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Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 28: In page 46, to delete lines 21 to 26.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 29: In page 46, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “Declaration on development, exempted development, etc. 10. (1) If any question arises as to what, in any particular case, is or is not development or is or is not exempted development within the meaning of this Act, any person may, on payment of the prescribed fee, request in writing from the...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Have I skipped one?

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: That is great. I am happy to have a rest. That concludes my set of amendments within this grouping.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The more we hear, the more concerned I get. We have heard all about the issue of exempted development, whereby the Minister is now going to make these regulations, although we do not really know what will be in them or what categories will be exempted. When I say "exempted", we all want a lot of building to happen but that is skipping the planning process. Again, we might as well throw the...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 32 In page 47, to delete lines 33 to 37, and substitute the following: “(e) an organisation, group or association— (i) whose primary purpose, or whose constitution includes objects, which relate to the promotion of environmental protection of relevance to the request concerned, and (ii) which shall additionally provide a simple written statement...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 34: In page 48, line 11, after “fee,” to insert “any person,”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move Amendment No. 35: In page 48, line 20 after “fee,” to insert “any person,”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 36: In page 49, line 11 after “requests,” to insert “make reasonable attempts to”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 37: In page 49, to delete lines 34 to 37 inclusive and substitute the following: “(8) (a) Any person (in this subsection referred to as the “appellant”) may, not later than 5 weeks from the date of the publication of the declaration under subsection (6), and on payment to the Commission of such fee as may be approved under section 365, appeal the...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 38: In page 51, to delete lines 20 to 26, and substitute the following: “(c) Where the planning authority or the Commission makes a decision it shall, as soon as possible and not later than 3 working days thereafter, cause the relevant documents to— (i) be published on its internet website, and (ii) be made available for inspection free of...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 39: In page 53, line 28 after “section 375,” to insert “any person,”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 40: In page 53, line 36, after “section 375,” to insert “any person,”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 41: In page 54, line 3, after “section 375,” to insert “any person,”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 45: In page 56, line 28, to delete “not”.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It is not agreed. I want to speak to the section.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Section 3 deals with the amendment of provisions of the principal Act relevant to employment contributions. Our group submitted a lengthy submission to the public consultation on a pay-related benefit scheme for jobseekers. Our submission related to the paper that was floated setting out the proposals that are now in the Bill. We highlighted that employer PRSI contributions in Ireland are...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I disagree.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Senator Ruane has outlined this issue very clearly. The answers to the questions on work experience are particularly important. This is quite a shift in general policy compared to what we have seen in the past. I was a member of the social protection committee in the previous Oireachtas. On that committee, we saw a lot of the problems with the JobPath-type solutions put forward. We saw...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It is important that we be really clear that there is a shift in how things are done. The phrase “genuinely seeking work” was used. Recipients used to have to show they were genuinely seeking work and had to bring three or four letters showing they had actually applied for work. That is a reasonable bar and most people would be very happy to comply with it. I imagine that...