Results 1,121-1,140 of 1,352 for speaker:Mary Fitzpatrick

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)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Rents are determined by the fact that it costs a certain amount to build these homes.

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)

Mary Fitzpatrick: The SCSI report tells us that without the Government interventions of waiving the development levies and water charges, the help to buy scheme that helps people to get their deposits together and the first home buyers scheme, no one would be buying a home because they would not be able to afford it. That is putting even more pressure and expectation on delivery from the LDA, especially in...

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)

Mary Fitzpatrick: There will always be competing interests and competing priorities. To be fair, the objective of a transport company is to provide public transport. I understand that. However, our narrow interest in this discussion and the LDA's responsibility is the provision of social and affordable homes in a timely manner where they are needed. They are needed in the city centre. They were needed...

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)

Mary Fitzpatrick: And specifically for Dublin Central.

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)

Mary Fitzpatrick: City.

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)

Mary Fitzpatrick: It could cover the whole country – I do not mind – but I would like to see-----

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)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Yes.

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 (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the witnesses for attending and for all the work they do to preserve what is an incredible heritage feature for us, natural and built combined, namely, the canals. They are incredibly special. I was struck by the €600 million figure. We cannot put a price on the value of the canals and our wider waterways. Waterways Ireland is the custodian of them, as is, equally,...

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 (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: My next question relates to the Royal Canal Amenity Group and, again, I apologise if this has been answered. Three organisations have been named but the Royal Canal Amenity Group is not one of them. I would say that if it were not for the Royal Canal Amenity Group, we probably would not have much of the Royal Canal left. What criteria were used? Is it a final list or is it likely to be...

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 (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank Mr. Rowe. When he spoke about the greenways there as a commuting route, I would caution that many years ago, there was a cretinous idea of filling in the canal and making it a roadway. I hope that the NTA does not get any delusions or ambitions to create it as a thoroughfare and over-engineer the towpaths. While they offer a great route into the city for cyclists, they also offer a...

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 (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Absolutely.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: This morning, this House should recognise that there are renewed attempts to try to establish talks aimed at achieving a ceasefire in the Middle East. As a House, we are all very conscious and have talked many times since 7 October, now four months on, about the inhumanity that has been perpetrated there. We should call on all parties to engage in those talks constructively to seek to find...

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 (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: My next question relates to people who live permanently on a barge. Who is responsible for the domestic waste collections? We do not have permanent residential barges on the stretch of the Royal Canal where I live, around Cabra and Drumcondra, so I do not have an issue there. What has repeatedly arisen as an issue in terms of the maintenance of the canal, is the cleaning of the towpath,...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (21 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I, too, support the amendment. It is important that the LDA is adequately resourced. It is a unique and unprecedented intervention this Government has taken to establish the LDA on a statutory basis and use State-owned lands to deliver public homes. It is using public lands to deliver social and affordable homes. The LDA has appeared before the Oireachtas committee, as Senator Cummins...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (21 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister of State and everyone in his Department for all their work to get this historic legislation passed. For the first time in modern history, we will have a directly elected mayor. It is a huge opportunity for the people of Limerick and for all those who contest the first election. I wish them well. As a Dub, I have huge ambition for our capital city. I believe very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the witnesses for attending, for their opening statements and for all of the work they have been doing to support homeowners. They articulated their frustrations clearly. It is frustrating for us, too, as this is half of the meeting we had wanted to hold. We invited the statutory agencies responsible for the operation and implementation of the scheme, but that was not possible...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Contamination.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Construction cost of inflation of 33% is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: That is essentially what it amounts to. Will Mr. O’Donnell give me an idea of the size of the house? He is saying his quote is now approximately €500,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I appreciate that. Was it Dr. Cleary who spoke about the NSAI panel and the conflicts of interest therein?