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International Travel and Aviation: Statements (25 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: I welcome the European green certificate, which will be a key step towards reopening Ireland. The pandemic has seen us introduce restrictions that we, as a Government and a nation, never imagined we would see. Public health considerations and saving the lives of the most vulnerable among us were always at the forefront of those decisions but we are all looking forward to the day when the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: 344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new building for a school (details supplied); the timeline for submission of a planning application to South Dublin County Council for a purpose built school on the school site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27736/21]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: I hope that members of the public are not tuned in to this meeting today because so far, it has been an example of politics being put ahead of problem solving. The problem that needs to be solved is the housing crisis. Allegedly, that is the shared priority of us all but here we are, discussing ideology, political positions and specific developments in people's back yards. Deputies are...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: I learnt a lovely new word at this meeting today from Deputy Boyd Barrett, "sophistry". Deputy Ó Broin himself has engaged in quite a lot of that. I have never been an Opposition Deputy but I guess my point is, if I was, I would certainly be looking to be working collaboratively to improve the Bill, not opposing it every step of the way.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: I will reply to Deputy Ó Broin, who namechecked me. He mentioned that he was not able to remember anything other than Clonburris, so I will refresh his memory of other developments in the area of South Dublin County Council, of which he was a member. On the council, Sinn Féin voted against Kilcarbery with its 975 homes. The Minister and I visited the site last week. It was great...

Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel: Statements (20 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: I wish to begin by condemning the violence in Palestine and Israel. I have stood in the West Bank and in places like Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Ramallah. I have crossed the border at Kulandia and gone through the checkpoint alone in the darkness of night. I stood in Hebron during Passover when hundreds of heavily armed Israeli soldiers burst out from a military zone into a Palestinian...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: My questions have really been asked by Senator Fitzpatrick. I am just wondering how this will work from a practical perspective. Is someone allowed to be both a witness and a member of a committee? Is Deputy Ó Broin planning to act in both capacities or will he recuse himself as a member of the committee for the purpose of today's meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: When I watched the Cambridge Analytica story unfold, I watched it with horror. Normal politicians did. Today, I would like to find out whether Sinn Féin watched it unfold and wondered how it could use that strategy for its political gain. I had intended to put a number of questions to the general secretary of that party, but instead they selected a politician to give political answers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: So, no software was used to put the information from the marked register onto the Abú system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: When the Deputy says "cross-reference", they are updating their Abú system with that detail.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: Is Abú available to employees or to the party's army of volunteers also?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: Is it freely searchable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: In that you could go in and use the data, and use a search engine within the data.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: Is it possible for Deputy Ó Broin to screen-share that with us without sharing any of the data it contains?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: Was Abú used during the Dublin Mid-West by-election in 2019?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: It was used in the general election 2020 as well, I assume.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: Did Sinn Féin microtarget voters in Clondalkin and Lucan in 2019 using the Abú system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: When Sinn Féin does advertise online, does it use custom lists to do so?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: Does Sinn Féin use any data used in conjunction with the electoral register to target voters?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: Does Sinn Féin use data brokers to understand the more personalised information?