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Seanad: Regulation of Display of Electoral and Polling Posters and Other Advertisements Bill 2022: Second Stage (17 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank Senator Pauline O'Reilly for bringing the Bill before the House. This is an issue about which politicians, in particular, become very excited and have large numbers of opinions, but I am not sure that everybody does. I have an intense dislike and hatred of posters, but that is mainly due to the exertion that goes with them. I had to chase after a poster of mine through two fields...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I want to raise the issue of the unequal allocation of cycling resources within Dublin city on National Bike Week. Dublin City Council has drawn down funding for active travel measures. We all know that in order to facilitate a move away from the car towards active travel methods such as cycling and walking, we must invest in these measures but my constituency has received 13 times less...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I do not want to go over the ground that members have already covered but it is important to come back to the point made by Deputy McAuliffe in respect of essentially devolving this to local authorities. While the waivers of fee are welcome, it was a short-term and temporary measure, albeit one that identified a problem of which many people had been aware for a long time. I refer to the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I wish to raise the issue of dereliction in our towns and cities. A report has just been published by the Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage on the issue of dereliction. We have worked on this issue for a number of months and have reached a cross-party and broad-based consensus on some of the issues that have to be tackled in order to tackle dereliction....

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by US Congressman Richard Neal (24 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: We welcome our distinguished guests and friends from the United States, in particular the ambassador, H.E. Ms Cronin, and Congressman Neal's words of solidarity. In 1998 when the Good Friday Agreement was signed everybody knew it was not an end game. What it did was provide a framework for a bigger job of a peace process. It may have been Sunningdale for slow learners, in the immortal...

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for outlining the provisions of the Bill and its transposition into Irish law of EU legislation. The Labour Party broadly welcomes the Bill and the intention behind it to tackle anti-competitive practice, for instance, where businesses engage in price-fixing and other breaches of competition laws. Like workers, consumers must be adequately protected throughout...

Seanad: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022 : Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Amendment No. 10 is very similar and effectively seeks to do the same. We support Sinn Féin's amendment, particularly as Sinn Féin designates and specifies the national building control office. This was also raised in the Dáil. It is a very dangerous precedent effectively to have a lobby group serve as regulator under this legislation. We see today from FOI requests that...

Seanad: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022 : Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 10: In page 13, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “(e) a trade union, whether of employers or of workers and whether registered or unregistered, within the meaning of the Trade Union Acts 1871 to 1990;”.

Seanad: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022 : Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 32: In page 48, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: "(i) contravention of the Building Control Regulations 1997 to 2021.". This is a fairly self-explanatory amendment. I will not take up much time speaking to it. The amendment seeks to enable a person to make a complaint to the registrar in the case of a contravention of the Building Control...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 68: In page 25, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “Information relating to contact preference 17. In every case where an applicant is provided under this Act with a copy of the records that contain the birth information to which the application relates, or with a statement setting out the birth information contained in those records, the...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: The Minister's task is unenviable. I understand the point he made about whether the message is conveyed via telephone call, but I have also heard from people who have had to have those conversations with adoption authorities and felt very traumatised by it in terms of the reaction. Equally, letters can be cold. It is a very difficult matter and I really do not envy the Minister in trying...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 71: In page 26, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(4) Where the relevant person does not wish to have an information session either by an in-person meeting or an electronic meeting, information in accordance with subsection (2)shall be provided to the relevant person via post or electronically, and an information session will be deemed to have...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 72: In page 27, line 2, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”. Amendment No. 72 strengthens the provision in section 19 by specifying that the Minister should issue guidance to the Child and Family Agency, the AAI and the relevant bodies regarding their performance under this section of the Bill. Section 19, a miscellaneous provisions...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Can I speak to each of the amendments in the group?

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thought we were only discussing amendment No. 72. Amendment No. 79 seeks to replace the word "may" with "shall" to strengthen the language relating to the issuing of guidelines by the Minister regarding the types of information to be deemed relevant to the health of a qualifying person. Section 24 provides for the release of medical information relating to a genetic relative of a person...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 73: In page 28, line 20, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”. Amendment No. 73 seeks to replace the word "may" with the word "shall" in page 28, line 20, thereby strengthening the language in this section, which provides for the release of a statement by the relevant body to a qualifying person setting out the birth information it holds....

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No 74: In page 28, after line 34, to insert the following: “(6) Where the records are unavailable, the relevant body shall make every effort to locate the data controller holding the relevant parent’s records.”.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 75: In page 29, line 9, after “incorrect” to insert “or illegal”.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 76: In page 29, line 14, after "incorrect" to insert "or illegal".

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I move amendment No. 77: In page 29, line 15, to delete "may" and substitute "shall".