Results 241-260 of 8,553 for speaker:Alice-Mary Higgins
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: No, it is a fact. The obligation to implement has been removed, for example.
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The Department is placing a limit on the information that can be sought. Is that a limit in terms of national legislation and the voluntary piece in terms of what information can be looked for?
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is fine.
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Is that a limit on what can be looked for through national legislation or a limit on what an individual company can look for from its supplier?
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: In terms of implementation, and to continue the point, I asked about the increased risk of human rights or environmental abuses being created by the removal of the obligation on very large corporations to put a tiny fraction of their resources into assessing risk.
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: But is there an increase in risk of human rights and environmental abuses compared with the corporate sustainability due diligence directive, CSDDD, as it is currently?
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Am I right in saying, and I am sorry but this is core on that question, that the original policy purpose was to address the risk of human rights and environmental abuses in a supply chain but now, the obligation on large corporations to assess that risk has been removed, except if an NGO happens to do an investigation and get it to their attention? That original purpose was reducing human...
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: But this legislation's purpose-----
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is separate legislation.
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: But the purpose of this legislation-----
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is fine and one way to address it would be with the new legislation that is coming through but in terms of this legislation, its core purpose is the removal of human rights-----
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: -----and environmental risks.
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: -----whereby they continue to do that. And if the witnesses could just come in on the implementation of the climate-----
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is important.
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Should companies have to-----.
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: But-----
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is fine. Apologies.
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Of course. Absolutely. Please continue.
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The line about confidentiality is quite different from just one year ago when I engaged with the then Minister, Deputy Calleary, and Ireland was championing the idea that we should add new factors and considerations to be assessed for risk, such as gender equality components. It was not just looking at human rights and the environment but making sure gender and abuses such as gender-based...
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The corporate sustainability due diligence directive did not require them to be implemented.