Discussing Reproductive Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals
Today, I joined the Irish Family Planning Association and Dr. Gilda Sedgh at a public event to discuss reproductive rights around the world and the Sustainable Development Goals
Senator Higgins attended European Parliamentary Week as part of an Irish parliamentary delegation and contribute to discussions relating to the workplan for the European Parliament known as the European semester process.
She called for civil society to have a voice and a role in the semester process and the highlighted the need to re-balance the semester process - ensuring that smart, sustainable and inclusive growth is appropriately weighed against short term fiscal targets. This is all the more important in the context of commitments under the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement.
It is important that issues such as Brexit or the push for increased military spending are not allowed to jeopardise longer-term sustainability.
Finally she emphasised the importance of quality indicators not just statistics as part of the evaluatory processes.
Today, I joined the Irish Family Planning Association and Dr. Gilda Sedgh at a public event to discuss reproductive rights around the world and the Sustainable Development Goals
In April I discussed the Heritage Bill on Radio Kerry and explained the many reasons why I strongly oppose extending the months of gorse and upland burning into March and cutting into August - dangerous provisions which will have devastating consequences for our birds, wildlife and pollinators.