Results 721-740 of 1,352 for speaker:Mary Fitzpatrick
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the witnesses for coming in and I thank everyone who works in both of the county councils. They are challenging environments. They are to be commended on their great achievements over recent years. It is welcome to see that, combined between both councils, between social and affordable homes, we are up around 12,000 homes. That is ambitious and welcome, and it will go a long way to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: It adds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Does Ms Farrelly have any idea of how much of a delay is added? If a year is being allowed for planning in the project plan, but when there are objections, it is appealed to An Bord Pleanála and it is then pushed to a judicial review, how much extra time has to be added beyond the year that has already been built in to the project plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Okay, so we could actually talking about three years just in planning?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Is that the same experience, time-wise, when it comes to planning in south County Dublin?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: You would not notice it passing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Yes, and all the time people are in emergency accommodation. I come back to Fingal on my questions on homelessness. How many emergency homeless accommodations are provided for within Fingal County Council?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: So Fingal is providing about a third of the accommodation for those on its homeless list, roughly speaking.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Okay, go raibh maith agat.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: In Fingal?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I will come back to the question I asked earlier about people on the housing lists who have received a notice to quit because the owner is selling. Have the witnesses advised their housing officers to ask the applicant if the landlord will sell to the local authority? Is that something they have instructed their housing officers to do so far and if not, is it something they will instruct...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Even if it was for five years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Mr. McLoughlin would defend-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: It perpetuates a trauma.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Go raibh maith agat Mr. McLoughlin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: An additional year or two.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: As politicians, we often give out about our health services. I went out for a run this morning, tripped, fell on my face - I am fine, though it is not obvious - and ended up in the Mater Hospital. I give huge thanks to all the staff in the Mater's emergency department. They are just tremendous given what they deal with and we are very lucky to have them and everybody who works in our...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I would like to talk about public transport in Dublin Central. Obviously, every senior citizen in Dublin Central can avail of free travel and young people up to the age of 24 are enjoying a 50% discount on public transport. That is welcome. Does the Leader know that feeling when one has been standing at a bus stop and has been waiting and waiting and the next thing three buses all come...