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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Role of Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Am I out of time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Role of Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will finish with a very quick point, on greenwashing. I would like to hear a little more about how we can resist that. Do we have regulations in this regard? Is it about regulating the phrases and language being used? I would also like to hear a comment on the disinformation that comes with greenwashing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Role of Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It is not just about the different communities but also about the different sectors. I gave examples of very large industries. It is telling that when we started talking about businesses, we started talking about incentivising them, whereas businesses need to be told. People need to see them being told. I do not mean small businesses but businesses such as the private-jet rental system,...

Seanad: Ireland's Military Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I welcome the motion. This is an important time to recommit to, and make it clear, how important neutrality is and how well it has served Ireland. I echo the belief that a strong constitutional mandate is already outlined in Article 29, including devotion to the ideal of peace, the recognised principles of international law and the peaceful settlement of international disputes by...

Seanad: Protection of the Native Irish Honey Bee Bill 2021: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I compliment Senator Martin. I am also very happy to be one of the co-sponsors of the Bill. We have taken our lead in not expanding on the different sections. The key point is that, if this keeps moving through, it is an opportunity to ensure we deliver protection for the native Irish honeybee next year. It is important we complement that with really strong measures in protecting the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It is a very interesting debate. I have about a million questions but I will condense. I will pick up on a couple of the key points mentioned relating to the four areas. I want to focus in particular on the idea of just transition. We have heard of that "just transition". It is probably regrettable that we did not take the opportunity to embed principles of just transition in our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will add a question to that. Others will come in on the idea of the pilots and how we make them be not pilots but joined up scale-ups. There is responsibility at local level for the sustainable development goals, SDGs. I am thinking particularly of Sustainable Development Goal 11, on sustainable cities and communities. Would it be exciting and transformative, do the witnesses believe,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It strikes me that if the likes of the SDGs are used, and if they are part of the key performance indicators, it allows a common conversation across local areas not just in Ireland but also internationally, whereby you are able to have a chat about how you are going on a sub-goal of SDG 11 and how that is working out in Bilbao as well as in Galway. It seems that that might be a useful piece....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Apologies, I have to slip out but will follow the rest with interest.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: May I come in on because we have had a long back and forth?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I want to come in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: That is rather disingenuous. The suggestion is not that buses would have to stop at every bungalow in rural Ireland. The every village, every hour approach would serve villages. There are small rural villages and towns which can be------

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: There is no reason for that to mean stopping at the entrance to every boreen. Active travel linking to a public transport system would mean a commuter might travel 1 km or 2 km by active travel to a town where services would be provided under an every village, every hour model. It happens all over the world. The Chairman said that the cost would be prohibitive. The cost is a different...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: -----and redirected it, that would go a distance towards starting to improve our public transport.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I do not think it is fair to say the cost would be prohibitive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I wanted to come in to say-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I apologise as I had to slip away earlier for a few minutes. I asked a few questions. Ms Clancy mentioned people would be concerned about the field near their post office or the particular area of woodland that is near them. We have talked about it in the context of planning, which is where a very negative narrative has come across around those who are talking about ecosystems, plants and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Do environmental factors feature strongly in the LECPs at the moment? Do notions like carbon budgeting feature within that? Does it feature strongly in the LECPs at the moment or does it tend to sit separately in that well-being space?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Just to be clear, that is my experience too. I just worry some of the narrative tends to be that the person defending the river is the person who does not care about climate-proofing the river.