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- Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: -----with harbours legislation and ports legislation. It is a beautiful run-on of the chaos that caused the tragedy in north Mayo. We will oppose the guillotine and I will also oppose it on Second Stage. I oppose, in addition, any attempt to ram it through in an undemocratic way that does not provide transparency to those whom the foreshore belongs.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: It excludes representatives in the same way as-----
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: By going straight to An Bord Pleanála.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: So the Government has had to guillotine it.
- Report by Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin: Statements (Resumed) (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: They are still at it.
- Report by Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin: Statements (Resumed) (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: It would be good to get a list of the schools that do not provide it.
- Report by Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin: Statements (Resumed) (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: The Murphy report is incredibly important. Its implications go far beyond examination of the institution on which it was focused, that is, the archdiocese of Dublin. It raises some fundamental issues. The response of all Deputies who have spoken thus far have begun, and rightly so, with the position of those who have suffered. There are some matters to which we should return. The...
- Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: It cost billions of euro.
- Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: I wish to share time with Deputy Ferris, with the permission of the House.
- Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: I welcome the opportunity of speaking on this legislation. I appreciate that there are many useful proposals in the Bill before us, but is it sufficient to deal with the possibilities and prospects of foreshore development? I have to conclude that it is not. I recognise and support many of the practical administrative proposals in the Bill, but it misses some fundamental issues of...
- Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: But not the financing.
- Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: And the public ownership having been defined.
- Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Yes.
- Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Will the process be completed within the lifetime of the Government?
- Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: A single Department is needed.
- Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: It is a great pity we are not at the third phase.
- Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: That is right.
- Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Section 2 is the definition section. I have a very simple inquiry. There is a difference between the common law definition of "foreshore" in the Foreshore Act 1933 and the later definition in the Planning and Development Act 2000, for example. Is the definition that the Minister of State is using an extension of the 1933 definition? It is important to have clarification because there are...
- Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: There is nothing to preclude that.
- Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Dec 2009)
Michael D Higgins: I thank the Minister of State. Section 2 agreed. Sections 3 and 4 agreed.