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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...be important. Inflation and its cost is a real struggle for us to get our heads around. We are constantly battling the idea of trying to deliver affordable homes and legislation to use State-owned lands and remove or reduce the land costs. Ms Hegarty's advice to us is that the taxes and levies are being kept to a minimum so there is not really room there. Then there are the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...commencements which are to be welcomed. These are new homes being built, and Housing for All is determined to deliver a mix of social, affordable and private housing through using State-owned lands. To deliver housing, it is very important that not only do the commencements get approved and the housing is started but that they are delivered upon. There are many pressure points with...

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: Housing Policy: Motion (2 Mar 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ..., regardless of its political persuasion, is mandated to deliver on it. There is much in Housing for All that is going to help us move in the right direction. There is a commitment to use State-owned lands to build social and affordable homes. There is a commitment to delivering 10,000 new social homes every year. Housing lists have been spoken about with respect to fact some people...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ..., outdated, destructive and inhumane.I think of the fathers, sons and brothers remaining. I heard Ukrainian men are travelling from Cork to fly back. They are fighting for their lives, for their land and for freedom. We need to support them and I believe that this House has a duty to pass a motion tonight.

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...thank and welcome Ms Foreman and Mr. McCormack and congratulate them on all the work they do, not just today but all the time, to promote growing and community gardens. Ms Foreman comes from Mud Island in the north inner city. It is in my constituency of Dublin Central. I learned gardening from my granny and she came from a generation who grew to sustain themselves. A garden is a happy...

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.

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: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: That is great. My understanding of the Broadstone site is that it is partially owned by Dublin Bus and partially owned by Bus Éireann. The Land Development Agency is looking at the combination of both sites.

Seanad: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Dec 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: .... I do not want to crowd him but this is my allocated seat. It is a coincidence that the Minister is coming to the Seanad with this legislation today considering the storm that is attacking our island. Our thoughts are with all the coastal communities that are being battered by Storm Barra. Thankfully, we seem to be getting away with it so far here in Dublin. I thank all the emergency...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Nov 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...are with the individuals. We ask the acting Leader to write to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and our MEPs in Europe to emphasise again to them the desire of this House and all the citizens of Ireland for the EU to take a strong role in providing safe routes to security for those who desperately need them. Today is UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ..., as well as the effort that he and the Department have put into trying to tackle the crisis that is affecting far too many people who are renting their homes not just in Dublin, but all over Ireland. All Members know that rents have become unaffordable. It is for that reason that this new Government has legislated no less than five times since coming into office to try to tackle the...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (20 Oct 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...is supportive of. It is a proposal we need to progress. I am a parent of third level students so I know the demographic very well, warts and all. I met with the Union of Students in Ireland. I commend it on the work it has done, not just in recent times. Since the Government was formed more than a year ago, it has engaged very constructively and the Government has worked with it and...

Seanad: Housing For All - a New Housing Plan for Ireland: Statements (29 Sep 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...worker and everybody in our State who worked together to defeat the pandemic. Thankfully, we are coming out the far side of that. Climate action is a huge challenge facing us, not just on our island but globally, and the Government is also committed to working on that. Today, however, we are talking about housing. In that regard, the Minister has not wasted the last year. I commend...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Sep 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank Mr. Hogan. The proposed vacant land tax is very welcome. Regarding the statutory meeting, my point, and I absolutely recognise the-----

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...and value enormously the role of local authority members. I thank on their behalf Mary Hoade, Anne Colgan and the Association of Irish Local Government, AILG, for their submissions with regard to the Land Development Agency and their inputs to the other legislation we have been progressing, namely, the Affordable Housing Bill and the Planning and Development Bills. The Fianna Fáil...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...look forward to the Minister's response. I believe he values our local authority members and is doing all he can to give them more powers. It is an incremental process. This is being limited to lands being zoned for housing between not being developed. It will not apply to any other lands. I see that as an improvement. The Fianna Fáil Senators are determined to increase local...

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...