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Seanad: Reykjavik Summit of the Council of Europe: Statements (3 May 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...also has a huge and crucial role in that regard. I welcome some of the points made in the declaration. It talks about the expansion of the application of the European Convention of Human Rights, ECHR. I hope that Ireland will not just support the declaration in principle, but will follow through on it. The declaration also mentions the triple crisis in climate and biodiversity....

Seanad: Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...authorities in that regard, as well as the fact that it is already legislated for. The essence of what I want to do with this section is to narrow it down by removing those references to the ECHR and focusing on what was the second part, but is now the only part of this section, which relates to compliance with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014. The requirement to...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...had on terms such as "harmful" or "offensive". It is appropriate that we try to address damaging and harmful communications, in particular those targeted at persons covered under equality legislation, the ECHR and other areas. The phrase "offensive" is quite loose and the amendment is an attempt to amend that. Other amendments deal with harmful content and we will debate this issue in...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...that, nor can I recognise the first three years of any other work that person may have done. To take work experience as an example, I have had secretarial assistants who have worked at the European Court of Human Rights, ECHR. That is worth nothing. I give these examples from the recruitment perspective because people are surprised. Members of our group have had extraordinarily...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...contact with the Irish State through, and indeed other states, they are entitled to their rights under the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. The European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR, must also apply. This is a core issue and there is a danger. There has been a sense of jeopardy and of systematic efforts by the European Union in some of the immigration control deals...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...five or ten years ago some of the practices that we have seen happening across Europe. I do not believe we would have seen some of the erosions of the basic European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR. We need to legislate for good law and then hope for good interpretation. We need to legislate to the highest standard. On prosecutorial discretion, it might be useful to have a sense as to...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...have take action together. It is collective action that is taken, as well as individual action, when human rights are violated. People are entitled under the European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, to redress. Limitation of liability was not in the 2015 Act or in the heads of Bill sent to the joint Oireachtas committee. I am concerned that it has been added to this Bill. It is not for...