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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...homes. If like with the SHD process, it does not achieve that, then it will be a failure. We must ensure that these planning permissions are not treated simply as a way to increase the value of land, but a way to actually provide homes to people across the country. Even if these developments are built, we must ensure that developers are not leaving them lying empty to keep rents...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...in Finglas, which was reported in The Business Poston Sunday last by Killian Woods. For more than ten years, 26 apartments have lain empty. This underlines the need for not just a vacant lands tax but a vacant homes tax. Habitable residential houses and apartments have been lying empty for ten years and an arm of the State is sitting on empty property while children grow up in hotels...

Seanad: Budget 2022: Statements (12 Oct 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I am really delighted to address the zoned land tax and what it actually is because it has been raised by the previous speaker and is important. From a housing perspective, this budget contains three measures. It is a budget for landlords and landowners. There is absolutely nothing in the budget for renters. There is nothing in the budget for people who are on the housing assistance...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...Traveller accommodation and a Traveller accommodation strategy. It is important that the LDA will be cognisant of the responsibility it has to the Travelling community in the development of public land. One thing that arises is that local authorities do not spend their budgets when it comes to the provision of Traveller accommodation. The Minister knows about this because it comes up at...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...public money is provided to them. We discussed this matter previously in the debate on the Affordable Housing Bill and I made my displeasure known at that stage. Amendment No. 77 seeks to ensure that on the LDA land and the land that the agency takes over from the State, local authorities, the OPW, the Prison Service etc., the provision of housing is 100% public housing, that is, cost...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 21: In page 11, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the following shall not be relevant public land for the purposes of this Act: (a) any land that is being managed, maintained or developed as a nature reserve or a national park by the National Parks and Wildlife Service of the Department of Housing, Heritage...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I had hoped this would have been accepted on Committee Stage in the Dáil. The amendment is to ensure any public land that goes to the LDA which is under the control of the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the Department, the Commissioners of Public Works or in the Phoenix Park in Dublin is not transferred to the LDA. It is important that certain lands within the country have a...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...Hospital. I want to clarify that. We can have such situations with the board of the LDA, or with people involved with the board of the LDA. This Bill says that the LDA has the ability to acquire land by compulsory purchase order if it is of strategic importance or if it is needed to connect sites. The legal protections that apply to the Phoenix Park do not apply to the OPW-owned lands...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...the Minister and all the Ministers of State with responsibility for the housing sector, he has been in the House a great deal as we approach the end of term. I am supportive, in principle, of the Land Development Agency Bill before the Seanad. The Bill was initiated in the Dáil but, in practice, the Government did not accept amendments to the Bill from the Opposition on Committee...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jun 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ..., there is nothing to stop ethical investors coming in, building housing over a certain period and imposing on themselves limited profits, but this allows for limited profits probably on State land and probably reverting to them after a period on State land. I want to address the idea that this is not understanding what cost is and that cost is cost. It is not.The Government side has...

Seanad: Right to Housing: Motion (4 Jun 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...and courts, and this is the effect of it. Time and again in recent years, particularly when it comes to issues such as renters' rights, we have heard there has to be a balance between renters and landlords. This in itself is a policy choice. I credit Home for Good and those involved in that campaign for coming up with the wording. Many of them argues, as do constitutional scholars,...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 18: In page 9, to delete lines 4 to 6. This is one of a series of amendments which essentially argue that public housing should be developed on public land without public private partnerships. We spoke to this amendment as part of the debate on Friday. Its purpose is to orientate the Bill towards safe provision of housing on public land and exclude public private...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...in the Bill could be undermined. Inflation or other additional elements could also be taken into the costs. It is very important, in the context of State intervention, affordable housing, and the use of State-owned land, that there is a clear link between the median income of workers of this country and what is being provided to them. I ask that we take these amendments on board and at...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...in compliance with the macro-prudential policy for residential mortgage lending of the Central Bank.". The effect of this amendment would be that the houses that are being made available on public land would be affordable in the context of people's incomes as opposed to affordable in the context of being below market value. The a fundamental flaw with the Bill is that there is no...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...of work and paying rents to the local authority that they could not afford because they were out of work. The 20% that was introduced in 2013 was because we were not building anything and it went from 20% of land to 10% of what was built so I will not take lectures, a few of which I have heard from a few Fianna Fáil people. I heard it from Senator Chambers as well.They need to take...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I am not supporting this amendment because a properly structured and financed LDA could be a game changer in the delivery of public housing on public land in this State. Fundamentally, I am not happy with how the LDA is structured. I hear much talk about the need to use all facets of the State's capabilities. However, what we have done over the past 30 years in particular has resulted in...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I support the amendment. It is worth bearing in mind that the private market has a role in solving the housing crisis. That relates to the many land banks that individual speculators, developers and landowners own themselves. What the amendment relates to is public land banks and public development. I live in a house beside one of the public private partnerships that succeeded in the...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 May 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...the pre-legislative scrutiny and the debates since it was published, I am more wary. I will begin with the positive elements of the Bill. I welcome the provision of affordable housing on public land but, as with everything else, whether the housing will be affordable is open to question. This is because I see a fundamental flaw in the Bill, which is a failure to provide in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill: Discussion (11 May 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: .... We have found ourselves in a number of situations where, in order to build community facilities, community centres and anything that is long term, the local authority felt it had to sell off land to fund them because the funding was not available from the Department. Did anything like that happen when it came to either the Shanganagh or Dundrum sites? I understand that they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Engagement with the Office of the Planning Regulator (4 May 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: .... I will try not to focus on what other members have already asked. Could Mr. Cussen comment on the observations that have been made on the Dún Laoghaire development plan in terms of zoned land for housing? It seems odd to me that the planning regulator would make such a decision on somewhere within the county of Dublin in the midst of a housing crisis. I want to know the...