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United Kingdom Import Controls: Statements (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...to these new UK requirements, therefore, will be important for us and for certain sectors of the economy. Given our close proximity and history of trading, it will remain the most important market for Ireland across many of our key sectors from beef, dairy and horticulture, all the way to prepared consumer food. The EU introduced customs and border procedures and checks under the trade...

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Ireland used to have one of the highest rates of home ownership in the EU. Yet, despite reaching nearly full employment and economic growth, just 66% of housing is owner-occupied. Home ownership has collapsed particularly among younger generations and lower-income groups. Housing is consistently the number one issue of concern for my constituents in Louth and East Meath. Last week, the...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...real-world impact of the changes proposed in the Bill will lead to an increase in litigation on planning matters. The failure to engage in public consultation when drafting this Bill is striking. This comprehensive review of Ireland’s planning law has the potential to radically improve and overhaul our planning and land-use system, as well as related court processes. However, in...

Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...commencement targets but there are many people right now who do not have a home. In the most up-to-date homelessness report, there were 9,018 people accessing local emergency accommodation in Ireland. These homelessness figures underline, yet again, the need for an emergency housing budget in budget 2024. Various reasons are given for presenting as homeless, including the landlord...

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...over the past decade, the population aged over 65 has grown at a rate three times faster. There is, therefore, a decreasing proportion of nursing home beds available to those over 65. Ireland’s ageing population, longer life expectancy, and increasing prevalence of chronic diseases will place significant pressure on the healthcare system in the coming years, amplifying the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...only be permitted to grow by around 9.4% from 2021 to 2027. Why is there such a disparity? Rural communities are being, and will continue to be, greatly impacted if this does not change. Housing in rural Ireland has always been a major difficulty. All politicians know that there are issues with planning. What we find in my area of Louth and east Meath is that young people are being...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...in mobile homes, live with friends or live wherever they can because they cannot get planning permission. The Government is instructing local authorities to build houses on local authority-owned land. However, our local authorities are refusing landowners and families to build on their land. That is a contradiction. There is a housing crisis at the moment. The Government is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I know of a young girl who is married with two children. Her family has loads of land - 40 or 50 acres. What did the council tell her? It told her to build an extension onto the existing house of 50 sq. m. One cannot put a family into an extension measuring 50 sq. m.

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: .... Earlier this year Irish architects claimed that a new model of housing density could more than double the number of own-door dwellings on a site. The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland wrote to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, calling for low-rise medium-density housing along the lines of models employed in Sweden, Finland, Australia and New...

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...the majority of people who are impacted by the current housing crisis. The percentage of household income spent on rent in this State is higher than any other country in the world. Rents in Ireland are 78% higher than the EU average. What does this mean for renters and how does it affect people's lives? It means real stress and real poverty. Households are facing rising energy bills...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...and private foresters with a UK investment company is a kick in the face and, quite frankly, morally wrong. We would advance foreign and national investment funds to transition 100,000 ha of Irish farmland out of local farm ownership for afforestation by funds. We are selling rural Ireland to investment funds, which will disadvantage existing local, new entrant and young farmers. When...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (8 Nov 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The last thing we want to do, especially in County Louth, is to drive people away from the countryside. It is bad enough having local needs and people not being able to build on their land along with everything else. It is very frustrating. People come to me knowing there are households and companies down the road from them that have broadband installed and ask me what is going on. I...

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...the current resources and staffing, the position could get worse. I am concerned by the population covered and the level of investment. The Government promises plenty of money but none of it seems to land. The situation in Navan should not be used for political point scoring. I have always said that your health is your wealth. Please, let us all work together and stop sending...

Vacant Properties: Motion [Private Members] (6 Apr 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...better and it is all families want. I do not know what is going on with the Government at present but we should put more emphasis on building more houses. As the Minister of State knows, we have a lot of land in County Louth that can be used to build houses. I welcome that he came to County Louth last week. I hope he spoke to those in the local authorities there and that he will come...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gorse Burning (8 Feb 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to ensure that clearing land is affordable to landowners and farmers in view of the ban on farmers burning overgrown land and gorse bushes; if he plans to review the decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5834/22]

Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion [Private Members] (8 Dec 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the motion. Along with colleagues in the Regional Group I bring this motion before the House today and hope that all sides of the House will support us. Ireland has one of the largest maritime areas in the EU and it is over seven times larger than our land mass. Our maritime area covers almost 500,000 sq. km, which represents a 220 million acre...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...preschool and school hours will no longer be deducted from subsidised hours, thereby benefiting more than 5,000 children from low-income families. I was coming to work this morning and I heard a lady on "Morning Ireland" saying she and her husband are caught in the middle. She is spending more than €20,000 a year on childcare. This is of no benefit to her. I plead with the...

Common Agricultural Policy: Statements (16 Jun 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...there are farming families going back many generations. Further south and towards the middle of the county, we have many more farming communities that have dedicated their working lives to the land. It is clear that farming faces many challenges. The prices farmers are getting for their produce are constantly under pressure, yet prices are not falling for the consumer. As we debate...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...for three years only, provided that all the conditions of the scheme are complied with. The current system sees farm families and business owners required to set aside 7.5% of the value of their land annually to fund a place in a nursing home. This means the family farm could be lost to the next generation after 14 years as it would drain the value of the farm to pay for the care of a...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 Dec 2020)

Peter Fitzpatrick: .... We have seen what happened in Dublin when high-density housing was introduced. Including too many housing units simply does not work. Another matter which needs discussion is the amount of land zoned for development which will simply never be developed. It is common knowledge in Dundalk that there are situations where land has been zoned for development, but that land will never...