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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Community Safety Partnerships (2 Jul 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I too welcome the visitors from Ringsend. It is opportune that the Minister would take this Commencement matter while his constituents are in the House. Ladies, you are most welcome. This morning I ask that the Minister update the House on the community safety partnerships that are due to be rolled out in the 31 local authorities. In the previous Oireachtas term, the Minister for...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Community Safety Partnerships (2 Jul 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: It is encouraging to hear of the efficiency with which the Minister has progressed the regulations and the preparations in train in the local authorities. I welcome the fact there will be five in the city and, to reflect its growing population and expanding demographic, two in Fingal. I echo the Minister's comments on local councillors. They get elected because they know the people they...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I join in the welcome to our visitors from the west. They are very welcome. They are in great company with the esteemed Senator Crowe and I hope he looks after them well. I am sure he will. I have just heard the very sad news that Brother Kevin Crowley has passed away. Kevin Crowley hailed from Cork and he passed away in his home county. He came to my constituency of Dublin Central...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I welcome that history will be made in the Oireachtas this afternoon when the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade commences pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of the settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (prohibition of importation of goods) Bill 2025. The legislation is an opportunity for us, as a very small country, to lead the international community on...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (26 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I appreciate the Minister of State's attendance. This is an important issue. Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire is a primary school that has been located in temporary facilities - the Minister of State may struggle to believe this - for 23 years. To give a perspective on the human impact of that amount of time, the principal, Paul Hansard, a very...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (26 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister of State. I appreciate that he has been sent with a reply from the Minister for Education and Youth. It is disappointing that the Minister herself is not here, considering the importance of this school project and the unacceptable delays with it. The reply the Minister of State has been provided with - I thank him for sharing it with the House - basically confirms...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I return to the humanitarian disaster in Gaza and continue to express our concerns for the human atrocities being perpetrated there. We have moved to a point where we are not talking about women, children and men dying of starvation. We are talking about them dying of thirst. Water is something we take for granted. I reiterate our criticism of the division within the EU in its approach to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I welcome the approval yesterday by the Government of the city task force, a plan for Dublin city. This is a really important moment in the history of our capital. The plan has three primary objectives, namely, to get more people living in the city, to have safer and cleaner public streets and public spaces. and to have an always-on vibrant city that respects our heritage. They are three...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the witnesses for being here today. I thank the postmasters before us and those around the country for the service they provide. It is an incredibly valuable service. The sum of €14 billion in transactions last year does not in any way quantify the quality of the human, social and community service that members of An Post provide. I congratulate Mr. McRedmond and An Post....

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (19 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister for coming to the House and for the work he and his Department have done to bring forward this interim legislation. With almost 250,000 registered tenancies in the country, an awful lot of people living in rented accommodation need what the Minister is promising to deliver through this legislation and all the other work he is doing: certainty, stability and clarity. It...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (19 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Now.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: On a point of clarification, the amendment is well-intentioned and we all share the objective of reducing the cost of rent and homes and making them more affordable for everyone, but do the Members who are proposing the amendment have analysis of what the impact would be? Is it something they could share with us?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I offer my deepest sympathies and condolences to the family of Carmencita Hederman. Carmencita served as a Dublin city councillor for 25 years and she served in the Seanad. I had the pleasure of serving with her daughter Wendy on Dublin City Council. I offer my deepest sympathies to her family and friends at this time. I have raised Dublin city a number of times in this Chamber. I...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: It absolutely misrepresented the work of the drugs committee, the intention of the drugs committee and, most importantly, the Fianna Fáil Members in this House, in the Lower House and on the committee. I ask that those comments be retracted.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: On a point of order, it is really important that in this House, when we discuss issues, we do so in an accurate and objective way. It is misrepresenting the situation to suggest that taking a health-led approach is soft on drugs, and that is exactly what the Senator said.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: It is not a soft-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: It is not. It is objectively not.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Senator-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: It is not. It is inviting the Senator to engage in informed debate-----