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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I propose that the committee write to the Minister for Justice to ask her to engage with Novas. It is an obvious thing to do. We will take that action arising from this meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: They are not recognised as having a housing need. It needs to be simplified.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: It is great to see Senator Pauline O’Reilly in the Deputy Leader’s chair. I hope it is the first time of many. I raise the issue of multi-denominational, co-educational secondary schools, particularly in Dublin Central. When I was growing up, there was no multi-denominational, co-educational secondary school there, and it is more than ten years since I supported a campaign...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (3 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank all the witnesses. We appreciate the time they are giving us in providing opening statements and for their promise of further documentation. It is most helpful to us in our pre-legislative scrutiny. As the witnesses stated, this is very important legislation and we want to get it right. Archaeology is something that sounds dusty and old, but I agree with Dr. Greene's point that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (3 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: The advisory council.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (3 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I appreciate that my time is up, but can we come back to it in a later round? I think my question was misunderstood. I was not questioning the merit of the proposal. I was asking the An Taisce representatives to elaborate on what they propose the membership would be.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Happy Lá Fhéile Bríde to everyone. Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil le Seanadóir O'Loughlin. Today, I am thinking of everybody who is struggling with the enormous challenge of trying either to buy or rent a home. It is very frustrating and stressful for people. Last week we had the publication of the second quarterly report on Housing for All, the...

Seanad: Violence Against Women: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister for coming to the House today for this debate and for all the work that she and her Department are doing. It was her intention anyway to come forward with the new policy. I have a lot of confidence in her to deliver a new strategy. It is a strategy that needs to be holistic. All of the answers do not come from the Department of Justice, but that Department and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (27 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister of State and the departmental officials for the work they have done so far on this. We appreciate their time today and that they have brought forward the general scheme. I particularly acknowledge the comments made by Ms Connolly about Moore Street. It would be remiss of me not to thank Ms Foley for the work she did in supporting the Minister's advisory group on Moore...

Seanad: Local Government (Surveillance Powers in Relation to Certain Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I commend my colleagues, Senators Malcolm Byrne and Wall, on the work they have done on this issue and all the Senators who I hope will support this Bill unanimously. I hope the Minister of State has come here with open ears and with a spirit of embracing this initiative from Senator Malcolm Byrne, which is supported by the Fianna Fáil group and, hopefully, by Members across the House....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I welcome the approval by Government for the development at O'Devaney Gardens. For more than a decade, the site at O'Devaney Gardens has been plagued by political and planning arguments. For all of that time there has been nothing but dereliction and antisocial behaviour on that site. Today's announcement means that in the next quarter of this year, not in ten or 20 years' time,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I am here in Leinster House. I thank each of the witnesses for giving us their time today. It is very valuable to us. As an Oireachtas joint committee, we look at housing generally, but today we are talking specifically about the renovation of existing built vacant and-or derelict properties, and we all understand the difference between those. Housing for All identifies vacant properties...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (20 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister of State for his attendance. I seek clarity from the Department of Education on the provision of a permanent school building for Gaelscoil Áine, Glasnevin. Gaelscoil Áine is a wonderful multidenominational Irish-language-based primary school. It was established more than three years ago and is temporarily located on the first floor of Whitehall College of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (20 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I appreciate that the Minister of State has been sent here to respond on this issue. I acknowledge, and the school acknowledges and is very appreciative of, the support the Department has given in the setting up of the school and the fitting out of Coláiste Chaoimhin to meet its needs in the immediate term. I find it very disappointing that the Department says two things in this reply....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Today, the State Examinations Commission, SEC, will be meeting to discuss the arrangements for the leaving certificate and junior certificate examinations this year.I want to support the Irish Second-Level Students Union, and secondary students generally, who are very unhappy with the arrangements that are being put in place for the leaving certificate this year. I support their call, which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I confirm to the Chairman that I am attending this meeting from within the confines of Leinster House 2000. Comhghairdeas do Chormac on his illustrious career to date, and also on his appointment as chairman of the LDA. Mr. O'Rourke is very welcome to the committee and it is great that is Mr. John Coleman back again also. Mr. Coleman engaged with our committee last year and helped us in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Go raibh maith agat.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I have a question that may be suited more to Mr. Coleman than Mr. O'Rourke. It specifically concerns the sites that have been identified in Dublin Central, and I am thinking about those in East Wall, Arbour Hill and the Broadstone garage in Phibsborough. Will the witnesses give us some idea of the capacity of those in terms of number of homes, and I would appreciate even ballpark figures at...