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- Seanad: Migration: Statements (23 Sep 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is important to step back from framing of migration as a crisis, a problem or even something new. Migration is one of the great facts of humanity and it has happened always. In Ireland, we have been reminded in very stark terms recently, looking at Gaza, of exactly how colonialism operates. We have also been reminded of exactly how famine impacts.The piece we should not forget and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Apologies, Cathaoirleach.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: If it is okay, I will speak with the camera off. I want to focus on something that has been discussed previously, and this is civilian deaths. More than 2,000 have been associated with the new distribution sites, which have very much been criticised as points of targeting. Will Mr. Whyte comment on how they have been used and the deaths associated with these distribution points? Will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I have a quick supplementary on this before Mr. Whyte moves to the question on water.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Mr. Whyte mentioned UNRWA had to rely on the World Health Organization to bring in medical supplies for it. Is it similar for the three-month food supply? Is there scope for co-operation? How important is explicit pressure on the food supply?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: May I quickly ask, because I may not be able to ask questions in the second round-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Mr Whyte might be afforded the opportunity to answer the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Following up on Gaza City, as I understand it, half of the medical infrastructure - certainly intensive care and hospitals - is mainly in Gaza City. How much of an escalation in the health component of the humanitarian crisis would it be when we see Gaza City specifically pushed down? I also asked about water, the situation in that regard and how that is being found, supplied and moved...
- Seanad: Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza: Motion (25 Sep 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank those who tabled the motion. I will be happy to support it. It sets out some important recognitions in terms of the horror of the war, the imposed famine and, indeed, the fact that the UN commission has been very explicit that this is genocide. This is something we have all seen and that most experts have told us about for a very long time. The motion also sets out the idea that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank all the witnesses. I was struck by the point about resources. One of the options within the Digital Services Act is the digital levy and the idea of a digital levy contributing to funds that can be used for digital empowerment so one is not, for example, depending on direct grants from the companies that need to be regulated. The witnesses might comment on that. When we come to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I was struck by what Ms Lynch said about resources for youth mental services and even youth community, that is, actual physical spaces for young people to meet, which are one thing that is massively under-resourced in Ireland. She did not get a chance to come in on the recommender. How much does what is getting recommended and pushed to children feature as a parental concern? Will Ms...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I have a few factual questions because they would be useful. Then I will come to the bigger picture. The figure of 50% was mentioned. Was that 50% electricity usage in Dublin or 50% of energy-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: So, 50% of energy generation in Dublin is being used currently by large energy users-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: -----which know we largely consist of data centres. To my mind that is quite significant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is what I wanted to clarify.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I do not think anybody can accuse us of not having put a huge amount of our available eggs into one basket in terms of use. I do not even know if that is the right metaphor. On the disjoin people are seeing between the decrease for these large energy users and bills and the increase in terms of domestic bills, the witnesses mentioned the temporary energy flexible generation piece. Can I...