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- Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The fundamental issue is how it is done and how people get treated. I sat on the social protection committee, which did a full review of JobPath and many of these measures. People were treated poorly and had poor quality experiences as a result. I want to highlight something else, which I will hopefully get a chance, unless this Bill is guillotine, to discuss further but the fact is that...
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: We oppose the section as a whole for some of the reasons outlined by my colleague but also because of some of the other very important problems with this scheme as it is designed.Some aspects of the scheme are sound, but there are fundamentally regressive aspects. The individualisation of the jobseeker's pay-related benefit payment means that many low income earners will be considerably...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is a pity we are looking at a possible legal challenge. That may be a warning against privatising other areas. Will Mr. Kane comment on illegal dumping? It might have been addressed already.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will be brief, and I am happy to get something in writing. I am reviewing and looking at the IPA report and the idea that there is a legal issue. I am not convinced there is an intractable legal issue. We look at the idea of this as a service that could qualify for public delivery in terms of public procurement. Lots of businesses in Ireland no longer exist. Fur farming was one of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am asking whether people have something in writing. Even just a comment or two would be useful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Mr. Kane has addressed the issue, but perhaps others have not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is a two-stage approach.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will be brief. I will try to add questions that have not been touched on as much. One thing that has been mentioned is procurement versus actual remunicipalisation and returning to a public service. It seems from the IPA report that if we had direct delivery, it would solve many of the concerns around procurement. I ask the witnesses to comment on the idea of having a public service....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The possibility of a legal challenge is the block.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is to be hoped we will still get to the two-stage approach.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I wanted to comment on a couple of issues. In the statement from CCMA we heard about the local government obligations. I note that it is a requirement to collect or arrange for the collection of household waste. There is still that multiple option provided for in the legislation from 1996. Another obligation, which does not really get mentioned but which is important in this context, is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is a single sentence-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: -----which is just to say, the charges increase, how is the increase in charges an incentivisation where we penalise those who are effectively doing what we want in terms of reusing? Is that a problem that needs to be addressed ,because it seems to work against what we have heard in the two presentations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I have more but I will hold the rest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: We probably do not have a chance to discuss other aspects in the time constraints today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Well, no.