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

Rebecca Moynihan: I did not get a chance to congratulate the Cathaoirleach on his new position last week and I would like to take 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...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I wish to raise the issue of the establishment of an autism spectrum disorder, ASD, school in Dublin 12. Parents have campaigned for it for a number of years and the recent report from the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, acknowledged that Scoil Choilm is a possible location. A building patron has come forward but it is getting no engagement from the Department. It needs the...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: I want to discuss something that is going to happen on Monday which will affect thousands of renters throughout this country. An eviction ban was put in place at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Focus Ireland and other homelessness charities have said that this has contributed significantly to the decrease in the number of people in homelessness. Most of the people affected by job...

Seanad: National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Services Bill 2020: Second Stage (17 Jul 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Ryan, to the Chamber and wish him well in his new job. I had the pleasure of working with many close colleagues of the Minister on Dublin City Council and they are among the most talented of politicians. We shared a great deal in common with respect to how things worked at local authority level. The Labour Party welcomes the provisions of the Bill and the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jul 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I raise again the issue of the eviction ban, which was extended this week although only until next Friday, 31 July. Younger people and people working in the sectors most affected by Covid-related job losses will next week be thrown back into the insecurity of living in the private rented sector, where tenants' rights are poor. The last few months have provided security to renters. While...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jul 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I want to raise something the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, suggested in the Dáil last week in response to a question from Deputy Ó Broin. He said that a report carried out by the Economic and Social Research Institute did not find significant rent arrears during the first three months of Covid-19. At that stage the report had not been published but it was published yesterday....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: Just before the summer, we voted in this House to lift the eviction ban that protected renters in the course of the Covid emergency. We are seeing new restrictions in Dublin and, as my colleague referred to here, many people in the events, arts, hospitality and restaurant sectors have been told their jobs are likely to be lost by the weekend. We are aware that a disproportionate number of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I wish to raise an issue that affects thousands of people, namely, those who live in defective Celtic tiger-era apartments. The programme for Government contains a commitment for the examination of defective homes following recommendations made in a 2018 report by the Oireachtas housing committee. The programme sets out that the examination should take place within the first 12 months of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I call on the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to come to the House to have a wider debate around the issue of protecting our built heritage. Yesterday a developer pulled down The O'Rahilly House in Ballsbridge, despite the city council voting to give it protection by listing it on the record of protected structures. From my understanding, once a local authority moves to...

Seanad: Aviation Industry: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for coming in to address us today. It is not an overstatement to say the growth of the airline and aviation industry in Ireland transformed our fortunes in the 1990s, particularly in regional settings. We are a small island reliant on access to the outside world for our economic well-being and global and social connections. Covid-19 has put the aviation...

Seanad: Aviation Industry: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: We need both the State and stakeholders to work together to ensure airlines support these industries. I am surprised that in the comprehensive address made by the Minister of State, she did not mention the potential kite flying by Aer Lingus of building some of its operations in the UK and bypassing Shannon in the process. It looks like under the cover of Covid-19, Aer Lingus is moving to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I agree. One of the issues with SHDs relates to what An Bord Pleanála generally gets from a planner's report. The SHDs that have been tested in the courts have been upheld. However, there is a wider issue concerning how An Bord Pleanála and people engage with the planning system. I suggest that, while the SHDs should form the part of our work, An Bord Pleanála is not fit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: Yes.

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

Rebecca Moynihan: I will be sharing my time with Senator Hoey, and for clarification, Senator Sherlock will wrap up the debate on behalf of the Labour Party. I thank my colleague, Senator Sherlock, for all the work she has put into this, in particular on leading the agenda on sick pay. Senator Sherlock has been a leading trade unionist in this country, and neither she nor the Labour Party has come late to...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: I suggest that urban regeneration be kept separate from the matters covered in No. 24. Deputy McAuliffe spoke about infrastructural funds for regeneration projects, which we do not have available to us. The issue is also that the decisions being made by local authorities are being led by where the money is coming from. Urban regeneration, particularly of existing social housing stock, is...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: It probably should be given greater priority than that. It is a wider issue. It has a massive impact on housing stock so I would not be happy with it being in No. 24 or a subcategory of No. 24.

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

Rebecca Moynihan: The issue of maintenance arrears could fall into the same category as looking at the national differential rent scheme that has been promised. I am a little concerned about decoupling maintenance from social regeneration because often a lack of maintenance within our public housing building has forced us into positions that we would not want to be in, in terms of regeneration. I am thinking...

Seanad: Budget 2021: Statements (14 Oct 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. I will address some of the issues around the much lauded largest ever investment in housing. The pandemic has exposed the cost of our broken housing system. We see people in low-paid jobs not just sharing rooms but hot bedding, renters being evicted and the crisis in social housing and homelessness continuing. The spin is that this is the...

Seanad: Shannon Group: Motion (14 Oct 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank Senator Gavan and the Sinn Féin group for bringing forward this motion. I also thank the Ministers of State, Deputies Feighan and Hildegarde Naughton, for coming into the House to discuss it. Coming from Dublin, I am struck by the great degree of openness and collaboration among people from the mid-west region regarding Shannon Airport. All of us come to this discussion with...

Seanad: Railway Safety (Reporting and Investigation of Serious Accidents, Accidents and Incidents Involving Certain Railways) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: My party supports this Bill but we will not be speaking on it.