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Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 3) 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: How dare Senator Clifford-Lee say I am using inflammatory language. This affected me. How dare she say that.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 3) 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I did not use inflammatory language. I will read out what is in this Bill and how the amendment clarifies it. I will tell the Senator why I am asking for a specific change in language from "travels to the State for an unavoidable, imperative and time-sensitive medical reason". The previous language used in regulations was "who, being ordinarily resident in ... [this] State, is returning to...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 3) 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I am pressing this amendment because, legally, if any bad faith actors were to do something, there is a difference between travelling to the State as opposed to having returned to the State. I acknowledge that it is also possible to make that difference clear within regulations because the initial language comes from regulations. I would like to see that clarified. I am pushing the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft Planning and Development (LRD Fees) Regulations 2021: Motion (2 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for coming in. I apologise as I am suffering from a cold. I have a couple of relatively short and easy questions, given other aspects have been covered. I want to reiterate Senator Cummins’s point of view, which is that these changes are welcome but they will not work unless local authorities are adequately resourced to stick with the timelines. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft Planning and Development (LRD Fees) Regulations 2021: Motion (2 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I am sorry. As I am a very sick, I can barely make sense of myself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft Planning and Development (LRD Fees) Regulations 2021: Motion (2 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: That is no problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft Planning and Development (LRD Fees) Regulations 2021: Motion (2 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I will do that.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I want to raise the issue of the 40th anniversary of the emergence of another pandemic, which is the AIDS pandemic. Today is World AIDS Day and it is important that we mark the day in this Chamber, in particular the stigma that still surrounds HIV and AIDS. When HIV and AIDS first emerged in the late 1980s it was a pandemic that was laden with both moral and social judgment. I am somebody...

Seanad: Human Rights in China: Motion (1 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: The Labour Party supports this motion. I raise with the Minister of State a specific issue related to an article in The Irish Timeson Saturday about the sacking of an Irish woman from Belfast, Emma Reilly, who was working with the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. There was a dispute between her and the human rights commission. Essentially, she was a whistle-blower because she noticed...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Leader for outlining the Order of Business. Members will have to excuse me as I am recovering from a cold - not Covid - and my voice is not great today. I raise the issue of the loophole in the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 that allows landlords who have not previously increased rent to compound it over recent years. We are living in a time when the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Protected Areas: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (30 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I am not overly familiar with this area and am learning as I go along. I will ask a couple of questions but I ask the witnesses to reply to me in such a way that takes into account the fact that I am a girl from the inner city, not from any of the coastal or fishing communities. I therefore ask, as a preface to my contribution, that the witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Protected Areas: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (30 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: It does. I may come in for another round. I am interested in the who, when, why and what of monitoring once areas are designated. One of my colleagues has to go to a meeting and wants to come in for the second round. Maybe we will come back to that issue.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (17 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank her for taking this matter. I understand that at the moment, given the current Covid numbers, she is particularly busy with managing the opening of the education and school system and keeping it going. I pay tribute to her and teachers throughout the country, who have kept schools going. One of the most important issues relates to keeping...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (17 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Minister. I understand her comments. I did not frame the Commencement matter in a specific way because such matters are sometimes ruled out of order. I also did not expect it to be selected for that reason. I understand that I sprung the issue on the Minister. I will email her and the Department after this debate. We can continue the engagement because I do not expect a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I often say when I rise to speak after a Sinn Féin Senator that I have the same issue to raise. I will also raise the local employment service because the issue is affecting the whole country and there is a time-sensitivity to it. I understand that local employment services have received an extension to their current contracts until the new year, but after the new year they are unsure...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. I thank the Minister for coming in-----

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: Okay.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Minister for coming into the House again. As he said, he has probably been in here as often as most Senators while initiating this legislation. I broadly welcome the move by the Minister to cap rent increases at 2%. It is an especially welcome response in the context of the rate of inflation having hit 5.1% in October, which was the highest recorded since 2007. When he brought...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, that No. 86, motion 3 be taken before No. 1. It is moving the writ for the by-election on the University of Dublin panel, further to the election of Deputy Bacik to the Dáil.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: On behalf of the Labour Party, I reiterate the kind words about Austin Currie. I pass on our condolences to our colleague Senator Currie. Austin Currie was one of the pioneers on housing and in the civil rights movement in the North. The housing situation was blatantly discriminatory against Catholics. We have lost a giant of Irish politics. Along with John Hume and Seamus Mallon, he was...