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

Alice-Mary Higgins: Would Ireland be better positioned to do that if we maintained our UN position? Do "interests" potentially include commercial and economic interests?

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: In the 1950s when there was a deployment under the "uniting for peace" resolution, it did not require the Security Council to agree to it. The General Assembly can authorise an international force. Can we have that confirmed? For example, it has been mentioned in relation to a potential force for the delivery of humanitarian aid. It has a higher bar - but is a potential one because it...

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: I was in the Seanad and missed some of the debate. On Tuesday, retired Major General Maureen O'Brien spoke about the fact that while there are occasions where peacekeeping missions have ended up becoming engaged in armed conflict, it is much harder to move from a situation of military conflict or armed deployment to peacekeeping than the other way around. This comes to a key point. When...

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: They have a very different focus.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: My time is limited. I sit on the finance committee. We are currently looking at extraordinarily large requests and proposals in terms of EU spending on the SAFE regulation and military spending.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: Will Mr. Andrews answer my question on peacebuilding?

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: I raise the "uniting for peace" resolution and the support Ireland has got in the past across the UN. Will Mr. Andrews discuss the "uniting for peace" mechanism?

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: In its current iteration, is Ireland a country that would have good credibility in terms of something like the "uniting for peace" mechanism? For example, the World Food Programme has asked for the "uniting for peace" resolution to be used.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: Ireland would be a credible country now in the current situation.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: In fairness, they know what we are not doing-----

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I have a few questions on the budgets but I first seek further clarity. Is the position that the Minister is against new commercial LNG infrastructure in Ireland?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: "Transition" can mean anything.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister has said what he is in favour of. I was asking if he is against-----

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I know about the "State-owned" part, so I will move on to the budgets.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am going to move to questions on other areas, so that is fine.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We heard from the Climate Change Advisory Council. The key discussion here relates to the budgets. I welcome the Minister's acknowledgement of the legally binding element in terms of 2050 and the 51%. He understands that to be a legally binding target. We had a concern about the budgets from the CCAC. I think this was from Meabh Gallagher, the scientific officer. None of the scenarios...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I have a number of other questions. This is our core focus. There is another piece that is missing. There were a few elements assumed and not assumed in the draft budgets. There was a failure to include the fact that the US had left the Paris Agreement. We have the 51% and the ultimate objective of doing our part. Does the Minister believe we will need to consider substantially...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: There are probably a lot of questions on energy coming, so I wish to focus on that land use piece. That is the area where we are failing.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I wish to briefly ask about one of my other questions. I asked the Minister whether we need to look at modelling that reflects the United States’ exit and one that reflects fairness. Having a model that reflects fair share was another key issue.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: But in terms of fair share-----