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Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...in great detail when, prior to being a Senator, I worked with Older and Bolder, the alliance of all the age organisations in Ireland. We held round tables about pension policy up and down the country, from Donegal to Kerry and to Waterford. Again and again, we encountered huge issues, particularly for women in relation to reduced rate pensions. The same issues, with a deeper analysis of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers Scheme: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...of the local centres. In addition to the really good information on the Citizens Information website, will the witnesses speak to having local offices? There was mention of the two offices in Kerry and the different offices in different counties. People can access these offices in order to help them to navigate what can sometimes seem like quite a hostile and forbidding bureaucratic...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...climate change. Of course, some of the places what will be affected by the necessary transition will also be the same places that are being affected by climate change, for example, places like north Kerry and the flooding projections in that area. This amendment does not just mention employment, but sustainable employment. I believe the Minister has said that he wants better jobs to be...

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (15 Jun 2016)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...felt commitment to the Seanad and what it can be. We also appreciate his commitment to working in an impartial manner. I know he has experience in terms of facilitating various voices on Radio Kerry. We hope that we will now see the voices of all of the nation, in its diversity, being facilitated in a constructive manner in the Seanad chamber. I congratulate the Senator and we look...