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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: It is a good conversation. What I would like to see, and what we need to see, is more urgency around that conversation. Delivery of new builds in the city is always going to be constrained, for all the obvious reasons. It is more difficult and expensive, and there are more objections and all of that sort of stuff. However, the buildings I have in mind are built properties. They are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I will continue with the same theme. It takes Dublin City Council the best part of 20 years to CPO a property. That is my bitter experience with it. I commend the other local authorities. I appreciate Dublin City Council has a much more complex and challenging job in terms of size, scale, and all of that, but it also has very significant resources. If it needs more resources, then we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: There are not many of them in the city. This is the problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: To be honest, the real issue is that the city is constrained in respect of the amount of available land. There are valid reasons that affordable homes schemes are not being brought forward. We need to recognise that and adjust our approach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Can I intervene? The complaint we have from a Dublin city perspective is that the percentage of the overall properties in the area is reported. It is a small percentage relative to the number of properties. However, the number of properties that are vacant is quite large. For example, 1 % in Longford is a very different proposition from 1 % in Dublin city, as regards actual numbers. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: My concern is that there is no mystery about where they are. It is not that nothing is being done about them. That is not fair. However, the opportunity is not being exploited. It is perhaps seen as a problem to address and deal with and it gets dealt with, later, in Dublin city but it is not seen as an opportunity. It is not being pursued by the local authority as an opportunity to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: A happy, safe and free Pride to everybody in Dublin, throughout the country and around the world this weekend, this month and every single day of the year. Last week, I spoke about the Bloomsday festival that took place in Dublin Central. It was a fantastic celebration of James Joyce's work and life. Most of the celebration was spent in the north inner city and in my constituency of Dublin...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank an tAire Stáit and everyone from the Department. With regard to the first regulations, I appreciate that the Minister of State is responding to the request made by the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on behalf of the Government's committee on humanitarian response. Has that committee assessed how effective the existing regulations have been?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: We need that review but we also need a plan. Where are these people going to be in six months? There has to be some sort of path for six, 12 and 18 months down the road. We are looking to January 2029 here, so this is not a short-term emergency response anymore.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Absolutely. I believe we have done the right thing. The State has done the right thing and we need to continue to do the right thing. However, my real concern is that the commercial private operators will now be given leases up until January 2029 and will buy bunk beds next month that will still be in use in January 2029. That is not good enough. Those leases and contracts are very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Members are unanimous in our concern about this issue. I would go so far as to say that we object to extending these exemptions at this point. We recognise the ask and it is based on humanitarian grounds but we need the Departments to come back to us very swiftly. We need them to be very conservative in their use of these exemptions until such time as they can demonstrate the quality of...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Motions (13 Jul 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I move: That Seanad Éireann do not insist on Seanad amendment No. 1.

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Motions (13 Jul 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for bringing this legislation to the House. As my colleague indicated, the Bill has had something of a meandering route to get us to where we are today. It is important legislation. I do not intend to compound or overcomplicate the convoluted nature of dealing with the amendments by speaking at length on them. We support the Minister of State...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Motions (13 Jul 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I move: That Seanad Éireann do not insist on Seanad amendment No. 2.

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Motions (13 Jul 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I move: That the Seanad do agree to amendment No. 1c made by the Dáil consequential upon the Dáil's disagreement to Seanad amendments Nos. 1 and 2.

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Motions (13 Jul 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I move: That Seanad Éireann do not insist on Seanad amendment No. 3.

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Motions (13 Jul 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I move: That the Seanad do agree to amendment No. 3c made by the Dáil consequential upon the Dáil's disagreement to Seanad amendment No. 3.

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Motions (13 Jul 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I move: That Seanad Éireann do not insist on Seanad amendment No. 4.

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Motions (13 Jul 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I move: That Seanad Éireann do not insist on Seanad amendment No. 11.

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Motions (13 Jul 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I move: That Seanad Éireann do not insist on Seanad amendment No. 13.