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Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...because renters are often overlooked in the debate on housing. They have come to the forefront now because they are paying sky-high rent while knowing every day that they are living in insecurity. Landlords can evict them if they sell up. Renters must wonder whether that eviction will then make them part of the 13,531 people who sleep rough on our streets. Living in such insecurity is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...infrastructure in the south-west inner city. There is not a single playing pitch for the more than 8,000 children in the area. Back in 2014, I started a campaign with Sporting Liberties to rezone land and deliver pitches on the former Boys' Brigade pitches in St. Teresa's Gardens. That project is in train but it will not be delivered until 2026. It is unacceptable that there are no...

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: ...to the theme of what cost rental is, and the costs that are associated with it. In the presentation, Mr. Coleman stated that the SCSI figures are broadly what the LDA is encountering, except when land and other costs are stripped out. Does that mean that what the LDA is delivering under Project Tosaigh costs approximately €114,000 more for the delivery of a house and...

Seanad: Vacant and Derelict Buildings: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...timeframe for assessing the home adaptation grant; - the implementation of a timed ‘use it or lose it’ rule on undeveloped sites/or buildings with planning permission, thus tying the development of land within the local authority area with the condition of that development, the punitive action being compulsory purchase of the property by the local authority where the owner...

Seanad: Vacant and Derelict Buildings: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...local authorities relating to the compulsory purchase order, CPO, process. Vacancy and dereliction is a housing issue but it is also an urban renewal issue. In every city, town and village in Ireland there are vacant spaces that blight our community, with the census estimating that there are more than 170,000 vacant sites in Ireland. We see it every day in urban centres including...

Seanad: Vacant and Derelict Buildings: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...case for all local authorities. Local authorities need to put effort into this. The EU URDF is available and has been good in some respects but local authorities and State agencies are sitting on land. We all know it is there. A mapping exercise is key to this as the question of who owns a site comes up all the time. Sometimes a site is in private ownership, but a few times I have...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: I welcome the Minister of State. The Labour Party believes in three central tenets of an Ireland that works for all when it comes to housing. First is to secure affordable housing. Second is security of tenure for renters. Third is a more ambitious public housing programme. I will start with some good news from this Government. The schemes that Government trumpets are helping. I use...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of National Planning Framework and Climate Targets: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...growth but I was quite disappointed with the review of development plans. For example, the Office of the Planning Regulator told Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council it had zoned too much land. Why did the office state that a county in which there is access to high-quality public transport, that already contains a great deal of urban sprawl and which has some of the highest house...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...said that Waterways Ireland will try to locate it where there are existing houseboat communities. Has an analysis of the capacity of each of the canals and the Shannon been done? Where is that landing? How does that compare with current licences that are granted? Is there a mismatch between them? How many additional licences is it envisaged will be granted in the next year, five years...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...regeneration project just down the road in St. Teresa's Gardens. I fought very hard for a pitch there when I was on Dublin City Council. In order to get this we needed to 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...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (14 Jun 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...people of Ukraine suffer immense brutality, unlike anything most people in the world will ever know. There can be no doubt the acts of Putin and Russian forces are to destroy Ukraine, its history, lands, people and proud culture. The UN has reported that about 10,000 civilians have been killed to date at only 111 days into a war.That is a conservative estimate of what is happening on the...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...left vacant. That applies to, for example, my village of Chapelizod. Half of it could be brought back into use for housing, but instead, it is lying there derelict. The second one is a zoned land tax. The vacant sites tax had so many exemptions that it did not work. However, the zoned land tax that has been passed also has exemptions. I am afraid that by the time it is implemented,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...framework has a target of 14% compact growth where there is access to services, transport and water, which are already there on serviced sites. It was interesting to hear that we may need more zoned land made available. One of the mistakes we made was that we zoned land in areas that were not connected to services. When I was a member of Dublin City Council, we were told in 2016 that,...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...themselves at borders with neighbouring countries but their money is worthless and does not get them very far. That is another practical step that we can take. I also want to raise the issue of land value sharing which is referenced in Housing for All and which was promised at the end of last year. It has now been delayed until next year. Effectively, it is a mechanism for the State to...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...requirement for Part V for local authorities was broader when it came to social provision on private sites. As a State company, which the LDA is, capitalised by the State where the intention is to bring State lands together for the provision of housing, I do not believe it should be looking at the bare minimum when looking at Part V. I am quite concerned about the statements Mr...

Seanad: TRIPS Waiver: Motion (15 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...fighting Covid-19 but there is a gaping hole in our response, which is a truly collective, internationalist and global effort in vaccines. We pride ourselves on being a charitable country and the land of 100,000 welcomes. Charity does not stand for anything, however, if we do not have justice. This motion asks not for charity but justice in ensuring vaccine equity across the world. The...

Seanad: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Dec 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...in not just meeting our renewable energy targets but our natural carbon sequestration targets. In the past year and a half or so we have been in this Chamber on many occasions discussing how land could be best used and protected. Our maritime area is significantly larger and it is very welcome we are now giving proper consideration to the importance of our maritime area as a means for...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...rent freeze. It is only the case over a longer time. Equally, we must properly resource the RTB to take proactive enforcement measures in this regard. Indeed, sanctions were only imposed on 29 landlords last year for contravening rent pressure zones. It is clear from the figures being reported that there is non-compliance with the rent inflation caps. This is caused by the lack of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Nov 2021)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...interesting. It reiterates the points made in the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, report, and states that rental increases are going up 7% nationwide. In some counties, particularly in the midlands and on the western seaboard rents are increasing in double digits. There is a supply issue, but I also believe that the investor-led approach is not working. Investors cannot, and will...