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Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment No. 37: In page 35, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(iii) obtaining personal information or records relevant to the person which are held by the relevant person,”.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I know the Minister is committed to public information campaigns. It was regrettable an amendment simply stating a campaign should be in plain English, given it is Government official policy that its communications would be in plain English, was ruled as being a cost to the State. This is a wider issue which people will be aware I have been raising. The idea of having an information...

Seanad: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will do my best. I will be coming back on Committee Stage. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, to the House. The legislation is part of a wider set of proposals in Ireland and at EU level to address the climate and biodiversity crisis. This Bill is focused on the economy and how it fits within the planetary boundaries and our fair share of them in terms not just of...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (14 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I warmly welcome the Members of the Ukrainian Parliament and thank them for taking the time to address and listen to us and, most important, for putting the work of sovereignty into practice and demonstrating Ukraine as a sovereign state through its Parliament and parliamentarians and the continuation of Ukrainian Members' work representing the people of Ukraine in Kyiv and here. The proof...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: This section has to do with the definition of "exceptional circumstances". My amendment suggesting definitions has not been successful. Ahead of Report Stage, I urge the Government to define the term further or to recognise the points I have raised. In European Court of Justice rulings, exceptional circumstances were clearly intended to exclude anything that could create an incentive,...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Senator asked about EU law. There were specific rulings relating to previous regimes. I believe we are not satisfying those and that we are at risk. That is why I referenced those other components because those have been attached in this legislation. To be clear, we had a regime for substitute consent already. This legislation is not bringing that in. Of course there should be...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 9: In page 8, to delete lines 30 and 31. I will withdraw this amendment because I have a concern about its placing. I believe I made a mistake. I will be coming back to this issue, specifically the matter of how the board might be satisfied about the assessments required for development, that is, the environmental impact assessment and appropriate assessment. I...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will speak briefly on the amendment. While there are aspects of amendment No. 11 that are constructive, I suggest it is important that there is like with like such that there is an independent review of the environmental impact, rather than just an assessment of the environmental, financial and community impact. A situation can be created whereby a good financial case outweighs concerns...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Given that the State has paid significant fines, there is a sense, be it in the context of the location or perhaps more in the dismantling of the turbines, that it should get be able to take from this. Senator McDowell's proposals are certainly very interesting and imaginative. If there was the prospect of nationalisation and community ownership of badly planned developments, it would be an...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I have already highlighted many of the issues of concern. On section 13, many of the amendments regarding section 177E of principal Act are matters of concern, including the mechanism that allows for pre-application consultations with the board on proposed substitute constitute applications. There is also a measure, which is a key change, where there would no longer be a need to apply for...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I oppose the entire section. I know that I am being naive in my opposition to the section.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: This section amends section 177F of the principal Act, which sets out what is required in an environmental impact assessment report, EIAR. However, greater clarity and precision could be provided, particularly to ensure that the requirements are fully aligned with the environmental impact assessment directive. I am raising this in the context of the Court of Justice of the European Union,...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I continue to oppose the section. The Bill makes changes to the leave to apply stage when applying for substitute consent. Some of the existing safeguards will no longer apply under the Bill.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: This section amends section 177L of the principal Act to reflect the repeal of section 177D on applications for leave. Section 177D, which is being repealed by section 21 of the Bill, provides for the decision of the board not to grant substitute consent. In its submission to the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage during pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill, the Irish...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: During our debate on Committee Stage, the Minister specified his concern that, if an adoption was illegal, then it was not a full adoption. Our amendment No. 2 seeks to address that concern by referring to someone who was "subject to an illegal birth registration".That addresses one of the concerns the Minister raised on Committee Stage. The Minister will be aware that at multiple points in...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 4: In page 10, line 30, after “her,” to insert “including records of those administered for the purposes of a medical or medicinal trial”.