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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: Sorry, Chair, I have a final point.

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: With respect-----

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 know. One final point.

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: It is just to clarify a comment.

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: To clarify a comment, I would like-----

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: Mr. O'Brien mentioned-----

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: Chair-----

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: Okay. I had a point on a question that was asked earlier and I just wanted to get clarification.

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: If I may, I will come in at the end. It is a single sentence.

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: Just to be clear, it is still the case that one cannot trade in services with Crimea. That is still banned. This is not something from 2014. IBEC members should be applying that ban in the trade of services right now, last year, next year, during Covid. There was a suggestion that remote working was somehow a brand new thing but this is not brand new. IBEC members should currently be...

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 have limited time. Is it the case that they are doing so currently?

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: So, they are already, as of 2025, applying a ban on services, despite the complex world that we live in.

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: They would have to look to a new area again. We have been clear on the legal piece. Mr. O'Brien has talked about implementation. Legally, it is clearly already the case that they should be examining these issues. When we look to that business advisory we referenced, Mr. O'Brien mentioned that it had not come up as an instance. Is it not the case that we need to legislate in this area if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I want to check that I have the right picture of how matters stand in the context of the temperature neutrality piece. Of course, the ultimate objective was to stay below a 1.5°C increase. We must stay below a 2°C increase. We are already, as we know, almost at the point of a 1.5°C increase. Some 0.5°C of that increase is the result of methane, which is shorter lived....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The alternative approach is to look at emissions. It seems those are measurable. It is one thing to say we have decided that we want to stop warming at 1.5°C or 2°C, but we know there are tipping points in climate science. At a certain point, what humans do will have created tipping points of which we do not necessarily have control. What we have control of and can plan for and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am interested in the years involved. Professor Sweeney is right that there is a climate justice piece, particularly if the high-emitting countries which are using that methane space and which have the capability and tools that allow them to act are not acting on their relative responsibilities and capabilities and are using up the potential space that might be needed for increases in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will come back in again because I am imagining what we can do as a committee and then the question of the budgets. We do have time. This is for 2020 to 2030 and it is important to get it right. Maybe as much as the peer review piece, there are certain key points that are emerging that also need to be reflected in our responsibility to the climate Act. Of course, the climate Act has the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Professor McMullin is saying it is a case of "both and".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Emissions reduction, but Professor McMullin is saying emissions reduction to zero or negative, plus an assessment of whether that is doing enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Okay.