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Seanad: Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jun 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It would be appropriate and useful to others who may be taking these issues up in the Dáil to clarify where the responsibility for these issues on the continental shelf lie. There is a clear need that there would be jurisdictional or regulatory vindication of this. It is not just the case that we have rights. We also have responsibilities to vindicate international laws and practices....

Seanad: Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jun 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: No. I will press the amendment.

Seanad: Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jun 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 15: In page 13, line 8, to delete “and” and substitute “or”.

Seanad: Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jun 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 16: In page 13, line 8, after “the” where it secondly occurs to insert “living or”.

Seanad: Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jun 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 17: In page 13, line 19, to delete “and” and substitute “or”.

Seanad: Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jun 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 18: In page 13, line 19, after “the” where it secondly occurs to insert “living or”.

Seanad: Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jun 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 19: In page 14, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “Protection, conservation and restoration of the territorial seas 21.The Wildlife Act 1976 is amended in section 15(1)(c) by the substitution of “State and that territorial sea above it.” for “State.”. The Minister of State will be glad to hear this is an amendment...

Seanad: Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jun 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It is land covered by water but does it include the water itself? This goes back to my point about life on water.

Seanad: Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jun 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 20: In page 16, lines 2 to 5, to delete all words from and including “2021;” in line 2 down to and including line 5 and substitute “2021.”. Amendment No. 19 could potentially have been accepted. It might be useful, as this Bill goes to the Dáil, to clarify that the waters are incorporated in that sense because that issue must be...

Seanad: Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jun 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: No, I will press it.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I join in welcoming the motion on annexation. It sends an important signal in recognising some of the reality of what is happening in the occupied territories of Palestine. There is more that we can do but the motion is an important step. I join in the calls for a debate on disarmament that Senator Martin mentioned because Ireland has played a key role in that regard.In a moment when we...

Seanad: Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Second Stage (31 May 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I join others in welcoming the Minister of State to the House and regretting we have not had pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill because it is very important. There is nothing technical about this. It consolidates a large amount of legislation. In the Minister of State's speech, we heard a lot about the 1980s legislation and various elements being brought together from it. We are in a...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Act 2021: Motion (31 May 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I welcome the Minister. We are debating the resolution. I thank the Minister because this week he will accept limiting some of the powers because resolution is not the ideal way to extend legislation. I am conscious that this is for a limited period until July. With regard to mandatory hotel quarantine, the Minister outlined the important impact it has already had. We can see the number...

Seanad: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (31 May 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister is again welcome to the House. I join others in commending all those people who have done really important and extraordinary work in rolling out vaccines. However, in hearing everybody's stories about how wonderful it has been to get a vaccine and what it meant for children and families, there is a heartbreaking component to the discussion. It is that there are people all over...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will be brief as my colleague, Senator Ruane, has already spoken on this amendment. This is a safety measure which I am sure the Minister has already assured my colleague on. The aim of the amendment is to make it very clear that nothing in this section should be to the detriment of obligations on housing authorities in respect of social housing. There is a concern here because we often...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Yes.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 17: In page 8, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “(7) In performing functions under subsection (1)housing authorities shall have regard to the appropriateness of the location of dwellings in respect of facilitating access to public transport, education services, health services and public amenities.”.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I accepted the argument from the Minister of State that some of this relates to the planning area. I reserve the right to bring back a version of this amendment but I accept the Minister of State's argument in respect of it. I hope that by Report Stage, when we will reintroduce amendment No. 15 in the name of Senator Fitzpatrick, we will have provided the local authorities or housing...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 19: In page 9, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(3) A housing authority or a planning authority may only enter into an agreement undersubsection (2) where the dwellings specified in the agreement meet such criteria of affordability as may be set out in regulations developed by the Minister and laid before, and agreed by, both Houses of the...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: This suite of amendments relates to the principle of affordability. It is an issue that was touched on earlier. There is a concern that there is no clear definition of affordability in respect of this Bill and no such definition ties itself to people and what they can afford. I remember similar debates about the minimum wage legislation when the Low Pay Commission legislation was going...