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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets and Climate Action Plan: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (16 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister will be aware of the concern about the ranges and the fact that the upper end of the ranges only barely add up to the 51%. I hope he will consider revising that because we need to leave space for more ambition. I am concerned about that. Should the achievement of 51% not be the middle of the range we are providing for each sector?

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will give a wider speech on my amendment a little later. On section 2, I will flag that it is good there is a provision allowing those who may have already registered under the current process to preserve that, yet we also protect those who may wish to register in future. It might, however, be an area that could require further clarification. One area I might look at on Report Stage...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I have had a bit of back and forth with the Minister in respect of section 3. I appreciate the information and useful tables she supplied regarding applications. My question relates specifically to the foreshore and State lands. As I understand it, while the legislation is moving back in terms of the previous periods that applied, it is also effectively removing many of the provisions of...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I should have mentioned this in the previous section. We are going back to the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009. This legislation is moving forward in a very tight timeframe. With regard to easement versus profit à prendre, we could and should be looking at shorter periods for certain profits à prendre, as basic as the right to light, but that will potentially be part of...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The point I would like to make relates to section 5, but it does not matter too much. I welcome that it has been recognised that the burden of proof in the 2009 Act was so high that it would, in some cases, almost be in conflict with legislation that has come in subsequently, such as the general data protection regulation. For example, people would be required to provide large amounts of...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 1: 1.In page 5, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: "Report on engagement 7. The Minister shall, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas outlining progress in relation to engagement with the Law Reform Commission, the Oireachtas, local authorities and other key stakeholders in respect of the...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: There are rights to declare public rights of way but local authorities do not use them. Compulsory purchase order powers tend not to be used. There are a lot of powers that are not used and it is a sad fact that in a lot of local authorities, members do not feel empowered to suggest new rights of way. We do not tend to add new public rights of way very often but we can. We extinguish...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Motion (4 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I do not object to the speedy moving of the Land and Conveyancing Reform Bill as I have called for the legislation for a year. It is important that we act before 30 November but I am not sure technically if it is necessary in the Seanad because we do not normally have the practice of pre-legislative scrutiny in terms of legislation coming to the Seanad. I do not want us to set a precedent.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Motion (4 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Yes.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Motion (4 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Was that to require pre-legislative scrutiny of legislation initiated in the Seanad?

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Motion (4 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We may revisit that at a Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight meeting.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Motion (4 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We may need to address the matter at the Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight level because I am concerned that, even in the Dáil, normally it comes in after Second Stage rather than before Second Stage of legislation.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Motion (4 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We may need to revisit this.

Seanad: Finance (European Stability Mechanism and Single Resolution Fund) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (4 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “Report on review and operation of Act 3. (1) The Minister shall, by 31 December 2022, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas on the potential for a review of the European Stability Mechanism and its operations, including potential revisions of the Annex III criteria to better...

Seanad: Finance (European Stability Mechanism and Single Resolution Fund) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (4 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 cover similar ground. In amendment No. 1, I try to spell out some of the aspects more specifically. There is a slightly different piece of work being done in amendment No. 3. Fundamentally, these amendments provide for reports both on the operations of this Bill and on the operations of the mechanisms which are being updated by this legislation. The specific area...

Seanad: Finance (European Stability Mechanism and Single Resolution Fund) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (4 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I was not referring to the Covid fund but, rather, the precautionary credit line. The Covid fund was widely applicable. My point related to the previous tool, namely, the precautionary conditional credit line. I was told by the Minister's Department that approximately nine countries would have qualified for it.

Seanad: Finance (European Stability Mechanism and Single Resolution Fund) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (4 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank the Minister for his very thoughtful engagement on the amendments, as well as throughout this process. To be clear, my amendment does not relate to the Covid conditional credit line. The general escape clause was needed. If we have a stability mechanism where a general escape clause is needed, that raises questions regarding the functionality of that mechanism. However, my concern...

Seanad: Finance (European Stability Mechanism and Single Resolution Fund) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (4 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No.2: In page 6, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “Report on outcomes 3.The Minister shall, within 36 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas and the relevant Joint Oireachtas Committee outlining an analysis of outcomes of the European Commission’s review of the EU economic governance framework,...

Seanad: Finance (European Stability Mechanism and Single Resolution Fund) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (4 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 3: In page 6, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “Review of precautionary conditioned credit line 3. Where less than half of the European Stability Mechanism Member States meet the qualifying criteria for access to the precautionary conditioned credit line, the Minister or his or her representative at the Board of Governors, shall advocate for...

Seanad: Finance (European Stability Mechanism and Single Resolution Fund) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (4 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 4: In page 6, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “Report on European Commission review of EU economic governance 3.The Minister shall, by 1 December 2021, provide to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach an outline of any proposed submission Ireland will make in relation to the European Commission...