Results 1-17 of 17 for cork speaker:Rebecca Moynihan

Seanad: Community Safety and Investment: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...about safety in Dublin city centre across all demographics, gender, sexuality and ethnicity, with those from certain minority backgrounds feeling particularly threatened; - Ireland’s urban centres, such as Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway, are home to diverse and culturally rich communities; recognises that: - while a sufficient Garda presence is crucial to ensure public safety,...

Seanad: Community Safety and Investment: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the students from west Cork and Zoe from the National Traveller Women's forum who is here with Senator Flynn. Across all communities and demographics, people are expressing a growing feeling of unsafety. People in working class communities feel unsafe in their neighbourhoods, the LGBTQ community reports increased levels of hate and related threats and violence and ethnic...

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...projects that did not have a Part 8 process that went through. I refer to developments like Springvale in Chapelizod, which is two minutes down the road from me, and Bonham Street, which is just off Cork Street, for the provision of modular housing just down the road from where I grew up. None of them will be ready before 2024. We signed off on that in 2018 so I do not see the logic of...

Seanad: Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...site which means that the development will not be delivered until 2024. People should be sitting in those houses this winter. It is the same with the rapid-build developments on Bonham Street and Cork Street, which is right beside where I am from. In Dolphin's Barn we saw the first phase of the regeneration redevelopment in 2018, but by 2028 only 44 houses will be delivered. The plans...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...from other cities she has worked with and the benefits that accrued. I have questions for her and the departmental officials. We had people from Anois before us talking about dereliction in Cork and giving us examples of what happens in Amsterdam. I ask Ms Vallone to give us some solutions by suggesting two measures the Department could implement that it could reasonably do. What would...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ..., we had a rent growth of 7%, despite a supposed 4% limit in three quarters of the country. Let us take a look at the counties that were affected. It was not just urban centres such as Dublin, Cork, Galway and elsewhere. There was a rental increase of 17.3% in Leitrim. The rate in Kilkenny was 15.5%. In Clare the rate was 16.1% and in Mayo it was 11.8%. This does not just affect...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ....I acknowledge the acceptance by the Minister of amendments in respect of this on Committee Stage in the Dáil. They will affect some of the larger towns, with populations of more than 150,000, namely, Dublin and Cork. There are other cities and towns, however, that are affected by this. As a policy, where the LDA takes over land, it should be exclusively for the delivery of...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Solar Panels for Public Buildings, Schools, Homes and Other Premises) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Jun 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...them to be climate ready. Local authorities have a big role in doing this, particularly when building housing. When I was on Dublin City Council and the new social housing was being built off Cork Street, I asked about using green roofs to protect in the context of flood protection. Flood protection in Dublin city is one of the bigger issues we face because many people have paved over...

Seanad: Water Quality: Motion (19 Apr 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...wastewater treatment plants. There is no point in talking about a revamped national development plan and national planning framework with bespoke solutions for increased housing in places such as Cork, Waterford and Galway if the infrastructure is not there to deliver the increased capacity that would be required to build those houses. I now move to the important public health issue of...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (8 Mar 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...to stop local authority members having power over disposals. The Affordable Housing Bill provides that any housing must be below market rent. However, that is almost €2,000 per month in Dublin, €1,500 in Cork and €1,400 in Galway. That is not affordable; market rent is not affordable. Affordability is considered to be 30% to 35% of net income. I urge the Government...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...and businesses in the area. I welcome that it is now being funded through the European Regional Development Fund, ERDF. I also welcome the developments in respect of Francis Street, Newmarket Street, Cork Street and Meath Street and the environmental improvement plans which we were involved in. In light of the funding going into the urban regeneration fund, I ask that we consider...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...talked about is that we do not have the numbers for homeless deaths in the country. For example, we know the figure has increased in Dublin but we do not have a fair representation in Limerick, Cork or Galway. Perhaps Professor O'Sullivan could give us his experience of that for this year. On a question to Mr. Kenny, one of the issues that came up in the research conducted by BeLonG...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment: Discussion (15 Dec 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...they have had on people who have been financially impacted by the Covid pandemic. In the presentations, we saw that people are topping up by up to €760 in Dublin and €350 in Limerick and Cork. I am dealing with somebody who is paying a top-up of approximately €700 a month. He has now run into rental arrears with his landlord. He owes approximately €5,000 and...

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...that there are between 2,000 and 5,000 children who are undocumented and do not have citizenship. Behind each of these numbers there is a story, a child with friends, hobbies, dreams and a Dublin, Cork, Meath or Mayo accent. They are Irish children. We hear in this House that the referendum in 2004 was not a mean-spirited in nature, but it was. That referendum weaponised fear among...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...the system.From the appendix in the report, there are a number of planning applications that are currently going through to which I do not see a reference. There is one in Donaghmede and one on Cork Street, within my area of Dublin 8. Dublin City Council planners put in a submission on the Cork Street development and they were scathing of the shared space that was made available, of the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Homelessness Strategy (11 Nov 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...Homeless Executive, DRHE. We do not know the exact figure for the rest of the country, however. Councillor Flynn is hearing reports from some of his colleagues regarding the situation in Galway, Cork and Limerick. It is important that we prioritise this issue, especially during a winter in the middle of a pandemic. I also emphasise the need for more funding for the Housing First...

Seanad: Shannon Group: Motion (14 Oct 2020)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...aviation industry. We are faced with Brexit, climate change and a wipe-out of passenger numbers arising from the Covid-19 pandemic. The western seaboard, in particular, is dependent on Shannon and Cork airports and those smaller regional airports are struggling. I commend Senator Gavan on introducing the motion, keeping the issue of Shannon Airport on the agenda during these turbulent...