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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...number of Gardaí leaving the service; - there are real and growing concerns 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;...

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: Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...overlooked and, in some cases, written out. We will particularly remember him for giving space to the unionist community and allowing the unionist community at that stage in the late 1990s to feel safe to come into a process, and for working towards not just the historic Good Friday Agreement, but perhaps the most significant part of that process, which was the 1994 ceasefire. John...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...be made public that they live in a certain constituency or ward, but without their personal address being made available to people. This is a real concern for some people, particularly those who do not feel safe having their address made public. A change is essential. We are cutting off their access to public life by maintaining the current position. I ask the Minister of State to look...

Seanad: Housing For All: Statements (7 Nov 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...house prices that I feared and that I warned about.It would be worth keeping an eye on this, however. While there is some good news with respect to housing - that does matter - it does not really feel good and percolate down when a significant number of people still feel locked out of homeownership. Many people are in insecure rental accommodation and nearly 3,000 children are homeless....

Seanad: Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Dec 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I have a few questions that have been passed on to me by councillors around the country but I will first make a point about other women who do not get access to maternity leave because I sometimes feel this debate can be very focused on politicians. When I tell people I am going on maternity leave they say that, as a politician, I do not get access to maternity leave and support. The...

Seanad: Cuimhneachán ar Chothrom Céad Bliain an Chéad Suí de Seanad Éireann – 11 Nollaig 1922 - Commemoration of the Centenary of the First Sitting of Seanad Éireann – 11 December 1922 (12 Dec 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ..., son of James Connolly and of Pimlico. We have also been represented by people such as former Senators Ivana Bacik, Michael D. Higgins and Evelyn Owens. With the indulgence of the Cathaoirleach, I feel it is only right to honour the legacies of some of the Labour Party women who were trail-blazers when they came through the Seanad. Evelyn Owens was one of those people who came to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Recent Trends in the Private Rental Sector: Residential Tenancies Board (29 Nov 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...tenancies legislation mean that if landlords, for example, give a notice for eviction and do not sell within nine months, they have to offer that tenancy back, but I know some tenants who feel they have not been offered the tenancy back or that they have moved on and found somewhere else at that stage. In effect, this change makes no difference for them. What, therefore, is the...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ..., security of tenure for renters, but it does not go far enough. While we sit here and Members on the Government side laud Housing for All and say it is working, by any measure and yardstick people feel that Government housing policy is failing. Why is that? It is because house prices are up 14%. While house prices are collapsing elsewhere, because of our lack of supply, our prices...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...sell on a parcel of land. This arose again with the development of O'Devaney Gardens. Any community facilities need to be paid for. Dublin City Council, councillors and members of the community feel like they are forced to sell land in order to be able to pay for them. If we are doing flagship projects such as this it should be taken for granted that there will be funding for things...

Seanad: Night-time Economy: Motion (13 Jul 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...have closed in the past two decades. This does not just impact our night-time tourist offering but also affects the cultural life we have in the city as a place for young people to go where they feel they belong in a vibrant European city. When people speak about what is on offer in Dublin, they speak about blandness and sameness. There are places people go to pay for overpriced...

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (7 Jul 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...should be larger where it is reasonably practical to do so. We had a discussion on Second Stage on respecting county boundaries. Some Members on the Government side did not necessarily feel that respecting county boundaries is the way we should go about it as that would excessively limit a constituency commission. The amendment is primarily concerned with ensuring that constituencies are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...for builders, developers and home buyers. Do people have access to money? They could afford to pay back loans but they are not able to get them. Builders are having cash flow problems. Developers feel that the risks involved in certain developments are too high. What changes would the witnesses make? What proposals do they have on financing and cash flow to free up these blockages...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...flagged with the Minister not to drag this on but to provide redress for these people. They are not in the public mindset in the same way as other campaign groups. This is for good reason. They feel afraid and unable to speak out. They are living in fire defective apartments through no fault of their own. It is important that they get 100% redress and not the loans that have been...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Built Heritage Protection) Bill 2022: Second Stage (16 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...and it will go some way towards tackling these problems. We are very supportive of the Bill. I know the Minister of State, who has been working hard on these issues and has a particular grá and feeling for it, will incorporate these elements of this Bill into the overall consolidation of planning legislation.

Seanad: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022 : Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...group on behalf of the construction industry. It is not appropriate that it would be responsible for maintaining the register. We are supportive of the Sinn Féin amendment because it specifies where it feels the register should be.

Seanad: Regulation of Display of Electoral and Polling Posters and Other Advertisements Bill 2022: Second Stage (17 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...but that is mainly due to the exertion that goes with them. I had to chase after a poster of mine through two fields on Valentine's night in the middle of a freezing February. Everybody knows the feeling of losing an election and then taking down their posters and being dumped on by three-week-old rainwater when doing so. We receive phone calls from people saying there are either too...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...the land management aspect of it, but how can we be guaranteed from a local community perspective, when engaging with players such as the LDA and local authorities, that the supporting infrastructure will be put in place? I sometimes feel these promises are made and then the players involved walk away and there is no follow-up to create real sustainable communities in areas of disadvantage.

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...how we can possibly protect ourselves. Ashling Murphy was going for a run in the daylight at 4 p.m. in her home town, in what seemed like a safe space. When something like that happens, we all feel the foundations of what we consider to be safety and build up around ourselves, and the strategies that we have. Every time a woman leaves the house, she will risk assess. I have really...