Seanad debates

Tuesday, 2 April 2019

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage

 

2:30 pm

Photo of Alice-Mary HigginsAlice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge the Minister of State's comments on Senator Ó Céidigh. I attempted to table amendments that reflected the issues mentioned around turbary rights, fuel poverty, and just transition. I had the opportunity to sit on the Committee on Climate Action, substituting for Senator O'Sullivan, and we discussed those issues. There are issues there and I had hoped that there might be potential for a review to look at all those issues on a legal basis. This involves co-operation with the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, but any amendments in this regard were ruled out of order for now. The Minister of State is right in that there is a package of issues to be considered. The human sustainability is both social as well as environmental.

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