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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 thank Mr. Hogan for his presentation and I apologise for being late. There is broad welcome for this legislation. The idea of a land tax has been talked about for decades, as has the idea that the State would share in the benefit of any increased value brought about through the rezoning of lands. The move will be broadly welcomed. If those funds can then be used to accelerate, or at...

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 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: 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: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...very pertinent to anybody wanting to secure an affordable home. The other issue Mr. Ó Coigligh mentioned was the differentiation between the cost of the building standards we are delivering in Ireland versus those in other European countries, and the historical housing that is in place. When we talk about rents increasing, we are talking about a very different product or home if...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...Street. The school has waited patiently for 20 years, in temporary accommodation, for its own purpose-built school. When I was a city councillor, I was proud and delighted to support the transfer of land on Dominick Street for the building of a new purpose-built school. Over the past ten years, the progress has been glacial. It has been painfully slow. I was really pleased that in the...

Seanad: Housing: Statements (29 Mar 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...owners to make their properties available for use, whether as social homes or affordable homes. Housing for All also addresses the second element of the crisis, affordability, by making use of State-owned lands. What a novel idea that we would use State-owned lands to reduce the cost of providing housing. Good on the Minister. This is the way to go and he should do more of it. The...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (7 Mar 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...of us are getting any younger. I feel like I am getting very old with this story. Since I was first elected, I have supported Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire. As a city councillor, I supported the transfer of land on Dominick Street to allow for the building of a new school. Initially, it was conceived as an eight-classroom school. Due to the demand for the school, which is a...

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...councillors that they value it. They value the fact that, for the first time, they will be able to exercise and influence the delivery of social, affordable and affordable cost rental homes on local authority lands. It is a huge innovation, which is long overdue and desperately needed. Councillors welcome it and are committed to making use of the €20 billion in funding the...

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Dec 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...get us to somewhere in the region of 40,000 homes a year. The urgency that is required for that is really pressing. It is an ambition that everybody must be involved in. We must enable our local authorities to use lands that are already zoned or serviced for housing in locations where there is housing demand and where there are plans that are consistent with the city and county...

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...

Seanad: Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...this plan. It is further underpinned by legislation passed in this House and in the Dáil that gives power to local authorities, for the first time in well over a decade, to use State-owned lands to build not just social homes but affordable homes. It will deliver for generations to come. It is determined to not just eliminate homelessness, but put back into reach the possibility...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...people to remember the context of this and that these are human lives and homes we are trying to protect for people and to stop objecting unnecessarily or on a whim. I appreciate this is a direct impingement on landlords' private property rights. They are citizens of our State and are entitled to have their rights defended. However, this is an emergency situation, as I outlined. All of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...That is ambitious and welcome, and it will go a long way to meeting the need. The fact witnesses have demonstrated how local authorities can deliver quantum, high quality and can use State-owned lands to address the cost and affordability issues is to be commended. The witnesses mentioned affordable pricing starting at €166,000. I welcome Deputy Gould's welcoming of the strong...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: That is great. The timescale is until 2026. What is the timescale for the 477 on the council's own land?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: They will all be delivered on local authority lands.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I appreciate Dublin City Council is doing its development plan and there will be some changes but of the land already zoned for residential in the city and owned by the council, what percentage is not under development by the council?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ..., but they need city council to deliver the option to them. In the case of St. Finbarr’s Court, two years have passed and people are scratching their heads. Two years on from the planning permission, and given that the land is owned by the city council and the site has been completely flattened and demolished, why is it taking so long for the builder to get on-site and start...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...into the future and which put the State at the forefront of leading on the delivery of housing. On home ownership, security and affordability, empowering our local authorities, using State-owned lands to build homes that are affordable and secure for people, this is work we can all be proud of. I also commend our own Seanad party leader, Senator Chambers. It has been great to work with...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tax Code (5 Jul 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...the Minister of State and the Government on the €20 billion commitment they have made under Housing for All to deliver 300,000 homes. I also commend the changes they have made to use State-owned land to deliver social and affordable homes and empower local authorities and housing charities to do this. The Government has committed to ending direct provision. It has banned...