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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I apologise for not being in the Chamber but I was in a committee and I have to go to a committee afterwards. I request a debate on an issue I wish to bring to the attention of the House, that is, the very welcome decision yesterday by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, to ban co-living developments. That is really welcome. The report says that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Planning and Development Management Bill: Discussion (24 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I apologise for missing the presentations. I was speaking on the Order of Business in the Seanad so it was unavoidable. I want to check if I am reading this right. Am I correct in saying there is no obligation to do an environmental impact assessment, EIA, as part of the public consultation? Reference was made to developer engagement with impacted stakeholders. What is envisaged by that?...

Seanad: Traveller Accommodation: Statements (17 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank Senator Flynn for raising this issue on the Order of Business and putting on it on the agenda of the House today. There is rightfully a lot of talk about the housing crisis but little attention is given to the long-term lack of supply of Traveller accommodation. Each local authority is required to have a Traveller accommodation action plan. The new plans came in two years ago but by...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Homelessness Strategy (11 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I submitted this matter for debate because the week before last five homeless people died. We already had a spike in the number of homeless people during the summer. That could have been due to Covid-19, or people may not have been comfortable within homeless services because of a lack of social distancing and therefore opted to live in tents. There was a tragic death in my area of a...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Homelessness Strategy (11 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State. It is good to hear that he intends to establish a task force and that additional resources will go into homeless services. Like the Minister of State, I want to express my gratitude to all of the people who have worked in homeless services from March onwards. It was quite a remarkable feat in terms of the outbreak within homeless services. Everybody pulled...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I want to raise the issue of purpose-built student accommodation being granted planning permission for short-term use as tourist or visitor accommodation. There are guidelines for purpose-built student accommodation. I do not think anyone could argue that we do not need some purpose-built student accommodation but what we have seen since the guidelines were introduced is luxury...

Seanad: Political Donations: Motion (11 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I am sharing my time with Senator Sherlock. I am somewhat dismayed to be here listening to what seems to be the defining political narrative of this Oireachtas, which involves Sinn Féin taking a populist pop at Fine Gael over elitism and Fine Gael bouncing back with a swipe at Sinn Féin over underhand tactics. The rest of us are caught in this arrangement that is mutually...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Developments: Discussion (10 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: Is there any space to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Developments: Discussion (10 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: What generally happens is that people swap places with members of their own party and if one is not in a party it does not tend to happen. I ask that someone does that for me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Developments: Discussion (10 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Like Deputy Ó Broin, I will provide some of my own views then I will ask some specific questions. I am quite disappointed by both presentations, in that the tone of both the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and An Bord Pleanála seems to be more concerned with the implementation of the SHDs and helping developers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Developments: Discussion (10 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I am quite taken aback by the statement that access to the courts and the judicial review are considered to be an appeal mechanism in the area of planning. The courts are extremely expensive and this means that lower income areas do not really have access to appeals. The Department's contention that this is an appeal mechanism that satisfies the Aarhus Convention is quite shocking. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Developments: Discussion (10 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: The witnesses could come back to me with a written response.

Seanad: Biodiversity: Motion (5 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Green Party Senators for drafting this very comprehensive motion. I listened to the informative and entertaining speech from Senator Garvey on the issue. As a pure inner-city woman who grew up in a concrete jungle, I always find it useful to listen to contributors with a knowledge of peat, soil and hedgerows. It is generally accepted that we are in the middle of a climate and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the witnesses for the presentations this morning. I apologise if my questions are going to sound a little bit stupid, I am very new to this topic, and I would like the representatives of the various organisations to talk me through some baby information, if that is okay. I have a couple of questions for the EPA representatives. Is it proposed that the agency would keep a record...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: Therefore the EPA will not have a record of anything else on a given water source? There will not be a cumulative record gathered on a particular water source.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: What about complaints for revocation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: For revoking a licence. Is there provision to make complaints?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: No thank you Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thought we were going second. I am fine to go now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the witnesses for their presentation today and their background work on this. I have a couple of questions on how the wording was arrived at and what is included in it. Did the group consider including "security of tenure" in the wording? "Security" and "adequacy" can be two separate things. Did the group give consideration to that? If so, what were the reasons it was decided to...