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Seanad: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I express my disappointment. I refer to the excellent suite of well thought out measures put forward by Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell, and Senator Diarmuid Wilson. They are thoughtful and detailed amendments which attempt to do something vitally important in capturing our shared social history as an island. This is something I studied many years ago in America. I remember Professor...

Seanad: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: -----administration and even finances when we look at things like the vaccine trials that took place on children in Ireland. It is important for us to look at that issue. There is a double role. There is the identity of individuals and the battle in that regard, but there is also our shared identity. I feel very passionately about this issue and we need to be able to look at it. We have...

Seanad: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We cannot get back papers that talked about what it was like to be an unmarried mother or somebody dealing with separation in a society in which he or she was invisible.All the difficult systems people had to go through in those situations will be missing. Another issue is the industrial school records about which our colleague, Senator Boyhan, who is not present, has spoken passionately....

Seanad: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will conclude.

Seanad: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will go straight back to amendment No. 7.

Seanad: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I very strongly support amendment No. 7. I support amendment No. 8 as well but amendment No. 7 is absolutely pure common sense and should be accepted by the Minister. Amendment No. 7 addresses the part of the Act that says where we have records the Minister is satisfied are of significant historical or public interest and where he or she is also satisfied the transfer of those records will...

Seanad: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I have a question. Are we completing Final Stage directly after this?

Seanad: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Can Senators speak on Final Stage?

Seanad: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Senator can make comments on Final Stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Search and Rescue Missions in Mediterranean and Migration Crisis: Médecins Sans Frontières (5 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank the witnesses both for their powerful testimony and their ongoing work. The information they have provided is stark. What is also stark is that we were warned about these things and they have been signalled for a long time. As Deputy Ó Snodaigh said, they were signalled when Ireland decided to change its approach. We ask whether ships with these goals make a difference. We...

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: There is much that is useful in amendment No. 7 and it offers some constructive proposals to ensure that there is clarity regarding the independence of the process. However, I do not think it is worded as well as it might be. I have concerns about the phrase "and if asked shall not answer", which is quite different from not being obliged to answer. I do not want people to be penalised for...

Seanad: Civil Liability (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: When is the debate concluding?

Seanad: Civil Liability (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will be brief so as to ensure that there is adequate time for Senator Devine to come back in. I support this Bill. It was unfortunate that when the Civil Liability (Amendment) Act 2017 passed through these Houses more recently that the change was made at that time to go from "shall" to "may". I appreciate the Minister's sincerity and I believe he is serious about engaging with and...

Seanad: Civil Liability (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I appreciate that we are putting the question again and that is fine, but it will be interesting to look back on the transcript because there was some lack of clarity. I have had amendments that I did not get to vote on because I was not quick enough. That is fine.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will speak briefly to amendments Nos. 82 and 83. There may a drafting error in one of the amendments. I do not know if it came from my office or if it happened along the way. My key concern was the issue of health, as it is inappropriate that there be health tests for those being considered for the Judiciary. It is something not done in many other areas and the danger is this could...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: To be clear, it is not only inappropriate, it may be illegal. Whenever the grounds of health may have been used or introduced in the past has changed. Recently the general data protection regulation came into effect. Under those regulations, the legislation for which we passed in this House, there are much stricter tests that need to be established in any situation in which persons are...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We heard the word "reasonable" many times. I am not saying that it is automatically illegal. My point is that it has to meet a test of being necessary and proportionate. All of the circumstances which were described as a concern were questions of capacity, but the key question is a person's capacity to do the job. One needs to pass a physical examination if one is to become a garda...