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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I understand what Mr. Kehoe is referring to and support it. I can see why there would be a need. When will there be a request from the CCMA members, the local authorities, or a statement, let us say, of what the local authorities see as their need?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I presume the CCMA is having the same recruitment challenges as every other sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: The agency has not exhausted the fund that was originally made available.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: At that point, the CCMA will be able to move on. That is great. I will turn to the Department to talk about Dublin. I appreciate there is nobody here from Dublin City Council. When we talk about the housing crisis, we always talk about it nationally. I am not suggesting there is no housing need outside Dublin because there absolutely is. However, the need is greatest, and the supply...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: It is a good conversation. What I would like to see, and what we need to see, is more urgency around that conversation. Delivery of new builds in the city is always going to be constrained, for all the obvious reasons. It is more difficult and expensive, and there are more objections and all of that sort of stuff. However, the buildings I have in mind are built properties. They are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I will continue with the same theme. It takes Dublin City Council the best part of 20 years to CPO a property. That is my bitter experience with it. I commend the other local authorities. I appreciate Dublin City Council has a much more complex and challenging job in terms of size, scale, and all of that, but it also has very significant resources. If it needs more resources, then we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: There are not many of them in the city. This is the problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: To be honest, the real issue is that the city is constrained in respect of the amount of available land. There are valid reasons that affordable homes schemes are not being brought forward. We need to recognise that and adjust our approach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Can I intervene? The complaint we have from a Dublin city perspective is that the percentage of the overall properties in the area is reported. It is a small percentage relative to the number of properties. However, the number of properties that are vacant is quite large. For example, 1 % in Longford is a very different proposition from 1 % in Dublin city, as regards actual numbers. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: My concern is that there is no mystery about where they are. It is not that nothing is being done about them. That is not fair. However, the opportunity is not being exploited. It is perhaps seen as a problem to address and deal with and it gets dealt with, later, in Dublin city but it is not seen as an opportunity. It is not being pursued by the local authority as an opportunity to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: This morning I want to give a shout out to everybody sitting the leaving certificate exams. There are about halfway through what is, by any standard, a testing process. I believe Ireland is unique in our leaving certificate. It is a rite of passage here. In these circumstances, in this weather, it is extremely trying for anyone sitting the exams. There was a very significant upset last...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach. I thank our guests for their presentations and for their participation here today. The Chair was diplomatic. I would nearly go as far as to say our guests are rejecting it. We value their input. It is important. We spend all our time talking about housing and construction. From their perspective, everyone recognises the high cost, high risk...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Are all of those builders and developers developing and building private developments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Would the social be in the Part V?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: There is a lot of money being thrown at it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: IIP did not get a chance to answer. Could Mr. Farrell come in on the next round?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Is there planning permission for that land?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: Would they consider coming to the State and doing a deal with the State on the land?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I welcome the inspired appointment this week of the new chair of the North East Inner City Task Force. The new chairperson is none other than Mr. Jim Gavin, who will be familiar to everyone in the House. Jim is a Dub and a very successful GAA manager.He brought the Dubs to no less than five All-Ireland championships. He is also the director of operations at the Irish Aviation Authority....