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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Just because-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: No, a statement was made and I want to be clear. I am not opposing people being assisted in this respect.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Rather, I am asking about mobility between schemes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Mr. Conlon can send the information to us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am conscious that we are very short of time. These are questions I have already asked. When personal progression plans were discussed I had two specific questions. First, are people allowed to take the contract away, consider it and seek advice before they sign it? If so, are they advised of that? Second, can people decline to share information about their cohabitees or refuse...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Do they agree to give personal details in the contract?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That should not be prior to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: This is a key point. Are they allowed to take the plan away and suggest amendments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Can someone physically take it away before they sign it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Excuse me, this is very specific. Will the Department advise Seetec and Turas Nua that people should be allowed to take their contracts away?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I think I see a solution to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: What about providing an exit route from JobPath into another suitable scheme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Yes, but Ms Murphy did not get much of an opportunity to answer some of the questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is agreed subject to correspondence, and subject to the condition that we may also send correspondence to the Department.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I commend Senator Bacik on tabling the cross-party motion on the appalling and tragic bombing we have seen in Ghouta. I anticipate that we would be happy to support the motion. It is an opportunity for us to send a very strong signal. There will be opportunities to send a further strong signal of recognition for those who have suffered in terms of our motion later today on family...
- Seanad: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage in Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I welcome the Minister and salute all of my colleagues. I am very proud to be part of the Vótáil 100 committee with Senator McFadden and the chair, Senator Bacik. In the couple of minutes available to me I want to reflect on those women, and some men, who were involved in the suffrage movement and highlight some of their qualities, of which I will highlight four. They were...
- Seanad: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage in Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I have two final sentences. I want to mention the two other qualities. They fought hard. This right was not granted; it was won. There was breaking of windows as well as the metaphorical breaking of glass windows. They would not allow a veneer of normality over a situation of inequality, and we are seeing that same battle today. Lastly, and I will not talk about the contemporary...
- Seanad: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage in Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will finish by quoting two lines from a poem by Eva Gore-Booth.
- Seanad: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage in Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister might permit me to quote from a poem by Eva Gore-Booth because she was part of the suffrage movement in the UK at the same time as her sister played such a key role in Ireland. In a poem called Reincarnation, and she was a very good poet, she states:I seek with humble care and toil The dreams I left undreamed, the deeds undone, To sow the seed and break the stubborn soil, It...