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Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (19 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Now.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: On a point of clarification, the amendment is well-intentioned and we all share the objective of reducing the cost of rent and homes and making them more affordable for everyone, but do the Members who are proposing the amendment have analysis of what the impact would be? Is it something they could share with us?

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the witnesses for joining us here today at the enterprise committee, for the very impressive and considerable work they have done, and for the comprehensive opening statement. I have been thinking about the omnibus and the work being undertaken. I am nominated by RGDATA to the industrial and commercial panel of the Seanad. My colleagues and I met recently with RGDATA's members, who...

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Can I just seek clarity on the agenda?

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: The agenda I received said we will go in to private session at 2 p.m. It is now 2.25 p.m. Will the Leas-Chathaoirleach clarify what stage the agenda is at?

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I appreciate that. I have no objections.

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: We have private business as well.

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: It is significant private business that we need to take care of.

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: So what is our proposed end time for business today?

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Okay, thank you.

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Is that two minutes for everybody from now? What happens if two more people come back? I just want to try to plan my day, like everyone else. I would like to understand when we are going into private session and when that private session will end.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I welcome the approval yesterday by the Government of the city task force, a plan for Dublin city. This is a really important moment in the history of our capital. The plan has three primary objectives, namely, to get more people living in the city, to have safer and cleaner public streets and public spaces. and to have an always-on vibrant city that respects our heritage. They are three...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (26 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I appreciate the Minister of State's attendance. This is an important issue. Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire is a primary school that has been located in temporary facilities - the Minister of State may struggle to believe this - for 23 years. To give a perspective on the human impact of that amount of time, the principal, Paul Hansard, a very...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (26 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister of State. I appreciate that he has been sent with a reply from the Minister for Education and Youth. It is disappointing that the Minister herself is not here, considering the importance of this school project and the unacceptable delays with it. The reply the Minister of State has been provided with - I thank him for sharing it with the House - basically confirms...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I return to the humanitarian disaster in Gaza and continue to express our concerns for the human atrocities being perpetrated there. We have moved to a point where we are not talking about women, children and men dying of starvation. We are talking about them dying of thirst. Water is something we take for granted. I reiterate our criticism of the division within the EU in its approach to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I welcome that history will be made in the Oireachtas this afternoon when the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade commences pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of the settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (prohibition of importation of goods) Bill 2025. The legislation is an opportunity for us, as a very small country, to lead the international community on...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the witnesses for being here today. I thank the postmasters before us and those around the country for the service they provide. It is an incredibly valuable service. The sum of €14 billion in transactions last year does not in any way quantify the quality of the human, social and community service that members of An Post provide. I congratulate Mr. McRedmond and An Post....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Community Safety Partnerships (2 Jul 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I too welcome the visitors from Ringsend. It is opportune that the Minister would take this Commencement matter while his constituents are in the House. Ladies, you are most welcome. This morning I ask that the Minister update the House on the community safety partnerships that are due to be rolled out in the 31 local authorities. In the previous Oireachtas term, the Minister for...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Community Safety Partnerships (2 Jul 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: It is encouraging to hear of the efficiency with which the Minister has progressed the regulations and the preparations in train in the local authorities. I welcome the fact there will be five in the city and, to reflect its growing population and expanding demographic, two in Fingal. I echo the Minister's comments on local councillors. They get elected because they know the people they...