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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Yes, if they are in emergency accommodation in the last week of a month. However, people could present in emergency accommodation, exit and come back. This would be unusual but possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank everyone for being here and for the work they do every day. We had representatives in from the Department and the DRHE earlier. We all know the solution is just an increased supply of permanent homes. The witnesses have all poignantly articulated the real human experience of homelessness. Homelessness itself is traumatic and challenging and can have lasting effects, but when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: The other point we would make is that, and I know Senator Cummins will have raised this too, concerns the local authority investing in addressing vacant or derelict properties. Let us face it, there is underoccupancy. We all accept and recognise this is the case in the north inner city. If these properties were being turned into long-term homes as opposed to short-term, temporary emergency...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Mr. Guiney does not feel Dublin City Council is engaging on that yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I have a specific question about the tenant in situ scheme. We pioneered and started it in Dublin city and got it rolled out nationally. From Dublin Town's experience, how is it working? I refer to the people it represents rather than its members. The representatives from ALONE highlighted two primary reasons that people are becoming homeless and they are the same as others have outlined....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Okay, but the tenant in situ scheme works in a way whereby if a person is on the social housing list, the city council or local authority can purchase the property.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I would be really interested if ALONE could revert to us with data on that. I am interested specifically in whether it is something ALONE suggests because it is a relatively new innovation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank Mr. Moynihan. That would be really important because, in my experience, it works 99% of the time, but for a lot of older people, in particular, it would not have been something they were familiar with. They would never have heard about it previously and they would probably be unsure as to whether it even exists. They may not have the confidence and capacity to have that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the witnesses for attending, for their opening statements and for all of the work they have been doing to support homeowners. They articulated their frustrations clearly. It is frustrating for us, too, as this is half of the meeting we had wanted to hold. We invited the statutory agencies responsible for the operation and implementation of the scheme, but that was not possible...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Contamination.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Construction cost of inflation of 33% is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: That is essentially what it amounts to. Will Mr. O’Donnell give me an idea of the size of the house? He is saying his quote is now approximately €500,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I appreciate that. Was it Dr. Cleary who spoke about the NSAI panel and the conflicts of interest therein?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Is Dr. Cleary there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I am sorry. I did not hear her. Is that situation something Dr. Cleary has documented and can share with us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: It would be helpful if Dr. Cleary shared that information with me or the full committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: We would all be interested in receiving it. That would be useful.

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: I, too, support the amendment. 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...

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister of State and everyone in his Department for all their work to get this historic legislation passed. For the first time in modern history, we will have a directly elected mayor. It is a huge opportunity for the people of Limerick and for all those who contest the first election. I wish them well. As a Dub, I have huge ambition for our capital city. I believe very...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: This morning, this House should recognise that there are renewed attempts to try to establish talks aimed at achieving a ceasefire in the Middle East. As a House, we are all very conscious and have talked many times since 7 October, now four months on, about the inhumanity that has been perpetrated there. We should call on all parties to engage in those talks constructively to seek to find...