in her address. We are all so proud that her values and voice still represent us on...