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Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I am always reluctant to speak after Senator Higgins on an issue like this because she speaks so eloquently and with knowledge. The Labour Party has tabled amendment No. 5, which proposes to include a definition of climate justice. However, we will withdraw it and row in behind the amendment before us. In the debate in the House last Friday, the Government side argued that, after much...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 8: In page 7, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: " 'sustainable development' includes, but is not limited to, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals;",".

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: This amendment relates somewhat to the issues we have been discussing, namely, a just transition and, more specifically, climate justice. It relates to the sustainable development goals, SDGs, which Ireland was one of the leaders in negotiating. As I mentioned earlier, this seeks to highlight the principles and parameters within which the Bill is considered and its main thrust. It is...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: That is disappointing, when taken in conjunction with the climate justice amendment we tried to insert. Those amendments are not intended to be the meat of the Bill but to set the parameters within which we will deliver the targets in the Bill. I am disappointed to hear the Minister say this is not a manifesto for everything we want to include in it and that this is a way of ensuring we...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 10: In page 7, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following: “(e) by the insertion of the following subsection: “(2) The references in section 4(11), section 5(8) and section 6B(13) to a Minister of the Government shall each be construed as including a reference to the Government.”.”. This is a technical amendment but it is...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: There is nothing I can say to that. It is disappointing. I will push the matter to a vote.

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

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House again. He must be sick of looking at us. Between 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...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the Government decision last week to allow people aged between 18 and 34 to avail of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson or Janssen vaccine from today in pharmacies. It is a development that is greatly welcomed in the roll-out of the vaccine programme. I compliment Senator Chambers on her work last week in opposing a two-tier reopening for younger people and, in particular,...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: We are not. We will withdraw it to resubmit on Report Stage.

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I was not going to contribute on these amendments but I wish to speak on the amendment related to the Aarhus Convention.It could be argued that even though we have signed up to the Aarhus Convention, it does not need to be included in this Bill. Colm Keena wrote an interesting article in The Irish Timesabout access to judicial reviews and how the Government is looking at limiting access to...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: A number of amendments I have tabled are effectively ruled out. I do not want to press them because of what the Minister is doing in his own amendments. We should probably go through them. I am going to withdraw some of mine.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: We should proceed in that way rather than move each of them.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I am getting a little bit confused as to how this is working. Are we going through our individual amendments to move them, as per Committee Stage, or are we-----

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: Okay. So, we are not speaking to everything.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: Okay, yes.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: We have a number of amendments seeking to extend the protections to 2023, which effectively brings in a short-term rent freeze for people who have registered. The Minister has moved significantly, however, in terms of bringing rent increases in line with inflation and the consumer price index. He is making a very welcome move on behalf of renters. I am going to withdraw my amendments. I...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 11: In page 5, to delete lines 10 and 11 and substitute the following: "(b) a deposit (howsoever described and being an amount of money to be held by the landlord only as security for the performance of any obligations, and the discharge of any liabilities, of the tenant under or in connection with the tenancy) of an amount no greater than that payable under the...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: No, I am not.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I was not expecting this. It feels more like a wedding than the passing of a Bill. I am just getting used to it. The move by the Government to link rents to the consumer price index is progressive, long overdue and welcome. I also see that institutional property investors kicked up about the issue. Taking this action in the face of lobbying from people on the outside, particularly...