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Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 9: In page 11, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: "(4) The Attorney General shall not, as a member of the Commission, play a role in the selection or recommendation of persons for appointment to judicial office in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal or High Court.".

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 10: In page 11, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: "(5) The Minister shall, within 2 years of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas reviewing the provisions of this section in relation to membership of the Attorney General on the Commission.".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will be very brief. I do not think there will be a second round of questions. Given the human rights and other implications are why we are pulling away from Russian gas, and rightly so, there is a concern around the memorandum of understanding, MoU, that was signed with Israel and Egypt, which did not make clear that would not include gas from the occupied territories. I point to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: There was a question on the MoU.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Ms Sikow-Magny said she cannot comment on the non-proliferation treaty now. I refer to the memorandum of understanding, MoU, with Israel and Egypt and the concern that it was one of the first such MoUs that did not specifically exclude the risk of gas from occupied territories. We should be consistent because all of this is starting from the principle that the Russian invasion and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am joining from my office. I wish to follow up on the question on the calculations of potential revenue. I will focus mainly on the solidarity contribution. What is the potential difference between the expected revenue from the solidarity contribution before and after the decision to allow for the writing-off of capital expenditure? That is capital expenditure on the acquisition and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Is it not the case that Ireland does not collect royalties and has had an effective tax rate of 0% for most of the companies impacted by the solidarity contribution?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Briefly, because I have follow-up questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: To refer again to what is reported in the newspapers, Irving Oil was referenced in that context. Irving Oil is interesting because there are articles from New Brunswick and Bermuda about its successful tax management measures. It pays quite a small amount of tax in those locations. In that context they also increased their registered losses by eight times in 2022, despite high revenue. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Head 29 gives us no information about how the revenue raised is going to be targeted. We heard from the Commission that they should be targeted at small businesses and households and not, as we have seen with the temporary business subsidy, large companies. Where were the stakeholder households in the consultation process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Why not, when it is the premise for this work? They are impacted. They are impacted by whether it is €400 million, or €200 million or €600 million. That is an impact.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We are being asked to sign off on legislation, which has a purpose, and we are not being told what the purpose will be. As I already mentioned in terms of the temporary business support scheme, we had €10,000 per month or per week going to large energy users, who were not the solidarity goal. The Commission made that clear. Head 29 is undeveloped, and it is crucial. It is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Is head 29 specifically of the scheme? I am not speaking about an abstract issue. I am speaking about an issue that is intrinsic to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: That is why I am asking how head 29 is going to be developed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It is in this Bill. We are speaking about the Bill, and we are speaking about head 29.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Apologies, but I would like them to speak to the head rather than the general policy issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am interested in the capital expenditure. Group relief was also inserted. We know group relief is what allows sets of companies to access reliefs in terms of other members of that group. Can the witnesses elaborate on what has been introduced in terms of group relief and what the implications of that would be? I understand 10% to 15% is the estimated reduction because of the capital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: So the ceiling is a possibility which could perhaps ensure protection against something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I have one other question but I did not want to ask it in case other members had indicated. It is perhaps one to come back to. On our commitments on fossil fuel divestment, fossil fuel subsidies and the move away from that and so forth, is there a danger in terms of these relief measures and other measures? They are still subsidies, effectively. We even subsidise capital expenditure by...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that the motion on a proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament on the collection and transfer of advance passenger information, requiring approval by the House, not be taken today but on a future date. We need a little more information. This is a regulation that states it is for the sharing of passenger information in advance-----