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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: In that context, was it just goods and not services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: 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 Foreign Affairs and Trade: 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 Foreign Affairs and Trade: 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 Foreign Affairs and Trade: 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...

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: In that context, was it just goods and not services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Before getting into the curve modelling, I have a follow-up question to Deputy Kenny's very relevant query. Specifically in regard to situations where we have forestry on peatland that has recently been or is about to be felled, and, indeed, where we had forestry on peatland that has, in effect, collapsed from the impact of storms and so forth, it seems to have been suggested that in that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am talking about private forestry as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Is it up for discussion in the short term?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It is basically the profit opportunities that are driving the approach, not the continued plan for increase in dairy. How does that fit with the common differentiators, such as the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: To be clear, is it projected to increase in all the scenarios?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Yes, but I do not see them in the modelling. I am very aware of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It looks like we are into the additional-measures space in terms of the carbon budgets. The ultimate objective, our key goal, is to keep the global average temperature rise below 1.5°C or 2°C. We know the world is very close to a rise of 1.5°C, 0.5°C of which is attributable to methane. Why is methane significant? It has a shorter lifespan but a quicker impact....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: But it is future-science-based mainly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Those incomes can be replaced. That is a choice for Government in terms of what it chooses to subsidise or not. The goal is a national objective of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It does sound like the plan is replanting right now. I am worried about the lock-in and the examination of that lock-in. I turn to the proposed curve modelling. The thing with a curve is it goes up. It seems to be the case that in all these curves - in all three scenarios being looked at - there is a plan for increasing dairy production and, in effect, increasing dairy emissions. How...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank the witnesses. I used to work with Older and Bolder, an alliance of age organisations. What I found then was the incredibly clear-eyed analysis. We hear a lot about digitalisation and not leaving people behind. However, what we are hearing today is how can we make digitalisation catch up with the concerns, issues and needs. It has been described as really meaningful innovation....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Sorry.