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Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I presume instances where drug suppliers or traffickers are using drug users to distribute small amounts of drugs on a repeated basis require the police to repeatedly target that drug user.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank Mr. Keegan, Ms Crimin and Ms Loughlin for coming to the committee today and for their work and the reports they produce. I thank all staff at the RTB. Mr. Keegan said the RTB has an important role in the private rental sector, which it does. There is an increasing reliance on the RTB to be efficient, accessible and robust in the performance of its duties. He mentioned in his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: The question users have is why it is taking so long. The IT system was introduced in 2017 and it was recognised in 2021 there were problems. In May 2024, three years later, the board approved significant investment. I presume the investment is significant and the witnesses might advise the committee how much the budget is. Will they share with us why it has taken so long?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Has the RTB changed vendor? Has it gone to a new and different platform?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Everybody would accept that it is certainly very challenging for everybody at the RTB and challenging for everybody trying to use the system. The RTB has not shied away from this. I have never heard the RTB shy away from it. Has the RTB gone with a completely new supplier?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Is there a timeline associated with this new contract with the new supplier as to when it can be expected to have all of this new functionality and improvement in place and operational?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: How will it be measured?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: The improvements will affect not only the registration process, as Mr. Keegan has alluded to the dispute process becoming more streamlined.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I appreciate they are two separate issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank Ms Loughlin. What is the average dispute processing time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Is it fair to say the expectation is that the timelines will reduce for registering and having disputes actioned and resolved?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I raise the issue of public safety in Dublin, specifically the deployment of gardaí in our public spaces, on our streets, in our parks, our canals, and on our public transportation. A concern is being expressed about where the gardaí are. We are into the summer months, the long evenings and the holiday season. Schools and colleges are out. Visitors are travelling and we want to...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Jun 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister of State, the departmental officials and everybody who has worked on the enormous task of bringing this Bill before the House. I acknowledge my colleagues and the secretariat of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage, who worked very diligently to complete pre-legislative scrutiny on earlier drafts of the Bill. As we enter this...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Jun 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Shall I proceed or wait until the speech has been distributed?

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Jun 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: There are a number of elements of the Bill I want to talk about. If we can achieve it, the objective of greater clarity, certainty and consistency will go a long way towards making our country and all of the developments that take place within it more sustainable into the future. We will all agree that the restructuring of An Bord Pleanála into a new organisation, an coimisiún...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the witnesses for joining us this morning, their opening statements and helping us with our deliberations. As was correctly pointed out, Ireland has the highest rate of drug-related deaths in Europe. It is shameful and unacceptable and we have been tasked with trying to come up with a meaningful response to help to reduce that harm and those deaths. Drugs are literally killing our...

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the witnesses for their opening statements and contributions. I will start with Mr. Ryan and the perspective from the Department of Justice. Speaking from the perspective of my community, over the past 20 or 30 years the consensus would be that there has been an abject failure and the approach taken by the State has utterly failed our communities. It fails the victims of drug...

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I can come back in.

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Mr. Ryan stated earlier that the community safety partnerships had had excellent results. Could he send us some documentation outlining how the Department concluded that an excellent outcome has been reached on the part of community safety partnerships, particularly in the north inner city, because what I and others described certainly does not sound like excellence and does not appear to be...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I share in the congratulations to the elected Members to the European Parliament. I congratulate them and commiserate with those candidates who were unsuccessful on this occasion in both the European elections and the local authority elections. Our democracy depends on good people coming forward, putting their name on a ballot paper and contesting elections. Our democracy is indebted to...