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Born and reared on the Navan Road. Mary attended Our Lady Help of Christians Primary School and St Dominics College Cabra before graduating from UCD with a BA in German and Italian. Mary lives in the constituency with her husband and three children. Like many others in the 1980s emigrated and for more than ten years worked as a Marketing Director for a global telecoms provider in New York, London and Dublin.
Fianna Fáil Group Leader on Dublin City Council, Cllr Mary Fitzpatrick, has formally requested that the Public Accounts Committee investigate Dublin City Council’s decision to withdraw its domestic waste collection service in the city. Read More | Share
Fianna Fáil Councillors on Dublin City Council raised serious concerns at tonight’s special council meeting and succeed in getting a number of motions passed including one that requires that homeowners in the city must be provided with at least the same level of waste collection service that they had previously from the Council and that the Council service is restored while this is ensured. The Manager admitted that the changeover to Greyhound was badly handled and they had made mistakes that will take weeks to sort-out. Read More | Share
“The Dublin City Manager has held secret meetings with Labour City Councillors regarding the privatisation of domestic bin collections in the city. Despite a request from Fianna Fáil and Independent Councillors for a special meeting on this issue they were not informed or invited to meet the City Manager. How many other secret meetings have been held?,” asked Fianna Fáil Councillor Mary Fitzpatrick. Read More | Share
Fianna Fáil Group Leader on Dublin City Council, Cllr. Mary Fitzpatrick has called on the Lord Mayor to immediately call an emergency council meeting so we can instruct the Manager to reverse the up-front payment element of the deal and address the other serious concerns raised by residents about changes to the waste collection service. Read More | Share
On Monday, buried in the midst of the National Budget announcements so as to spare Labour Councillors embarrassment, Dublin City Council announced that after more than 140 years it is to transfer the City Council's commercial and domestic waste collection business to Greyhound Recycling and Recovery. Read More | Share
The decision by the Justice Minister Alan Shatter to close Whitehall Garda Station makes no sense and will be a big loss to the communities of Drumcondra and Glasnevin. Read More | Share
Remarks by Cllr Mary Fitzpatrick at 'Dublin City Focus', Fianna Fáil Dublin City Councillors Forum, Wynn’s Hotel, Dublin 1 Read More | Share
The leader of the Fianna Fail group on Dublin City Council Cllr Mary Fitzpatrick has, on behalf of the Fianna Fail Group, called on the Lord Mayor of Dublin to urgently convene a special meeting of Dublin City Council to discuss and agree how Councillors can prevent the City Manager from withdrawing the Domestic Waste Collection Service in Dublin City. Read More | Share
Dublin City Manager John Tierney has confirmed to Fianna Fail’s group leader, Cllr Mary Fitzpatrick, that it has commenced negotiations with Unions on the privatisation of the domestic waste collection service. Read More | Share
Appointed Spokesperson for Housing & Urban Development in January 2011.
Topped the poll and re-elected on the first count to represent Dublin Central on Dublin City Council in June 2009.
First elected to Dublin City Council in June 2004.
Contested 2007 General Election in Dublin Central.
Member of Dublin City Council.
Member of Dublin City Council Central Area Committee.
Member of Dublin City Council Strategic Policy Committee on Traffic and Transport.
Vice Chair of Dublin Central Joint Policing Committee.
Founding Member of Cabra Community Policing Forum.
Founding member of Cabra 4 Youth, Youth Services.
Member of Croke Park Community Liason Committee.
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