Results 1-20 of 25 for destroyed speaker:Alice-Mary Higgins

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Policy (5 Mar 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...to do so and we are going to do so until it finishes and shuts down. When it shuts down it will not be engaging with communities. It is clear the company's plan is to exit and leave a filthy, destroyed environment and desecrated communities. Then we will go shopping and find whatever other slightly under-the-radar, human-rights-violating place we can buy coal from. That seems to be the...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...queues for water for his or her family. Bravery is a mother who takes her child from city to town to city, out on the road again, from a shelter to a possible bunker, and sees each place of safety destroyed but keeps striving. Bravery is shown by those who talk about still believing in a two-state solution, in meaningful international law, and in the principles of justice. It is those...

Seanad: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Feb 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...open in the air to disperse multiple submunitions or bomblets over a wide area. Many submunitions fail to explode on initial impact, leaving remnants that indiscriminately injure and kill like landmines for years, until they are cleared and destroyed. Contamination from cluster munitions remnants denies access to agricultural land, creates barriers to socio-economic development, and...

Seanad: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...diminishes the historic value of a site. For example, we have sites that are quite solemn and sites of great historic loss and tragedy. It is about ensuring there is not a licence that damages or destroys that historical context. As I said, amendment No. 31 is a little wider but amendment No. 30, at an absolute minimum, seeks to ensure we are not breaking things. I hope the Minister of...

Seanad: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ..., in 2001 the Heritage Council carried out the last survey on the destruction of archaeological sites. It surveyed 1.4% of all known monuments in the State and found that 34% of ringforts had been destroyed since first recorded in Ordnance Surveys beginning in the 1820s. The rate of destruction increased over the decades, reaching 6.5% in the late 1990s. We need to ensure that such...

Seanad: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Mar 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...of recurrent activity. Amendment No. 16 states that if the Minister of State wants to keep it, let us at least put in a caveat that it should not include recurrent activities that will damage or destroy the monument. Amendment No. 17 is an alternative version of amendment No. 16 that includes the phrase "cultural integrity" as well as "physical integrity". An example is an activity...

Seanad: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Mar 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...would not lean on the "recurrent activity" definition. I am concerned that if we recognise something and designate it as a protected structure and then let something happen that we know will just destroy it, we will end up with a register of things that were briefly protected but were not actually protected. We are supposed to be dealing with the idea of protected monuments. The fact is...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: .... 48 seeks to include in the proposed amendment to section 29 of the principal Act that where records of medical leave are kept that as well as the three-year limit on the retention of such record, that they would be destroyed when employments ceases, whichever occurs earlier. As such records are likely to contain sensitive information, it is important from a data protection viewpoint...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...seeks to include in the proposed amendments that where records of flexible working arrangements are kept as well that the three-year arrangement for the retention of such records that they may be destroyed when employment ceases. It is the same data protection but I have slightly different feelings about amendment No. 49 in that the pattern or outcome of arrangements is something a...

Seanad: TRIPS Waiver: Motion (15 Dec 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...be able to take the steps they need to. The arguments do not stand up. They are extraordinarily weak. It is disgraceful that we will enter February 2022 with yet more stalling by the European Commission. I ask the Irish Government to take a stand. Our stance is destroying our reputation, including diplomatically, and doing a disservice to our tradition on human rights.

Seanad: Peat Harvesting: Statements (13 Oct 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ..., I also note the road safety concerns which exist regarding the proposed roads. Again, this issue was used as a flag when the horticulture industry was being thrown under the bus in the press to destroy our hedgerows and damage our pollinator pathways. Those pollinators are part of the environmental and biodiversity element which is crucial for the delivery of sustainable horticultural...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...Bill than any other thing one could do at this stage. The Minister of State outlined that he wishes to look at a consideration. Rather than comparing each bog with another and deciding which will be destroyed because it is assumed that one of them is up for the chop, perhaps each bog could be considered with reference to the factors outlined, including area, range, habitat, structure,...

Seanad: Genetic Testing: Motion (10 Jul 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...website states samples are never used for commercial purposes. That is key because there have been very serious concerns over the database of heel prick genetic information that was gathered and due to be destroyed by the State but which was not. There is a lack of clarity over what mechanisms were put in place over future use of the data. This information must be for the individuals,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change (9 May 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...activists, who are no longer young, were demanding action. Even then, climate change was not new and there were huge impacts on many parts of the world and many communities were seeing their futures destroyed. It is good that there is momentum now and climate change is centre stage in discussions. Europe Day is about Europe and the real test will be if Europe will place the sustainable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Change (9 May 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...activists, who are no longer young, were demanding action. Even then, climate change was not new and there were huge impacts on many parts of the world and many communities were seeing their futures destroyed. It is good that there is momentum now and climate change is centre stage in discussions. Europe Day is about Europe and the real test will be if Europe will place the sustainable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Climate Change (9 May 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...activists, who are no longer young, were demanding action. Even then, climate change was not new and there were huge impacts on many parts of the world and many communities were seeing their futures destroyed. It is good that there is momentum now and climate change is centre stage in discussions. Europe Day is about Europe and the real test will be if Europe will place the sustainable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Climate Change (9 May 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...activists, who are no longer young, were demanding action. Even then, climate change was not new and there were huge impacts on many parts of the world and many communities were seeing their futures destroyed. It is good that there is momentum now and climate change is centre stage in discussions. Europe Day is about Europe and the real test will be if Europe will place the sustainable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Climate Change (9 May 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...activists, who are no longer young, were demanding action. Even then, climate change was not new and there were huge impacts on many parts of the world and many communities were seeing their futures destroyed. It is good that there is momentum now and climate change is centre stage in discussions. Europe Day is about Europe and the real test will be if Europe will place the sustainable...

Seanad: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...material, learn from it and grow collectively from it. Compared to many other European nations, we are unfortunate in that there are large holes in the National Archives. There was the fire that destroyed large parts of them. There are other areas where great archives were destroyed. More recently, in our social history, we have seen the destruction of things like the symphysiotomy...

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (31 May 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...normal behaviour such as contacting a family member or talking to their co-workers they may be visited with violence. That threat of violence and control, and the fact that someone might seek to destroy one's relationships with others in a wider circle, is the climate in which an incident of assault takes place and it is very hard to prove. It is known by many domestic violence...