Results 41-60 of 118 for waste management speaker:Ossian Smyth

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...page 22, line 30, after “monitored” to insert “, or are capable of being monitored,”. Amendments Nos. 52 and 62 are technical drafting amendments to the proposed definition of CCTV in the Waste Management Act 1996 and the Litter Pollution Act 1997. The amendments were tabled on the advice of the Office of the Attorney General and provide for circumstances...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...exactly what it is. It is a proposal that we will put into primary legislation the right of local authorities to use CCTV to obtain evidence to convict people, whether they are dumping, under the Waste Management Act, which is sometimes commercial, or littering. We worked with the Attorney General to ensure we were providing enough safeguards such that the person's right to privacy would...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Ossian Smyth: It includes dumping as well. The Waste Management Act relates to fly-tipping and so on, while littering is covered by the Litter Pollution Act. What other crimes is the Deputy thinking of?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...To create a scheme, a local authority cannot just install a CCTV system but will have to go through a prescribed number of steps outlined in the Bill. For example, it will have to prepare a site management plan for each scheme and set out the arrangements for monitoring and recording, how it will disclose the images that are produced and how it will preserve the recordings. All of that...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...of a provision of regulations made under section 39(4) prohibiting, other than in accordance with those regulations, the recovery or disposal in a specified manner of a specified class or classes of waste, including a class or classes of household waste, or”. Fixed payment notices are an administrative alternative to court proceedings and can assist with waste enforcement...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Ossian Smyth: The use of the cameras would be overt rather than covert. They have to be displayed. The Bill allows for the use of drones, body cameras and so on for serious offences under the Waste Management Act like dumping and fly-tipping but not for littering. It is proportionate. They would not be flying drones over people who are dropping rubbish on the street. Every attempt is to be...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...subparagraph for subparagraph (ix): "(ix) appropriate qualitative or quantitative indicators and targets, including in respect of any or all of the following: (I) the quantity of generated waste and its treatment; (II) municipal waste that is disposed of or subject to energy recovery; (III) the use of products and materials that have been re-used, re-manufactured or repaired, or any...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...Act of 1996 is amended— (a) in subsection (1), by the substitution of "subsection (7) or (9), or both," for "subsection (7)", (b) in subsection (3)— (i) by the substitution of "household waste or commercial waste" for "household waste" in each place where it occurs, and (ii) by the deletion of "within the meaning of section 66 of the Communications Regulation (Postal...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (26 Apr 2022)

Ossian Smyth: In Ireland, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes form an essential part of efficient waste management and have been developed for a number of waste streams, based on the producer pays principle. The main areas are Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), batteries, packaging, end-of-life vehicles (ELVs), tyres and farm plastics. Operational...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (7 Apr 2022)

Ossian Smyth: I thank Deputy Hourigan for her question. The policy document, A Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy, which was published in 2020 commits to substantially reducing waste from packaging and single-use plastic items over its five-year lifetime. Steps include a deposit return scheme for plastic bottles and aluminium cans; the introduction of a levy on disposable coffee cups and other...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (7 Apr 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...suggestions from Deputy Bruton, particularly with regard to whether other Ministers or the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, should have certain requirements. Regarding the privatisation of waste collection, that issue is being discussed actively in Dublin City Council. I am not entirely sure what is going on there but I know that councillors are coming to a view on it and I will...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (7 Apr 2022)

Ossian Smyth: The National Waste Enforcement Steering Committee, which is chaired by my Department and includes representatives from a wide range of regulatory and law enforcement authorities, provides for a coordinated, strategic approach to all waste enforcement priorities, including illegal dumping. The Steering Committee oversees the work of the Waste Enforcement Regional Lead...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (7 Apr 2022)

Ossian Smyth: Local authorities are responsible for municipal waste collection and waste management planning within their functional areas. The obligations on local authorities in relation to collecting household waste are set out in section 33 of the Waste Management Act 1996, as amended. In summary, it provides that each local authority shall collect, or arrange...

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

Ossian Smyth: ...of just under €21m. This year 135 projects have been approved for funding across 29 local authorities with a budget of €26m. The roadmap for the landfill remediation programme is set out in the Regional Waste Management Plan 2015-2021 with the renewed roadmap to be published later this year in the new National Waste Management Plan for a Circular Economy in 2022....

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

Ossian Smyth: The Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022 is a key step in the transition to a circular economy and will provide a robust statutory framework for moving from a focus on managing waste to a much greater focus on adapting patterns of production and consumption. Recognising the role played by the Environment Fund since its inception,...

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

Ossian Smyth: In December 2021, the existing National Waste Prevention Programme, which is operated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was revised and restructured into a national Circular Economy Programme. The new programme was published on 16 December in tandem with the All of Government Circular Economy Strategy. The Circular Economy Programme, which together with the Circular Economy...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...achieve those targets. This change will enhance the impact of future strategies. Specific timeframes have been introduced in respect of the review of the circular economy strategy and the food waste prevention roadmap, which was recommended, and the term "recovery", specifically in the context of providing support from the circular economy fund, has been defined to exclude incineration....

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Ossian Smyth: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." In many ways, over the past two decades, waste policy has been Ireland’s unsung environmental success story. We have progressed from a situation where the State was facing prosecution before the European courts for lack of enforcement of unlicensed landfills to one where we have both radically reduced our dependence on landfill...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Recycling Policy (24 Mar 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...within the economy. It is great it is now being duplicated throughout the country. It is a fantastic scheme and I agree with the Senator on that. The Government recognises that the current take-make-waste economic model is not sustainable, economically, socially or environmentally, and that a fundamental shift in our production and consumption patterns is now needed. We are committed...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Recycling Policy (22 Mar 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...area, which is a good first step. There were 200 people involved but I am bringing in a scheme for 5 million people. The programme for Government marked a turning point in how Ireland approaches waste management and the circular economy. Instead of narrowly focusing on how we treat and dispose of the waste we produce, the Government is committed to building a circular economy where waste...