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Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am responding to the debate. I pushed for this urgency of reflection because although we will be using State land, once the land enters the LDA's stock it will no longer be State land. Section 59 states that it will no longer be State land but land owned by the LDA, a commercial entity in which two Ministers are shareholders and they may dispose of those shares. That is the concern. By...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...In page 12, line 2, after “may,” to insert “following consultation with the relevant Oireachtas Committee and”. We all represent the State and we have heard a lot of reference to State land. The concern is not any one place or area but that land going to the Land Development Agency is no longer State land. We will come to that later. There is a specific...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...constantly push private partnership into situations where public delivery should lead. The problem is subsection (p) is muddy and it talks about public-private collaboration in relation to private land, agency land and public land. We know public delivery of public housing on public land develops better public value in the current context. Yet the insertion of private bodies into that...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...forth with the Minister in respect of section 3. I appreciate the information and useful tables she supplied regarding applications. My question relates specifically to the foreshore and State lands. As I understand it, while the legislation is moving back in terms of the previous periods that applied, it is also effectively removing many of the provisions of the 2009 Act relating to...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am happy to co-sign this amendment. I saw it put forward in the Dáil and had expected that it would be accepted because it is eminently sensible. We talk about public land. It is about making clear that certain kinds of land serve other purposes that are core to the public good and are part of our responsibility in terms of biodiversity, the environment and public amenity. This...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: As previously discussed, we are talking about a model whereby investors are able to cash out when the minimum period has expired. A recent article in the Business Post looked at the fact that Ireland has done a lot of work to, effectively, de-risk the market for investors. There is probably no safer investment than that of an investor who knows that tenants are, effectively, guaranteed. A...

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 4: In page 11, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: "(fa) for the avoidance of doubt, any land or portion of land which is owned by a state authority but is not zoned exclusively for residential use, shall not be relevant under this section,".

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am concerned about a phrase used in the response regarding the access to the land being the value that the State has contributed at the beginning. That signals to me that this is envisaged as being the giving of access to public land. The State's relationship with the land is envisaged as being solely at the beginning of the cost calculation. I do not believe that approved housing bodies...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Engagement with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (13 Sep 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...specifically about the legal compliance of having 213 megatonnes of emissions planned for during a period which has a budget of 200 megatonnes. I also asked if the Minister was confident that Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry, LULUCF, emissions will be less than the 200 megatonnes and if so, how does he plan-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: My last point is on land use, land-use change and forestry, LULUCF. Is the Minister confident that the LULUCF emissions will not go over the 20 megatonnes, which is the only remaining space in the carbon budget to 2025? We have not figured out the reductions but we have a limited window in which they have to take place and there are only 20 megatonnes left.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Biodiversity: Engagement with Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...is that public ideas and policy goals can be placed centre stage in order that they are not lost. It is something we need to be aware of because while the distinction is not as clear in Ireland, it is important internationally. Indigenous peoples and local communities are not necessarily the same as landowners. If we use the term "landowner" as shorthand for indigenous peoples, it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...from a grant to plant a woody riparian strip. That is one concern I have in the mitigation area. My main concern is the net-zero piece. We need to consider these things in the context of land use, land use change and forestry, LULUCF. There are measures and practices at UN and international level to measure that. I am concerned by, for example, the partnership with Accenture and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...from a grant to plant a woody riparian strip. That is one concern I have in the mitigation area. My main concern is the net-zero piece. We need to consider these things in the context of land use, land use change and forestry, LULUCF. There are measures and practices at UN and international level to measure that. I am concerned by, for example, the partnership with Accenture and...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I suggest that under dedesignation, that the constituent bodies of the National University of Ireland and their grounds be part of the biodiversity habitat. They are some of the more extensive natural grounds in some areas. I was proud to launch the sustainability strategy for NUI Galway which has put in a wildlife walk along the river banks where much of the land is owned by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It was the point about trust. If we have an emissions limit for land use of 20 megatonnes by 2025, can we trust that, with the right financial packages and supports in place, including biodiversity and climate supports, we will be able to achieve that voluntarily? It is certainly coming across to me from this session that laws will be needed for us to keep land use emissions within the 20...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...11, after “of” to insert “public”. I am conscious that many others have amendments in this grouping. The core of this amendment is "public". We are hearing many references to public land, public use of public land and public building on public land, which is what everybody wants to see. The piece that is certainly up front is the discussion on social,...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Senators have made some interesting points. I take on board the valid point made by Senator Casey in respect of situations where there is no public land. I hope that the Minister of State hears the following and that we can address it on Report Stage. There are different expectations in respect of how we use public land versus the partnership element. Therefore, I take on board the fact...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...that it shall apply, not that it shall not apply. We insist that this is important. It is perhaps more important in this area when we are looking at potentially large volumes of disposals of land over a short period.Amendment No. 24, which I tabled, is a compromise amendment that, in my reasonableness, I had to produce. It proposes that if that power is to be removed in any one...

Seanad: Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I wish to contribute on the back of that amendment in respect of the Land Registry. My point relates to a matter we discussed previously. The Minister of State will be aware of the key role that the PRA was likely to have played if, as planned, it had moved ahead with the proposal to have any rights of way or profits à prendrenot registered with it expire automatically last autumn....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Reduction of Carbon Emissions of 51% by 2030: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank all the witnesses. This is an incredibly interesting discussion. The 60% of the forest land in Ireland that is managed is likely to be a net emitter until 2025. I ask the witnesses to comment on clear-felling. As has been mentioned, much of the sequestration is in the soil. How much of that could be potentially reduced by a thinning approach? How much of the remaining 40% of...