Results 821-840 of 1,413 for speaker:Mary Fitzpatrick
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Could we have the same figure for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Both councils are able to avail of the additional funding increase, which has been referenced.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: That is what the councils are working with to deliver affordable housing, both for cost rental and affordable purchase.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: In terms of voids and vacancies in council housing stock, in the past two years how many voids, by which I mean city council flats or houses that where boarded up, have been renovated and relet? What are the numbers for the past year or two?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I am not putting Mr. Curran on the spot. If he has it, that is grand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Are the councils actively pursuing their own properties?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I appreciate Dublin City Council is doing its development plan and there will be some changes but of the land already zoned for residential in the city and owned by the council, what percentage is not under development by the council?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: That is great, thanks. There is a narrative out there that council targets are too low, that they are underdelivering on them and that they will fail to address the housing crisis, which is destroying people's lives. There is also an accusation regarding the commitment to move away from private contribution and private developer involvement in the delivery of social housing. On the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: That is the suggestion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Why can Dublin City Council not do that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I want to ask about the €81 million that was granted to councils to support housing adaptation grants for older people and people with disabilities. These grants are important to allow people to remain living independently in their own homes as they deal with a disability, an acquired disability, old age or infirmity. I understand in the case of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Are the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown schemes undersubscribed? There was a surplus-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Ms Keenan does not anticipate using the full allocation by the end of this year, since it is 60% unallocated already.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Is there a reason Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is not pursuing actively operating a financial contribution scheme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Why is it taking two years from planning permission on a site such as St. Finbar's Court to construction commencing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I appreciate that. I also appreciate that Dublin City Council and all of the other local authorities have that challenge in dealing with the Departments of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Public Expenditure and Reform and Finance. I appreciate the due diligence, cost-benefit analysis and all of the feasibility studies that have to be done. They are all really important steps in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: There is the cost of not doing it. There is a cost to not building or not delivering. That is the cost that is not being counted.
- Seanad: Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for bringing forward this important Bill. It is important, at a fundamental and basic level, that we responsibly manage our water resources in a sustainable way. To do that, we need to know what is going on with them, how much water we are abstracting, where it is being abstracted and how it is being managed. On behalf of the Fianna Fáil...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I congratulate everybody involved in the breast cancer awareness campaign for the month of October. I also congratulate everybody who has survived breast cancer or cared for those with breast cancer. I encourage everybody to care for their pair and to be breast aware. I also raise the issue of crime in the capital, in particular crime in communities like mine in Dublin Central, as well as...