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Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: From Professor Tonra's perspective, it can, therefore, include economic interests. I have one last point. It is just a point of clarification. I did not actually plan to raise this. It relates to lobbying. For clarification, I understand that Professor Tonra is listed as a lobbyist on the register.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The IDSA's members include Lockheed Martin. I had not planned to raise that but I mention it for clarity.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: However, from an organisational------

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I just wanted to clarify the issue of lobbying.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Determining international law is one of the core questions and Professor Tonra suggests the Attorney General, for example, or other legal opinion. How important is it to have transparency and make publicly available the international law basis or UN Charter interpretation on which an action is to be taken? While there does not seem to be any recourse in the Bill, what recourse would any of...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It would need to be publicly available.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 7: In page 9, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: "Report on access to Health (Amendment) Act Card 8. The Minister shall, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas detailing how the Health (Amendment) Act Card can be provided to all persons who were, for any period, resident in an institution...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: This amendment seeks to oblige the Minister to prepare a report on access for survivors to the card provided for under the Health (Amendment) Act 1996, known as the HAA card. This issue was raised throughout the Committee Stage debate and is one of the key requests that have been consistently made by survivors. Even in the week since that debate, people have contacted our office outlining...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: This is a rare instance where we have an example of something that could be best practice, that maybe could be an example for other countries and other places which are dealing with the litany of residential and non-residential institutional abuse. We have something which Ireland wrote: here is an enhanced card. We have gone to the trouble of looking into the details and figuring out how we...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank Ms Donnelly for that answer in respect of data centres. Examples of where we may need them in certain instances were mentioned. It struck me that the managed roll-out is quite different to what we are seeing at the moment in terms of policy. That is a very significant increase. We have gone to 21% consumption. It does seem the current roll-out strategy is outpacing the renewable...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: To come back to the budgets, I have a few questions. The council has told us about bringing in additional gases and extra factors but that does not really address why the decision was made not to look at the equity aspects. As I understand it, there is now a very strong focus on that moment in 2050 and whether or not Ireland will be contributing to global temperature increases at that...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The budget plans for us not to meet the 51%.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We have five years.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I did not really get an answer on the question of the equity point. It does seem that it is modelled on that point in 2050 and where we are there, rather than the common but differentiated responsibility in the interim period, as to how the next decade or 20 years are used. I would appreciate a description of the 15 scenarios and some of the assumptions, including the economic assumptions,...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Is part of that responsibility not contributing to the continued extraction of fossil fuels globally? This relates to the import of things like LNG.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Were scenarios around greater public ownership regarding things like energy and land use in terms of State land - a more interventionist state not solely in terms of incentivising businesses but a larger state role in the provision of energy and perhaps land use - modelled in terms of allowing us to achieve our targets?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I have one follow-up question before moving on to the Minister of State. I am looking to not just the training but also the reporting. When talking about the key performance indicators for management, where is it factoring in? Related to that because I know I probably will not get back again, I ask about the responsibilities of public bodies under the Climate Action and Low Carbon...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Just very briefly-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will quickly ask the question and if we have to suspend before the answer, that is fine. The question is for the Minister of State. The green public procurement strategy has been referenced and I ask about its roll-out. One of the recommendations in that strategy was to have legislation, actual legislative measures. I am picking up on what Senator Murphy was said. The Minister of...