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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I apologise. I want to clarify the reply. Does that mean Dublin City Council is not formally targeting deriving any additional homes from the renovation of existing vacant properties?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I would like to hear an answer to the question the Chairman just asked, which is pertinent. In the context of our severe housing crisis at the moment, why is it that local authorities in general do not proactively pursue vacant properties and derelict sites as a significant potential part of the solution to our housing crisis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank Mr. Clegg for the response. I do not think CPO is the solution here. The CPO process, in my experience on the city council, can take ten years from when a property has been identified, and still properties are not being returned to the housing stock. This is not just Dublin City Council; it relates to all the local authorities. My question is a broader, more strategic one. Why...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: If only it were that simple. I thank Mr. O'Hara.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Deputy McAuliffe sends his apologies for having to leave and has allowed me to ask a question. I want to mention a subject that has not been touched on much but was alluded to in a city council submission. I refer to the €170 million that has been given for urban regeneration in the north and south of the city. When will work commence on the fruit and vegetable market in Dublin 7,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: It does.

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: I express my sincere commiseration to the family, friends and pupils of Ashling Murphy. Words can never adequately express our sympathy, sadness or anger. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam dílis. While the whole country is convulsed and repulsed by Ashling's murder it is important that we remember that in the past 15 years 236 women have been killed in Ireland violently. One in four...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (20 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister of State for his attendance. I seek clarity from the Department of Education on the provision of a permanent school building for Gaelscoil Áine, Glasnevin. Gaelscoil Áine is a wonderful multidenominational Irish-language-based primary school. It was established more than three years ago and is temporarily located on the first floor of Whitehall College of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (20 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I appreciate that the Minister of State has been sent here to respond on this issue. I acknowledge, and the school acknowledges and is very appreciative of, the support the Department has given in the setting up of the school and the fitting out of Coláiste Chaoimhin to meet its needs in the immediate term. I find it very disappointing that the Department says two things in this reply....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Today, the State Examinations Commission, SEC, will be meeting to discuss the arrangements for the leaving certificate and junior certificate examinations this year.I want to support the Irish Second-Level Students Union, and secondary students generally, who are very unhappy with the arrangements that are being put in place for the leaving certificate this year. I support their call, which...

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: I confirm to the Chairman that I am attending this meeting from within the confines of Leinster House 2000. Comhghairdeas do Chormac on his illustrious career to date, and also on his appointment as chairman of the LDA. Mr. O'Rourke is very welcome to the committee and it is great that is Mr. John Coleman back again also. Mr. Coleman engaged with our committee last year and helped us in...

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: Go raibh maith agat.

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: I have a question that may be suited more to Mr. Coleman than Mr. O'Rourke. It specifically concerns the sites that have been identified in Dublin Central, and I am thinking about those in East Wall, Arbour Hill and the Broadstone garage in Phibsborough. Will the witnesses give us some idea of the capacity of those in terms of number of homes, and I would appreciate even ballpark figures at...

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: That is great. My understanding of the Broadstone site is that it is partially owned by Dublin Bus and partially owned by Bus Éireann. The Land Development Agency is looking at the combination of both sites.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I welcome the approval by Government for the development at O'Devaney Gardens. For more than a decade, the site at O'Devaney Gardens has been plagued by political and planning arguments. For all of that time there has been nothing but dereliction and antisocial behaviour on that site. Today's announcement means that in the next quarter of this year, not in ten or 20 years' time,...

Seanad: Local Government (Surveillance Powers in Relation to Certain Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I commend my colleagues, Senators Malcolm Byrne and Wall, on the work they have done on this issue and all the Senators who I hope will support this Bill unanimously. I hope the Minister of State has come here with open ears and with a spirit of embracing this initiative from Senator Malcolm Byrne, which is supported by the Fianna Fáil group and, hopefully, by Members across the House....

Seanad: Violence Against Women: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister for coming to the House today for this debate and for all the work that she and her Department are doing. It was her intention anyway to come forward with the new policy. I have a lot of confidence in her to deliver a new strategy. It is a strategy that needs to be holistic. All of the answers do not come from the Department of Justice, but that Department and the...

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: I am here in Leinster House. I thank each of the witnesses for giving us their time today. It is very valuable to us. As an Oireachtas joint committee, we look at housing generally, but today we are talking specifically about the renovation of existing built vacant and-or derelict properties, and we all understand the difference between those. Housing for All identifies vacant properties...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (27 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister of State and the departmental officials for the work they have done so far on this. We appreciate their time today and that they have brought forward the general scheme. I particularly acknowledge the comments made by Ms Connolly about Moore Street. It would be remiss of me not to thank Ms Foley for the work she did in supporting the Minister's advisory group on Moore...