Results 421-440 of 684 for speaker:Rebecca Moynihan

Seanad: Vacancy in Membership of Seanad Éireann: Motion (10 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move: That the Clerk of Seanad Éireann do send to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage notice of a vacancy in the membership of Seanad Éireann occasioned by the election to Dáil Éireann of Senator Ivana Bacik, a member elected for the University of Dublin constituency at the General Election for Seanad Éireann, April, 2020.

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

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank Senator Warfield for allowing me to go ahead. I apologise to the Minister that I have a compulsory purchase order, CPO, meeting at 5 p.m., so I will have to go by then, but I will look back at this debate I am cautiously in favour of this Bill. I hope that it will not be beset by the same problems that plagued the strategic housing development, SHD, process. These were the granting...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the Minister to the House. I will start by paying tribute to a woman we only know as Isabella who died because of the rollback on abortion provision in Poland as a result of a Supreme Court judgment, a woman whose name, like Savita, we should not know. From Texas to Poland, in between and worldwide, reproductive and abortion rights are contested and that is why this Bill is so...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome this Bill and the opportunity to speak to it. The Labour Party supports this Bill and its provisions, and the Government commitment in some of the communications about this to examine the wider area of rights of way.Before I discuss the matter, I want to speak on behalf of my senatorial colleague, Senator Higgins, who is attending COP26 in Glasgow. She has been very active in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I want to raise the reported legislation coming before this House to limit rent increases to 2% or the rate of inflation, whichever is lower. While this is very welcome in terms of stabilising rents in the long term, immediate action must be taken to provide a short-term intervention and a rent freeze for tenants. We are told there are legal impediments to that, but we know it is possible...

Seanad: Energy Security: Statements (2 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Minister for coming to the Chamber. It is particularly pertinent and important to be having a debate on energy security this winter. We cannot talk about energy security without talking about energy poverty. The cost of energy is rising at a shocking rate. Electric Ireland has announced average prices of electricity are going to rise by almost 10% this month. It was 9% in...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: I will support the proposed Order of Business. I raise the changes in restrictions that will operate from Friday and the very unfair treatment of the live entertainment and music sector in comparison with nightclubs. It beggars belief that patrons will be able to dance in nightclubs but will have to remain seated at music gigs. Musicians and artists have suffered particularly badly over...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (20 Oct 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am sharing time with Senator Sherlock.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (20 Oct 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, to the House. I hope we can have a respectful and robust debate on the planning and student accommodation crisis. The student accommodation crisis is affecting students throughout Ireland. Third-level education is becoming less accessible every year because of continual rent increases and hikes in the cost of living. Owing to rent...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (20 Oct 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I will direct my comments to the official who wrote that speech rather than the Minister of State because the reply includes a number of quite troubling aspects. The first aspect is that putting a limitation on somebody's right to develop property probably infringes on his or her right to private property. The reply effectively says that planning does not matter and that planning laws do...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (20 Oct 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I am not here to speak on the Order of Business but to second the safety access Bill. I did not think I was down to speak. I will happily speak-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I have not got anything prepared. I compliment Senator Gavan on his work with Together for Safety in Limerick in bringing in safe access zones legislation. I will make the point that the women who are being intimidated as they go through maternity services include women who are coming out of the hospital having received terrible news or are going in to access abortion services. Protests...

Seanad: Sláintecare Implementation: Statements (19 Oct 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Minister for coming in and I thank the Leader for facilitating this debate on Sláintecare. She had indicated that it would also be a wider debate on health and the health service. Health is a perennial issue in politics and, despite massive increases in health spending over the past 20 years, it is difficult to see the impact of this money or where it has gone. In a...

Seanad: British Government Legacy Proposals: Motion (13 Oct 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank Senator Currie for bringing the motion to the floor of the House and for being so gracious and reaching out to get cross-party support for it. I thank also Senator Ó Donnghaile for telling such a powerful personal story to communicate the impact this amnesty would have. It is clear the British Government's proposals for dealing with the past are preventing prosecutions for...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Oct 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: Likewise, I am going to refer to the measures that were taken in the budget during the allocated time we have. Today, I want to raise the issue of the prohibition on men who have sex with men from donating blood in the Republic of Ireland. The remit of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service is to provide safe, reliable and robust blood supply for the health system and it can continue to...

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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 Oct 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I will spend most of my time letting the Minister of State answer questions. What we have seen in the past while has been a number of people making speeches about their experiences and those experiences being applied to a whole community. In response to Deputy Crowe's remarks on trespassing and transient sites, if we provided transient sites, there would not be a need for people to trespass...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 Oct 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I will spend most of my time letting the Minister of State answer questions. What we have seen in the past while has been a number of people making speeches about their experiences and those experiences being applied to a whole community. In response to Deputy Crowe's remarks on trespassing and transient sites, if we provided transient sites, there would not be a need for people to trespass...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Oct 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I was going to raise exactly the same issue but in a slightly different way. We see the plan to replace Merchant's Arch with a nine-bedroom hotel. We see the plan to replace the Cobblestone with a nine-bedroom hotel. We are looking at the city develop and essentially hollow-out all its cultural spaces to have a cookie-cutter version of culture one can find anywhere. In addition to those...