Results 741-760 of 1,352 for speaker:Mary Fitzpatrick

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I would like to raise the issue of the campaign that is just over a year old now in Drumcondra to save our hall. The Corpus Christi Hall, on Home Farm Road, has been a parish resource for the people of Drumcondra for decades. It was a place where young children and not-so-young adults learned to dance. Women got together in breast-feeding clubs and knitting clubs. All sorts of activities...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Department officials for this enormous piece of work; it is really impressive. We are 20 years on and the world has changed so rapidly. The 700-odd pages are daunting for a layperson like me and will be daunting for much of the general public as well. The work the Department is doing to improve the consistency, clarity and certainty around our planning is important. What is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Will these national planning statements have to conform with international laws?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: And European laws if they were relevant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: The national planning statements would have to conform with national laws, such as our climate action laws.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: The statements would have to be consistent with all of these laws.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: On public participation, a lot of talk so far has been around judicial reviews. I would have thought that one of the objectives of us streamlining and improving the consistency, certainty and clarity of our planning laws was to ensure we have a reduction in the need for recourse to judicial reviews. Is that a realistic and fair expectation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Apart from the proposal to extend the period of the development plans, will the public continue to have the same access to participation in the creation of county and city development plans as it has enjoyed up to now? Will the general public continue to enjoy the same access to make an appeal and ability to make observations or objections in local authority planning applications?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: When can the public expect to get sight of the statutory timelines the Department proposes to introduce?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: You have to have a sufficient interest.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: It is an important point to have clarified.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Can I ask a follow-up question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I appreciate that the officials do not have the details of cost recovery to share with us now, but what are the general parameters and objectives they will work towards in establishing a cost-recovery scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: It is a very important distinction. The impression is out there that this is a cost-recovery activity as opposed to cost assistance or cost aid. It is essentially cost protection. Members of the public, provided they have standing to participate in the judicial process and their judicial review proves to be vindicated, will receive financial assistance from the State to cover those costs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: It is a big positive and one that has not been fully appreciated outside those officials who are working so closely with this. That is why I wanted to clarify the position.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Children's Hospital (15 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House today. This morning I seek an update from the Minister for Health on the proposal to name the new national children's hospital after Dr. Kathleen Lynn. The campaign to name the national children's hospital after Dr. Kathleen Lynn has been led by the 1916 Relatives Association and has the support of my own party, Fianna Fáil, as well...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Children's Hospital (15 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. I should have thanked everybody who is still working on the construction of the hospital. That was remiss of me. It is tremendous to see it coming out of the ground and everybody who has worked on it is to be congratulated and commended. It will absolutely transform not only the provision of care for the patients, the young people who are 25%...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I wish to remind the House of what is happening in Türkiye and Syria. More than 17 million people in that area have been affected. There is talk about more than 38,000 people having died already. The costs will run to in excess of €100 billion. When we go about our daily business we need to keep that in mind. I acknowledge the Government's donation of €10 million...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: No, there is plenty of ball involved. I say good luck to Ms Sturgeon and her family. I thank her for her service and wish her well.