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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank everybody for coming in. I was watching the meeting from my office. I may, therefore, go over some questions others have asked, particularly with regard to some of the queries and figures about which Deputy Ó Broin asked. I pay tribute to some of the staff I deal with in the housing section of DCC on a daily basis. Ms Aisling Browne in acquisitions helped me with a difficult...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I did vote for cost rental. I voted for the affordable housing measures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Many of them are on HAP.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Okay, I am sorry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: There are others that have been derelict longer. I can think of several.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Dolphin's Barn.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: No, the corner of-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Today I bring to the attention of the House the provision of both cost rental and social housing in the old St. Michael's Estate, what is now the Emmet Road development project. In 2018, the then Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Eoghan Murphy, said this would be a flagship cost rental project in the city, with loans from the European Investment Bank, EIB, and funds from...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Oct 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the Minister. I am merely standing in for my colleague, Senator Mark Wall, to flag some of the amendments we will table on Committee Stage. It is always a bit intimidating, particularly when the subject is judicial reform, when one turns up and half the Chamber is packed with barristers.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Oct 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: We welcome this Bill, but first I raise some of the amendments we would like to table. We are a little concerned about judicial independence. We will seek to incorporate judicial independence, appointments by the Minister, and the Dublin declaration on standards and recruitment for the appointment of members of the Judiciary into the Bill on Committee Stage. The second issue I will flag is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2022, Planning and Development (Solar Safeguarding Zone) Regulations 2022: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: We are very supportive of this and I pay tribute to the Chair and the Green Party for its motion and Private Members' Bill on this this time last year, I think. What is the position on this in architectural conservation areas with protected structures and buildings? I understand that at the moment panels can be put on the back of some buildings but not necessarily on the front. Has special...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2022, Planning and Development (Solar Safeguarding Zone) Regulations 2022: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I meant roof sides. As far as I know, the front side of pitched roofs cannot be done whereas the back can be. I do not mean the actual building.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2022, Planning and Development (Solar Safeguarding Zone) Regulations 2022: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Yes, thanks Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Local Authority Elected Members) Bill 2022: Discussion (22 Sep 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I am not on the grounds of Leinster House so I cannot contribute. I am just tuning into the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: First, I have sympathy for landlords who, as a result of the crash, ended up in negative equity, needed to hold onto their starter home and became accidental landlords. Most of them did not want to be landlords and they are now selling on as property prices are reaching pre-peak levels. However, I do not have sympathy for the lobbyists asking that they can pass on a property portfolio with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I was talking about security of tenure------

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Sep 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the Leader and Senators back to the House after a long summer. I begin by commiserating with Ambassador Johnston and the British people on the death of their Head of State and monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. I wish to raise the following issue because we hit a milestone over the summer; more than 10,000 people are now homeless in this country, the highest number since records began....

Seanad: Energy: Motion (14 Sep 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House on this matter. There are two issues at play. This will be the winter of energy. There is a need for Ireland to transfer from a fossil fuel-based economy to an energy system based on renewables. We must exploit the significant potential we have in wind. That need is now more pressing than ever. The cost of energy is spiralling out of...