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- Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 26: In page 9, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “Report on adequacy on best practice in supports to survivors of residential institutional abuse 7. The Minister shall, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas on best practice in supports to survivors of residential institutional abuse...
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: My question was around it being very interpretable, and concerning with regard to how partners Dr. Burke has highlighted are interpreting the UN Charter. Second, I would go to the question of how. I am not going to focus on the mandate of how it is given, and I do believe it can be given by a General Assembly but I want to know what the mandate is for and what the purposes of it are. I...
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: On that, I have different information. What we have heard is that many of the companies that were on that sustainability journey and had put the work in, perhaps because they were looking to become sustainable suppliers, and those who have done the courses in the colleges are now having the rug pulled out from underneath them. For example, from talking to somebody who works directly...
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is deregulation. A number of regulations are being removed.
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: No, it is a fact. The obligation to implement has been removed, for example.
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The Department is placing a limit on the information that can be sought. Is that a limit in terms of national legislation and the voluntary piece in terms of what information can be looked for?
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is fine.
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Is that a limit on what can be looked for through national legislation or a limit on what an individual company can look for from its supplier?
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: In terms of implementation, and to continue the point, I asked about the increased risk of human rights or environmental abuses being created by the removal of the obligation on very large corporations to put a tiny fraction of their resources into assessing risk.
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: But is there an increase in risk of human rights and environmental abuses compared with the corporate sustainability due diligence directive, CSDDD, as it is currently?
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Am I right in saying, and I am sorry but this is core on that question, that the original policy purpose was to address the risk of human rights and environmental abuses in a supply chain but now, the obligation on large corporations to assess that risk has been removed, except if an NGO happens to do an investigation and get it to their attention? That original purpose was reducing human...
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: But this legislation's purpose-----
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is separate legislation.
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: But the purpose of this legislation-----
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is fine and one way to address it would be with the new legislation that is coming through but in terms of this legislation, its core purpose is the removal of human rights-----
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: -----and environmental risks.
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: -----whereby they continue to do that. And if the witnesses could just come in on the implementation of the climate-----
- Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is important.