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Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...of scrutiny. The civil servant process could have been improved by linking the appointment system with the qualifications that were already identified as being what the board needs. Let us not act as if apples and oranges are the same. With regard to the other issue of the chair and the open competition, we will come further to those sections but I would be interested to hear more about...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...be deemed to be designated online services until such date as set by the Minister following the transposition into Irish law of the European Digital Services Act." Even though they are both fruit, apples and oranges are slightly different. The same tools that are appropriate to apply to online content service providers envisaged in this Act are not necessarily the appropriate tools for...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...should try to be clear on this. There is capital gains tax on companies and all kinds of transactions that happen in this State, including the sale of companies. Let us not try to mix oranges and apples to make a scary fruit salad. Let us try to be a bit clearer on it. The Minister of State and I may disagree on the question of whether companies should be paying all of what I regard as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Nov 2020)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am not asking about the programme for Government. I am asking about the European Council meeting. I am conscious that we are mixing oranges and apples a bit. Irrespective of what is in the programme for Government about 7% and how that is calculated, what we are really discussing here is the EU framework which is based on reductions against 1990 levels. Could Mr. Carroll specifically...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...the Bill specifically to raised bogs and will allow for better and more up-to-date legislation. This would be preceded by appropriate consultation and scientific research processes on blanket bogs. If we have a Bill on apples it would not make sense to throw oranges in at the last minute. This is another issue which was added to a Bill that was designed for one particular environment....

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (2 Apr 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...to help with harvests. When we spoke about these issues during the debate on the Heritage Bill recently, I emphasised that it takes multiple visits, sometimes up to 20, from a pollinator for horticultural produce such as apples to develop fully. Pollinators have a key role, which has been recognised by the Government in the national pollinator plan. That plan, however, must be given...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (2 Apr 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...there is also a major adaptation role for them as they are particular environments. The work has not been done to include blanket bogs in this legislation, to which they do not belong. It is like adding apples on top of oranges. If they are different, they require the application of different considerations and thoughts. We simply cannot add in another thing at the end. This is too...

Seanad: Progress in Relation to Climate Change: Statements (14 Feb 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...horticulture in particular. During our lengthy debates on the Heritage Bill, on which the Minister will be familiar with our concerns, we heard that it takes 20 visits from pollinators to make an apple take the correct shape and fully develop to the point where it can be sold in shops. Pollinators play this very active role, including in the health of crops. That is why bees are...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...development goals, and recommendations as to areas of particular reform. The specific issue that I am touching on here is one that we do not focus on much. I know there has been much focus on Apple tax and wider issues, but this concerns Ireland's bilateral tax treaties specifically. I am concerned that in some of the tax treaties which Ireland has with developing countries, there are...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...market gardening, which is effectively the future for much of Ireland's farming. I can give a small example which resonated with me. It takes 20 visits from a pollinator to form a full correct apple. One might have an apple that tastes fine but if one wishes to have an apple one can sell and which will meet the various standards that are demanded in different shops, 20 visits are...

Seanad: European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Statements (4 Oct 2016)

Alice-Mary Higgins: A number of concerns have been raised today and I will not reiterate all of them. I will build on the point of the last speaker. He is correct in saying the arrangement between Ireland and Apple is not simply a matter between Ireland and Apple. This is a key point. The arrangement we hear of is likely not only to have deprived citizens in Ireland of much-needed resources but also citizens...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Priorities for Department of Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (7 Sep 2016)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ..., which is responsive to risk in that sense and to any future instability. There may be also a need to build responsiveness to opportunities. For example, although we are not here to discuss the Apple tax case which will be discussed in other arenas today, nonetheless, in preparing for all outcomes, if in four years' time Ireland was to find itself in a position in which it had to look...

Seanad: Citizens' Assembly: Motion (15 Jul 2016)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...requires a specific discussion and a special mechanism, and it should not be diluted. I propose the removal of paragraphs (ii), (iii) and (iv). Beside the facts that the issues referred to in these paragraphs are effectively apples and oranges and that they are completely different issues thrown together without a clear case being made as to how or why they were chosen, there is genuine...