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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: It is why I do not want to ask too specifically but there are things such as that I am interested in exploring.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am thinking of the ambition of the State to have a funded IVF process, perhaps by the end of this year. If that were the case, the partners of long-term prisoners could pursue IVF as a means to grow a family. Perhaps that would assist in the trauma of family breakdown and all those things that flow from long-term prison incarceration.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: That goes to the heart of the situation when this was first talked about, with residents thinking they were going to be cut out of the loop because if they stay in, or stay in as themselves and then need to go down the judicial review route, then they are exposed to costs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Given that experience of a large-scale residential development, LRD, where the local authority, to my mind, just came up with the first two things that crossed their mind to make sure it got kicked up to An Bord Pleanála, and being resigned to the fact it was going to anyway, we would need to make sure that everyone has the right of appeal if we were to see patterns like that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: We just need to know that in our own submission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: That particular line of questioning with Deputy O’Callaghan is relevant to one of the aspects that I want to question the witnesses about and seek their advice on. I want to focus particularly on sections 97 and 303. It is relevant to locus standifor appeal of a planning authority decision. I am aware of a particular application or process, without getting into the nitty-gritty of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I completely support my colleague, Senator Doherty, in her call and what she has said here on the St. John Ambulance. I commend her on bringing it to the House in the first place and for the motion and for being a champion all the way through for Mick Finnegan and all the other men who came forward. I have stood there with them and I have heard their experiences. That included one of them...

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I read a quote this morning, which states: Here's to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them. I would add to that, saying here's to the men who support us, respect us, work with us and who are great colleagues. I would count the Minister among them as being a really good colleague. From the moment he stepped into his job, he has done nothing but advance the...

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Hear, hear.

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Yes. I am speaking at a conference at 3 p.m. so I cannot break to go back. However, I am happy to relieve the Acting Chair if she want to go.

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: There is no one else for the Government bench.

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I appreciate if the Acting Chair needs to go.

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

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and their opening statements. I intend to be here until 6 p.m., so we will get back again in another round. In the witnesses' submissions, and within my own views and concerns, the naming of people as part of a residents' association is an exposure, which we are touching on delicately, but which we are touching on nonetheless. It is a fact...

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

Mary Seery Kearney: In recent times, we have seen decisions by An Bord Pleanála that have ignored its own inspectors' reports and that have completely ignored the development plan. When An Bord Pleanála has been before the committee in the past, I have raised that and the issues that Ms Cadell made around the proliferation of student accommodation and the change of use, the response was that the...

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

Mary Seery Kearney: One of the issues that Mr. Mandal clearly explained and for which he provided the statistics, as has the Recorders Residents' Association in Terenure, is this idea of the nimby accusation. Let us explore that. It is very easy in media terms to turn around and accuse everyone of nimbyism when in when if someone goes into the depth of objections or observations, there are valid...

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

Mary Seery Kearney: Maybe this would be the case if you had that pre-application engagement, that Ms Cadell has described. I can think of one development recently that was all build-to-rent in the middle of a community where people were desperate to downsize, or rightsize which is more appropriate, but did not want to have to move outside of their community. The development was way too densely planned anyway...

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

Mary Seery Kearney: An important point that we do not emphasise highly enough is that a judicial review does not solve the issue and is never the end. It is merely a way to go back and start again, or not as the case may be. A judicial review is procedural and administrative but does not deal with the substantive issue. It makes absolute sense to have a place like the WRC - post An Bord Pleanála and...

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

Mary Seery Kearney: Yes.

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

Mary Seery Kearney: Yes.

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

Mary Seery Kearney: We accept that.