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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: That is not specifically renewable, however.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: No, who are the big arms manufacturers which the loans will be used to buy weapons from?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Trade Agreements (30 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I ask the Minister of State to update the House on the position that Ireland will be, and has been, taking to date in relation to the proposed renewed EU-Morocco trade agreement, which is due for decision at the European Council tomorrow. This relates to an amendment of protocols 1 and 4 to the previous EU-Moroccan agreement. The need for the change to the protocols comes from a Court of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Trade Agreements (30 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I do not believe Ireland is being very supportive. First of all, we pulled out of the MINURSO mission and do not have anybody there anymore. Also, if we are so keen to see the long-awaited referendum, why have we not taken any advantage of this opportunity? This is a point at which Morocco's trade with the European Union and much of its relationship with it depended on, potentially, the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Trade Agreements (30 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: With respect, the Minister of State did not answer my question and I am hoping that this means he will be voting against it tomorrow.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am returning to an issue I tabled as a Commencement matter yesterday regarding the important decisions being made today at the European Council in respect of a new proposed trading agreement between the EU and Morocco. Sadly, the information I received in answer to the Commencement matter yesterday was actually inaccurate in that I was told the issue was still being negotiated. I asked...

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: The inaccurate information was in the response to my reply. I did not have the opportunity to come back at that time. That is why I am following it up now. I would like to have a debate in the House. I hoped to deal with it through a Commencement matter but now I believe it requires a debate in the House because the decisions being made on this trade agreement are directly relevant to the...

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: No. It said that negotiations are ongoing.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: Yes. I know they were not. The vote is today.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: No. I was simply asking-----

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: Certainly. That is a minor point, to be honest. I will send it on because accuracy is important, of course, but the key point is for the substantial issue to be discussed. It is very relevant to the position Ireland has taken on international law and its application.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: It was inaccurate. I really just wanted to know what Ireland would be doing when the vote took place rather than what will be in the agreement, which had already been finalised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am interested to see the environmental piece coming up in a couple of presentations, and that the recommender piece is very strong. I have questions about the gathering of data. Mr. Byrne mentioned the idea of his data being sold. Would he agree that it should not be the case that information can be sold to advertise or target information at someone because they are a teenage boy,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Chair, could I just get a "Yes" on-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: -----the sale of data, if there was an agreement on the sale of data? It is just a yes-no answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Does Ms Jennings think that as part of the regulation, we should be looking at prohibiting the processing, profiling and gathering of data on children as something that can be sold for direct marketing or micro-targeting purposes, either by recommending or through advertisements?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency: Mr. Maroš Šefovi (2 Oct 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We know that the Commission, following the ruling of the European Court of Justice, found the basis on which the EU was trading with Morocco and with Western Sahara, which is illegally occupied by Morocco, not to be legitimate. A new negotiating mandate was sought and given on 10 September and we were told the new deal had been negotiated on 18 September, with the decision to be made...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency: Mr. Maroš Šefovi (2 Oct 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The proposal is that the EU intensify investment in Western Sahara, but that investment will be available to Moroccan settlers and Moroccan businesses operating there. Is this not echoing some of what we have seen in the West Bank? Why was the choice made? Are we in danger of intensifying the occupation in that context?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency: Mr. Maroš Šefovi (2 Oct 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Could I ask a follow-up question instead?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency: Mr. Maroš Šefovi (2 Oct 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will be very brief. I was disappointed that the Commission is only looking for a partial suspension of the EU-Israel association agreement, especially as it is in response to a breach. Does that not lend a lack of confidence in human rights clauses and environmental clauses if we decide to only half respond politically to those breaches? Specifically on Horizon, I know the Commissioner...