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Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 7: In page 9, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “ “United Nations Sustainable Development Goals” means the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 1 to 17 set out in the document entitled “Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, published by the UN Department of Economic and Social...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The circular economy Bill references the sustainable development goals and it does not have an issue with doing so. There are formulations that allow for references to the sustainable development goals and the subsequent goals that may follow them, as was done in relation to the millennium development goals, which preceded them. The Minister of State mentioned a number of bodies that would...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 8: In page 9, to delete lines 15 to 19 and substitute the following: “(3) In this Act, references to environmental development and sustainability shall be construed as references to development and actions that meet the needs of the present and which contribute to climate action without accelerating or worsening the climate emergency for those already...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 9: In page 9, to delete lines 15 to 19 and substitute the following: “(3) In this Act, references to environmental development and sustainability shall be construed as references to developments and actions which comply with actions under the Paris Agreement, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Sustainable Development...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 10: In page 9, line 16 after “present” to insert the following:“, while recognising historic responsibility for climate change and its effects on current populations,”

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The grouping is-----

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will address my amendments in this group. The points made by Senator Clonan are important, in terms of best practice in respect of intellectual freedom, parity of esteem between areas and the other principles around support for foundational research, which he emphasised. The Senator mentioned his research in respect of the armed forces. There is a key ethical question which needs to be...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: First of all, it would be good if the Department responded to the consultation and was explicit that Ireland, as a neutral country, and bear in mind one with very concrete legislation in areas like cluster munitions and so forth, believes in the retention of a separation between civil and military research, especially in the current geopolitical context when, for example, we know of the...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 12: In page 9, line 25, to delete “or expedient”. Amendment No. 12 seeks to amend section 3 on regulations and orders by deleting the provision in subsection (2), which allows the Minister to make regulations which include such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as appear to the Minister to be expedient for the purposes of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank our guests and all of the researchers very much for this huge contribution. It is important it begins in that first volume with that science and with the planetary boundary piece because we can get caught in particular policies. I will be going back into particular policy areas. We often hear that that we were balancing the economic and the environment whereas, in real terms, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The public buses piece is quicker.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: To clarify, by State institutions, does Professor Daly believe that the same key points would come to commercial semi-States?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Is it the same kind of dynamic?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: On making it visible, we often talk about giving individual examples but if people can see large-scale examples, either in the public land owned by something like Coillte or large-scale public retrofitting, they set the visibility of the possibility and change. To follow up, it flows from what you were saying but I might just add something, also for Professor McElwain, about the idea of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I was actually just wondering could we not be just looking to ecological care grants, much as we look to forestry grants. Is there scope? Professor McElwain may go ahead, however.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Exactly. It is not in a narrow piece where one is trying to measure just the carbon piece. Rather, it is looking to a wider benefit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Somebody was talking about Copenhagen's municipal public recycling centres earlier today and it was focused on that arts and culture piece. One of the recycling centres is located at a culture house and another at a library. These are almost mini recycling and reuse centres. Each of them generates a different way of thinking about it and that same kind of positive, enjoyable and joyful...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The witnesses seemed to suggest that Ireland was waiting to see what our position would be. I would hope that Ireland would have a very clear position between the options presented. Can the witnesses clarify whether Ireland has a very clear and strong position in respect of the first option, namely retaining a separate civilian focus for Horizon rather than the military focus of the defence...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Under the three options in the White Paper-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: At this point, is Ireland providing input? This is a discussion paper. I know how the Commission works. Ireland has an input. Is Ireland feeding back? Ireland has very specific obligations in terms of neutrality. We also have very clear obligations in respect of the Cluster Munitions and Anti-Personnel Mines Act and other areas. There are serious concerns. Horizon used to be about...