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Seanad: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (28 May 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...examine this issue carefully, to look at how it is panning out and to ensure that we do not create a tool for inequality in the workplace, and that we do not treat human beings as if they are simply a tap we can turn on and off rather than the people who are helping us to build a nation collectively. This is really important. On the seasonal piece, we have seen how it has been exploited...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Vaccination Programme (15 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...to address and alleviate the devastating impact of Covid-19. There was also knowledge at that point about how we could work collectively to address this as a global health crisis. There was the C-TAP proposal, which was a technology pool to share not just vaccines but medicines, treatments, know-how and diagnostics in a practical way to ensure we got treatment and vaccines to everybody...

Seanad: TRIPS Waiver: Motion (15 Dec 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...and consistently call on the European Commission, fellow members of the European Union and other countries across the world to support a TRIPS waiver on Covid-19 vaccines; - sign up to the WHO Covid-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) and support its efforts to facilitate the open sharing of technology and know-how in relation to vaccine production and the treatment of persons infected with...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (25 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...to the classic phrase "young professionals" which is often used by landlords. The amendments seek an increase in the notice periods to increase the protection for persons. Currently, our schedule taps out at eight years. I want it to address those who have been renting for ten, 15 or 20 years and to further increase their protections.However, I believe there is an anomaly in my...

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...each other and see them as not just a series of individual tragedies but a manifestation of injustice. In thinking about this issue earlier this morning I came up with the following two metaphors to explain it. We are in a building and we are up on the top floor running all of the water taps. The bottom two floors are already under water, but we are busily discussing which taps we may...

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...not want to see happen is that, rather than reducing emissions, we are disappearing or calculating out so that they do not count on paper. I previously mentioned the idea of getting credit for the taps that you do not turn on that allows you to keep other taps running. There is sometimes a little bit of that in removals. This is about looking for credit for the things that you do not do...

Seanad: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (29 Mar 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has highlighted the need to act on this issue, and not just to support Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access, COVAX, but also the Covid-19 technology access pool, C-TAP, initiated by the WHO. Indeed, there should be consideration of a trade and intellectual property rules, TRIPS, waiver. Shamefully, just a month ago Europe and the United States blocked...