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Seanad: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Amendments Nos. 9 to 12, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Staff (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I appreciate that the Minister of State is here at very short notice. I acknowledge that the Department of Health has emailed myself, and Senators Gavan and Conway, to explain that the Minister for Health is not available. Issuing an email is an improvement on the usual lack of communication. I am here to discuss an issue that pertains to a small group of people whose quality of life is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Staff (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Yes.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Staff (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: As a party colleague and since he took up his post as Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell does nothing but work diligently, and he is very good at following up with his colleagues. However, the speech he has been given is three minutes of absolute piffle that has nothing to do with the question that was asked. It is an obscenity that someone in the Department of Health thought it fit to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Staff (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: There is small group of people whose lives and quality of life depend on action being taken. The advocacy group Cystic Fibrosis Ireland has spent more than three years asking for a consultant who will prescribe kaftrio for post-transplant CF sufferers but what I have got back are vague phrases like "being approved shortly" and "will be recruited". There is no urgency shown towards the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Staff (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister of State. I do not doubt his sincerity but I doubt that of the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Self-advocacy and Women with Disabilities: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I apologise. I am at a meeting of the Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage and in the Seanad this morning. It takes years off my life trying to be in several places at the same time. I wish to come back to Ms McDonagh on exactly that point of our language and the language of policy. We sanitise the real, lived experience. That was expressed extraordinarily a few weeks...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Self-advocacy and Women with Disabilities: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Inclusion Ireland's website is a real example of inclusion, which it should be. It is great modelling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Self-advocacy and Women with Disabilities: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: A very real one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Self-advocacy and Women with Disabilities: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: You work very closely with her. I think she is amazing. She captures exactly what we need to be doing very well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Self-advocacy and Women with Disabilities: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: That is a brilliant summary of it. Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I have been in the Seanad this morning and unable to listen to the proceedings thus far, so I apologise if my questions have already been asked. I will confine my questioning to residents, their access to object and appeal, and the perceived limitation on their ability to be within the process. There is a concern that a disproportionate amount of blame for delays in planning has been placed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Let us just slow this down. Anyone can put in an observation at planning stage. That is fair enough and it is agreed. Can residents associations put in an observation at planning stage? Okay. Who gets to appeal to An Bord Pleanála? Is there any curtailing of who those entities would be at that point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Alright. Any residents association can appeal to An Bord Pleanála.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: If it made a submission. Is there then a challenge to who gets listed? Is it the residents association? What level of detail of membership needs to be provided to substantiate the association's right to appeal at the An Bord Pleanála stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Okay. There is a perception that is a limited right of appeal that it would affect at that stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: What I am hearing from Mr. Hogan is that for a residents association to be able to get into the judicial review and have that possibility of costs, they have to meet all of those unincorporated criteria.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Apologies that I am making Ms Jones repeat.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: So could a group of named individuals then be Kildare Street Residents Association, which comprises Mary Seery Kearney, Eoin Ó Broin and whomever?