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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I have more but I will hold the rest.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We probably do not have a chance to discuss other aspects in the time constraints today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Well, no.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: My point was not generally about the climate Act but specifically related to this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Apologies, Chair, I do not know what happened there. I am not asking a question on the climate Act, generally. My question is on the decisions around how waste is collected if we have a situation whereby companies increase their charges because they are not profiting from the waste coming in and if there are persons who are not able to or are not choosing to access recycling for cost...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We were told specifically that prices would come down.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: That is fine. I want to correct one thing for the record.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The CCPC is very clear that it is a natural monopoly. One of the witnesses implied it was not a monopoly. I wanted to mention that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Could I request something in writing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Could we get written notes on the questions Senator Sherlock asked in terms of where there is not a service, including where people are not choosing a service? That would be helpful. That goes back to my earlier question of that being our problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Could we look into the costs of illegal dumping as that fits into the costs picture?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: This is actually crucial.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I rise today to object to the Order of Business and to signal my opposition to the proposal in the motion providing for a guillotining of the Planning and Development Bill 2023. The Civil Engagement Group will also be proposing an amendment to this motion to remove the guillotine and, instead, provide that the Bill be adjourned on Wednesday. It is important to say that when we look at the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: In my remaining time, I wish to say that I will be haunted this summer by the children who are being starved, denied water and under bombardment in Gaza.These are all conscious choices. It is unacceptable that, during the same summer, Ireland and Europe will continue a business as usual approach to Israel with the flow of dual-use materials - materials that can be used for military purposes...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: When we say we should do everything we can, let us be clear that, going into the summer, Ireland is not doing everything we can. We cannot object to human rights abuses and call for a ceasefire and then take absolutely no action, continue with business as usual and make the unacceptable choice of allowing the flow of technologies used to kill, target and destroy lives. I urge the Government...

Seanad: Sitting Arrangements: Motion (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 1: In the Schedule to paragraph (2), proposing the arrangements for the Committee Stage of the Planning and Development Bill 2023, to delete “be brought to a conclusion at 1 p.m. by one Question, which shall be put from the Chair, and which shall, in relation to amendments, include only those set down or accepted by the Government.” and substitute...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Senator McDowell referred to remarks made by way of preliminary comment. We have to have preliminary comment on the scale and size of what we are being asked to review and the absolutely inadequate time allotted to so do. We have heard the serious concern from right across the Opposition in the discussions relating to the Office of the Planning Regulator and this is part of a genuine...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It is really important in terms of commenting on Senator Martin's intervention. We have to be clear when we ask whether we have learned nothing. That is exactly the question we are asking when looking at this legislation. There is a suggestion that the issue is the local authorities and that the problems we have had are with local authorities. To be clear, An Bord Pleanála was put in...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will speak to a couple of points. I note with regard to the Office of the Planning Regulator that there already was a review by the Department relating to the lobbying register and at that point it chose not to include the Office of the Planning Regulator. I am glad to hear there is another review, and we might get a very clear timeline for that. To be clear, this is not a simple...