Results 921-940 of 8,768 for speaker:Alice-Mary Higgins
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Apologies. I will come back in on the next grouping.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Over the past year or two, I have had engagement with environmental NGOs, activists, Green Party members and others on the importance of banning liquefied natural gas, LNG. Throughout this Oireachtas term, there has been discussion about how we can ensure LNG, which is inclusive of fracked gas, is banned. The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, has always been vague and equivocal in his language...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The policy is to prioritise it-----
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am sorry but the Minister of State used the phrase "policy-based". What does that mean?
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The Government is literally prioritising it in legislation.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister of State is interfering with me through this Bill.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The Government is saying that it has a policy-based approach but it has produced almost 800 pages of legislation. The Minister of State said the policy is separate and we keep it within our hearts or something, but let us be clear, the policy is reflected in the legislation and the legislation prioritises liquified natural gas as strategic infrastructure and fast-tracks planning permission...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is subject to-----
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am not speaking to the amendment; I am speaking to Schedule 2 on page 737.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It was just factual, in terms of the line reference.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 163: In page 200, line 19, after “seabed),” to insert “which for the avoidance of doubt shall not be a terminal, building or installation used for the liquefication of natural gas or the importation, offloading, storage or regasification of liquified natural gas,”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 164: In page 200, to delete lines 20 to 25.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 165: To delete paragraph (h).
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 2 to amendment No. 165: In subparagraph (i) of paragraph (i), to delete “natural gas” and substitute “green hydrogen”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 166: In page 200, line 28, to delete “natural gas, biomethane, hydrogen” and substitute “biomethane, green hydrogen”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 167: In page 200, line 28, after “renewable gas” to insert “, which shall not include gas produced by means of hydraulic fracturing”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 169: In paragraph (e), to delete “whether or not any preconditions to the exercise of that power have been satisfied”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 170: In page 204, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “(a) perform its functions in a manner consistent with the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 and the duties and obligations imposed by that Act.”. This amendment adds to the amendments on LNG that have just been voted through, including the choice not to accept our...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is not agreed.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (24 Sep 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: This is different from the grouping list that was circulated. Am I correct?