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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

Youth Services- Budget 2021
Mary has called on Ministers Donohue, McGrath & O’Gorman to support Ireland’s youth services in the upcoming budget. There has never been a more important time to support our young

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

DART+West- Update
Due to feedback from residents and public representatives along the route, the public consultation period for DART+ West has been extended until 21st October at 17:00hrs, for details on how

Community Employment Supervisors-Pension Update
Mary welcomes an update from Minister Michael McGrath on recent progress made by the Department of Public Expenditure on provision of state funded pensions for Community Employment Supervisors. Click here

Community Employment Supervisors-Pension Update
Mary welcomes an update from Minister Michael McGrath on recent progress made by the Department of Public Expenditure on provision of state funded pensions for Community Employment Supervisors. Click here

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

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

Bus Connects Update
The National Transport Authority (NTA) has published a finalised plan of the BusConnects New Dublin Area Bus Network. Following three rounds of public consultation which began in 2017, the National