Results 1-20 of 41 for waste management speaker:Seán Fleming

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...about helping small businesses but when we look at the stark facts, we see that the percentage of local authority income coming from commercial rates is increasing year on year. On the issue of waste, we now have three regions in the country. Submissions were completed at the end of January and we are meeting our target of 45% recycling, which is good, and landfill of 39%. However, I...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Illegal Dumping (30 Apr 2024)

Seán Fleming: ...Smyth, also has a clear role in this area due to the data protection issue. The Circular Economy and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 advanced a number of priority provisions identified in the waste action plan, including the provision of GDPR-compliant use of technologies, such as CCTV. The Act facilitates the use of CCTV schemes, under either the Litter Pollution Act or the Waste...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I am very disappointed that the Secretary General does not know and I hope it is in excess of 1 million. However, the cost of waste collection in County Laois is €360 per annum for a wheelie bin. I pay it, but it is bad value for money. It is €1 a day and €7 a week for a person in receipt of social welfare payments. I used to travel through towns years ago and...

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: With whatever is available or not available as the case may be. We touched on recycling and Ms Burke said the amount of waste going to landfill is decreasing but much of it is being managed by heat recovery or, to use the old-fashioned word, incinerator or waste heat recovery biomass. Does the EPA have a role in terms of all the new applications that are submitted? If, say, Bord na...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (1 Jul 2008)

Seán Fleming: ...559: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 905 of 17 June 2008, the way he can issue statistics regarding targets under the Waste Management (Packaging) Regulations 2007 in view of the fact that the information regarding the number of major producers that comply with their producer responsibility obligations under the...

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

Seán Fleming: Question 853: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the responsibility of city and county managers including under the public health Acts in relation to having domestic waste collected in the local authority area; the locations in which this service is privatised or contracted out if the responsibility continues to remain with the manager to ensure his...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: The number of households should be uppermost in people's minds when we talk about waste management. By his own admission, the Secretary General tells me at least 600,000 houses are outside the system, if it is 1 million. That is an awful admission but the Department does not seem to know about it or have any information. I am being a bit difficult on this because I do not believe the...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Second Stage (14 Apr 2011)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I will comment on the programme for Government and the Minister's statement, and deal with some specifics of the Bill, especially the waste management area. We are only dealing with one section of a much broader issue. In the programme for Government, there is less than a page dealing with sustainable waste policy. It rightly refers to...

Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (14 May 2009)

Seán Fleming: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when an inspection under the farm waste management scheme will be carried out for a person (details suppled) in County Carlow. [19429/09]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (9 Nov 2011)

Seán Fleming: Question 126: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide full details of restructuring proposals for the waste management business and the replacement of side-by-side competition with tendering for the entire market, called franchise bidding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33565/11]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (6 Nov 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the waste management planing national coordination committee was established; who is the chairperson of this group; the membership of same; the number of meeting that have been held and the number of reports and conclusions issued; the action being taken as a result of the process; and if he will make a statement on the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: The public system of waste management is fundamentally flawed because I do not believe people at Government level. The fact is that even Mr. Griffin, the Secretary General of the Department, cannot tell me. I am not being personal; I am saying it is endemic in the system not to want to know. The Department does not ask those kinds of questions, it just issues licences and there it goes.

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (17 Jun 2008)

Seán Fleming: ...the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of organisations that are operating under the self compliance procedure by paying a fee of €15,000 to the local authorities under the waste management packaging regulations; if he will make a statement on the way this system operates and the enforcement procedures in place to ensure those who do not join a company (details...

Energy (Biofuel Obligation and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (22 Apr 2010)

Seán Fleming: ...regarding bio-fuel obligation. The definition of bio-fuel is "liquid or gaseous fuel for transport produced from biomass". Biomass is defined on page 6 as "the biodegradable fraction of products, waste or residue from biological origin or agriculture, including vegetal and animal substances, forestry and related industries including fisheries and aquaculture, as well as biodegradable...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...insert the following:“(2) Section 33A of the Central Bank Act 1997 is amended by inserting the following subsection after subsection (5)—“(6) The Bank shall also impose a condition that debt management firm and/or a credit servicing firm shall be subject to the Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears 2013, in relation to all mortgages, including a mortgage that was not...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government - Review of Allowances (31 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: I understand and we are agreed on that point. I have no problem with the allowance, but I am seeking a note on how the system operates. Would a city or county manager have the information? The Department does not need to survey every local authority. An area engineer or road supervisor with a couple of depots in his or her area would hop in a car, travel ten miles today and 48 tomorrow....

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...the other two thirds come? The local authorities derive income from commercial rates, planning fees, development levies, housing rent payments, housing loans, mortgage protection schemes, parking fees, waste management recycling charges, landfill levies, contributions made locally under local improvement schemes, the community involvement scheme, the disabled person's housing aid scheme,...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...is that approximately 84% of water leaks are from the public mains, not from private property. This is the reason Irish Water stated recently, "The real bull work of water conservation and leakage management is to have district meters. We have about 10,000 of them across the country." The councils already had them in place as part of their infrastructure. It should be clear that 84% of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 12 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 13 - Procurement without a Competitive Process (3 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: ...7 billion. Mr. Watt mentioned the net figure of €45.6 billion. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is a new Department and people would see it as having an overall role in monitoring and managing Government expenditure across all Departments. In the year in question, the gross expenditure was approximately €49.7 billion. In September of last year, just over...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...issues, a number of governance issues - the college was not in full compliance with the code of practice for the governance of State bodies - the board’s decision to discontinue a human resources management project resulting in a waste of public money amounting to €138,000, and the recognition of a deferred pension funding asset of €87 million, which is the standard...