Results 761-780 of 1,401 for speaker:Mary Fitzpatrick
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: On a point of order, it is not acceptable to call Members liars.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: It is not acceptable to say that we are only lying.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: We are not lying in this House and the record needs to reflect that.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: This is an important point of order, a Leas-Chathaoirligh. This House is not lying and is not passing legislation that discriminates against anybody. That is a fact.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Now.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Now.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Motion for Earlier Signature (27 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I move: That pursuant to subsection 2° of section 2 of Article 25 of the Constitution, Seanad Éireann concurs with the Government in a request to the President to sign the Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022 on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the Bill shall have been presented to him.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I wish to raise the issue of antisocial behaviour and public safety. I draw the House's attention to a public transport safety survey that my colleagues and I conducted over the summer months, to which we had more than 1,300 respondents, largely from across the Dublin area. Of those who responded, 93% had witnessed antisocial behaviour on public transportation; 36% were victims of...
- 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?