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- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I wish to be very clear about what this amendment proposes. I question whether it does genuinely arise from Committee Stage. I ask that the Minister not suggest in any way that the amendment represents an extension of or any aspect of the spirit of the amendment we proposed on Committee Stage. On Committee Stage, my colleagues and I supported an amendment which sought to deal in a very...
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: How is that determined?
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Who is it invoked against?
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is entirely subjective.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is what section 70 mechanisms are designed to address.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I apologise but I think we need to be very clear.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: This is a point of fact though. We need to be clear. It is a point of fact. It is being suggested there is not a mechanism-----
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: -----and that the mechanism is in place. It needs to be clear.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister is misleading the House, I am afraid.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: This is very radical.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Apologies.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister has said she is trying to regulate. There is no element of regulation whatsoever in this amendment.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am sorry. We will leave it. I will not speak again. It is fine.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Through the Chair.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I also have a point of order that I have to make. The Minister stated she was speaking about one month. However, as I understand it - the Minister can correct me if I am wrong - this amendment would relate to 12 months of the year.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I join Members in supporting the suggestion that we have a debate with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs on the statement that came out yesterday. It is shocking and appalling. I add a request to the Leader that the Minister for Justice and Equality attend to speak to us on the issue. It has been pigeonholed as something for the Department of Children and Youth Affairs when, in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: A last point-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: This is related. It will take one second.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is the same point. I will conclude.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: This is the same issue and I will finish.