Results 1-20 of 35 for waste management speaker:Bríd Smith

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: In a significant development, Dublin City Council yesterday endorsed a motion from one of our councillors, Tina MacVeigh from People Before Profit, to re-municipalise waste management in the city. That means taking the waste management system back into public control and ownership. This very important development paves the way for addressing environmental concerns, the concerns of the...

Waste Disposal: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: Dillon Waste last filed accounts here in 2007, at which time it retained profits of €3.3 million, and Greyhound last filed accounts here in 2009, at which time it retained profits of €8.5 million. How are we supposed to know whether these companies are losing money, are profitable or are going to the wall? There is a proliferation of them. As in the case of Tony Soprano, it...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: We will need one because the issue of charges for green bins came up in the House less than a month ago. This is the waste that generates profit through recycling. The proposal was then retracted by the new Minister with responsibility for housing, planning and local government. We now find that the big cartel companies, Thorntons Recycling and Greyhound Recycling, are doubling and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: The waste-management companies have said plastic bottles and cans are the most valuable items in the household green bins and that, because they do not get them any more, they want to put up the price of the collection of these bins. The Taoiseach did not answer Deputy Mary Lou McDonald's question. Will he countenance the increase in the price of green bin collection because of the policy...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Household Waste Collection Price Monitoring Group (31 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 24. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will commission a report on the feasibility of the remunicipalisation of the household waste collection service in view of the rising costs, poorer services and the increased difficulties in achieving sustainable waste management under the current privatised system; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: Part of the Tánaiste's statement has made my case for me. If people are incentivised to recycle, they separate their organic waste and their paper, plastic and bottles, they pay for their black-bin waste, and they do not pay for the recycling. Then they are incentivised. That incentive is now being taken from them by this increase announced by Panda followed by another increase...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Waste Management (11 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: 25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of the recent threats by residential waste management companies to increase waste removal prices due to the loss of profits; if he is considering price controls or other measures to mitigate further increases in the cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30465/24]

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I move:That Dáil Éireann:notes:— the steady increase of charges for waste collection and the removal of waivers since the privatisation of waste management; — the recent outrageous plans to increase the standing charges for the collection of household waste that are proposed by many private waste management companies; — the severe hardship these rises will...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...time last year a motion on bin charges tabled by the Government and supported by Fianna Fáil was passed. At least five measures in that motion have not been implemented. However, today privatised waste collection companies, practically all of which are registered offshore so we have no idea what profits they make, are being given carte blancheto raise waste collection charges while...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...not because we are miserable and do not want to pay our way in society, but because we predicted at the time, quite rightly, that it would be a disaster, that it would lead to the privatisation of waste collection services up and down the country, and that this privatisation would in turn be a disaster for workers, for the environment and for the communities which these services are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: Did he mention one on waste management?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Disposal Charges (21 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 469. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the arrangements agreed with the waste management companies on the introduction of the pay-by-weight schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49099/17]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: We need sustainable waste management and we can only achieve that via public control.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: The Minister is opposed to the re-municipalisation of waste management. He does not agree with it.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (24 May 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...introduced payment for green bin charges and ensure that, in the interests of the environment, all recycling is incentivised by remaining free of charge by local authorities at bring centres and by waste management companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11599/16]

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: It is not appropriate to make it but I am thinking aloud here. The Minister really is asking Members to adopt the spirit in which these godfathers of the waste management industry have spoken to him. I am sorry but that is precisely why we have tabled this motion, because we do not believe in spirits; we believe in legislation that would curtail the profiteering-----

Local Government Reform (Amendment) (Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...then one is fooling people. People like me and others have run in local elections over the years. We successfully got elected on the basis of manifestos where we promised to do something about housing, waste management, libraries and planning, which are the issues that concern people in their local communities. We addressed these issues, as people who were willing to put ourselves...

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...to safeguard the service in future and to keep the environment safe in our cities and towns is for this service to be taken back into the ownership and control of the local authorities. The City Manager of Dublin City Council agrees with this. The city council is browned off - not to put too fine a pun on it - collecting illegally dumped waste while those who are getting the profits from...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...and so on. Indeed, the kowtowing or the Cowen-towing of colleagues from Fianna Fáil was quite similar. It was all very nice, all polite gentlemen, all talking to the gentleman, so called, in the waste management industry and getting on well with them and getting agreements with them that they would freeze things and would not touch people and would do this, that and the other. It...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...the limited pay and conditions they had, were bullied and intimidated. What has resulted from that dispute, and I have spoken to some trade union organisers about this, is that throughout the waste management industry, workers work on very low-paid contracts. They are working dangerous hours and as already mentioned earlier, some trucks are operating with two men, generally speaking,...