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

Mary Seery Kearney: Waterford City and County Council does not use it.

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

Mary Seery Kearney: I am asking questions to try to understand this better. There is a sequence of events and before there is an entitlement of CPO, one must engage with the derelict sites. The lawyer in me would assume there is some sort of-----

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

Mary Seery Kearney: All right.

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

Mary Seery Kearney: It follows that sequence.

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

Mary Seery Kearney: And doing so quickly.

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

Mary Seery Kearney: My colleague, Senator Cummins, speaks incredibly highly of the successes in Waterford as an example of how it can be done well. I am anxious for that to be done. Are people carrying out surveys? I have been supplied with photographs and have visited some of the properties. I am astounded that they have not been picked up. I appreciate that Mr. Kehoe cannot answer for another council but------

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

Mary Seery Kearney: Absolutely. Some of them here are such sites. Are all the local authorities adequately resourced to go use that mechanism?

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

Mary Seery Kearney: I am not criticising Dublin City Council at all because it has a very comprehensive list from 2019. My question involved where that did not pick up properties that have been obviously vacant and in a bad state of repair for a very long time yet are not on the register. I contact the local authority and question it then.

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

Mary Seery Kearney: Which has more teeth.

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

Mary Seery Kearney: In the context of the intellectual heavyweights on the committee, my questioning will seem very simple. My home constituency is Dublin South-Central. It encompasses Dublin 6, 8, 10 and 12 and areas like that. I have worked with members of the local community in Dublin 8 who put together a list of all the derelict sites that are not on the register. How is it that there are derelict sites...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank all three of the witnesses for putting forward their positions. This discussion comes to the heart of the question as to whether it is constitutionally permissible to change the parameters of social policy in Ireland by having a provision whereby people, at a time when they are anticipating or approaching incredible suffering, can opt to have assistance in the ending of their life....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I have two issues to raise. First, the Fleming case was contested on the basis that a provision was made by the Legislature that stated suicide was no longer a criminal offence but there was a clarification within that that to assist, aid, abet, etc., suicide was a criminal offence. There was that holding position and it was an express provision within the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: So we have express provision in legislation now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: And you could have pain relief?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Refusing treatment does not necessarily include not being given pain relief.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I bring to the House's attention the plight of workers in Iceland stores throughout the country. There is one close to me in Ballyfermot. Last March, Michael Doyle, a journalist with The Sun, brought to my attention that a small cohort of workers had approached him to say that they had not been paid following the transfer of ownership from the Iceland company in the UK to an Irish-based...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pharmacy Services (22 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I wish the Minister of State a good morning and thank him for being here. I appreciate that nobody from the Department of Health is available and I appreciate the Minister of State taking this matter. As long as he will have a meaningful reply, I will have no problem. There is in place legislation, the Public Service Pay and Pension Act 2017, under which the Minister for Health is obliged...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pharmacy Services (22 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister of State. To be fair, that was a meaningful reply and I appreciate it. There are a couple of things to say in response. I welcome the acknowledgement of how vital pharmacies are. The language used by the Minister of State was better than mine. He referred to the value of pharmacists in the accessible and vital link they provide in our communities and in the whole...

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

Mary Seery Kearney: It is very fitting that I follow Senator Fitzpatrick, as I will raise exactly the same issue. When walking through the Liberties in Dublin city, let us imagine the sheer volume of tourists who walk through that area, which includes Thomas Street and the Guinness Storehouse, when the pavements are literally sticky. It is that bad. I have looked into the resourcing and the increase in...

Seanad: Teachtaireacht ón Dáil - Message from Dáil (22 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Dáil Éireann passed the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2023 on 21 June 2023, to which the agreement of Seanad Éireann is desired.