Results 1-20 of 22 for waste management speaker:Brendan Ryan

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: ...which is now being diligently collected by the city council which then employs people to search through it to find some address so that it can prosecute somebody. Given that local authorities have managed not to notice hundreds of thousands of tonnes of material being dumped illegally, the diligence is, perhaps, admirable. However, the current system of domestic waste disposal is running...

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I still think it is a pity that the Waste Management (Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Regulations were not debated in the House.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management Data (11 Apr 2019)

Brendan Ryan: 164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide information (details supplied) regarding landfill waste management sites. [17194/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (11 Apr 2019)

Brendan Ryan: 165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulations governing bird control requirements on landfill waste management sites and insofar as such bird control regulations pertain to concerns for the interests of and or the protection of public health and safety (details supplied). [17195/19]

Waste Reduction Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Jul 2017)

Brendan Ryan: ...a particularly radical Bill, but it is one that makes sense and that will help the environment. It will foster an increased buy-in to a recycling ethic that will further change our attitudes to waste and renewable use containers. It is a short Bill with a long reach, one which, if implemented - we believe it most certainly should be - will have a similar impact to that of the plastic bag...

Seanad: Health Services: Motion. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I was taught in my days as a student in UCD that the job of management was clear: it was about planning, organising, staffing and controlling. It is the Government's job to manage the health service. Its members tell us, although I do not agree with them, that they have not controlled expenditure because they now admit, as the former Minister for Finance told us over and over again, that all...

Water and Sewerage Schemes (10 Nov 2011)

Brendan Ryan: ...into corridors. Last Saturday, so many people turned up to voice their disapproval at the plans at Fingal County Council's open day for the project that the council had to put stewards in place to manage the crowd. Taken together, this demonstrates a collective rejection of this proposal by the people in north Dublin who I represent. Why are the people so understandably outraged? There...

Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Brendan Ryan: ...must work towards this and the naysayers must stop what they are doing. The Minister needs to lead the way, as he is doing. Secretaries General must examine their entire Departments to identify waste in all its forms and eliminate it. Well paid senior managers in the public service must step up to the plate and line managers must do the same. Public service managers must do what...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ...The Minister of State, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, is as aware as I am of the potential disaster facing Cork Airport if it is forced to take on a burden of debt it has had no hand in accumulating. If we manage to run good airports, our infrastructure will decide where development happens. This morning's newspapers quote tourism industry representatives as saying the number of visitors to Dublin...

Seanad: Care of the Elderly: Motion. (14 Dec 2005)

Brendan Ryan: ...Statistics Office figures. We are creating a network, or a patchwork, of gaps which will impoverish older people. What happens to an old person on an non-contributory old age pension if his or her waste service is provided by a private operator and for whom there is no waiver, as happens in many parts of the country? If an old age pensioner moves from inside to outside the city boundary in...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (2 Mar 2005)

Brendan Ryan: ...for Finance did that on at least one occasion. Workers are paying into an insurance fund that is in good shape at present, unlike many of the State's pension funds, because it seems to be able to manage itself quite well. We need to examine the issue of social welfare in that context. One cannot buy a single dinner in a restaurant near this building for the amount of money that is regarded...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2004)

Brendan Ryan: ...in defence of the Naval Service. Whatever the merits and demerits of incineration, on which my views are available to be checked in the Official Report, we need to know the Government's position on waste management. The Government must adopt a position which applies everywhere rather than simply in places other than where a Minister happens to be.

Seanad: Labour Services (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (17 Nov 2009)

Brendan Ryan: ...audit that revealed all of the unacceptable practices that were prevalent in FÁS. In addition, the board made it known that it was not informed about certain matters by members of the senior management of the organisation. Many members of the board were genuinely shocked and horrified by the material that has emerged. That said, however, the FÁS scandal could and should be used as a...

Seanad: Inspector of Prisons Reports: Motion. (22 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: .... The report quotes the British Inspectorate of Prisons, which makes the very valid point that the traditional response of blaming the poor foot soldiers for everything is not the issue. It is a management issue concerning senior management in the Prison Service and is ultimately determined by the values that motivate Ministers with responsibility for justice. The humane rhetoric bandied...

Seanad: Appropriation Act 2005: Statements. (26 Jan 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I would not dispute that. The facts nevertheless speak for themselves in respect of Deputy Quinn's term as Minister for Finance. Having said that, it is now a question of how to manage success. Nobody is more delighted than I am that we are now talking about managing success rather than about the dreadful period of the 1980s when we were managing failure. I will not waste time trying to say...

Seanad: Education Matters: Statements (10 Feb 2009)

Brendan Ryan: ...Party's spokesperson for education, Deputy Quinn, pointed out the cost of servicing a mortgage on a permanent building would be less than the cost of rent and maintenance of a prefab. This ongoing waste, with dead money going to pay rents and lack of ownership of assets, is unsustainable. This example of a false economy would be quickly identified in private business and micro-managed...

Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)

Brendan Ryan: .... We have not seen this approach yet. While we support the call to increase the regional and local roads budget in the context of the capital investment plan, we question the call to review the management of funds at local authority level. This, according to the motion, is to "ensure that funds are being used in the most efficient and effective manner possible and provide additional...

Seanad: Education Policy: Statements (22 Nov 2007)

Brendan Ryan: ...this House in Private Members' time to establish a national convention on education involving the education partners, politicians and social partners which should address, among other matters, the management of primary schools in a changing Ireland, enrolment policies, domestic and European equality legislation and the planning and building of schools in new communities. Following that...

Seanad: Home Help Service: Motion. (19 Oct 2005)

Brendan Ryan: ...by insurance. A succession of prohibitions entertained rather than infuriated my mother. There was a squeeze on funding after the 2002 election, when the fraud, false promises and gloriously wasteful expenditure of the two previous years were being withdrawn. The Government, in a cynical ploy, having bought the election, dumped the promises. Bureaucrats all over the health services looked...

Seanad: Adult Education: Motion (2 Jun 2010)

Brendan Ryan: ...12.6%. There are no labour shortages in Ireland at present but there are skills shortages in the areas of information technology, science, sales and marketing, health, accountancy, engineering and management, which are all specialised high skill areas. Traditional manufacturing is almost gone from Ireland and is unlikely to return. Construction levels are seriously reduced at present...