Results 21-40 of 111 for long speaker:Rebecca Moynihan

Seanad: Cuimhneachán ar Chothrom Céad Bliain an Chéad Suí de Seanad Éireann – 11 Nollaig 1922 - Commemoration of the Centenary of the First Sitting of Seanad Éireann – 11 December 1922 (12 Dec 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...is with us today, for the rights of unmarried mothers in the 1970s, in what were cold political times for that kind of advocacy. Mary Henry, although formerly an Independent for the Trinity panel, was a long-standing Labour Party member who advocated for medical rights and women's health from her election in 1993. She advocated to improve community care centres, psychiatric hospitals and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment Bill) 2022: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...things is to get an assessment on whether An Bord Pleanála is fit for purpose in a 21st-century planning system. To do that, we need to have an idea of the number of applications coming in, how long they take to assess, how many people are assessing them and whether they have the basic capacity to make those large-scale decisions. While most of us would agree that is not the case at...

Seanad: Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...private sector and small landlords. It should not matter whether or not landlords are selling up regarding our homeless figures. The reason it matters is because the tenants are people who should be housed long term in the social housing system, and instead they are being housed by the private sector. The reason that we have delays in house building is because everything is in the...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: .... Senator Fitzpatrick raised the issue of having a constitutional referendum on the right to housing. I commend her, from the Fianna Fáil side of things, for pushing a referendum for a very long time. All official commentary I have heard from both civil servants and the Attorney General is that there is a "constitutionally protected" right to private property so that means one...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...is the responsibility of the Government to do this; otherwise, we will be faced with these situations every winter and we will see homeless services being overwhelmed. It will give people who rent, including those who are renting into their 30s, 40s and 50s, long-term security of tenure. We want to see a move to a situation where we balance the rights of people who rent in this country...

Seanad: Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...Minister of State for coming to the Chamber for this debate. This Bill follows on from the EirGrid legislation last summer. It is the second Bill on energy that indicates we are failing to take long-term energy policy seriously. Instead, we are legislating as we go in response to events. On Tuesday night, "Prime Time" had a report on the Derrybrien wind farm, which is not operational...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...at the numbers of planned housing delivery when it comes to actual need. With a growing population we have an expanding need, so I want to get a sense of the need in each local authority and how long the lists are taking to clear, even with the planned expansion of some of the direct delivery. Can I get a sense from each of the local authorities of how big the social housing lists are in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...on the private rented sector should be in the social housing sector. Average rents of €1,900 were paid to them over 2019, equating to approximately €20,000 a year. Those people are in need of long-term social housing and we need to bring them back into the social housing sector, not leave them at the whim of the private rented sector, which is the leading cause of family...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...on that to stop people and families entering homelessness? That needs to be our big stop point. I will come back to Dolphin House, which is an amazing development that has been social housing for a long time. Between 2018 and 2028, it looks like we are going to have 28 homes delivered in phase 1A and phase 1B, and 16 three-bedroom houses for senior citizens. That is 44 homes in ten...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: .... I am one of those people who is lucky enough to have a mortgage and secure housing. If I was to rent out my house at market rate and was treating it as a business and as my only income, it would be a long time before I hit the top rate of tax. What landlords collectively are complaining about is paying the same tax that most workers in this country pay. We have a problem with...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Sep 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the Leader and Senators back to the House after a long summer. I begin by commiserating with Ambassador Johnston and the British people on the death of their Head of State and monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. I wish to raise the following issue because we hit a milestone over the summer; more than 10,000 people are now homeless in this country, the highest number since records began....

Seanad: Energy: Motion (14 Sep 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...surplus of more than €6 billion so far this year. Many of our EU partners are already taking radical action in this area. The Minister has said, and it has been reiterated in this House, that a longer term strategy needs to be involved. That strategy does not include things such as liquefied natural gas, LNG, or allowing turf to be commercially used. The strategy is not reliant...

Seanad: Night-time Economy: Motion (13 Jul 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...highlighting and putting on the agenda the decline in the sector and the challenges that have faced the night-time economy. I also pay tribute to Councillor Claire Byrne of the Green Party. For a long time she has been an advocate for the night-time economy at city level. I also thank Senator Warfield for doing so at national level. The night-time economy task force was set up to try...

Seanad: Annual Transition Statement: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...from wind energy and in exporting it. With that in mind, I am glad to see energy and EirGrid connections to France coming, for example, so that we can potentially export the energy we have. We have a long way to go but it is one of the focuses we have to have in Ireland's potentially leading role in making Europe energy secure. The southern side of Europe can become energy secure with...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...It will benefit one political party. This is particularly concerning because we have seen other measures inserted in the Bill to get at another political party. This Bill will serve us for years to come, long after all of us have passed through this House. We need to protect the independence and integrity of the electoral commission but the Government's last-minute amendment does not do...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Built Heritage Protection) Bill 2022: Second Stage (16 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...legislation that the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has been examining. The Bill tackles a number of different issues, many of which have needed to be addressed for a long time. We have all seen the impact of failing to properly protect our built heritage in the situations that have emerged. I refer in my area in particular to the wanton destruction of the...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...of how it affects our landscape, air quality and waters. As we know, in a circular economy, waste and resource used are minimised by the use of products and materials that are maintained for as long as possible so that when a product reaches the end of its life, its parts are used again and again to create further useful and productive products instead of being discarded. The amount of...

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: ...a look at that. I was interested to hear what the officials had to say about local area plans. The statutory basis for these plans is almost too complicated. In Dublin city, for example, a long line of areas are asking for local area plans. What is probably actually needed rather than specific local area plans, which are a mini version of development plans, is statutory master...

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...