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Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: To clarify, there is already regulation and a requirement that where hedges are grubbed during the six months they would be replaced.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am asking for a joined-up approach between the existing regulations and their implementation. I will come back to it. I apologise - I neglected to mention my other amendment, to which the Minister has responded, on the statutory requirements. A serious concern that emerged in the meetings we had on the Bill, and I appreciate the Department meeting me, was that the all-Ireland pollinator...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We have not reached that.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We have not discussed the section which is opposed.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will not speak at length on section 8. The case has not been made for section 8. The amendment tabled by Fianna Fáil somewhat improves and ameliorates the damage in the section. I will still oppose the section even though it has been amended. The message was sent out on the idea that people would vote on a single issue. I believe people very much have been listening and I commend...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I said I would withdraw it and that I would be tabling a version of it on Report Stage taking account of comments made on it.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We spoke on this amendment such a long time ago so I beg the indulgence of the Chair. I seek clarification for those who have not signed the amendment which is quite long and complex and who may wish to put forward their own version of a road safety amendment on Report Stage. This is a complex amendment which includes a number of provisions. Will we still be free on Report Stage to put...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I reserve the right to do so. I have not signed the amendment.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 6a:In page 18, to delete lines 9 to 12.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: To clarify, the concern was that there was an inadvertent perception that the Bill, as it was currently drafted, could potentially allow for an assault on a National Parks and Wildlife Service officer. It could inadvertently repeal the legislation which makes an assault on a National Parks and Wildlife Service officer an offence. I imagine that is not intended and I recognise that the...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: To clarify, that amendment proposed that there-----

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We reserve the right to put forward an amendment that is not out of order.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I join Members in supporting the suggestion that we have a debate with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs on the statement that came out yesterday. It is shocking and appalling. I add a request to the Leader that the Minister for Justice and Equality attend to speak to us on the issue. It has been pigeonholed as something for the Department of Children and Youth Affairs when, in...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: A last point-----

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: This is related. It will take one second.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It is the same point. I will conclude.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: This is the same issue and I will finish.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Ireland hopes to chair the UN Commission on the Status of Women and to stand before the world as a leader on the rights of women. How can we do that credibly next March if we have this failure to redress the abuse of older women hanging over us? I ask the Leader how we can credibly take that role on.

Seanad: Companies (Accounting) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I support Senator Nash's amendment. We have spoken and heard about unforeseen consequences, but it behoves the House to consider foreseen consequences also. As the legislation currently stands, we are leaving ourselves exposed and open. We need to ensure that we do not speak of the situation that happened in respect of Clerys and others as an anomaly because it was a response to and a...

Seanad: Companies (Accounting) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am concerned to hear the Minister talk about testing in the courts. If we are not only waiting for reports but waiting for testing in the courts, it would seem to me that we are looking at the long-fingering of this issue. I genuinely do not understand why it cannot be seen to be clearly in the interests of good business practice that we would introduce these changes and amendments. Will...