Results 701-720 of 8,482 for speaker:Alice-Mary Higgins
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Backup generators are happening all of the time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will not come back on that issue because we do not have the time. Even though we have powers we are not using them under the Chicago convention around flight inspections, for example. I will ask a question because it is important. When the Minister answered the question about data centres, he mentioned his conversations with data centre owners. I am worried this mood music of what...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is in the climate action plan, Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: And to legislate where necessary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is not solely aid. Some of it is not around aid, it is a matter of our loss and damage and other obligations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Will the €225 million be in the budget?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: This is in the climate action plan. I can quote the sections to the Chair, but it would bore him. There is a section on our international responsibility within the climate action plan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: If no one else wants to come in, I have a minor question in relation to taxation on SUVs and luxury vehicles. Reference was made to the taxation by weight that applies in France. This is a way of addressing the SUV issue. The majority of new vehicles owned in Ireland are SUVs. In France, the taxation on such vehicles increases by weight. Is that being looked at in the context of the budget?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: If we are getting follow-up information, it would be useful to know for how long there has been planning permission in respect of the 3,500 units. It is not just a case of how many are social and affordable but also how long the planning permission has been in existence. This is a concern when things are dealt with as assets rather than priorities for building. We know that lots of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Sure. We can get the detail in writing. I will work backwards, almost, through some of the points my colleagues have made. As regards the purposes of NAMA, Deputy Doherty was quite right in how he phrased his contribution, and they are in the legislation. Right below the line about "dealing expeditiously", which has been quoted extensively, is paragraph (c), which states that one of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: "In the interests of the State" as well, which is key-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Mr. Carville sees those as competing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Would the goal not be to try to ensure they are reconciled, that you-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is very interesting because I will come to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I have quite a few questions to get through and I am conscious of the time, but Mr. Carville is now arguing that paragraphs (1)(b) and (1)(c) of section 10 are somehow in conflict with each other or that there is a balancing act between moving fast and delivering good outcomes. That is a very strange understanding of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: With respect to Mr. Carville, there is a kind of casualness in the tone. This is not a spin of the roulette wheel. These are people being paid extraordinary fees to take decisions. It is not a matter of "let us see what happens". The question, which is around the quality of the work that was done and the extent to which it reflected that obligation with regard to financial value for the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: First, I do not think we can pass legislation which not only sets out the winding up but the terms for the winding up without knowing what issues might arise. I am going to come to some of the proposed terms for the winding up in a moment, but I note what others have said regarding documentation. It is very clear under section 60(7)(b) of the Data Protection Act that one of the reasons...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Well the liquidator was-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Nonetheless, we have heard about the liquidator in terms of the IBRC discussion around the potential destruction and we were not able to get a clear answer-----