Results 21-40 of 1,203 for speaker:Mary Fitzpatrick
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I was going to suggest that we bring in the board. An SHD is an SHD and it is what it is, but our general concern is the question of how the board is dealing with them. Let us invite the board to attend.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: It is in the programme for Government.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I proposed that we consider the same issue but merely from a financial perspective. The State is using many different models to deliver homes, ranging from emergency accommodation to the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, the housing assistance payment, HAP, homeless HAP, public private partnerships, PPPs, turnkey and long-term leases. From my experience, we always look back and ask whether...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: It feels like we are moving all of the time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: It is a valid point but if this committee does not deal with the Moorhead report, no other committee will. I speak as a former city councillor. Genuinely, it is the weakest link in our democracy that we have people democratically elected to represent their communities who are massively undermined and under-resourced to do the job properly. I think we need to do it. Covid could be our...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: We want the Minister for two reasons. We want him for the LDA but we also want him on his housing programme, affordable housing and affordable rent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: That is Rebuilding Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: That is what we need the Minister to tell us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: The LDA and the Minister, because the Minister should have published his legislation by then.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: We are leaving.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Will the Chair clarify that he intends to resume discussion on the work programme from where we left off, and to complete it, at our next public meeting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (6 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Chair.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Living City Initiative (8 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister of State for attending. This is my first time to speak in the Seanad Chamber. It is a great honour. Before the Minister of State came in, my colleagues very passionately articulated the stress and strain experienced by the hospitality and other sectors owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. I want to use my time to propose what might be part of a solution to a crisis faced...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Living City Initiative (8 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister of State for his response and I appreciate that his remit is on the financial and the tax side. However, the Government needs to recognise and accept that as well as dealing with Covid-19 we have a massive housing crisis. It has not gone away. We need to respond to that housing crisis and to the crisis faced by our independent small traders and inner city and rural...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Living City Initiative (8 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: It has not worked.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Living City Initiative (8 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Living City Initiative (8 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Go raibh maith agat.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Would that category include issues like water supply for Dublin?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I apologise on behalf of Deputy Murnane O'Connor who has been delayed on the road from Carlow. She has seen the report, is happy with No. 15 and would like us to proceed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Would that limit the discussion to just social housing?