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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: That is the law of our country. Apart from the racist sentiments, I would have thought that the intelligence services of Ireland would benefit greatly from someone from a bigger intelligence agency coming in and bringing all of that experience with him or her. I do not think that, just because someone is a foreigner, he or she will give away all of our secrets. It is contrary to the law of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...units and community spaces are included, and there is to be a considerable amount of supporting infrastructure. Dublin City Council has now published the plans, working in conjunction with the Land Development Agency. The momentum created by the Government behind the agency is coming to fruition for the communities like Cherry Orchard. On top of this, the implementation board is up and...

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Apr 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...am to believe all that I have heard on the grapevine because nobody has bothered to brief me directly, then we could be years away from actual parental applications to the court and in the most expensive court in the land, which is a disgrace. However, I commend the Bill and thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for his indulgence.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Public Health Nursing Services (28 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...stripped away. There has been no consultation with residents or with the Alzheimer's day care unit that is based in the Mother McAuley Centre on Curlew Road. The HSE owns a vast amount of land on Davitt Road that is just sitting there idle, with nothing happening on it. There is no consultation, no plan and no engagement with residents. There is a fantastic group, Dynamic Drimnagh,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Fire Safety (10 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...and trying to keep my head above water as the cost of living soars. All my life I have tried to do the right thing, I work fulltime ... and have never before looked to my politicians for help. To be landed with a bill of 32,000Euro , which I consider a life -altering amount, is quite simply beyond my capabilities and I am so distraught and stressed over it that I really don't know what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Apr 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...Winfield's contribution in February 2018 to the pre-legislative scrutiny of the AHR Bill. There is nothing in what I will say that is not already in Dr. Wingfield's statement so I am not going to land her with anything. One of the first things that emerges from her contribution is a frustration that it has taken so long, and I see that reiterated today. I think all of us are with her on...

Seanad: Housing Policy: Motion (2 Mar 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...rent pressure zones when inflation was at that level. The Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Act was passed into law, which expedites the building process. The Land Development Agency is in place, as is the help-to-buy scheme. A total of €75 million is available to local authorities for housing adaptation. Concrete actions have been taken....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (27 Jan 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...information on this. I will return to the ordinary and everyday. We are on a building drive. There is momentum towards providing additional housing and looking at areas. Bodies like the Land Development Agency are taking over areas that have been perhaps lying there for years. Places of interest are now more likely to be discovered. I heard the Minister of State speaking about the...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I read the name of this Bill and chills went through my veins, remembering my land law lectures with the late, great Deborah Wheeler, a barrister colleague, in the King's Inns. Certainly, this legislation is timely and good and there is no reason we should not all support it. I am sure the fears that went through rural Ireland, in particular, regarding it are something else. There are two...

Seanad: Housing For All - a New Housing Plan for Ireland: Statements (29 Sep 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...for housing since 2016. From then until now we have outstripped any Opposition ambitions when it has come to the building of social housing, and that was done under a Fine Gael Minister. The Land Development Agency is the backbone of many of the provisions and plans here. There is a fantastic chart on page 87 of Housing for All that lays out the list of State lands planned to be...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...All of that has been done. This very narrow qualification of the normal rights of councillors arises where they do not have - or in the absence of where they have voted for zoning of residential land - have this in a development plan but are still not building or providing residences or much-needed homes. It is reasonable for section 183 to be suspended in situations and in the context...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...are now coming into fruition, as we said they would. I am very proud of them. I am very anxious that they come to fruition, especially in my home area of Dublin South-Central, where there are tracts of land in Cherry Orchard, Bluebell and the CIE works. There are tracts of land there about which there have been plans for years but they have not come to fruition until now. The pressure...

Seanad: Right to Housing: Motion (4 Jun 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...Minister and members of the Government. I do not know any investors. I know one developer who decided to put his or her family home up as collateral when he or she decided to buy a little plot of land at the height of the boom to try to create a business. The developer was employing people, building and providing homes and put up his or her own collateral. That developer is now...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: This amendment is about dismantling the LDA. The whole purpose of the agency is to streamline the use of State-owned lands into facilitating the provision of housing. That anybody could possibly put forward an argument to inhibit or prevent that is absolutely bananas. It follows the trajectory and pattern of voting against housing schemes in local authorities by Senator Warfield's party....

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...to account in the performance of their adherence to the development plan probabilities and possibilities, and in looking at the provision of housing and homes in accordance with this Bill and the Land Development Agency.It is incredibly important. To be honest, I would go further. My favourite line in the amendment is probably the line which states that a review will be conducted and...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I welcome the Minister back to the House. I support this legislation, which together with the Land Development Agency Bill 2021, will provide much-needed social and affordable housing to purchase and rent in this State. Most modest earners are locked out of the housing market. They do not earn enough such that three and a half times their salary will yield them a mortgage that will buy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill: Discussion (11 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...I would like the local authority representatives to elaborate on that. Councillor Hoade suggested in her submission that the local authority should be responsible for setting the appropriate percentage of land for affordable housing. How does she see that working?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Engagement with the Office of the Planning Regulator (4 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...on brownfield sites along Davitt Road, Bluebell and Kylemore. They are close to the Luas and to the city. There is an interesting balance, or interchange, between a need for density, climate and land availability, and all of these come into play. How does Mr. Cussen adjudicate on infrastructural supports and their adequacy with regard to predictions for schools, existing village type...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Second Stage (26 Mar 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...pandemic unemployment payment, rent supplement and supplementary welfare allowance. This Bill seeks to balance the rights of those who own properties and rent them out with the rights of tenants. Landlords include a large cohort of people who are landlords by accident and some who have invested in one property as a pension plan.Their property rights cannot be disregarded altogether. If...