Results 7,841-7,860 of 8,235 for speaker:Alice-Mary Higgins
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 65: In page 67, line 34, after “of” to insert “emission reduction strategies,”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 66: In page 67, line 34, after “patterns” to insert “, development strategies”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 67: In page 67, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following:“(ii) protect and enhance biodiversity,”
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 68: In page 67, line 37, to delete “take account of the need to”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 69: In page 68, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following:“(iv) the marine environment,”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 71: In page 69, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(i) the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission;”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 72: In page 69, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(i) the Heritage Council;”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 74: In page 69, line 35, to delete “if necessary”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 77: In page 71, line 4, after “Government” to insert “and both Houses of the Oireachtas”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Amendments Nos. 77 and 78 seek to address the fact that the Bill currently allows for the Minister to release or amend a national planning statement in a way that does not have proper parliamentary scrutiny and debate, much like the planning Bill itself. A Government with a parliamentary majority may well have a democratic mandate to make changes to public policy but it is important that...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is being guillotined in the Seanad.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: If the Minister could address the Seanad.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I do. I agree it is important to be accurate on the record that this Bill is being pushed through in an undemocratic manner because the Seanad is half of the legislative process. With respect, discussing pre-legislative scrutiny is by the by when we talk about the legislative process. There are ten Stages to any Bill, five of which take place in the Seanad. They have been...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Yes. I regret that the Minister has not addressed those issues but I will press it.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will press the amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 78: In page 71, to delete lines 23 to 25, and substitute the following: “(5) The Minister shall, within 10 days of publication under subsection (3), lay a copy of a National Planning Statement, amendment or revocation so published before each House of the Oireachtas and, if a resolution annulling the National Planning Statement, amendment or revocation is...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 80: In page 71, line 35, to delete “not of itself”.