Results 61-80 of 111 for long speaker:Rebecca Moynihan

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ..., commercial, cost-driven model for people on the register. People coming into local employment services may have lost confidence, may have lost a job, may not have been in the workplace for a long time and may have been a carer. They will suddenly be told they have to go into inappropriate jobs for which they might not be ready or able for because the Department of Social Protection has...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...has rent not at least doubled since it bottomed out in 2013. This brings me to my next point regarding the change being made by the Minister. While this move and linking it to the CPI is a good long-term intervention, we also need short-term action because rents are getting so out of control. We must declare the whole country an RPZ. We must also have a rent freeze, similar to what...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...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 the last of the big three to pass away. On behalf of the Labour Party, I want to be associated with the words that have been spoken about him. One...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...to ensure that a portion of large developments, even in build-to-rent, are available to owner-occupiers, and also that build-to-rent standards are harmonised with our apartment standards. Some people may be long-term renters. However, if they are living in a highly-dense apartment network they also deserve a balcony and open space. They deserve to be able to open a window and to be able...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...prescriptive rights of way and protecting rights of way, many of which have been used for generations. This issue affects individuals, families and communities, and it should have been addressed long before now. There are but two weeks until the deadline and there is last-minute, rushed legislation. If we are to examine the wider issue, we need to consider how private prescriptive rights...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...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 because,...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...a year. It is a great disappointment and a missed opportunity that an arm of the State, controlled by the Government, is selling on a group of apartments to investors and trying to trap people into long-term rental while, at the same time, that same State and Government are not giving renters tenancy and security of tenure. We need a wider debate on how NAMA has operated in the housing...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...and was an enhancement of what were previously derelict sites. That was welcome, but I had never been convinced that the intention on the developer side was to provide student accommodation in the long term. In my area, there were applications to close what had been promised public spaces, followed by applications to turn the student accommodation into tourist accommodation for the...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...a way that would make it more workable rather than rely on a fairly weak circular. There are certain people, particularly people in Dublin 1, 7 and 8, who have warned about this situation for a long time. I tabled this Bill last March and way before the controversy over the student accommodation crisis blew up because it was very clear to me at a really early stage that this was the game...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...also create a chill effect on GPs being able to operate their services. Just 10% of GPs and just over half of maternity units in this country are operating abortion services. We still have a very long way to go in offering safe, legal and local access for women to services. That is why it is so important this legislation is passed. There are women now who are, let us say, living in a...

Seanad: Budget 2022: Statements (12 Oct 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...institutional investors leaving homes empty in order to artificially keep rents high. We see it in things like build-to-rent apartment standards which are not in line with apartment standards. In the long term we will have people who will not be able to have balconies in such developments. We see it with apartments being brought under the stamp duty rules at the time when there was...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...bad planning that when it comes to cultural capital we are essentially providing the housing assistance payment, HAP, rather than social housing. I ask the Government look at providing mortgages and long-term loans to artists' studios to be able to buy the premises they are in and to have a clause that ownership reverts to the local authorities if those organisations end up winding up....

Seanad: Housing For All - a New Housing Plan for Ireland: Statements (29 Sep 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...address the issue of renters and the lack of real commitment to or acknowledgment of them in the policy document. Housing for All commits to bringing forward legislation with provisions to address long-term security of tenure. The Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, has said that it would be dependent on the legal advice that is received from the Attorney General and the Department, and it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Sep 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...and I think Ms Conway talked about the need for additional resources that are available and the need for local area plans, LAP. I certainly know that from a Dublin city perspective, there is a long list of areas that have to have local area plans and very short timeframes and resources are available to them. Can the witnesses see other alternatives being put into the development plans,...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...populations of more than 150,000, namely, Dublin and Cork. There are other cities and towns, however, that are affected by this. As a policy, where the LDA takes over land, it should be exclusively for the delivery of long-term public housing, and that is what amendment No. 77 concerns. It will provide for a number of grades, starting with 20% to 40%, in order that each individual site...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...is to use public land, effectively, to get houses built. We are fully supportive of the concept of a development plan to develop public housing on public land. It has been our party’s policy for a very long time. If the Land Development Agency works as it should, and works as a true State-run public developer, it should supply public housing on public land and create a long-term...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...it was intended to do. The basis for that is that the only opportunity that local residents have for appeals of bad decisions or bad planning is to go through the court system, which is cumbersome, long, and expensive. Rather than examining ways to limit judicial reviews, we need to get back to a planning process that engages local communities while encouraging the need for the...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...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...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jun 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...,000 and €300,000, and he gave an example.Unfortunately, that is not defined in the Bill. This amendment seeks to define it in the Bill. This legislation will hopefully be on the Statute Book for a long time. As Senator Higgins said, Government Members can give out figures but the reality is the market and construction costs can run away with themselves. We are trying to...

Seanad: Right to Housing: Motion (4 Jun 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: The Labour Party has been wholeheartedly in favour of a constitutional right to housing, along with other socioeconomic rights, for a number of years. Driving socioeconomic rights, including the right to a home in the Constitution, would make a difference to people but it would not solve all of the problems. It would not end the housing crisis overnight and it would not be a silver bullet....