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Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 49: In page 23, line 31, after “years” to insert “or when the employment ceases”.

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 52 In page 26, line 18, after “not” to insert “, subject to the approval of the employer and the employee,”.

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 53: In page 27, line 15, after “needs” to insert “, relevant to the functioning of his or her business”.

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 57: In page 28, line 13, after “her” to insert “business”.

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 58: In page 28, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “(2) Where a termination of a remote working agreement occurs due to circumstances described in subsection (1)(a), the termination shall only be valid for the period in which such seasonal variations occur and upon the conclusion of that period the flexible working agreement shall resume.”.

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 68: In page 34, line 31, after “her” to insert “or their”. I welcome section 34 and think it is inclusive language in recognising women and other persons who may need to avail of the provisions in the section.This is a technical amendment. In order to be consistent with the inclusive framing that has been used, if we were to say "her or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will pick up on a couple of those points. The key one we are focused on is the carbon budgets and 2025. As has been said, there have been many references to 2030 and the 51% target in that year. However, we are not simply looking at the percentage reductions but the hard tonnage with respect to the actual amount of carbon emissions tonnage the State must operate within during the two...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am sorry but with respect, it is fine to give a few broad examples but I have two or three other areas of questions I want to------

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The projects are really welcome but one thing we will want to see when we hear of the projects is whether the projects are being measured in terms of the tonnage and the tonnage reduction and whether that is being placed alongside it. It is not solely about what we might do that is good; it is also what we might need to reduce that is damaging. Surely if we are going to stay within our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Surely that is an issue in terms of expansion. Do we need to look at constraining certain activities? I have another query to follow up on land use. I mentioned peatlands. We are talking about hundreds of millions of euro going into peatlands but we know that they have an early and immediate reduction in the context of emissions. A damaged peatland emits whereas a restored or even a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We are the most expanding economy in Europe. Why can we not deliver it next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Sorry, is the Minister suggesting-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I just want to be clear about the suggestion that it would be ill spent. I do not agree with that and I would like to clarify that point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: On that peatlands issue, are there plans to scale up the peatlands piece within the next period? Building on that, because the economic measures and the changing economic practice or incentives is slow, does the Minister agree that more State intervention is needed, for example more designation of State-protected areas and special areas of conservation, SACs? These are the things that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Does that require more than the 20 megatonnes of space allocated?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am happy to come back in at a later point. Maybe I cannot but perhaps the Minister will address the issue of the 20 megatonnes of space allocated, and whether that is sufficient in terms of land use.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It will be good to get the figures for emissions from burning. I think they certainly should be reflected. It is clear that new measures are needed related to that. I am surprised that it did not seem to be addressed in the Food Vision 2030 report, not on dairy, but on beef and sheep. That would include addressing the use of uplands in this particular way. We know there are other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Is there a plan for a Food Vision 2030 tillage report? I know that has been called for. We had one on beef and dairy. Will there be a Food Vision 2030 report on horticulture?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: With respect, the quality of different dairy products is not really my question. My question is about nutrition and food calories. It is not about one dairy product versus another dairy product but the amount that is given over to dairy and livestock overall. The facts add up that it does not deliver the world nutrition as different use of agricultural land would.