Results 7,641-7,660 of 8,214 for speaker:Alice-Mary Higgins
- 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.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Ireland hopes to chair the UN Commission on the Status of Women and to stand before the world as a leader on the rights of women. How can we do that credibly next March if we have this failure to redress the abuse of older women hanging over us? I ask the Leader how we can credibly take that role on.
- Seanad: Companies (Accounting) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I support Senator Nash's amendment. We have spoken and heard about unforeseen consequences, but it behoves the House to consider foreseen consequences also. As the legislation currently stands, we are leaving ourselves exposed and open. We need to ensure that we do not speak of the situation that happened in respect of Clerys and others as an anomaly because it was a response to and a...