Results 6,241-6,260 of 8,768 for speaker:Alice-Mary Higgins
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is not the issue to which the amendment relates.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I have further amendments on that matter.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: With respect, the response of the Minister of State seemed to relate to an amendment other than amendment No. 33a. This amendment deals specifically with the issue of the comparison with one or more other bogs. It does not address the definition of environmental criteria, although I have tabled further amendments which deal with the definition. This amendment relates to why the Minister of...
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Yes, the comparison between-----
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: No.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is a point of order. It is a question of-----
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is. The Minister of State has-----
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The amendment states: "In page 5, line 30, to delete 'a comparison made between' and substitute 'a consideration of'."
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Yes, but the amendment refers to a comparison-----
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister of State did not address the issue of comparison versus consideration.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 34: In page 5, line 31, after "function" to insert ", having regard to matters referred to in section 16(6)".
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 35:In page 5, line 31, after “function” to insert “, role in carbon sequestration, biodiversity and pollination”.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: As carbon sequestration and pollination have been addressed at another point in the process and the issue of biodiversity is covered in a new section in the Bill introduced by the Minister, I am not pressing the amendment.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 35a:In page 5, line 31, after “features” to insert “, having regard to matters referred to in section 16(6),”.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 36:In page 5, to delete lines 34 to 38.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I should not have agreed to the amendments being grouped. Amendment No. 36 is a straightforward proposal to delete the inclusion of blanket bog. This is possibly the last place in the Bill where we can constructively remove blanket bogs. The Bill was originally designed to deal with raised bogs, as we have discussed previously. I am seeking to ensure that with the small number of natural...
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am glad the Minister of State is looking to engage but it is a very troubling formulation at present. There are many local communities which are very keen to protect their natural heritage areas. I have spoken to people in areas from Clare Island to Carna and elsewhere who really care about the natural heritage areas.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: They really care about the natural heritage areas.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am not speaking to or about anybody in this House. I am speaking about communities. I am saying that there are those in communities who really value the natural heritage areas that are located near to where they live and to which they go. There is a danger that a natural heritage area, which might be extremely important to people in a particular region and that might be a natural...
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am responding specifically on the issue of the comparator mechanism, not the amendments put forward by others. My point is that if there is a natural heritage area in a community which people want to continue to be protected and it is used in a comparator mechanism with another area of protected peatland in different community, it should not be the case that a natural heritage area valued...