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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?

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: That is great, thanks. There is a narrative out there that council targets are too low, that they are underdelivering on them and that they will fail to address the housing crisis, which is destroying people's lives. There is also an accusation regarding the commitment to move away from private contribution and private developer involvement in the delivery of social housing. On the...

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: That is the suggestion.

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: Why can Dublin City Council not do that?

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: Thank you.

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: I want to ask about the €81 million that was granted to councils to support housing adaptation grants for older people and people with disabilities. These grants are important to allow people to remain living independently in their own homes as they deal with a disability, an acquired disability, old age or infirmity. I understand in the case of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County...

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: Are the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown schemes undersubscribed? There was a surplus-----

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: Ms Keenan does not anticipate using the full allocation by the end of this year, since it is 60% unallocated already.

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: Is there a reason Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is not pursuing actively operating a financial contribution scheme?

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: Why is it taking two years from planning permission on a site such as St. Finbar's Court to construction commencing?

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: I appreciate that. I also appreciate that Dublin City Council and all of the other local authorities have that challenge in dealing with the Departments of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Public Expenditure and Reform and Finance. I appreciate the due diligence, cost-benefit analysis and all of the feasibility studies that have to be done. They are all really important steps in the...

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: There is the cost of not doing it. There is a cost to not building or not delivering. That is the cost that is not being counted.

Seanad: Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Oct 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for bringing forward this important Bill. It is important, at a fundamental and basic level, that we responsibly manage our water resources in a sustainable way. To do that, we need to know what is going on with them, how much water we are abstracting, where it is being abstracted and how it is being managed. On behalf of the Fianna Fáil...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I congratulate everybody involved in the breast cancer awareness campaign for the month of October. I also congratulate everybody who has survived breast cancer or cared for those with breast cancer. I encourage everybody to care for their pair and to be breast aware. I also raise the issue of crime in the capital, in particular crime in communities like mine in Dublin Central, as well as...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Sep 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Like other speakers, I welcome today's budget, which will protect families, individuals and businesses and invest in social infrastructure. It is important. I would like to raise with the Leader the ongoing closure of the Dublin 7 Intreo office. It is located on the Navan Road at Cabra Cross and serves Cabra, Phibsboro, Stoneybatter and the general Dublin 7 area, with a population of more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Local Authority Elected Members) Bill 2022: Discussion (22 Sep 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister of State and all of his team for bringing forward this legislation. It is very important. I speak as a former local authority member who, when pregnant, was in the chamber, and when I was in the labour ward over in the Rotunda Hospital, my absence was noted and reported. It is an unfair pressure that is put on local authority members. They feel torn between the duties...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament (20 Sep 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the three MEPs, who are very welcome. I thank them also for all of the work they do on behalf of the people of Dublin. I appreciate that they do it in the context of the European Union community but it is very important that we have strong representation within the European Parliament. I want to make a particular reference to the pandemic. How quickly we all forget. It is great...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament (20 Sep 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: In their responses, I would like to hear how the MEPs think the European Parliament and the European Union in general can support Ireland to accelerate our achievement of our offshore wind energy goals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank all our guests for attending, for providing their statements in advance and for the ongoing work they all do. This is a very challenging sector of which we are all acutely aware. I have some questions about the proposals and suggestions made by Threshold, the first of which relates to renters, to giving them more support and to the reintroduction of the tax relief for them, something...