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Seanad: Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (8 Apr 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I have to object. That is an inaccurate and selective quoting from the Bill.

Seanad: Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (8 Apr 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 7: In page 33, line 3, after “rules” to insert the following: “with the exception of requirements outlined under subsection (3)”.

Seanad: Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (8 Apr 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 8: In page 33, line 3, after “rules” to insert the following: “with the exception of offshore service vessels engaged in offshore industrial activity related to the hydrocarbon energy sector”.

Seanad: Prohibition of Advertising or Importuning Sex for Rent Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Apr 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I welcome the Minister. I commend the Cross-Party Group of Senators Harmon, Cosgrove, Noonan and Stephenson on bringing forward this legislation. In particular, I commend Senator Harmon, who highlighted this issue in her previous role and brought attention to it right across the political spectrum. It is a positive sign that she has followed through on those threads and issues now that she...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Leader has already proposed the motion in respect of Pope Francis. There has been a lot of discussion of him and his nature as a person. I do not agree with all of the church's teachings in many areas and have challenged the role the church has played in terms of the Irish State.Pope Francis's quotes and messages are really important contributions to thought in our time and the moral...

Seanad: Forestry Sector: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I will pick up on a couple of the points that have been talked about during the course of the debate. Coillte has been a focus for me for a long time. The Minister of State may or may not be aware that I have put forward proposed legislation on the mandate for nature, which was about changing the mandates of Coillte. Coillte is the largest...

Seanad: Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (29 Apr 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I welcome the Minister of State. In considering this, I have to join with others in saying that given the length of time the planning framework will cover and how important it will be as a frame for all of the policy discussions and issues we will raise over the next few years, I regret that we have not had a proper process going through committees with an opportunity to engage and consider...

Seanad: Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (29 Apr 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 May 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We will have statements on Europe Day later and I am looking forward to making a contribution. However, I have checked and Europe Day is usually celebrated on 9 May by the European Parliament and on 5 May by the European Council. While I am of course delighted we are going to have the opportunity to speak about Europe Day, I am a little puzzled as to why we are not doing so next week...

Seanad: Europe Day 2025: Statements (1 May 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I also welcome his commitment to engaging with the Seanad committee on the scrutiny of statutory instruments. It is an important part of how we play our role in ensuring we not only look at the EU laws and directives coming through but also contribute to ensure we have the best laws and decisions coming out of Europe. It is an important part of...

Seanad: Europe Day 2025: Statements (1 May 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Fearing for your lives is exactly when you need to have standards in wars. It is why we have the Geneva Conventions.

Seanad: Europe Day 2025: Statements (1 May 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The European Union and the United Nations were not produced in an idealistic, wonderful moment in history. They were produced in the realities of war, understanding the realities of war and that there are standards you must apply. I am very surprised to hear a Minister of State defending the decision-----

Seanad: Europe Day 2025: Statements (1 May 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: This is where Ireland can actually contribute. Ireland can contribute in helping out European leaders on peace. It is an unjust peace that is being proposed in Ukraine. Of course we want peace, but if Ireland had been more active in championing peace and pushing Europe to take the lead on peace, maybe we would be looking at a more just deal that fully respects the UN Charter and makes sure...

Seanad: Europe Day 2025: Statements (1 May 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Apologies, I will come to the end. We throw it away, not for ourselves but for Europe as a whole.

Seanad: Europe Day 2025: Statements (1 May 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Or the General Assembly.

Seanad: Europe Day 2025: Statements (1 May 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Our 2005 Act allows us to act on the General Assembly, just to say.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Dissolution of National Asset Management Agency: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will pick up on a couple points related to time and value for money, and how they intersect. When we examined this issue in the previous finance committee, there was much discussion. One of the key issues was we were waiting for the publication of the report of the commission of investigation. One area that surprised me when Mr. Des Carville was speaking to us was that there seemed to be...

Seanad: Public Procurement: Statements (22 May 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Higgins to the Seanad. Public procurement is a topic I have been very passionate about for a long time, and I thank the Minister of State for the kind comments in her own speech with regard to some of the work I have been doing, and some of the very positive engagement I have had with the Office of Government Procurement, including on my quality in...