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Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 8:In page 8, line 26, after “other” to insert “public”. My set of amendments, to which the Government has tabled amendments in response, relates to section 5. Before I get into a detailed discussion of the amendments, I note that I was an English language teacher myself for four years and am looking forward to that part of the debate. This...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Central Applications Office is listed separately and would not be affected by my amendment No. 8, as is SOLAS and a number of other bodies. My concern is with reference to "any other body". I accept it is a very substantial concession for the Minister of State to take directly identifiable personal data out of this exchange of information, but there are still caveats. Perhaps a further...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 11:In page 8, lines 27 to 32, to delete all words from and including “may” in line 27 down to and including line 32 and substitute the following:“may put in place a data sharing agreement with a Department of State, the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, An tUdarás um Ard- Oideachas, Solas and the Central Applications Office. The Minister...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 12:In page 8, line 30, after “other” to insert “public”. I will withdraw the amendment and reserve the right to reintroduce it.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I note that amendments Nos. 21 and 29 relating to criteria and specified providers, and I reserve the right to examine those on Report Stage. It is also important to recognise the large number of students who come to Ireland looking for education because Ireland is one of those English speaking countries that offers and extraordinary and important educational opportunity, and the valuable...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Given everything that has been said so articulately by my colleagues, I will keep my contribution to a minimum. I was an English language teacher in Ireland for four years when I saw the extraordinarily bad practice that is in the sector. It was an area that lacked unionisation and I am delighted to see people are organised and unionised now. I support the provisions and the Minister of...

Seanad: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (5 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I wish to clarify something for those who might have been concerned after hearing the earlier speeches on European law. The legal advice which has been given to us is clear. While the Attorney General may have given advice about cases, it is clear in European and international trade law that cases would be taken under this. For example, the EU trade agreement with Israel, which is in no...

Seanad: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (5 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: In that sense this is a move in favour of multilateral diplomacy and in favour of the use of tools of diplomacy, rather than the rule of might, power and alliances. It shows we can instruments put in place. It reaffirms international diplomacy and is important not simply for Israel and Palestine but, as was rightly mentioned, for Western Sahara and the Sahrawi where trading by Irish...

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Craoltóireacht Raidió agus an Ghaeilge: Plé (4 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: An féidir go mbeidh seans agam labhairt sa díospóireacht?

Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Is it correct that the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment comes back in at the end? I thought that was the original-----

Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I knew there was a concluding Minister. I just wanted to confirm that.

Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Bruton, spoke of his return from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, summit in Poland. When I attended an IPCC summit ten years ago, we spoke about matters being urgent. A decade later, they are past being urgent. That is clear to every child in the street. We hear that generation speaking very...

Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Six things to which the Minister for Communication, Climate Action and the Environment referred relate to finance. These include issues such as public sector spending and really climate-proofing public procurement in the context of every penny devoted to the national development plan and every project listed in Project Ireland 2040. The final point I will make-----

Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Okay, wait -----

Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: If we are making an exception. I will speak one final sentence, which is very -----

Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I have one final sentence. I would have been done by now.

Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: If one is to challenge ------

Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I appeal for people to take up the challenge in the context of hedge cutting, the storage of oils, importation and all these other areas because we cannot have it every way.

Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Acting Chairman is changing the Order of Business.

Seanad: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I understand and think it appropriate to acknowledge all stages of legislation and the periods for each stage are set out very clearly but six months is perhaps longer than needs to be allowed in that certainly it is closer to a week or two weeks to allow for further legislative action to be taken. The six-month provision is much wider than is required for the completion of the legislative...