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Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016) See 1 other result from this debate

Paudie Coffey: I welcome the Minister. I know he has been closely engaged with this issue since long before the recent events highlighted by the Opposition and others. We need to examine how we behave and manage waste. The starting point was our unsustainable dependence on landfill. This has left many local authorities with major legacy issues, with which many Senators will be familiar. We are still...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (14 Oct 2009)

John Gormley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 282 and 288 together. The Programme for Government published in 2007 contained a commitment to establish new ambitious waste management targets for maximum prevention, re-use, recycling and modern waste treatment to ensure that we match the best performance in the EU for recycling with the objective that only 10% of waste or less is consigned to landfill and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Data (27 Nov 2019)

Richard Bruton: The EPA is the competent authority for the collation of national waste statistics and reports annually on Ireland’s performance against the recycling and recovery targets set out in the EU Packaging and Waste Packaging Directive. In 2017 Ireland surpassed the material specific target of 22.5% for plastics and achieved a recycling rate of 34%. While I do not have a percentage figure...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (18 Nov 2008)

John Gormley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 471 to 473, inclusive, together. The Programme for Government signalled the development of waste and resource policy in the direction of sustainability and, in particular, to move away from mass burn incineration towards alternative technologies. Arising from a commitment in the Programme, a major international review of waste management strategy is now...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (22 Apr 2010)

John Gormley: The existing regulatory framework governing the waste market requires modernisation in a number of respects, particularly in relation to the dual role of local authorities as regulators and service providers, the need to ensure that waste services are provided in a manner consistent with the achievement of national and EU environmental objectives and targets, and the importance of ensuring...

Written Answers — Waste Disposal: Waste Disposal (28 Jan 2009)

John Gormley: The Programme for Government contains a range of commitments in respect of waste management policy centred on the Government's continued support for the internationally recognised waste hierarchy which places major emphasis on the prevention, reuse and recycling of waste while minimising reliance on landfill and incineration. This commitment to the waste hierarchy has added significance in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (4 Dec 2012)

Phil Hogan: The Government’s new waste policy, A Resource Opportunity - Waste Management Policy in Ireland, published in July 2012, sets out the actions through which Ireland will make the further progress necessary to become a recycling society, with a clear focus on resource efficiency and the virtual elimination of landfilling of municipal waste.  The policy contains measures to ensure...

Topical Issue Debate: Disposal of Hazardous Waste (4 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: ...on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan. Functions relating to the environmental planning, licensing and control of hazardous waste are the responsibility of the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, and local authorities. Under section 60(3) of the Waste Management Act 1996, my colleague, the Minister for the Environment,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (7 Apr 2022)

Ossian Smyth: Local authorities are responsible for municipal waste collection and waste management planning within their functional areas. The obligations on local authorities in relation to collecting household waste are set out in section 33 of the Waste Management Act 1996, as amended. In summary, it provides that each local authority shall collect, or arrange...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (15 Jun 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Local authorities are responsible for municipal waste collection and waste management planning within their functional areas. The obligations on local authorities in relation to collecting household waste are set out in section 33 of the Waste Management Act 1996, as amended. In summary, it provides that each local authority shall collect, or arrange for the collection of, household waste...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (14 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Local Authorities are statutorily responsible for the preparation of waste management plans. The Regional Waste Management Planning Offices published the new National Waste Management Plan on March 1st informed by, inter alia, the National Planning Framework. The Plan sets out the required actions at local and regional levels to deliver on the Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management Regulations (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Bruton: Further to my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 495 of 26 February, there is nothing which expressly prohibits a service fee being charged as part of a pricing plan used by a household waste collector. The measure to further incentivise the prevention and segregation of waste through phasing out flat rate fees for household waste collection during 2017 and 2018 is one of a number of...

Written Answers — Waste Disposal: Waste Disposal (8 May 2008)

John Gormley: Implementation of the National Strategy on Biodegradable Waste involves a range of measures including waste prevention, home composting, segregated collection of biodegradable waste for the generation of compost, and the introduction of Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT) facilities as one of a range of technologies to treat residual waste. To assist in ensuring that our waste management...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (4 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy, which I launched in September this year, contains a commitment to deliver behavioural change campaigns for individuals, businesses and the public sector to encourage improved waste segregation and recycling.  The plan contains the following specific commitments in relation to waste collection for apartment dwellers:- We will work with...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)

Dessie Ellis: The Government has deferred legislation on pay-by-weight for waste management. It is clear that waste management companies were abusing the proposed legislation and using it to jack up prices by including a standard charge on all bins, as well as a pay-by-weight charge. It is also clear that certain companies are now giving the Government the two fingers and are beginning to charge for...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (28 Oct 2010)

John Gormley: My Department has no function in determining the number or location of any industrial or waste management facilities nationally. The EPA is the national repository for waste management statistics and the most recent available information in respect of waste infrastructure can be found in the 2008 National Waste Report available on the EPA's website at www.epa.ie/downloads/pubs/waste/stats/.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (18 Feb 2021)

Eamon Ryan: European, national and regional waste management policy is predicated on the waste hierarchy as set out in Article 4 of the 2008 Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC), whereby the prevention, preparing for reuse, recycling and other recovery of waste are preferred options to the disposal or landfilling of waste. Ireland’s recycling rate for municipal waste was 38% in 2018....

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (18 Apr 2012)

Phil Hogan: Under section 33 of the Waste Management Act 1996, local authorities are not required to collect, or arrange for the collection, of household waste within their functional areas, if an adequate waste collection service is available, if the estimated costs of undertaking waste collection by the local authority would be unreasonably high, or if the local authority is satisfied that adequate...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Waste Management Regulations (24 May 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Matters to do with communication to customers of waste companies and with pricing, billing and access to account information come within the scope of the Customer Charter for Household Waste Collection. This Charter constitutes the Sixth Schedule to the Waste Management Collection (Permit) Regulations 2007 (S.I. No. 820 of 2007) as amended most recently by the Waste Management (Collection...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (19 Jul 2011)

Phil Hogan: ...the years 2008 and 2009 are available in the Fund's audited Annual Accounts. These are available from the Oireachtas library and on my Department's website at http://www.environ.ie/en/Environment/Waste/EnvironmentFund/. The 2010 and 2011 Annual Accounts will be published in due course after they have been audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General. However, provisional figures (on...