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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: If it made a submission. Is there then a challenge to who gets listed? Is it the residents association? What level of detail of membership needs to be provided to substantiate the association's right to appeal at the An Bord Pleanála stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Okay. There is a perception that is a limited right of appeal that it would affect at that stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: What I am hearing from Mr. Hogan is that for a residents association to be able to get into the judicial review and have that possibility of costs, they have to meet all of those unincorporated criteria.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Apologies that I am making Ms Jones repeat.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: So could a group of named individuals then be Kildare Street Residents Association, which comprises Mary Seery Kearney, Eoin Ó Broin and whomever?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: The committee could. That was one of the issues on Tuesday.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Yes. Jump in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: No. Between us, we will do it. I want to tease this out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: With due respect, if it is the Kildare Street Residents Association and the development is in the grounds of Leinster House, the two are clear - do we have to list all of the names? There has been a High Court matter that all of the names were not listed or one of the people was dead. Mr. Brendan Heneghan cited it here the other day. It got thrown out on the grounds of a lack of standing....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: But implied within that is that if a residents association is to put in for an appeal for An Bord Pleanála stage and it has to list all of its members, if it is to go on to judicial review, then every person who lives within that residents association area has to have exactly the same view. That is not reasonable. It is approaching residents with a "guilty until proven innocent"...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Yes. It is reasonable that they meet criteria such as having a meeting and demonstrating that there is some sort of mandate of the committee of a residents association to put forward. However, it should be confined to that. If we hold it to the members, then people can die in the meantime. You will not be able to meet all those criteria.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Okay. Are we happy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I was happy to give time, as long as we got to the point. I understand that individuals can do it, but we cannot bar residents, particularly residents' associations. I am a little concerned about the longevity requirement there, if that attaches to residents' associations. It does not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: You can have a place where everything has been running tickety-boo. I live on a road that has been there for 60 years. They were active when people were younger. Everything is spot-on now, thanks to South Dublin County Council staff. In the face of a development, BusConnects or whatever that will materially change the quality of life for people, suddenly the residents' associations will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Okay. We need that very clear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: That is great. I thank the Chair.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Public Health Nursing Services (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. I raise the issue of public health nursing services in Curlew Road Health Centre in Drimnagh, which are about to be moved to Armagh Road Health Centre in Crumlin. Questions have already been asked about this withdrawal and the response has been that it is a temporary measure, and that there will be a mother and child clinic. However, I...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Public Health Nursing Services (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: The Minister of State would not defend the stripping out of public health nurses from the service to a town the size of Killarney. That decision would never be made because it is seen as a distinct area and town deserving of and entitled to its own service. Drimnagh is no different. Just because it is in Dublin city does not mean it does not deserve to be red-circled and have its own...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I want to begin by welcoming Odette and Sam Doran to the Gallery. They are leading activists in the campaign called Not Our Fault, which is the group of residents who are affected by apartment defects and are waiting on the Government's scheme. I have spoken a number of times on this issue and have asked that we have statements in the House. The decision has already been made by the...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: It is Senator Seery Kearney.