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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: -----we do not engage. There are many things we could all do illegally to make money. However, the point is that people should not be doing things illegally and making money on things that are not just illegal on paper, but illegal on core human rights and international law. They are illegal and costing lives. Therefore, that is a reasonable bar to set ourselves in terms of how business...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Sorry, could Mr. Gilvarry elaborate on that? What is the problem with the free movement of capital? Does he believe it is legally acceptable to invest in occupied territories? I am not asking for his personal opinion, of course. Is it legally acceptable to invest in illegally occupied territories?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Sorry, if the Senator does not mind, we have limited time. No one is suggesting it is simple. It is important and complicated. That is why the Department should be able to do it and we should have the skills. I asked Mr. Gilvarry specifically in the context of the Department’s legal opinion and advice and what it has been looking at whether he believes it is legally acceptable to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The senior legal advisers, Professor Michael Lynn and Professor Takis Tridimas, have advised that we are on shaky ground legally in trading with occupied territories at all, so I would be confident about any case that was taken about divesting from a small amount of such investments. I am sorry. I will pass over to Mr. Ashmore.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: But they do include the ability to go into illegally occupied territories. To be clear, that category is not in the exclusion zone at the moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Ms Meghen might respond on the screening question briefly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Then I will pass. Maybe Ms Meghen can answer-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I was there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am happy to pass over. I will just say that I imagine the public would be quite surprised that illegally occupied territories have not been placed on the exclusion list before now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: My colleague will be substituting for me in the second half of the session.

Seanad: Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (6 Mar 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Fáiltím roimh an deis atá againn an Ghaeilge agus an Ghaeltacht a phlé anseo inniu. Tá sé fíorthábhachtach go bhfuil Seachtain na Gaeilge againn. Tá a fhios againn go bhfuil an Ghaeilge mar chuid lárnach dár gcultúr náisiúnta agus feiceann muid inár gceantair féin an stór a bhaineann lenár dteanga. Is...

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (6 Mar 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We are speaking about International Women's Day on Friday when the central focus has to be the fact that we will be making really important decisions. Senator Flynn outlined the multiple areas where policies and services are still falling short and the many really good actions that we set out. I was proud to be a member of the Joint Committee on Gender Equality. Instead of producing a...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Policy (5 Mar 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The importation of coal from the Cerrejón mine in La Guajira, Colombia, has been the subject of long-standing serious concern especially when, having previously ceased imports, the ESB resumed purchasing coal from the controversial mine in 2022. Cerrejón is the largest open-pit coal mine in Latin America. There is a litany of documented human rights, and environmental harms and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Policy (5 Mar 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We stopped importing coal from Russia because of human rights concerns and international law and we fund the importation of coal from other places that are committing human rights violations. That is gross hypocrisy. As for the idea we are following developments and engaging with all sides, let us be clear we are driving human rights violations and we are funding a company that commits...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Policy (5 Mar 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Government is undermining our credibility in that respect.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move an amendment to the Order of Business that No. 9 be taken before No. 1. Today we are seeking leave to introduce the Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024, which is emergency legislation that would ensure Ireland is not complicit in arming Israel and would help to curb the flow of weapons being used in Gaza. Since Israel began its relentless bombardment of Gaza, arms...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024: First Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for restrictions on the transit and export of weapons of war from and through the State to the state of Israel and to provide for appropriate inspections of planes seeking to transit weapons through the State, and to provide for related matters.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024: First Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Next Tuesday.