Results 4,461-4,480 of 8,220 for speaker:Alice-Mary Higgins
- 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: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is not agreed. I think the debate today will be efficient. We have had lengthy discussion on it. I think that amendments Nos. 1, 2, 8 and 9 should be taken separately for policy reasons. They have a slightly different remit. There is also the pragmatic reason, that I know that a number of the Senators proposing them are on their way to the Chamber. The other factor is that...
- Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I do not think I need a seconder for this. Is there a response to it? The proposal is from the Chair.
- Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am not agreeing to it. Is there any objection to that? Amendment No. 2 is a technical amendment on the name of the Prescription Act, to be clear about what we mean by the Act of 1832. Amendment No. 1 relates to rights of way acquired by prescription. Amendments Nos. 8 and 9 relate to what we have heard from the Minister on Committee Stage, which is the complicated intersection between-----
- Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am suggesting that amendments Nos. 1 and 2 should be grouped but that amendments Nos. 8 and 9 should be taken separately from Nos. 1 and 2, so not together in this grouping.
- Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)
Alice-Mary Higgins: For efficiency of debate, I am happy to split them into two blocks rather than to have one block.
- Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will move amendment No. 1.
- Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am waiting for Senator Boylan. Is it possible for me to speak to the amendment?
- Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I need a seconder for this. The Minister of State will be aware that the key issues here are issues that are probably-----
- Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I can move it.
- Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is grouped with amendment No. 3, so you have to speak to it at the same time.
- Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)
Alice-Mary Higgins: You have to finish discussing-----
- Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will be brief. There is an amendment that I had intended to introduce but I have not done so. I support amendment No. 4. These issues have been highlighted in terms of the other rights that have been acquired that could potentially be extinguished, which we do not want to be the case. There are plans to address these issues in the review that is planned for next year. While I welcome...
- Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It relates to this amendment, which is in the section that sets out the periods of 60 and 30 years after the land-----
- Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Those two periods are set out in the text of amendment No. 3. I am highlighting this as an issue arising from the amendment, which I hope might be dealt with in the review.
- Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)
Alice-Mary Higgins: My apologies. I am looking at the wrong one. That is my fault. I will speak very briefly when I speak to amendment No. 7, so.
- Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 5: In page 3, after line 28, to insert the following: “(c) Paragraph (a)shall be interpreted as including any application made in advance of the relevant date, even where a final determination has not yet been made by the authority.”.
- Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Nov 2021)
Alice-Mary Higgins: This is a simple amendment. I raised this issue on Committee Stage. I believe the current wording covers my concern but I am looking for an assurance. Perhaps the Minister of State might provide one. Many people were extremely worried about this deadline. People have been trying to pull together the paperwork for a large number of applications fearing the cut-off date of 31 November. A...