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- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: We have made the case collectively.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Unfortunately, it is not put up. Perhaps if we had a constrained circumstance in the Bill, but we do not.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The option exists already under section 70 orders.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The option already exists in terms of road safety under a section 70 order.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: For 365 days a year.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Is that amendment No. 1a?
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is grand.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That was voted on last time.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: We are now on to the group of amendments Nos. 1a to a1h.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: We had prepared individually for one, but I will come back in on the other amendments. Amendment No 1b is very reasonable because it is a reminder that the protection of the interests of natural heritage is part of the role and obligation that is required under the Bill. In a way, by putting in this practical and reasonable amendment, Members are going some way toward justifying the Title...
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is on Committee Stage so-----
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will come back in on the other amendments together.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: There was just lack of clarity on the grouping.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I would like to comment on some of the amendments. I have already spoken about amendment No. 1b. I echo Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill's eloquent point about amendments Nos. 1c and 1g, both of which relate to the idea of navigation, the core purpose for which the canal network was originally designed. We must recognise that substantial work has been done over the decades in the Department...
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am happy that Senator Norris would speak to it.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: In amendment No. 1h, we are drifting into the area which is covered better in the next section, where we are looking to a lack of a clarity around how powers are to be exercised. What we have in this proposal is simply a statement that any actions taken under this section would be “subject to agreed criteria for safety standards aboard a vessel and adjudicated upon by a suitably...
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister is on a different amendment.
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister mentioned a concern about amendment No. 1b that it would place natural heritage ahead of the other considerations. I do not believe it necessarily does so and that is why Senator Ruane and I tabled that amendment separately from the amendment tabled by Senators Humphreys and Ó Ríordáin. We had the concern the Minister expressed that natural heritage would be one...
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Is that not grouped with-----
- Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Amendment No. 1h is in a different group. Okay, that makes much more sense.