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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Oct 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...an incredibly important point that underlines the need for continuance of Government supports to help people afford their own homes. The Seanad passed legislation this week to increase funding to the Land Development Agency, LDA, in excess of €6 billion, so that it can use State-owned lands to reduce the cost and provide affordable homes. Very importantly, an extension to the...

Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...that the Government, through its legislation, has created a situation to ensure all 31 local authorities now have the legislative tools and powers to deliver affordable cost rental. By placing the Land Development Agency, LDA, on a statutory footing and funding it, the LDA is also in a position to deliver affordable cost rental. It is indicative of the innovation that is being delivered...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...;5 billion a year will be increased to more than €6 billion in 2025. The public funds will go to delivering thousands more affordable homes. An additional €1.25 billion has been allocated to the Land Development Agency to deliver affordable homes on public lands using lands previously underutilised. There is an additional €2 billion to deliver more than 10,000...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...sustainable plan underpinned by legislation that allows for homes to be planned and go forward, to be commenced and constructed and, ultimately, to be occupied and lived in. On the use of public land, we legislated in order that the Land Development Agency would use public lands to deliver 100% social and affordable homes. There is no query as to what we are using public lands for. It...

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...law is an incredibly important policy from the European Union's perspective. It aims to provide a framework to all the member states to allow us protect and restore our nature - our rivers, parks, lands and urban areas. It is incredibly important that we invest today to ensure that future generations can enjoy a healthy and sustainable environment. On that note, I congratulate the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...to the Leader. Senator Murphy raised the matter of support for farmers and the environment in direct climate action. Specifically, he highlighted the enthusiastic response by farmers as custodians of our land to the Government scheme to protect the environment. It is good to hear that a scheme, which we initially thought might have 30,000 applicants, now has more than 50,000...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: .... If Sinn Féin really believed there was a housing crisis then it would act like there was a crisis. You would stop objecting to the building of homes. You would support our local authorities, the Land Development Agency and the State to increase supply, increase affordability and increase security of tenure. For those reasons I ask the House to reject the Sinn Féin motion...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...the following: “notes that: - Housing for All is providing record levels of funding to support the delivery of social and affordable homes by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies and the Land Development Agency; - over €5 billion in capital investment is available in 2024 through exchequer funding, Land Development Agency investment and Housing for All lending to...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (21 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: .... It is important that the LDA is adequately resourced. It is a unique and unprecedented intervention this Government has taken to establish the LDA on a statutory basis and use State-owned lands to deliver public homes. It is using public lands to deliver social and affordable homes. The LDA has appeared before the Oireachtas committee, as Senator Cummins stated. We meet with it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...of the canal, is the cleaning of the towpath, particularly after match days. I appreciate that that is not domestic waste and is not from people who are living on barges but this no-man's land between city council jurisdiction and Waterways Ireland for the canal towpath is a persistent issue that I hope will be fixed with the upgrading of the greenway. It also then prompted the question...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...the right type of housing in the right places at the right time. When I look at Dublin city and specifically Dublin Central, I congratulate the LDA on establishing the registry of State-owned lands, as it is helpful for us to understand where the land banks are. Mr. Coleman's opening statement mentioned the 83 sites with the potential for almost 70,000 homes. I looked again at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I wonder if any of those stakeholders and those landowners have an appreciation of the pressures under which the Land Development Agency is trying to operate. The reality it that the agency has a plan here from 2024 to 2028. All the Opposition parties opposed the Land Development Agency legislation and if they are in power in 14 months after an election, they are likely to scrap the Land...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...more pressure and expectation on delivery from the LDA, especially in the city. We need to see the LDA in the core city centre. I am returning to the issue of getting agreement on State-owned lands as that is a real cost that could help to reduce the end price. Does the LDA need compellability?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...their own political ambitions is disgusting and should be rejected by every right-minded person. I welcome the news that the Government is in the process of considering increasing funding to the Land Development Agency. The reports are that the Government is considering increasing the funding by a further €3 billion to increase the delivery of homes by an additional 6,000 over the...

Seanad: Housing For All: Statements (7 Nov 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...stood up and took on the job. He is to be commended on that and the energy that he and his team put into championing a solution to our housing crisis. The housing crisis being experienced in Ireland is not unique to Ireland but what is unique is the energy, innovation and ambition that is being applied here to actually resolving this housing crisis. There was a decade of under-supply,...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (28 Sep 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: .... I urge the Taoiseach to keep going with it. We need to see more in this budget. The €20 billion that has been delivered is empowering local authorities, approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency. That is all delivering and it is making great changes. However, we need a massive acceleration in regard to affordable cost rental. With a country as rich as ours, no...

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: 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?