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Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: ...feedback on to the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and to the Minister for Health, whom I assume would need to negotiate any changes with GPs. Deputy Harkin and many others discussed the need to change the income disregard. That will happen in June. All contributors spoke about the fantastic work done by carers and Family Carers Ireland. I echo those comments. They do incredible work in...

Child and Youth Mental Health: Statements (29 Feb 2024)

Emer Higgins: ..., including inadequate clinical governance; insufficient risk management and a lack of proper oversight and staffing. All of this contributes to a compromised level of care that CAMHS can offer. Echoing these concerns the advocacy group Families for Reform of CAMHS, which represents more than 960 families, has provided extensive testimonials and given voice to the systemic failures that...

LGBTQI+ Equality: Statements (20 Jun 2023)

Emer Higgins: ...hole in these often hate-filled and one-sided discussions and it is too easy to presume that there is widespread support for these hateful views, but we cannot forget that the online space is an echo chamber and it is often the same handful of people again and again who shout the loudest who are heard the most. We all have to take a step back from time to time and remind each other of...

Civil Defence Bill 2023: Second Stage (15 Feb 2023)

Emer Higgins: ...bring legislation from the 1930s and 1940s into the modern practice. The Civil Defence provides an invaluable service in supporting front-line emergency services and also local communities. I echo the comments made by the Minister, Deputy Coveney, last year when he presented members with medals of recognition for the role they played in Covid-19 and said that Civil Defence volunteers...

Proposal for a Council Decision on Hate Speech and Hate Crime: Motion (9 Mar 2022)

Emer Higgins: ...speech that they probably would not do in the real world. In other cases, it can be the jumping-off point for bigots, racists, misogynists and people who will become extremists, egged on by an echo chamber of people who share in hate. We desperately need a united EU approach that recognises online hate speech as dangerous and criminal. Most importantly, users need to understand that...

Committee on Public Petitions: Election of Vice Chairman (17 Feb 2022)

Emer Higgins: I echo those sentiments and thank Deputy Devlin for all his assistance to me as a new member of the committee.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Emer Higgins: ...often on that committee. On that day, however, no matter our political persuasions, we sat in that committee room and expressed frustration with the current SHD process. That sentiment has been echoed in the Chamber today. I was a county councillor on South Dublin County Council for almost a decade and SHDs were a cause of frustration for me. Councillors often viewed them as a way...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Residential Tenancies Bill 2021 (16 Mar 2021)

Emer Higgins: That is no problem. I echo what many members have stated - it is disappointing that we do not have the Bill in front of us, but that is the situation we are in. The situation all members wish to avoid is that of protections for vulnerable renters expiring unnecessarily during a pandemic. This is emergency legislation in an emergency situation and I want the Bill to be passed in time to...