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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Developing Ireland's Sustainable Transport System: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Just-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Developing Ireland's Sustainable Transport System: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I might ask my other question, for efficiency.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Developing Ireland's Sustainable Transport System: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: My question relates to housing and planning. In a previous testimony we heard about the tension between the national development plan and the national planning framework. There is a concern around the emphasis on roads versus, for example, other forms of infrastructure. I have two specific questions. First, in terms of how and where we live and new developments, I refer to the remains of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Developing Ireland's Sustainable Transport System: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: There were measures to have rights of way expire in 2021. Is that now being revisited in light of the fact that they could become an effective national network to allow active travel in respect of cycling and walking across rural Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Developing Ireland's Sustainable Transport System: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I have a follow-up question for Mr. Brady. He mentioned the target of 10% renewable energy use by 2020. I do not want to use up time but I would like him to follow up on this, even in writing. What are the hard targets? I am conscious that we have targets in percentages but I wonder whether we have hard targets for the various forms?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Developing Ireland's Sustainable Transport System: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: There is a wide network of traditional routes with rights of way, such as cow roads, blackberry-picking roads and little pathways. They would not be vehicle pathways. They are walking pathways and routes through fields. Some of the fields become housing estates. How does one reimagine traditional rights of way - for example, for access to water for cattle - to give people alternative ways...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Developing Ireland's Sustainable Transport System: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I asked about increasing frequency. That was the key recommendation from the expert.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Developing Ireland's Sustainable Transport System: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: On the carbon tax, the logic used is that it is an economic externality or an externalised cost. We have a carbon tax in order that we can re-internalise the social and environmental costs of fossil fuels. Would it not be consistent for all of the carbon tax and not just the incremental increase, that is the €521 million rather than just the €90 million, to be directed at...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Developing Ireland's Sustainable Transport System: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That was last year and it should be in the region of €520 million this year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Developing Ireland's Sustainable Transport System: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The externality argument would follow through, would it not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Developing Ireland's Sustainable Transport System: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Can I come in briefly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Developing Ireland's Sustainable Transport System: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am not going to ask another question. I just want to make a suggestion. There were two questions that the witnesses did not get a chance to answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Developing Ireland's Sustainable Transport System: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The first was on e-bikes and the other was about schools, planning and particular measures. If the witnesses could provide a written answer, that would be appreciated.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Section 9 deals with the special assignee relief programme, SARP, an income tax relief for some of the highest earners in the State. It is a relief on salaries between €75,000 and €1 million. We know for a fact that some of those who benefit from the scheme have salaries of over €3 million. I recognise that they only get the special tax relief on that part of their...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is concerning that we do not have the 2018 figure when we are considering the budget for 2020. When it comes to smaller-ticket measures that come under the social protection budget, for example, we have to look at their exact impact and prove their benefit up, down and sideways if we want to see them extended or improved slightly. It is a cause for concern that a scheme that cost...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Apparently, we could not afford an increase in the minimum wage this year.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister of State is editorialising.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: You are theorising that this will not help.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: With respect, I ask the Minister of State not to editorialise in sweeping generalisations on what he thinks we think and what he believes our beliefs are. We have many specific amendments-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am saying the debate will move better if we do not have to go back and forth on those matters. I do not believe any of us is interested in talking about what Sinn Féin and Fine Gael like. Let us focus on the proposals at hand. If I was a shareholder in a company in which the CEO was making decisions on where to locate the company based on his or her salary and income tax, I would...