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Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 35:In page 13, to delete lines 4 to 6 and substitute the following:"(2) The members of the Commission shall select a chairperson from among its membership who shall be a lay person. In making their selection the Commission shall endeavour to ensure that any such chairperson selected has both a strong legal understanding and a proven capacity to communicate in a clear and...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am not referring to the Minister but I would ask other Senators to look at this amendment because I believe my proposal may provide a compromise.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 39:In page 13, to delete lines 34 and 35 and substitute the following:"(e) commerce, finance, administration, civil society, and trade union activity; (f) relevant areas of academic research including the law, or social policy;". I will withdraw the amendment and reserve the right to reintroduce it.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 40:In page 13, to delete lines 34 and 35 and substitute the following:"(e) commerce, finance, administration, civil society, trade union activity and academia;". I will withdraw the amendment and reserve the right to reintroduce it.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 43:In page 13, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following:"(f) relevant areas of academic research including the law, or social policy;". I will withdraw the amendment but reserve the right to reintroduce it.

Seanad: Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am very happy to be a member of the Oireachtas Traveller group alongside Senator Kelleher. I commend her for initiating that group and also for this Bill, which is very important. As others have described, the policy of the State for far too long, and made very explicit in the 1963 policies, was a policy of absorption and assimilation - of effectively disappearing Travellers and their...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Statements (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I strongly support the Bill, of which I am very proud to be a co-signer. I will address a couple of issues that have arisen. Members referred to the analogy of apartheid in South Africa. In that instance the boycott was led by the demand made by the people. The State then took an important action. I looked back at some of the debates that took place at the time and the arguments made...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I come with the concerns that have been raised by others. I also have spoken to some of the residents in Grand Canal Dock on whom this is having an impact. This is a one-off situation. It is one where even a simple adjournment of the Bill would suffice. I was hoping that the Government might be amenable even to adjourning these Report and Final Stages to allow for those residents who...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The text allows for that, unfortunately.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The text allows for it. I am not saying that-----

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I regret the Minister's response. The proposal is not preposterous. Giving such leeway within the Bill is preposterous.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am responding to a point the Minister made about the charging and fixing of fees in respect of the use by persons of the canals. That is how wide the provision has been made.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The way in which it will be applied is to be determined by Waterways Ireland because we have given it that power. I will speak to the second group of amendments because two aspects arise. Amendments Nos. 2 to 4, inclusive, relate to the change in the ministerial title.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am speaking to the change in the title, which is the subject matter of amendments Nos. 2 to 4, inclusive. When it was first submitted, the Bill was under the remit of the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. It is extraordinary that when the Department was effectively divided in two and responsibility for rural and regional affairs moved into a new...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am questioning whether the Bill belongs under the title. Given the disregard for heritage, it would seem it should belong under the remit of the Minister for Rural and Regional Affairs if that is the only concern. Am I right that amendment No. 5 is in this grouping also?

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will make a simple and brief point about amendment No. 5, which I support. This is a practical, technical amendment related to subsection (7), which notes that where an offence has been committed by a body corporate and has been committed with the consent, connivance or neglect of a director, manager or secretary, both the person and the body corporate shall be liable for an offence.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It is not a correction. It is an amendment to subsection (7) and in respect of that, I want to-----

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am speaking to it and I will be very brief. I welcome that in this section the Government recognises that a negligent director, manager or secretary-----

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: If I am not interrupted I will conclude after one sentence. I need to make this important point, which is that the principle being communicated in this section, as proposed to be amended, is that a person who is a director, manager, secretary or officer of a corporate would be liable, as well as the corporate body, for an offence. That is a very important principle. I note it is somewhat...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I acknowledge that.