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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Does Ms Jennings think that as part of the regulation, we should be looking at prohibiting the processing, profiling and gathering of data on children as something that can be sold for direct marketing or micro-targeting purposes, either by recommending or through advertisements?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I want to check that I have the right picture of how matters stand in the context of the temperature neutrality piece. Of course, the ultimate objective was to stay below a 1.5°C increase. We must stay below a 2°C increase. We are already, as we know, almost at the point of a 1.5°C increase. Some 0.5°C of that increase is the result of methane, which is shorter lived....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The alternative approach is to look at emissions. It seems those are measurable. It is one thing to say we have decided that we want to stop warming at 1.5°C or 2°C, but we know there are tipping points in climate science. At a certain point, what humans do will have created tipping points of which we do not necessarily have control. What we have control of and can plan for and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am interested in the years involved. Professor Sweeney is right that there is a climate justice piece, particularly if the high-emitting countries which are using that methane space and which have the capability and tools that allow them to act are not acting on their relative responsibilities and capabilities and are using up the potential space that might be needed for increases in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will come back in again because I am imagining what we can do as a committee and then the question of the budgets. We do have time. This is for 2020 to 2030 and it is important to get it right. Maybe as much as the peer review piece, there are certain key points that are emerging that also need to be reflected in our responsibility to the climate Act. Of course, the climate Act has the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Professor McMullin is saying it is a case of "both and".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Emissions reduction, but Professor McMullin is saying emissions reduction to zero or negative, plus an assessment of whether that is doing enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Okay.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: International Students (17 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The urgent issue I am raising concerns 40 students who have secured places in Irish universities but are trapped in Gaza. These students have previously been told by the Irish Embassy in Tel Aviv that their visa applications would be approved as they met all the necessary criteria and that they would be on the next evacuation flight. They have been waiting for over three months in the most...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: International Students (17 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am appalled. I realise the Minister of State has given us the text that people have been receiving in letters, which is that the Department is so busy it is limited in what it can provide to non-Irish citizens even if they have placements in Irish universities. I do not accept that. The idea that consular staff will deal only with Irish citizens, effectively, or those on a direct Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I know Dr. McDonnell is as enthusiastic as I am for this idea but because my time is limited, I have to move on. We are seeing an attempt to shift how our economies are functioning using the tariff threat with a danger of potentially undermining it. I specifically mention the digital services levy which is being talked about by Europe. There is, however, also an attempt to have direct...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Digital Markets Act is something different because that is in the regulatory space.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Dr. McDonnell mentioned intra-company transfers. A huge amount of what would be affected, maybe even in the pharma area, is intra-company financial transfers rather than productive activity. Does that relate to base erosion and profit shifting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Those areas may have a revenue impact but they do not necessarily have an employment or productivity impact. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It does not touch the productive economy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: To come back to the new economy, we still have instability in terms of tariffs and their priority. Will Mr. McDonnell comment on what Ireland and the EU could do, with reference to the G20 meeting and also in terms of the food and beverage sectors? If I was very cynical, and I rarely am, the huge focus on defence spending will certainly help Germany whose manufacturing capacity utilisation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I apologise. If there is no time for those questions to be answered now, maybe Dr. McDonnell can answer them at the end of the second round because I have to step out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Let me give Dr. McDonnell another moment to describe where his head was at when he passed over. Could the €2.4 billion that we spend on private pension tax reliefs – annually, I believe – be one example of where reform could deliver revenue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: An adequate universal pension.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I believe 70% of the beneficiaries of the private pension package are in the higher tax bracket and beyond. That is not what we are here to discuss but I just mentioned it because the conversation had gone there. I thank Dr. McDonnell, as this has been a really interesting analysis. It has been reassuring in some ways and challenging in others. The digital services levy has been...