Results 21-40 of 347 for waste management speaker:Eamon Ryan

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (30 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Under the Radiological Protection Act 1991 (Ionising Radiation) Regulations 2019, the use of radioactive substances and management of the radioactive waste is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Radioactive sources can be either sealed or unsealed. The most common radioactive substances that are used for medical purposes are unsealed. They have a short half-life, and only...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (25 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As required under the legislation, the three draft Codes of Practice allowing for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant use of CCTV technology under both the Waste Management Act and the Litter Pollution Act and for the use of mobile recording devices under the Waste Management Act were submitted to me in my role as Minister by the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA)...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (25 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy (WAPCE), Ireland’s National Waste Policy for the period 2020 to 2025, sets out an overall policy and regulatory approach to support the development of adequate and appropriate treatment capacity at indigenous facilities to ensure that the full circularity and resource potential of materials is captured in Ireland. This policy and regulatory...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (23 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The primary focus for my Department is to encourage both householders and commercial premises to minimise the volume of waste they produce in the first place, and then to maximise the volume of recyclable and organic material which is diverted away from the residual waste bin through improved waste segregation practices. In terms of organic waste the recent expansion of household brown bin...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 68 and 69 together. This Department does not provide funding directly to schools to purchase waste management infrastructure such as bins. It would be expected that all schools would be provided with a three bin collection service (residual, mixed dry recyclables and a "brown bin" for food and organic waste) by their waste collection company. However there...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Directives (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...Referred to ECJ INFR(2018)2030 Council Directive 2011/70/Euratom of 19 July 2011 establishing a Community framework for the responsible and safe management of spent fuel and radioactive waste Reasoned Opinion INFR(2020)2193 Regulation (EU) 2017/1938 of the European Parliament and of the Council...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Investigations (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Dunsink landfill is currently in its aftercare phase following the completion of remediation works in 2005. This phase requires ongoing environmental monitoring and management by Fingal County Council, supervised by the Environmental Protection Agency in accordance with the site’s waste license. Details of the environmental management of the site can be found on the EPA’s...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy (WAPCE), Ireland’s National Waste Policy for the period 2020 to 2025, sets out an overall policy and regulatory approach to support the development of adequate and appropriate treatment capacity at indigenous facilities to ensure that the full circularity and resource potential of materials is captured in Ireland. This policy and regulatory...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (14 Dec 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...directly from individual local authorities. Neither I nor my Department has any remit in relation to anti-social behaviour. In relation to the use of CCTV to combat littering or the dumping of waste, the Circular Economy and Miscellaneous Provisions Act sets out the legal basis by which local authorities may utilise CCTV for waste and litter enforcement purposes under both the Waste...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (14 Dec 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The visible Environmental Management Cost (vEMC) is collected by Circol ELT, which is approved under the Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations 2017 to act as the producer responsibility organisation for the tyre industry. At present, a vEMC is collected with respect to the tyres of passenger cars, 4x4 vans, and motorcycles. Details on amounts collected and further information...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (12 Dec 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Local authorities are responsible for municipal waste collection and waste management planning within their functional areas. It is open to the Chief Executive of any local authority to exercise their executive function in relation to waste collection to re-enter the waste collection market as direct service providers if they so choose, either alongside existing permitted service providers or...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (6 Dec 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) is continuing to work on the finalisation of draft Codes of Practice and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), which are fundamental to the future operation of CCTV schemes aimed at assisting waste enforcement and anti-litter efforts, including the monitoring of illegal dumping and dog fouling. The LGMA circulated draft Codes of Practice and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (5 Dec 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Waste Management (Prohibition of Waste Disposal by Burning) Regulations 2009 make it an offence to dispose of waste by uncontrolled burning. Article 5 of these Regulations provided an exemption to allow for the disposal of uncontaminated wood, trees, tree trimmings, leaves, brush, or other similar waste generated by agricultural practices only. Such burning was only to be done as a final...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ..., all of which will help. Critically, it is to design and develop data centres that are zero-carbon. There needs to be a combination of use of renewable power, use of flexible demand and use of waste heat. For example, I believe Tallaght is using an Amazon data centre to heat some of the buildings in south Dublin. We should go further in that and look at all the flexibilities that will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...is available will be key. It will require good fibre-optic network and connectivity but also scale of planning. It will even come down to the ability of the data centre to be flexible in its management of its heat load and so on. That will involve each data centre having a clear power purchase agreement for renewable zero-carbon power. It will not always be the data centre buying a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (21 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) is continuing to work on the finalisation of draft Codes of Practice and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), which are fundamental to the future operation of CCTV schemes aimed at assisting waste enforcement and anti-litter efforts, including the monitoring of illegal dumping and dog fouling. The LGMA circulated draft Codes of Practice and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Waste Management (16 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Local authorities are responsible for municipal waste collection and waste management planning within their functional areas. It is open to any local authority to re-enter the waste collection market as direct service providers if it so chooses, either alongside existing permitted service providers or subject to making arrangements to replace those providers. Under section 60(3) of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Waste Management (16 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...In government, we can pass legislation, as could this House. This House, in the end, is the final arbiter. We have to have the numbers in the House. That is our democratic system. We have a waste action plan containing some 200 actions, and I see that as a central focus of what I and my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, want to deliver. As the Deputy says, we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Waste Management (16 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: One of the things I am most proud of was to be a councillor on Dublin City Council for six years, from 1997 to 2002. In those years, as I remember, there were very lengthy debates about waste management, bin collection and bin services. Councillors sometimes have a hard decision because the gallery is right behind them rather than at a distance. I remember at the time taking a difficult...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (16 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: While the primary responsibility for management and enforcement responses to illegal dumping lies with the local authorities, my Department continues to provide extensive policy, financial and legislative support to the local authority sector to support their efforts. Almost €15m has been provided to local authorities under the Anti-Dumping Initiative (ADI) since it was first...