Results 601-620 of 1,207 for speaker:Mary Fitzpatrick
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: The first part of the question was on whether age-friendly homes are delivered as unique senior citizens' developments or whether they are homes dedicated to senior citizens within mixed complexes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the witnesses for their presentations, their statements and for all of the work they and everyone in the local authorities in Galway and Cork city do. I will begin with Galway and I want to focus on the affordability issue. The housing crisis has two main characteristics, which are supply and affordability. I am told that affordability in Galway is even worse than in Dublin...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: With regard to the affordable cost rental, will Galway City Council be able to achieve the target of a minimum of 25% below market price?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Does the council deliver age-friendly home as unique senior citizen developments? Dublin City Council operates a financial contribution scheme for senior citizens who own their own homes and no longer want to stay in them. They can sell them back to the council and in return for making a financial contribution they are provided with fit-for-purpose senior citizens' housing. They also get a...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I second that.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I would like to know what is going on with the Intreo office for Dublin 7. I have raised this issue a number of times. I have written to the Minister and requested a meeting with him. Indeed, I asked the Leader to request that the Minister meet members of the local community. More than 1,500 people have signed a petition calling for the Intreo office for Dublin 7 to be reopened. The...
- Seanad: Situation in Iran: Motion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: It is frightening that we have to debate this motion. I am honoured to second it on behalf of the Fianna Fáil Members of Seanad Éireann, but it pains me that people in any part of the world have to debate this issue and that girls, women or any other human beings are living under such fear and oppression. Our motion unreservedly condemns the abuse of Mahsa Amini by the Iranian...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the witnesses for joining us today and for their work in the local authorities. I feel like a poacher turned gamekeeper with the colleagues from Dublin City Council. My first questions are for Dublin City Council and I may come back in the following rounds. When I was a member of that council, we had many debates on how to increase housing delivery. With Housing for All, the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I want to make a point of clarification. If a property is derelict it is vacant-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: -----and DCC has compulsorily purchased derelict buildings so it has compulsorily purchased vacant properties.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: How much does it cost to build a three-bedroom apartment in the city, roughly, or a house? Mr. Keegan talked about the inflationary costs. We all know them. What is the working figure for a three-bedroom apartment or house in the city?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I do not want a specific example.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Could we have the same figure for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Both councils are able to avail of the additional funding increase, which has been referenced.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: That is what the councils are working with to deliver affordable housing, both for cost rental and affordable purchase.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: In terms of voids and vacancies in council housing stock, in the past two years how many voids, by which I mean city council flats or houses that where boarded up, have been renovated and relet? What are the numbers for the past year or two?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I am not putting Mr. Curran on the spot. If he has it, that is grand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Are the councils actively pursuing their own properties?