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Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (10 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am sorry, I am not going to be misrepresented.

Seanad: Pregnancy Loss (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I join others in commending a very good and necessary Bill, as has been said. It is very good and well drafted legislation, with real nuance and sensitivity in how it approaches the issues, and goes through the kinds of policy points highlighted by groups and academics and addresses every concern section by section and line by line. I know it may seem kind of cold to go to the quality of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It was very useful to hear about the Rosneft case, which was a really interesting example in terms of the clear precedent it set on the question of public policy involving both goods and services and, indeed, compliance with international law being considered as an appropriate use of the public policy grounds. I want to talk about a related issue, namely, the question of the primacy of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Certainly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I ask Professor Koutrakos to clarify whether the exceptional ground, as he understands it, mentioned in Article 347 of the TFEU is designed to deal with situations where the public policy exemption has not proved adequate to provide another reaffirmation of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Perfect. My time is coming to an end. I want to go to Professor Butler, but I will add to my question. Will he speak on that, but also on another key question. Perhaps others will have a chance to come back in. The idea of a bad legal precedent has been mentioned. If we were to bring in a poor version, that is, if we bring to the Court of Justice of the European Union, for example, a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It could also be good precedent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I think we had said we would go to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I want to follow up on some of the questions I put earlier to Ms Ní Ghrálaigh, Professor Tridimas and Professor Koutrakos. We have heard that there is a clear arguable case and nobody disagrees that there is an arguable case. We then come to the question of testing it. Ireland has with, I think, nine other countries written publicly that its understanding of the ICJ advisory...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I also asked about the strength of the case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Can Professor Koutrakos finish that sentence just to make it clear?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Could I ask to get the answer in writing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will come in again when the other Senators have finished.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I have a question for Professor Koutrakos because he was literally cut off mid-sentence and I think he was-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I know, but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: My question is on Article 347.

Seanad: EU Regulations: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I share the concern many have expressed about the proposals before us. I echo what we have heard across the House about recognising migration as something that has happened for centuries and millennia and something that is often a net positive for countries. Ireland, with its history of migration in different economic and political circumstances, circumstances of conflict and so on, as well...

Seanad: EU Regulations: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Let us be clear, however; I do not believe we should join it at all. Let us look at what was in that proposal that has been withdrawn, which comes from the same kind of logic in terms of safe countries. It comes from the same kind of perspective, which is a neocolonial perspective and a colonial perspective in terms of determining or arbitrating the lives of others. The change would mean...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: To pick up on the issue of the mandate, we focused a lot on Russia and Ukraine. I was very struck by the number of missions in Africa, including Mali, Niger, Mozambique and the Sahel region. This is a large number of military actions taken by Europe. We were told that the language in the proposed legislation is directly taken from the Lisbon treaty, which talks about conflict prevention...