Results 1-19 of 19 for revert speaker:Alice-Mary Higgins

Seanad: Family Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (2 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...element – psychological assessment – being weaponised. I wished to signal this as an area that may need to be addressed through the family law rules committee and, possibly, this legislation. I will revert on this matter. Regarding the occasional abuse of the court system as opposed to just its inefficiencies, delays and inappropriateness, the Minister and Senators will be...

Seanad: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...up cities. In the context of moving towards the ten-minute town or the 15-minute city, it is important to ensure persons can transport loads of various kinds without automatically having to revert to using a car to do so. I have no doubt about the enthusiasm of the Minister in respect of cargo bikes. I have lots more on the many benefits of e-assist cargo bikes. A study by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...reasons in this context as to why section 10, in its current form, is not adequate. I am very concerned about the apparent proposal to lose the explicit provisions in the general scheme and revert to those in section 10. I am of the view that we should link with section 10. For example, section 10(1) refers to one person persistently harassing another. In such circumstances, it must be...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...enough to point to the GDPR, given that the GDPR provides exemptions. It is a question of how those will be applied and where the balancing will be. Under the research legislation, perhaps we can revert to the issues around commercial purposes as they sit within research or partnerships. We have seen some examples of poor practice. Students are sharing their data with their respective...

Seanad: National Maternity Hospital and Women's Health Action Plan: Statements (1 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...expires after 70 years, as we have been told it will, the State will have to build another one and then another one because if, at any point, there is not a hospital on that ground, the rent reverts to €850,000 per year. St. Vincent's Hospital Group can throw us out if we do not have a hospital on that ground but the HSE's own legal adviser, when I asked what would happen in 70...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...was not addressed there, so someone might put some supplementary information in writing for me. I am interested in this matter. It is one that is not as tightly regulated as it could be. We can revert to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...a situation whereby there will be four or five successive maternity hospitals to be built on the site, with the accompanying costs from doing so? Is it not the case in that context that we would revert to a market rent of €850,000, perhaps in 70 years' time? It was mentioned that it was felt it would be time to move on in this context in 100 years. What happens then in 70 years'...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...the case of my amendment No. 81, where public land is made available for the purposes of the development of cost-rental dwellings, that public land at the termination of the cost-rental period will revert to public ownership. The nature of cost rental is such that those who have fronted the money have been paid back for what they have put in. If they are not motivated by profit, it is...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...rental returns to the State, albeit through an approved housing body or local authority. That is a fundamental point. We will have a couple of amendments which come at that later, when I talk about reverting to public land ownership. I wanted to signal that and try to bring it up. As the Minister of State has appropriately taken on board Senator Moynihan's point in the generality, by...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...35 and 36, to insert the following: "41. When there is public land which is made available for the purposes of the development or provision of cost rental dwellings then such dwellings shall revert to public ownership following the termination of the cost rental period or any extension thereof under section 28.".

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...perpetuity as it relates to public land. They suggest that where public land is made available for the purposes of the development or the provision of cost-rental dwellings, such dwellings should revert to public ownership following the termination of the cost-rental period, whatever that period would be, or any extension thereof. I welcome that the Minister has mentioned that where...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...housing bodies and co-operatives, the key providers of cost-rental accommodation through this model, would be very happy to work with him on that basis and would be happy to know that the land may revert to public ownership in 40, 50, 60 or 80 years. I do not believe that would dissuade them from engaging with cost rental.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...;41.When there is public land which is made available for the purposes of the development or provision of cost rental dwellings, following the termination of the cost rental period, such property will revert to public ownership.”.

Seanad: Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jun 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I understand that the Government might not be in a position to accept the amendment today but would ask it to revert to the Parliamentary Counsel on it in the context of future-proofing the legislation. There are other conventions, including for example, the convention on biodiversity which is likely, when it is negotiated in November, to have a very strong marine component. Indeed, that is...

Seanad: Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jun 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: .... This amendment simply relates to the relationship the Minister for Foreign Affairs might have with the prosecution of such offences. I thank the Minister of State for his willingness to engage in this area. I may well revert, or get others to revert, and bring this back at the Dáil stage, but I would like it even better and it might be even more constructive in making this...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 May 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...for social housing? I am concerned about that, although I am conscious that we will see the details. Will we also see that, as a part of the cost rental scheme, any house built on public land will, at the end of the period of time, revert to public ownership? The nature of cost rental is that it is long term and gives long-term security of tenure. I think everybody embraces the...

Seanad: Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...the economy. What is the benefit we will have from giving a massive tax relief of 100% of past losses to banks? This is quite a new and unusual measure. It was introduced in 2014. Ideally, we should end the scheme or revert to the position from 2009 to 2014, which placed a 50% limitation. I hope the Minister of State will consider a report on this. I will keep suggesting reports....

Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (22 Mar 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...with a candidate or party is allowed under the GDPR. These might be, for example, people who have said that they would really like a referendum on a given issue and whom the candidate or party reverts to, has correspondence with and notes that they are interested in that area if the issue arises subsequently. What is probably not allowed under the GDPR but which may be allowed under this...

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...to have so many. There were so many largely because clear and constructive proposals had not been taken on board. For example, the Government could have listened to the Committee Stage debate and reverted with amendments of its own. We would all have been open to that because, when we make points, we usually do so constructively. If the Government takes them on board or wishes to take...