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Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It is a possibility that has occurred in the past.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Going on to the language of the Bill, we have spoken a lot about peacekeeping, peacekeepers and peace missions, but the Bill is quite wide, not just as to how missions are authorised but also as to their purposes. It also refers to the purpose of "strengthening international security". That is also a phrase that is used. What does strengthening international security not include? Can it...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Is anything excluded?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Mr. Murphy is referring to the term "strengthening international security".

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I direct this question to Professor Tonra. Does "strengthening international security" potentially include the security of interests, including economic interests?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: For example, would the recent decision by the EU to deploy troops to protect commercial shipping from the Houthis fall under that-----

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: From Professor Tonra's perspective, it can, therefore, include economic interests. I have one last point. It is just a point of clarification. I did not actually plan to raise this. It relates to lobbying. For clarification, I understand that Professor Tonra is listed as a lobbyist on the register.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The IDSA's members include Lockheed Martin. I had not planned to raise that but I mention it for clarity.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: However, from an organisational------

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I just wanted to clarify the issue of lobbying.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Determining international law is one of the core questions and Professor Tonra suggests the Attorney General, for example, or other legal opinion. How important is it to have transparency and make publicly available the international law basis or UN Charter interpretation on which an action is to be taken? While there does not seem to be any recourse in the Bill, what recourse would any of...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It would need to be publicly available.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 7: In page 9, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: "Report on access to Health (Amendment) Act Card 8. The Minister shall, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas detailing how the Health (Amendment) Act Card can be provided to all persons who were, for any period, resident in an institution...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: This amendment seeks to oblige the Minister to prepare a report on access for survivors to the card provided for under the Health (Amendment) Act 1996, known as the HAA card. This issue was raised throughout the Committee Stage debate and is one of the key requests that have been consistently made by survivors. Even in the week since that debate, people have contacted our office outlining...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: This is a rare instance where we have an example of something that could be best practice, that maybe could be an example for other countries and other places which are dealing with the litany of residential and non-residential institutional abuse. We have something which Ireland wrote: here is an enhanced card. We have gone to the trouble of looking into the details and figuring out how we...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank Ms Donnelly for that answer in respect of data centres. Examples of where we may need them in certain instances were mentioned. It struck me that the managed roll-out is quite different to what we are seeing at the moment in terms of policy. That is a very significant increase. We have gone to 21% consumption. It does seem the current roll-out strategy is outpacing the renewable...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: To come back to the budgets, I have a few questions. The council has told us about bringing in additional gases and extra factors but that does not really address why the decision was made not to look at the equity aspects. As I understand it, there is now a very strong focus on that moment in 2050 and whether or not Ireland will be contributing to global temperature increases at that...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The budget plans for us not to meet the 51%.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We have five years.