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Seanad: Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 22: In page 31, line 32, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”.

Seanad: Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 23: In page 31, line 35, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”.

Seanad: Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 25: In page 32, line 15, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”.

Seanad: Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 26: In page 32, line 35, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”.

Seanad: Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 27: In page 33, to delete lines 1 to 3.

Seanad: Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Sure, to report progress. That is fine. Amendment No. 27 seeks to delete section 46(9). This subsection, very worryingly, suggests that entire classes of offshore service vessels may be exempted from requirements to comply with any provision of the rules. This provision is particularly concerning in the context of offshore service vessels that may be involved in the construction,...

Seanad: Common Agricultural Policy National Plan: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will pick up a little where the previous speaker left off. It will be really important as we move forward that the plans around the CAP intersect and that we have intersection between the multiple plans. There is a question, which I will come to in a moment, regarding some of the critiques that have been made about Ireland's plan. It is important to ensure that this plan works in...

Seanad: Common Agricultural Policy National Plan: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: My final point relates to the native honeybee. It would be good if there were schemes to more directly support our pollinators, particularly the native honeybee, in the CAP scheme.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: International Agreements (19 Mar 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: On 6 March, Lithuania officially withdrew from the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. That is the convention that bans the production and the use of cluster munitions. It is one of particular significance to Ireland because Ireland hosted the negotiations in Croke Park in 2008 that banned these horrendous weapons and got global support for their phasing out. A total of 124 states signed...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: International Agreements (19 Mar 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Lithuania is not the only country; Poland is now considering leaving the convention as well.Frankly, the response is highly inadequate and is effectively a set of excuses. We are meant to be applauding Lithuania because rather than breaching international rules based on the rule of order, it is leaving the convention. It is like we should be saying "Well done, what a tough decision for you"...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I wish to add to some of the earlier discussion about the concern around the resumption of extraordinary bombing in Gaza, which is being layered on top of starvation, the denial of water and, in particular, a form of systemic violence which has been highlighted in a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council.I refer to the systemic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of...

Seanad: Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (6 Mar 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Fáiltím roimh an deis atá agam an Ghaeilge a phlé anseo inniu. Tá sé fíorthábhachtach go bhfuil Seachtain na Gaeilge againn. Tá a fhios agam go bhfuil an Ghaeilge mar chuid lárnach dár gcultúr náisiúnta. Feicimid inár gceantar féin an stair a bhaineann lenár teanga féin agus is rud...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Many have spoken about how we will next week see Ministers travelling across the world for St. Patrick's Day. There has been a lot of focus on, and many have spoken about, the visit of Micheál Martin to the President of the United States. There is hope that he would speak against some of the language of raw colonialism and that he would stand up for the importance of climate action....

Seanad: International Women's Day - Women's Health: Statements (5 Mar 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: There is much in the Minister's speech that I welcome, including the focus on women being heard. That has come across again and again. Where endometriosis is concerned, our services are very far behind because there is a need for a culture shift in them. There is also the question of having a voice and choice in respect of maternal health. There is huge pressure on older women to have...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I request that we have a debate with the Minister for the environment on a report that Ireland will face fines up to €26 billion if we fail to meet our EU climate targets. That is an extraordinary amount. It is equivalent to all of the money that we might take in corporate tax receipts for one year that we hear of. It is equivalent to the entire health budget. Those are the kinds...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Directives (26 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I hope the Minister of State will speak to us about a matter of great urgency. My Commencement matter concerns what steps Ireland is taking to ensure there is a proper process for the very alarming proposal by the European Commission for what is called the "omnibus Bill", which has been called the "bonfire of regulation", to open up the corporate sustainability due diligence directive. This...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Directives (26 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: As the Minister of State can see, I am very concerned. I would like to know what position Ireland is taking. Ireland played a positive role in the original negotiation. What are we doing now about this alarming development?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Directives (26 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The alarming thing is that the proposal is to bring this back to level 1. We take a process that took years and go back to the drawing board. Those are years we do not have. We are at the end of the ten hottest years on record. It is frankly patronising to the public that the word “simplification” gets used again and again when what is being done is clearly deregulation and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Directives (26 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Will we reward those companies that have been acting responsibly? Will we show leadership by implementing the CSDDD during the period of time before this new version, which may be years?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Directives (26 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I would like to know that. That is a direct question to the Minister of State. Will we be going ahead with implementation as planned and promised?