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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Directives (26 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: You have answered about simplification and not about sustainability.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Directives (26 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Sustainability is the issue, not simplification. We need to hear about that. I understand the Minister of State has been given what he has been given but it does not answer it.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: With regard to some of the comments made earlier, the triple lock is actually one of the very important things that link us to the United Nations, which is one of the great prizes we have had in terms of building and maintaining peace on this planet. Far from undermining our capacity to say "No", I would be very worried that without the triple lock those who get so embarrassed that they are...

Seanad: Response to Storm Éowyn: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will pick up where the previous speaker ended on the warnings we have had from Dr. Tara Shine and others. These extreme weather events are happening more often right across the world. I have spoken about the ten warmest years on record, but right across the world we are seeing an increase in the frequency and intensity of storms, drought, the wildfires that come with drought, of mud...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I want to raise an issue that occurred in the past 24 hours. We heard how a former Member of this House, Lynn Boylan, who is now an MEP, was refused entry and deported when attempting to visit Israel as a part of an official EU delegation in an official capacity on an Irish diplomatic passport. Two Members of the European Parliament and their officials were denied entry to Israel and denied...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will come to my conclusion.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: As I come to it-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Okay.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will conclude.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: That is fine. I join with what Senator Clonan said. We need policies that are clear and we do not need to dismantle our triple lock if Ireland is going to show leadership. That we are doing it because other countries were embarrassed sends a sign we need a triple lock and we cannot trust our Government to say "No" when it needs to say "No" and to say "Yes" in terms of the implementation of...

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (19 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I was not going to speak but I am moved to do so. I am very proud to be supporting Senator Flynn. She is an outstanding candidate. We celebrated during the previous Oireachtas term the centenary of the Seanad. One of the themes was minority voices, major changes, as the Seanad has a record of bringing forward minority and different perspectives. I do not mean in a geographical way, but...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second that it would be useful to have a debate on forestry, which would also look at reforming forestry policies, including the mandates of such organisations as Coillte. We have seen that monoculture does not work and is dangerous. We do not simply want a short-term solution where we replant more of the same. We need to move, within Coillte and our wider subsidised forestry policy,...

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (13 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I just want to check something.

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (13 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Okay, so my colleagues will both get to speak.

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (13 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Maybe I can give two minutes to my colleagues as I am not going to be very long, and then the others can share the ten minutes between them, if that is okay.

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (13 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will be very brief because I do not have amendments in this and those who do have amendments will be speaking and putting forward very good cases for why we need very good cases when making such a decision and, given, in fairness, some of what has been put forward by some of the Members regarding the arguments for why we need the Ministers of State, the importance of us actually having and...

Seanad: Cathaoirleach a Thoghadh - Election of Cathaoirleach (12 Feb 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I join in congratulating everybody who has been elected and re-elected. Specifically, I congratulate the Cathaoirleach. He understands very well, of course, that the mandate as Cathaoirleach is not a mandate from Government but a mandate from the House and from all across the Seanad. In his previous term as Cathaoirleach, he showed that he understood very well that responsibility to the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Air Navigation Orders (7 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: What inspections have taken place under the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Order since May 2024 to enforce the prohibition of the use of Irish airspace for the carriage of munitions of war, weapons, ammunition and dangerous goods, including dual-use goods? What exemptions have been granted under that order? This is important. I have included...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Air Navigation Orders (7 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: What I am hearing is that the "eyes wide shut" approach is continuing.There is a suggestion there has been no inspection despite the litany of reports we have seen. We are not calling for random inspections, we are calling for very real and reasonably targeted inspections of flights coming from countries such as the US and Germany in particular, which have been shown to be carrying arms. We...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Air Navigation Orders (7 Nov 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It would be more credible if the Government took the powers it has and used them to the fullest extent. That the legislation is from the 1970s and 1980s does not tell us anything. I have explicitly read into the record the powers that are there at present. Obviously we should have stronger powers but we should certainly have a first step which not only looks at the legislation but begins...