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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Maybe it could be addressed with others.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: He could come in as part of his response to him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The issue of alcohol and tobacco came up. It would be a useful comparator to get the statistics of how much advertising they represented before the change came in. I know Ms McCarthy had a lot of great things to say on the international issues and perhaps she can follow up in writing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: RTÉ seemed to have a good breakdown of how much advertising there has been in those areas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: We will alternate chairing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The questions were widely addressed. Who would like to come in first? Do those who spoke last wish to come in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Mr. Talbot from Chambers Ireland might wish to come in to talk about that local level also.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I know that Social Justice Ireland has come up with ideas in its submission today around that question of how those goals are linked and made visible within budgets or elsewhere.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will bring Senator O'Reilly back in now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will pick up on one of the places where the discussion had left off. The discussion was about the small things making it visible. Sometimes, the very big things are what make it easier to communicate the many small changes. If the SDGs are downstream people may feel that it is all on them. Mention was made of the very good example from Wales making quite a different decision and naming...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: While we focused a great deal on communities and how we can get them to do more, I believe it is about the big actors and being willing to ask the corporates and big capital to do things differently as well. There is an idea that it makes it easier to talk about how we want to put in green energy and wind energy if we do not also see a massive data centre or a big terminal for fracked gas,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is quite shocking when we look at the failure to deliver on-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: We are literally throwing fuel on the fire, or money on the fuel on the fire.
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: We need to be clear about what is in front of us. It would be misrepresentative to present it either as the reform we need of the Seanad or even as a first step towards that reform. What we have now is not the beginning of a path to reform; rather, it is the latest play in what has been a litany of blocks, delays and obstructions put in the way of Seanad reform by governments for a long...
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Exactly. I am aware of that. That is why I am acknowledging that. The public said they care about the Seanad and want a say in the Seanad. That was the mandate from 2013. As a result of that, there was a brief acknowledgment. There was the Manning report, which was initiated to look to the ways in which we can widen and open the Seanad, make it more inclusive and ensure that people...
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The Seanad Bill 2020 is also before the House. I want it acknowledged that it is on the Order Paper and in front of the Houses.