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Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I have been very clear. I just want to object-----

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I object to points being characterised as emotive considering that I have been raising them very clearly on a public policy basis.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I would like to take the Minister of State up on his offer of correspondence on all the relevant reports.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move recommendation No. 41: In page 163, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "Report on aviation fuel tax relief 103. The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the phasing out of tax relief for aviation fuel.".

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move recommendation No. 42: In page 163, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "Report on Knowledge Development Box 103. The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the links between the research and development activities supported by tax relief arising from the Knowledge Development...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move recommendation No. 43: In page 163, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “Report on tax relief policy 103. The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on measures to improve the gender and equality impact of policies in respect of tax relief, including comparative analysis...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move recommendation No. 44: In page 163, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “Report on weight-based taxation of motor vehicles 103. The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on measures to introduce differential motor vehicle taxation rates based on the vehicle’s...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Air Navigation Orders (7 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: What inspections have taken place under the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Order since May 2024 to enforce the prohibition of the use of Irish airspace for the carriage of munitions of war, weapons, ammunition and dangerous goods, including dual-use goods? What exemptions have been granted under that order? This is important. I have included...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Air Navigation Orders (7 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: What I am hearing is that the "eyes wide shut" approach is continuing.There is a suggestion there has been no inspection despite the litany of reports we have seen. We are not calling for random inspections, we are calling for very real and reasonably targeted inspections of flights coming from countries such as the US and Germany in particular, which have been shown to be carrying arms. We...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Air Navigation Orders (7 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It would be more credible if the Government took the powers it has and used them to the fullest extent. That the legislation is from the 1970s and 1980s does not tell us anything. I have explicitly read into the record the powers that are there at present. Obviously we should have stronger powers but we should certainly have a first step which not only looks at the legislation but begins...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I join my colleague Senator Flynn, who mentioned everyone who works in these Houses, the many people who make what we do possible and support it, in thanking all of them. I also thank my staff, Ciara, Georgia, Robbie and Sebastian and the wonderful Saran Fogarty who recently moved on to new exciting jobs but who was a great partner in the work in the past few years. I thank my colleagues in...

Seanad: Cathaoirleach a Thoghadh - Election of Cathaoirleach (12 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I join in congratulating everybody who has been elected and re-elected. Specifically, I congratulate the Cathaoirleach. He understands very well, of course, that the mandate as Cathaoirleach is not a mandate from Government but a mandate from the House and from all across the Seanad. In his previous term as Cathaoirleach, he showed that he understood very well that responsibility to the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second that it would be useful to have a debate on forestry, which would also look at reforming forestry policies, including the mandates of such organisations as Coillte. We have seen that monoculture does not work and is dangerous. We do not simply want a short-term solution where we replant more of the same. We need to move, within Coillte and our wider subsidised forestry policy,...

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (13 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I just want to check something.

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (13 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Okay, so my colleagues will both get to speak.

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (13 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Maybe I can give two minutes to my colleagues as I am not going to be very long, and then the others can share the ten minutes between them, if that is okay.

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (13 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will be very brief because I do not have amendments in this and those who do have amendments will be speaking and putting forward very good cases for why we need very good cases when making such a decision and, given, in fairness, some of what has been put forward by some of the Members regarding the arguments for why we need the Ministers of State, the importance of us actually having and...

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (19 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I was not going to speak but I am moved to do so. I am very proud to be supporting Senator Flynn. She is an outstanding candidate. We celebrated during the previous Oireachtas term the centenary of the Seanad. One of the themes was minority voices, major changes, as the Seanad has a record of bringing forward minority and different perspectives. I do not mean in a geographical way, but...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I want to raise an issue that occurred in the past 24 hours. We heard how a former Member of this House, Lynn Boylan, who is now an MEP, was refused entry and deported when attempting to visit Israel as a part of an official EU delegation in an official capacity on an Irish diplomatic passport. Two Members of the European Parliament and their officials were denied entry to Israel and denied...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will come to my conclusion.