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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: It sounds like 2025.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: What of the Conyngham Road depot and, specifically, the site on the corner opposite the Ashling Hotel? Has there been any movement on the Heuston master plan? I have not seen any movement on it since the initial-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Cathaoirleach. It is a privilege to be here at what is the end of an era with the retirement of Senator Norris. He has not just been a strong voice in this Chamber but has been a strong voice nationally and internationally for human rights and gay liberation. He leaves a mark on an Ireland that is much different from the country he was born into. He has set the agenda for the...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: I will not be taking the ten minutes either. I want to raise something that was in one of the amendments. I am disappointed that they will not be accepted. I ask the Government to take another look at it and speak to the Electoral Commission. This relates to candidates’ addresses being published and the anonymity that some candidates should have. I questioned the Electoral...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: I have two main questions and then I have another question which I think is interesting and a key issue that arose from the committee hearings on Tuesday that Senator Cummins will address.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: Yes. Threshold raised two issues with the committee and I would like to know what the thinking behind them is. One is the exclusion of non-Part 4 tenancies from this and the other is the exclusion of Tyrrelstown amendment tenancies from this where a number of people are selling a whole apartment block and it is subject to the Tyrrelstown amendment that they cannot. What was the thinking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: I will follow up on the Tyrrelstown amendment. Build-to-rent comes out of the most recent guidelines but an awful lot of apartment blocks would be owned by a corporate landlord or by one landlord who is pre- the current guidelines. Even pre-'63 there might have been a number of different units that would meet the criteria of the Tyrrelstown amendment. I am thinking about one area in my own...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: They will not have the right to buy or to try to club together. They will not have the right of refusal to buy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: What if somebody has just ten apartments they have bought in a block? There are situations where that does arise. Even if somebody has three big '63 houses right beside each other and then decides to sell all of them and markets them specifically as investment properties, what about that? Why would this not apply there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: Not with the Tyrrelstown amendment, they have to prove they suffered significant-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: Therefore there is no real reason it does not apply to people who fall under that criteria that they would have the right to buy their individual apartments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: I absolutely get that from an investor's perspective in terms of managing it but there is no real reason they are considered differently from being a tenant who has the right to purchase, except for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: Okay, that is grand.

Seanad: Local Government Matters and City and County Councillors: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: I thank the Independent Group for tabling this motion. We have very many large challenges in the next 30 to 50 years, including decarbonisation of our country. There are large challenges in the areas of climate; moving away from car allocation and towards more active transport; housing, including catching up on housing that has not been built over the past decade; large-scale developments...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: To follow up on Deputy O’Callaghan’s point, there is a bad idea and there is bad legislation. I think this is potentially a good idea but what we are hearing from both sides and across the board is that the legislation is not necessarily going to fulfil what is there as intended. The landlords and investors seem to be saying that this is happening already, so I cannot see the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: It absolutely does and that is an element we can look at.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: That is very helpful. I do not have any more questions. The committee will probably have to go away to discuss this. It could potentially be a very good and progressive idea, but there is probably work that will need to happen on the legislation itself. Both sides have raised the problems and issues and it is up to us whether we come down on the side of increasing tenant's rights or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: I am actually not in here to be questioned.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: We can have that discussion and Mr. Allen can ask that.