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Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I will be very brief. Abortion is healthcare and people are accessing healthcare facilities. People can pray wherever they want. This is not about prayer. This is simply about intimidation. It is about a chill effect. It is part of the tactics they always use. Do not buy into this thing that there is an overreach in terms people's right to pray. There is a very particular reason...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I was not going to come back in but I want to take issue with something Senator Mullen said; that other Members do not care about this issue as much he and Senator Keogan do. We are not going away when it comes to this. We will continue to fight for free, legal, safe and local abortion. The Senator might think he can run down the clock and put a chilling effect on Members in this Chamber,...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Is it possible to get a copy of the Minister of State's speech circulated? There seem to be a specific number of amendments coming in and as Senator Warfield says they have not been addressed. We do not want to see a situation - although this would not be overly problematic - like when the whole forestry section was dropped into the fur farming Bill two weeks ago. It is not a good way to...

Seanad: Carbon Budgets: Motion (5 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. I welcome this debate and, in particular, the important move on behalf of the State to move towards carbon budgets. While it is important that the budgets are agreed by the Houses for the next two years, I do see competition coming down the line from various Departments that may seek to offset their carbon emissions by using carbon...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: My apologies, I was at something else and now I have to go to the Seanad. To clarify, is the Department not here, it is just the SEAI?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: That is no problem. I prepared a couple of questions and some were for the Department. I might read them out anyhow. Do we expect the Department will be able to come in? Maybe the Department can come back to us. It is in regard to the resource intensity of the construction sector. This is not a question for the Chair but it would be interesting to get an indication on how the Department...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Perfect. As I was late I was unaware of that. I have a question for the SEAI. There is a research study investigating lifestyle carbon impact on new and renovated buildings to be published. Can I have an indication from the SEAI on when it envisages this report will be published? The carbon intensity of new-builds and what we see in many of the developments coming through is that we have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I am not asking about the standard of new homes being built. It is about the replacing of existing buildings that could be repurposed as opposed to being pulled down, and the intensity of the use of building materials in that process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Maybe the witnesses can answer the Chair's questions with the time remaining. I do not have anything further to add.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Mar 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I wish to raise the issue of reports in newspapers this morning on housing Ukrainian refugees in tents and prefabs. While I understand that there needs to be a short-term response I also believe we need to have a long-term housing strategy for the numbers of refugees that we will be taking from Ukraine. Some figures suggest up to 200,000. The figure is probably going to be lower than that...

Seanad: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Green Party for giving me the time to speak now because I must leave the Chamber afterwards. I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House, and as Senator Davitt mentioned, he probably spends as much time in the Chamber as many Senators. The Minister of State is probably the most responsive person in the Department to us, as he is with this important Bill. Over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: As I am the last to speak many of my questions have been asked but I will try to zone in on questions that have not been asked to avoid repetition by the witnesses. A figure of 800 cost-rental dwellings was mentioned in the opening statement of the CCMA. Does that mean 800 dwellings will be delivered per year or over four years? I ask because the figure seems low as local authorities...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: That is interesting so a lot of that will be taken up by St. Michael's Estate or the current Emmett Road plans and there will be no other units around the country from local authorities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I look forward to seeing the housing delivery action plans in April. Each local authority has been given housing targets but in the same month Dublin City Council had to as part of its competitive tender process on its largest site at O'Devaney Gardens sell a portion of the site to deliver the social and affordable units on that site. There is many a slip twixt cup and lip so does Mr....

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I support the amendment. Having a Bill that is about one thing and then including an important area around forestry at the last minute is not a good way to do business. The Environmental Pillar has been in touch with all Senators about this. I do not think anybody is doubting the bona fides of the Minister of State, Deputy Hackett. However, when we are drafting legislation, are we doing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I was going to ask the question Deputy O'Callaghan asked about the scale of response that is going to be required for the numbers of people who will be coming into the country. Perhaps we could follow up on that. Has the Department of Justice approached the Housing Agency? Has there been any backward planning done on how a large number of people can be housed within such a short period? ...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Mar 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: It is difficult, when we are seeing the images coming from Ukraine, to come into this House and speak about anything else, quite frankly. It is dominating everyone's thoughts and the news agenda. It is horrific and it is worth reiterating that point. I want to talk about the calls from my party colleague, Deputy Bacik, on behalf of those people who are fleeing Ukraine and travelling to its...

Seanad: Housing Policy: Motion (2 Mar 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the people in the Gallery. I also commend the Civil Engagement Group which, as always, has put forward a well-thought out, policy-driven motion and a Private Members' Bill. I will focus on one specific aspect and type of housing, which is renting. That is where there is huge insecurity and precariousness. Just as we came into this Chamber, the Parliamentary Budget Office put out...

Seanad: Situation in Ukraine: Statements (1 Mar 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: The images from Ukraine are quite shocking. I never thought we would be in a position where one neighbour would invade another's territorial borders in a modern Europe in 2022 in the way we have seen happen in Ukraine. As I said on the Order of Business the other day, there is a view that it appears to be the greatest act of aggression since the Second World War; it is not. It is worth...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: As are my colleagues I am quite frankly stunned by the actions of a brutal dictator and imperialist, Vladimir Putin, in Ukraine. This very much fits in with the regressive foreign policy Russia has adopted over recent years. For example, supporting the brutal dictator Assad in Syria. I hear a lot of people speaking about the biggest war on our doorstop since the Second World War. It is...