Results 3,061-3,080 of 8,212 for speaker:Alice-Mary Higgins
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I do not wish to stray to amendment No. 36 unnecessarily. Amendment No. 33 is a simple opportunity to delete those relevant lines. Again, this is not a provision that existed previously. It is an additional requirement being placed on appellants. The Minister of State has the right to remove it and it would be a better Bill if she did so. Amendment No. 32 deals with the same issues of...
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I did not interrupt the Senator.
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am sorry, excuse me-----
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: When persons are referred to in this House they have a right to respond.
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I was referred to as one of five Dublin-based Senators. First, I am from Galway. I may be living and working in Dublin now but I am from that area. Nonetheless, I also know that many of those who have spoken to me on this Bill-----
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am actually about to speak to the amendment.
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: We do not need Second Stage speeches. It is around this amendment-----
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: There is a question which relates directly to the amendment. Will people experience a delay from one part of our public system which will stop them from activating their rights under another part?
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The specific question put by Senator Boylan was whether we can have assurances that anybody who seeks access to information on the environment that he or she needs in respect of lodging an appeal will be given information at the point that all information is initially attached to an original decision. Secondly-----
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: -----can we guarantee if we are imposing a time limit and such a requirement of 28 days and indeed the provision of all information at that point, that there will be no instances-----
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: No, I have not. I am asking the Minister of State now-----
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: -----for an explicit assurance on that issue-----
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: -----of the information on the website but also on the question that if somebody is to lodge an access to environmental information request, that person will get that information in a timely manner-----
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: -----to allow him or her to enact within a 28-day-----
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 33: In page 5, to delete lines 36 to 40.
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The amendment seeks to remove lines that narrow the circumstances under which the forestry appeals committee might reject an appeal. The Minister of State might clarify the position.
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 45: In page 7, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: "(c) When notifying an appellant of a determination, the Forestry Appeals Committee will include a report on how- (i) Ireland’s commitments and targets on climate change and biodiversity, (ii) the Sustainable Development Goals, (iii) relevant EU directives, (iv) the need or otherwise for an...
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The reason a large number of the licences are being appealed is concern that the committee has failed to address the issue of properly considering whether environmental impact assessments or other appropriate assessments are required at the licensing stage. I am not going to labour my point about the committee but I really urge the Minister of State to re-examine it before she brings the...
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 49: In page 7, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: "(15) When notifying an appellant of a determination, the Forestry Appeals Committee will inform the appellant of their right to challenge the Committee’s decision in the High Court.".
- Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)
Alice-Mary Higgins: As I understand it, we are addressing amendments Nos. 54 to 71, inclusive, together. On amendment No. 54, my main concern does not relate primarily to the idea of the Minister giving policy directives. That may be appropriate and it may allow for an evolving policy so I am not strictly against the Minister giving policy directives. There may be call for it and that is why I supported that...