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Seanad: Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (23 Feb 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. Like Senator Currie, I very much support the idea of deliberative democracy. We have inherited an old parliamentary system from the British, which we have not changed in any way shape or form. Having had the marriage equality and repeal of the eighth amendment assemblies, we know there is a value in citizens' assemblies taking those very...

Seanad: Coroners (Provision for Jury Selection) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the families here this evening. I wish to pay tribute to Senator Boylan, who I have watched over the years, as a former MEP and now as a Senator, working with the Stardust families and advocating for them on both national and European levels. Her commitment to this cause cannot be questioned. It goes without saying that the fact the families have been left without answers and...

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Feb 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I wish to come in on amendment No. 2. I had expected to hear the bells go off but I did not. Hence, I am little late. These amendments are related. They are specifically around ensuring that people who are paying the electricity bill, particularly those who are in rented accommodation, are the ones that will benefit from this measure. I understand that it is an emergency measure. I take...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (3 Feb 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I did not realise we could be in the committee room again this week so I apologise for attending via video link. I have several questions. I want to focus on the definition of a national monument and this question is specifically for An Taisce. Does An Taisce think the definition is broad enough to incorporate more recent national monuments in order to protect both heritage and built...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (3 Feb 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Yes, it does. I thank Dr. Johnson. One of the areas that is overlooked is our industrial heritage. When we look at heritage, we often focus on older sites, but to protect our industrial heritage for future generations is important. I have a further question for the local authorities on the provisions around metal detectors. Is there a huge incidence of people using metal detectors and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (3 Feb 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Perfect. I thank Dr. Greene. That is interesting because I would not have known that.

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

Rebecca Moynihan: I want to start by expressing solidarity with Poland on the death of Agnieszka due to Poland's restrictive abortion laws. That happened in January and follows the death of a woman known as Izabela in December. As many people would know, the supreme court in Poland rowed back on its abortion laws, as have states such as Texas. I want to raise the issue of the abortion review that is ongoing...

Seanad: Passport Office Service: Motion (2 Feb 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the Minister. I always think that debates like this are among the best examples of the Upper House in how passionate people get about passport administration. I thank the Fine Gael Senators for bringing this motion and I commend all the staff in the Passport Office, and across the public service, for their hard work in delivering a timely and efficient service during the pandemic....

Seanad: Broadband Roll-out: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I wish to share time with Senator Wall.

Seanad: Broadband Roll-out: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for coming in today. Senator Buttimer was entirely correct when he talked about the significant project the roll-out of broadband will be. The Senator compares it to rural electrification. I would like to compare it to another big project, namely, the late Minister, Donogh O'Malley, making available secondary school education to children, in terms of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: Many of my questions have been answered and I do not want to go over what other colleagues have said. I want to try to pull out some more solutions to it. I do not think anybody here can say addressing vacant housing is going to be the panacea for the housing crisis but it is an important toolkit for us in that effort, particularly for bringing our towns and cities back to life. With that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I am going to stay on that theme a little longer by following up on Deputy O’Callaghan’s questions. I also had a concern about what Mr. O’Rourke said in his initial opening statement, that he is engaged with cost rental and affordable purchase and the social aspect is essentially being left to the local authorities. First, the minimum requirement for Part V for local...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: Like others, I wish to express my sympathies on the murder of Ashling Murphy. For many women, it is difficult to open a newspaper or watch television any day and not see an act of violence against them. We rationalise those things to psychologically protect ourselves. Every once in a while, a murder happens and it strikes a chord with everybody. We ask how we can possibly protect...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I pay tribute to Senator Warfield. It is often not easy to call something like that out but he is a credit to the community that brought him up and rather than pulling up the ladder behind him, he is leading the way on supporting young LGBT men, women and non-binary people coming up. It is a bit embarrassing to follow it up because I will be following up with the technical and local issue...

Seanad: TRIPS Waiver: Motion (15 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I pay tribute to Senator Higgins for drafting this motion. As Senator Gavan has said, she went out of her way to draft a motion that Senators on the other side of the House could support. This is not a matter of party political differences but a moral issue among a group of humans sitting in this Chamber in the middle of a pandemic. With Covid-19, the ultimate question is when we will end...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I will start by prefacing it because we often look at this issue a bit backwards. It is about enticing people to reuse a property. For example, in Amsterdam people are required to register a property and if it has fallen into vacancy, not necessarily dereliction, people are encouraged to bring it back into use. We need to begin to look at it that way. In the middle of a housing crisis,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I was using that as an example of Dublin City Council having a site and believing it could not be developed. Then it took four years to pull it back from the developer. I know that it is being brought back into use and that there are proposals for the site, but it is an example of how difficult it can be to bring such buildings back into use, even if there is a CPO and the owns them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I want to know what support the Department is giving the council to be able to bring sites back from dereliction and vacancy into use. That is the main issue. I understand the constraints on the council. Even if the sites are not the subject of a CPO and belong to the city council, I want to know what supports the Department is putting in place in terms of those large-scale sites. From my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: I have a few questions for other witnesses. Mr. Clegg did not really answer my question, but that is grand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: Well, no. I have questions for Ms Murphy and the representatives of Anois on meanwhile use and data sets.