Results 1-20 of 32 for waste management speaker:Catherine Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (23 Sep 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 516. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the basis in national waste policy for the proposal by the four Dublin local authorities to develop an incinerator to meet national waste management needs, rather than the needs of the Dublin region as originally envisaged; if a regional approach to waste management has been abandoned by the Government; and if an...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. It is how we get to see how they are managing what there is, whether it is effectively managed and whether there is waste, which is an issue. We are looking at waste but also talking about delivery of a service.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (21 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the regional waste management plans; the regions covered by the plans; if domestic waste generated in those regions is wholly disposed of within those regions; if not, the type of waste that is disposed of outside the region; the location of the waste disposed of and the volumes; and if he will make a...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: ..., I wish to discuss the ongoing work on the national children's hospital. I am very concerned by some things that have been brought to my attention by people working on the site. I refer to the management of the site and the degree of waste. Could the witnesses tell me anything about the oversight that is in place and who is carrying it out? I am quite concerned by reports of really...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (Resumed) (18 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I thank our guests for coming before us. Since 2000 there has been quite a dramatic change in people's behaviour in the context of waste management. Some of this has to do with the introduction of green bins, composting, etc. It is clear that there has been a change since the notion of the incinerator was first mooted. The first contract that was drawn up contained a guarantee in respect...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: -----a private site. The Department states it has not spent any money on private sites. Parking the Kerdiffstown site, there are 61 public ones. When local authorities had an involvement in waste management, that was included in the costs when there were charges. There is not separate income to deal with the public sites, which, I presume, are all owned by local authorities. Do we know...

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

Catherine Murphy: I regret to say there are some provisions in the Bill that I could not possibly support. Even if incineration was the preferred method of waste disposal, the finances simply do not stack up. I have a serious concern about the level of regulation. My view is based on practical experience of how the waste collection system has played out in reality. I have used my area as an example. There...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: ...no difficulty with some of the provisions, but it would have been very helpful to have had a decent Second Stage debate to discuss some of the issues being addressed by way of amendments. The waste industry has left a trail of destruction in its wake in some parts of the country and some of the problems have been very expensive to remediate. There have been improvements during the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Management of Sewage Sludge: Cré (28 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: It was Deputy Corcoran Kennedy and not me who suggested we should invite this group in. I thank the witnesses for providing details of the management recommendations that are adhered to in some locations. It is clear that Irish Water will have a role in this regard into the future. Responsibility for waste water treatment plants is being transferred to that body. Does Cré expect that...

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: .... I do not have a principled objection to water metering, but is not to say I am happy with the Bill. Metering can only happen where there is an absolute guarantee that the object is resource management and targeting waste. It makes sense to do this because it is very costly to provide wastewater treatment plants and keep on upgrading plants to make sure there are no leaks in the...

Water and Sewerage Services (16 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: ...me into politics. The tax marches took place in the 1970s, when the lion's share of taxation was paid by PAYE workers. There might be merit in a State-owned water company because it might better manage the limited resources. However, the EU-IMF deal commits Ireland to undertake an independent assessment of the establishment of such a company. I am concerned that they seek to neatly...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...is a direct quote. It is aware that Benefacts Analytics had that service, and obviously, it was dispensed with. Why was Benefacts Analytics being used in 2020 and 2021 by Tusla in its financial management processes? Why was that not considered as the basis for further development? Those are my three areas. I do not know if the committee is aware, but the Carmichael Ireland Centre...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Towards a Zero Waste Approach to Water: Dublin Institute of Technology (8 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: ...be of a higher standard than some of the water that has been treated with chemicals, which in some cases are fairly sinister? Treated water is heavily chlorinated and can be very unappetising. Water treatment can be managed well where there is treatment along a system as opposed to close to the outlet. I presume the waste water and storm water go into the combined sewer system but that...

Water Services Bill 2003 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Apr 2007)

Catherine Murphy: Regarding how this manifests itself, there are two waste-water treatment plants in my constituency, but one straddles north and south Kildare. Osberstown is one and the initial paperwork came to the Department in 2002. I know the Minister has responded to me on this before, but we are now starting to be contacted by people in the construction industry who are saying that they now have no...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: ...all of the attention will be on two budget options and whether the Government will opt for budget A or budget B in the autumn. Regardless of which budget is presented, we cannot afford any more wasteful spending as a result of particularly poor economic decisions. Unfortunately, disastrous economic decisions continue to be made. It is no longer news that we are in the grip of a housing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Last week at the Committee of Public Accounts I raised the issue of the national broadband plan. There are now significant concerns as to how the process to date has been managed, whether the awarding of the contract, if we get to that stage, will have been done in the best manner possible and whether the State will get the best possible deal. We know there will have been no competitive...

Seanad Reform: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2014)

Catherine Murphy: ...about the concentration of 43 local authorities into a unitary Irish Water but the pipes are still located in the local authority areas. The White Paper might have offered us a different way of managing this change by connecting our institutions. The Seanad could deliver that kind of change and I support the call in this motion to engage all parties and groups in the Oireachtas, as well...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...in the Department think of this aspect? It may be there are other Bills where we should learn from this shortcoming. A point I would like to build on is the context of human rights. The court management office and the court presenters must be cognisant of the position relating to Articles 6 and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights, in summary, the right to a fair and public...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...see are happening. For example, Irish Water will have a contract with a contractor to do a large piece of work where before it used to be the local authority. This is now done by Irish Water, in the case of water and wastewater. The local authority cannot apply penalties, for example, and must have Irish Water do this. It is now a two-stage process. There is a further example of a big...

Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: ...if we are to escape paying large amounts of hard cash under our climate change obligations. There must be investment in public transport and cities and towns must function in a way that is not wasteful of time and energy. Compared with many western European countries, some of which are our competitors, we are still in the ha'penny place in terms of broadband. This impacts on the...