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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: They are scattered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I can come back or I can put them all at the same time. If that is better, I do not mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: To facilitate the meeting, I might give all my questions and then people can choose the ones they want to answer. I am conscious that I might not get back in otherwise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Perhaps I could get something in writing about battery storage. It has been mentioned as a one-liner at the end of these meetings for the past six years but we hear a lot about all the other areas, and the smart meter plans, etc. Exactly how much resourcing has been put into that area? Wind Energy Ireland talked about where that fits in with the mapping piece that it has been doing. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: My time is constrained, and I have other questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I was going to say that I can get the answer in writing, but I did ask what the policy is and not to tell me a story. What is the hierarchy in terms of demand? Perhaps I can get it in writing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: On hybrid generation-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: -----just the fact that fossil fuels-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Apologies. I will let others in but perhaps the witnesses could answer this later if they get the opportunity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Let me give Dr. McDonnell another moment to describe where his head was at when he passed over. Could the €2.4 billion that we spend on private pension tax reliefs – annually, I believe – be one example of where reform could deliver revenue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: An adequate universal pension.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I believe 70% of the beneficiaries of the private pension package are in the higher tax bracket and beyond. That is not what we are here to discuss but I just mentioned it because the conversation had gone there. I thank Dr. McDonnell, as this has been a really interesting analysis. It has been reassuring in some ways and challenging in others. The digital services levy has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I know Dr. McDonnell is as enthusiastic as I am for this idea but because my time is limited, I have to move on. We are seeing an attempt to shift how our economies are functioning using the tariff threat with a danger of potentially undermining it. I specifically mention the digital services levy which is being talked about by Europe. There is, however, also an attempt to have direct...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Digital Markets Act is something different because that is in the regulatory space.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Dr. McDonnell mentioned intra-company transfers. A huge amount of what would be affected, maybe even in the pharma area, is intra-company financial transfers rather than productive activity. Does that relate to base erosion and profit shifting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Those areas may have a revenue impact but they do not necessarily have an employment or productivity impact. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It does not touch the productive economy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: To come back to the new economy, we still have instability in terms of tariffs and their priority. Will Mr. McDonnell comment on what Ireland and the EU could do, with reference to the G20 meeting and also in terms of the food and beverage sectors? If I was very cynical, and I rarely am, the huge focus on defence spending will certainly help Germany whose manufacturing capacity utilisation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I apologise. If there is no time for those questions to be answered now, maybe Dr. McDonnell can answer them at the end of the second round because I have to step out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I welcome Mr. O'Brien. I will begin with a couple of short questions. He seemed to suggest that under Irish, EU and international law, the Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian territory are illegal and are built on occupied land and, as such, are not part of Israel. He implied that when he mentioned the association agreement, but perhaps he could confirm that is the case.