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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Vaccination Programme (15 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I reject the suggestion that vaccine hesitancy and distribution mechanisms are the main obstacles here. The fact that these countries have not been able to have public heath vaccine programmes has been a key obstacle and they have not been able to have public health programmes on an organised basis because they have not had a reliable supply of vaccines. I reject the Minister of State's...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Vaccination Programme (15 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: To frame this as a demand issue, after artificially delaying supply for 18 months, adds insult to injury.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Senator Ruane has outlined the details of each amendment. I will make an overall point. I feel strongly about these amendments because they are about the idea of what family and relationships mean, which is something that we have discussed at length. Ireland, as part of its evolution in this area, is trying to move away from a very patriarchal and hierarchical version of the family that...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment No. 37: In page 35, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(iii) obtaining personal information or records relevant to the person which are held by the relevant person,”.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I know the Minister is committed to public information campaigns. It was regrettable an amendment simply stating a campaign should be in plain English, given it is Government official policy that its communications would be in plain English, was ruled as being a cost to the State. This is a wider issue which people will be aware I have been raising. The idea of having an information...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Built Heritage Protection) Bill 2022: Second Stage (16 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I welcome the Minister of State. I know that this is an area of great personal interest to him. I join others in complimenting Senator Norris. Today is Bloomsday. One of the lines in Ulyssesreads: "The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring." The work of art that is the portrait of Senator Norris springs from a very deep life, and this legislation,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Use of Section 110 by Russian Firms: Dr. Jim Stewart (1 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am having a little bit of a technical issue with my computer. Perhaps Deputy Mairéad Farrell would like to go first. I will be ready in two minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Use of Section 110 by Russian Firms: Dr. Jim Stewart (1 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank Dr. Stewart for joining us. A number of the issues I was going to raise have been raised by Deputy Farrell but I will follow up on a few points. I am interested in the issue of double non-taxation. Perhaps Dr. Stewart could comment further on that point in the context of the conversation around the effective tax rate. There is a push on the idea of an international effective tax...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Use of Section 110 by Russian Firms: Dr. Jim Stewart (1 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: On the tracking of parent companies, Dr. Stewart mentioned group structures and the control mechanism. Are there examples of how we can strengthen them? The liabilities seem to have disappeared into one company but the control is exercised elsewhere, so the liabilities and the control are quite separated. Is it a matter of dismantling this form of section 110 company and having greater...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Use of Section 110 by Russian Firms: Dr. Jim Stewart (1 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Use of Section 110 by Russian Firms: Dr. Jim Stewart (1 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I apologise to Dr. Stewart for asking him for a way to solve everything. I have asked about the onshore and offshore aspect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Use of Section 110 by Russian Firms: Dr. Jim Stewart (1 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: These companies are marketed as onshore but seem to fit the IMF's definition of offshoring - they are non-resident and separated, to a large degree, from the domestic economy and its activities. I ask Dr. Stewart to comment on this matter. To follow up on the charitable trust piece, in another area of work we look a lot at the regulation of charities. Actual charities are subject to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Use of Section 110 by Russian Firms: Dr. Jim Stewart (1 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: There was a military manufacturer in the UK a few years ago that had a section 110 company in Ireland, if I recall correctly, that was registered as a charitable trust but it was very much a subsidiary of the military manufacturer. I recall that case. I thank Dr. Stewart. Those are very interesting areas to follow up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the EU Commissioner for Energy (2 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I confirm I am on the Leinster House premises. I thank the Commissioner and her staff for their very interesting presentation and for the discussion. I will follow up a little on the question of lock-in that was raised. It is a real concern, and one the committee has discussed, that there is talk, for example, of contracts going to 2049 in respect of some of the new potential...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the EU Commissioner for Energy (2 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It strikes me that the 20-year exit from the ECT involves a much shorter timeframe than the 28-year planned transition in terms of fossil fuel infrastructure. We have spent two years on the negotiations so far. It strikes me that if we were to look to an exit, the EU and its member states would be, at least by 2042, in a position to be very much, and properly, taking decisions solely based...