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Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Jul 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister of State for coming into the House with the Land Development Agency Bill 2021, which the Fianna Fáil Party is obviously supporting. It reflects the result of the general election in 2020 when people voted for change, and particularly for change in the Government's and State's role in the provision of housing. The electorate then quite legitimately asked why we have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I had asked about whether negative unintended consequences might arise from the fact the land value sharing tax is proposed, in the initial instance, to apply to changes in land zoning to residential use. Did the economic appraisal identify any potential for reactions in doing that and not introducing a tax also for other land zoning changes?

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: I wonder if any of those stakeholders and those landowners have an appreciation of the pressures under which the Land Development Agency is trying to operate. The reality it that the agency has a plan here from 2024 to 2028. All the Opposition parties opposed the Land Development Agency legislation and if they are in power in 14 months after an election, they are likely to scrap the Land...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: It is my understanding that local authorities have already available to them land with a capacity for 110,000 or 120,000 units. Is this correct? Is there a report to which the witnesses could refer us that will give us details of what land is in local authority ownership in each jurisdiction and the capacity for housing on these land tracts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: The general scheme refers also to creating capacity to apply a land value sharing tax at a future point to other changes in land zonings. Why not include that from the outset?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I would like to clarify whether the land value sharing, in its initial introduction, will apply only to lands where the zoning is changed to residential.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Provision of Community Growing Spaces in Ireland: Community Gardens Ireland (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: It is hard to believe that in Blessington there is not enough land. The pockets we have used in the city are modest pieces of land but what can be produced out of them and the activity and value it gives back to the community is immense. It is multiplied many times. Gabhaim buíochas le Mr. McCormack.

Seanad: Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...with the committee. The committee had very strong engagement on the Bill. Obviously, we are supportive of the legislation. It deals with the organisation of Government and State activities relating to land, such as registration, transactions and valuations. One cannot think of Irish history without thinking about land. It is intrinsic to our history, culture and psyche. Through the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Where I was going with the land value sharing, is that the IPI statement says, "It would, furthermore, mean that achieving reductions in the price of development land, and of arresting the increase in house prices, would be delayed." Does the IPI expect an arrest? Does it expect it to have a material impact in arresting the inflationary price of housing?

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ..., local authorities all over the country spend the best part of two years every five years making development plans for their counties. They take great care and interest in the management of the lands within their local authority areas. It is with that great care and interest that they make zoning decisions. There is no suggestion from this Government or the Department that any lands...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...is very welcome to the committee and it is great that is Mr. John Coleman back again also. Mr. Coleman engaged with our committee last year and helped us in our pre-legislative scrutiny of the Land Development Agency Bill. This is incredibly important legislation for the State. We have very big ambitions. When I say "we", I do not just talk about us in the Oireachtas committee; the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (26 May 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank Mr. Hogan. There is no doubt the work the Department is doing on land value sharing is very important and welcome. The impression I got from the stakeholders was that, separate to that strategic-type change in direction and action to address the land value issue and its contribution to the cost, they were looking for actual changes to the planning process for individual planning...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...to reject the proposal for the development of a very valuable State-owned site on the north side at Oscar Traynor Road. That site for those Members who do not know it, is a site of State-owned land encompassing roughly 17 ha and it has the potential to deliver more than 800 desperately needed homes. I seek an update from the Leader on when the Minister will come to the House to debate...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 May 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ..., agus cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. Access to secure affordable housing is one of the most immediate and urgent challenges facing young people, modest income earners, workers and families in Ireland today. The Minister and the Government recognise that fact. The Minister also recognises that over the past ten years housing supply dropped, house prices inflated and homelessness...

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: .... 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 stated. We meet with it...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...their own political ambitions is disgusting and should be rejected by every right-minded person. I welcome the news that the Government is in the process of considering increasing funding to the Land Development Agency. The reports are that the Government is considering increasing the funding by a further €3 billion to increase the delivery of homes by an additional 6,000 over the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...-free loan for would-be homeowners. All of this is welcome. That is why the Bill got cross-party support. We have one final, significant piece of legislation to do before the recess as a Seanad, and that is the Land Development Agency Bill 2021. That legislation will allow the State strategically to manage its land to deliver social and affordable homes - 100% public housing on public...