Botanic SHD- Update
An Bord Pleanála has refused the most recent SHD application for the former Smurfit Site (now Daneswell Place) on Botanic Road. For more information click here
Budget 2021- Housing
Mary welcomes the much needed€3.3 billion spend in housing in this year’s budget. As part of the measures announced today, 12,750 new homes will be added to the available supply of social housing through build, acquisition and long-term leasing. Mary is pleased to see measures to address homelessness in today’s budget. Mary welcomes the range […]
Budget 2021- Housing
Mary welcomes the much needed€3.3 billion spend in housing in this year’s budget. As part of the measures announced today, 12,750 new homes will be added to the available supply of social housing through build, acquisition and long-term leasing. Mary is pleased to see measures to address homelessness in today’s budget. Mary welcomes the range […]
Housing, Local Government & Heritage
As Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Housing, Local Government and Heritage Mary proposed the following items for inclusion in the 2020/21 Joint Oireachtas Committee Work Programme: Report on the implications and effectiveness of a constitutional referendum to provide a Right to Housing to every Irish Citizen Amend “Living City” initiative Replace failed tax credit with time […]
Living City Initiative
Mary has called for the Minister for Finance to amend the Living City initiative from a tax credit incentive to a grant payment and to extend it to include rural towns. The Living City Initiative was first launched in 2015 and relaunched in 2018. Since 2018 Dublin City Council received 119 valid applications for the […]
Mary welcomes the announcement that the Covid19 mortgage payment break already in place for local authority home loan borrowers will be extended for a further three months and remain open for new applications from people suffering loss of income due to Covid19 until the end of the year. Local authority home loan borrowers could already […]
Extend Covid Mortgage Breaks
In Seanad Eireann today I asked for the Minister for Finance to updates us on what progress he has made getting the Irish “pillar banks” to extend the Covid19 Mortgage Break beyond the deadline of Sept 30th 2020. When the banks caused the global financial crisis of 2007/09 Irish taxpayers bailed them out. Now in […]
€23m Regeneration of Mary’s Mansions
Mary welcomes the €23m redevelopment of St Mary’s Mansions which provides 80 high quality homes for inner city residents. Mary says: “It’s so encouraging to see 25 original residents moving back into St Mary’s Mansions today. The scheme will be a model for future regeneration projects, which we hope will be built quickly and to […]
€23m Regeneration of Mary’s Mansions
Mary welcomes the €23m redevelopment of St Mary’s Mansions which provides 80 high quality homes for inner city residents. Mary says: “It’s so encouraging to see 25 original residents moving back into St Mary’s Mansions today. The scheme will be a model for future regeneration projects, which we hope will be built quickly and to […]
€40 million Stimulus Funds for 2,500 Local Authorities Vacant Homes
In July our Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien TD announced over €40 million for the refurbishment of vacant local authority homes, the largest single amount ever announced under this programme. In the county of Dublin €11.5 million of this fund will enable just over 800 social housing units, to be refurbished and re-let to individuals […]