Results 101-111 of 111 for long speaker:Rebecca Moynihan

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: .... It is not a question of people using this nefariously but it is a question of people deciding, because of resources, that they have completed this. Senator Fitzpatrick and I have been on Dublin City Council for a long time and we know that when it comes to some of the issues, public consultation is not necessarily good enough and we have to go back again when people learn about it....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...in this House. If possible, Members would try to reach a cross-party consensus on how to deal with this issue and to avoid being subject to a money message if I consider drafting a Private Members’ Bill along similar lines to what has happened in Scotland. It is a very important issue particularly for younger women who have difficulty in affording the type of sanitary products and...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Second Stage (25 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...on the changing of purpose-built student accommodation for short-term lets, as that has happened in five cases. Some of the other student accommodation providers are thinking about doing that in the long term. I have no problem with the majority of the Bill but the section making a permanent change in the modernisation agenda is a sneaky change. Having a public meeting is really...

Seanad: Traveller Accommodation: Statements (17 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...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 the end of October...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...that were allowed. They pretended that they were building purpose-built student accommodation but were actually doing what they had always wanted, which is tourist accommodation thus undermining long-term housing, affordable student accommodation and the hotel industry. The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage needs to come into this House to address this matter. He must...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...hearing that. I have a real concern that 4,000 short-term units have been given permission in a very small area in Dublin 8. I need to check out the housing units but it was definitely under 500 for a very long time before one large application on the Bailey Gibson site. I want advice on how balanced development is done in an area. How is it done so that it satisfies the requirements...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...in the house and 11 years on the council waiting list, has stated he is planning to sell the house in the new year. This family should not be still fighting to get a permanent home after such a long time on the waiting list. When the family transferred from rent allowance to the housing assistance payment from rent allowance, they were moved backwards on the list. In another case, a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...the Department that meant we had to privatise that land to develop it. I would be reluctant be decouple maintenance and social regeneration entirely because one leads into the other. The lack of long-term maintenance in local authority projects has often led to us selling them off. I agree that the approval process is different but I would like to see social regeneration and maintenance...

Seanad: Statutory Right to Sick Leave Pay: Motion (7 Oct 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...that a blanket nationwide eviction ban will be reintroduced, despite the fact that the whole country had moved to level 3 and there are restrictions on travel. We are all in this together as long as a person is living in a home that he or she owns, with room for a home office in which that person can work from home, and he or she does not need to avail of sick pay. Working from home is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jul 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...able to go back to work and that we needed to postpone phase 4 of the Covid-19 restrictions. The leader of Fianna Fáil in this House has said that we are in this together and we are in it for the long haul. This is scant comfort to renters who will be subject to normal eviction procedures from Monday. The ban on rental evictions is the one thing that has provided certainty to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Jul 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...the opportunity to do that now. To follow-up on the sentiments of Senator Black in relation to co-living developments, I have represented the Dublin 8 area and I am a resident there for a very long time. This is wider than simply Dublin 8. It is a question of health. I welcomed the fact that the Minister stated on radio on Friday that he did not believe that co-living was a long-term...