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- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Is it amendments Nos. 3, 20 and 28?
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Okay, that is fine.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is possible that some of the Minister of State's speaking notes on that were incorporated into his comments on the last amendment.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank the Minister of State for engaging on this matter. It relates to amendments I put forward on Committee Stage with my colleagues and I thank him for putting forward this proposal. I refer to amendments Nos. 20 to 22, inclusive, and amendment No. 28, which I put forward. I will not speak to those amendments as they arise but I will probably withdraw them, as I believe there is a...
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: This is what those amendments relate to. They relate to the publication in Iris Oifigiúiland local papers. The section 18 provisions relating to transparency include those and some other elements. I thank the Minister of State and I acknowledge that there is a very strong and credible attempt to engage and increase transparency in one aspect.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is not agreed. There are a number of different matters in the amendments as read out. I do not agree with them being taken together.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: No. There are a number of topics and not all of them-----
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I propose that the amendments be taken sequentially.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Amendments Nos. 10 to 14, inclusive, are related and I am happy to accept that grouping.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: As I understand it, amendments Nos. 13 and 14 will fall if amendment No. 11 is successful.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Certainly. I am happy with that.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 4:In page 3, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:"(2) Section 16(6) of the Act of 2000 is amended by the insertion of "for its role in carbon sequestration, or in respect of pollination" after "features" where it firstly occurs.". This relates to carbon sequestration. I am hopeful the Minister of State will be able to accept this amendment. I acknowledge...
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Would it be possible to accept the amendment and if it needed to be changed that could be done in the Dáil and be brought back here?
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will understand.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank the Minister of State very much for accepting the amendment.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Will the Cathaoirleach say that again?
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: We discussed this at the beginning of the debate and chose to discuss them separately with some exceptions.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Amendment No. 1 was originally in the group. We would prefer to discuss the amendments separately. Earlier, I indicated that I am happy to discuss amendments Nos. 5 and 6 together because they are directly related. They are on quite a different issue from the other amendments.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 5:In page 3, to delete lines 15 to 17. I do not believe this is intentional but an inadvertent issue has arisen. Amendments Nos. 5 and 6 deal with concern about the language proposed to be added to section 18 of the original Act. Adding the phrase "in this section" will narrow the impact of the protection applied by section 18 to any process of review. It would ensure...
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, for example, will no longer be consulted. In section 18A there is an explicit exclusion of that Minister. It provides for, "any other Minister of the Government that the Minister considers appropriate" but moves from a requirement to consult the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to no longer having a...