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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: The committee could. That was one of the issues on Tuesday.

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: Yes. Jump in.

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: No. Between us, we will do it. I want to tease this out.

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: With due respect, if it is the Kildare Street Residents Association and the development is in the grounds of Leinster House, the two are clear - do we have to list all of the names? There has been a High Court matter that all of the names were not listed or one of the people was dead. Mr. Brendan Heneghan cited it here the other day. It got thrown out on the grounds of a lack of standing....

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: But implied within that is that if a residents association is to put in for an appeal for An Bord Pleanála stage and it has to list all of its members, if it is to go on to judicial review, then every person who lives within that residents association area has to have exactly the same view. That is not reasonable. It is approaching residents with a "guilty until proven innocent"...

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: Yes. It is reasonable that they meet criteria such as having a meeting and demonstrating that there is some sort of mandate of the committee of a residents association to put forward. However, it should be confined to that. If we hold it to the members, then people can die in the meantime. You will not be able to meet all those 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: Okay. Are we happy?

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 was happy to give time, as long as we got to the point. I understand that individuals can do it, but we cannot bar residents, particularly residents' associations. I am a little concerned about the longevity requirement there, if that attaches to residents' associations. It does not.

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: You can have a place where everything has been running tickety-boo. I live on a road that has been there for 60 years. They were active when people were younger. Everything is spot-on now, thanks to South Dublin County Council staff. In the face of a development, BusConnects or whatever that will materially change the quality of life for people, suddenly the residents' associations will...

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. We need that very clear.

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: That is great. I thank the Chair.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I completely support my colleague, Senator Doherty, in her call and what she has said here on the St. John Ambulance. I commend her on bringing it to the House in the first place and for the motion and for being a champion all the way through for Mick Finnegan and all the other men who came forward. I have stood there with them and I have heard their experiences. That included one of them...

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I read a quote this morning, which states: Here's to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them. I would add to that, saying here's to the men who support us, respect us, work with us and who are great colleagues. I would count the Minister among them as being a really good colleague. From the moment he stepped into his job, he has done nothing but advance the...

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Hear, hear.

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Yes. I am speaking at a conference at 3 p.m. so I cannot break to go back. However, I am happy to relieve the Acting Chair if she want to go.

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: There is no one else for the Government bench.

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I appreciate if the Acting Chair needs to go.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and their opening statements. I intend to be here until 6 p.m., so we will get back again in another round. In the witnesses' submissions, and within my own views and concerns, the naming of people as part of a residents' association is an exposure, which we are touching on delicately, but which we are touching on nonetheless. It is a fact...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: In recent times, we have seen decisions by An Bord Pleanála that have ignored its own inspectors' reports and that have completely ignored the development plan. When An Bord Pleanála has been before the committee in the past, I have raised that and the issues that Ms Cadell made around the proliferation of student accommodation and the change of use, the response was that the...