Results 21-40 of 1,413 for speaker:Mary Fitzpatrick
- 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...
- 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: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (19 Jun 2025)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister for coming to the House and for the work he and his Department have done to bring forward this interim legislation. With almost 250,000 registered tenancies in the country, an awful lot of people living in rented accommodation need what the Minister is promising to deliver through this legislation and all the other work he is doing: certainty, stability and clarity. It...
- 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?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I offer my deepest sympathies and condolences to the family of Carmencita Hederman. Carmencita served as a Dublin city councillor for 25 years and she served in the Seanad. I had the pleasure of serving with her daughter Wendy on Dublin City Council. I offer my deepest sympathies to her family and friends at this time. I have raised Dublin city a number of times in this Chamber. I...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Fitzpatrick: It absolutely misrepresented the work of the drugs committee, the intention of the drugs committee and, most importantly, the Fianna Fáil Members in this House, in the Lower House and on the committee. I ask that those comments be retracted.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Fitzpatrick: On a point of order, it is really important that in this House, when we discuss issues, we do so in an accurate and objective way. It is misrepresenting the situation to suggest that taking a health-led approach is soft on drugs, and that is exactly what the Senator said.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Fitzpatrick: It is not a soft-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Fitzpatrick: It is not. It is objectively not.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Senator-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Fitzpatrick: It is not. It is inviting the Senator to engage in informed debate-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Fitzpatrick: -----to actually progress the debate and to progress the issue.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Fitzpatrick: It is a really serious issue-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Fitzpatrick: -----that merits-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I am confident the Senator has the capacity to engage in this debate in an informed way.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I invite him to do that-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Fitzpatrick: -----and to retract his comments which are so ill-informed and ignorant.
- Seanad: Enterprise Matters and Business Supports for SMEs: Motion (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Before I commence the debate, I welcome the guests of the Minister, Deputy James Lawless, who are visiting us from Broadford school in Kildare. They are all very welcome. I hope they are enjoying their visit to Leinster House. They brought the sunshine with them from Kildare. I presume between now and the end of the school year there will be no more homework for them. That is the rule in...
- Seanad: Enterprise Matters and Business Supports for SMEs: Motion (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Have we got a seconder for the motion?