Results 1-12 of 12 for waste management speaker:Darren O'Rourke

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I raise the issue of Bord na Móna's plans to sell off its waste management business, as was reported recently. This risks further concentration of waste management services, which is potentially bad for workers and customers. It is further privatisation when the opposite should be happening. Is the Taoiseach aware of the plan and has he or the Government assessed it in terms of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I will be brief. On the issue of food waste prevention, should the case be made that the mandatory reduction targets be set statutorily because at present they are not? I am concerned we will have waste management plans that will consistently miss their targets. A number of people have raised the need to set targets and to have a regime of enforcement. Is there a case to be made for the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (24 May 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has met with waste management companies regarding their recent price increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25082/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (5 Apr 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: ...for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a list of activities that will be funded from the new circular economy fund to be established under the Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17853/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: ...Mr. Schweitzer is the role of the State and its agencies in terms of being a leader in this area. I worked in the health service for a long time. The opportunity there to be a leader in terms of managing waste is massive in terms of the €22 billion budget and the level of consumption in terms of disposables. I worked in laboratories, where the amount of waste generated was...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: ...never mind deliver, a just transition. It reads like a joke but it is a most serious matter. We need to move away from burning dirty fossil fuels. The question is how to do so. It has to be managed in the right way. The Government will say air pollution needs to be tackled, and I agree, but if it is the case that the Government has such concern about air quality, air pollution and...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (15 Nov 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: ...? Specifically there is the reallocation of funds, on areas that I would see as really important: A8 - just transition is €3.1 million; D7 - the emergency alert system, €2.9 million; and C6 - waste management programmes is €10.8 million. Tomorrow, the climate committee will deal with the welcome energy credit and the funding for that but many people who are getting...

Proposal re Agreement with Danish State on Statistical Transfer of Energy from Renewable Sources: Motion (16 Dec 2020)

Darren O'Rourke: .... To be clear, we have failed to meet reasonable and fair energy transition obligations. A reduction of in and around 1% year on year since we agreed to these targets was required but we could not even manage that. Statistical transfers for target compliance purposes is a convoluted way of saying we are here to agree to pay €50 million in fines for missing our renewable energy...

Regulations for the Sale and Distribution of Turf: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: ...refused our constructive suggestions and the resulting climate policies are weaker as a result. The same can be said of the amendments brought forward by Deputy Whitmore on the Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022 earlier this week that were opposed. The amendments sought that just transition principles would be included in that...

Energy Security: Statements (27 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: ...feat of engineering and highlights the opportunity we have on this island to do the same. However, we have had a lost decade of development in Ireland. Fine Gael took office back in 2011 and wasted a massive opportunity to spearhead the development of offshore wind over the subsequent ten years. While Scotland was literally laying the foundations, successive Governments here did...

National Standards Authority of Ireland (Carbon Footprint Labelling) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: ...such an approach would provide for improved tracing, transparency, accountability and better information for consumers, remembering the old maxim to the effect that if you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it. It should not simply be seen as a tool to influence consumer behaviour. That is an important point and I do not think that is the suggestion from the proposers. We are in a...

Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: ...when it comes to legislation and emergency legislation from the Minister. This is yet more emergency legislation that is being rushed through by the Government due to the unmitigated failure to manage our electricity demand and supply. It is quite remarkable that we are now being asked to completely set aside important planning and environmental conditions for the installation of 450 MW...