Results 101-120 of 347 for waste management speaker:Eamon Ryan

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (15 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...to encourage a collaborative approach between local authorities, community groups and other State Agencies to tackling the problem. My Department also continues to invest heavily in the local authority waste enforcement network through the Local Authority Waste Enforcement Measures Grant Scheme, with the intention of maintaining a visible presence of waste enforcement personnel on...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (8 Dec 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...grant schemes. Details of funding awarded to Limerick City and County Councils under these schemes in 2022 is set out in the table: Grant/Funding Stream 2022 € Waste Enforcement Measures Grant Scheme 244,347 Anti-Dumping Initiative 116,339.93 Anti-Litter Anti-Graffiti Awareness Grant ...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (22 Nov 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy contains a number of specific measures to support the expansion of the organic waste collection in the State including making the provision of an organic waste bin mandatory as part of a waste collection service for all households. working with all stakeholders  to improve waste segregation in apartment complexes and through...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (8 Nov 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...on behalf of my Department. There were 72 applications to this open call. The projects selected represent a range of approaches under the five themes of the programme, which are: home and energy; food and waste; shopping and recycling; transport; local climate and environment. Details of the successful projects are set out in the table below. Organisation Project...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (8 Nov 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...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 in early 2023 in the new National Waste Management Plan for a Circular Economy. The programme has been...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (8 Nov 2022)

Eamon Ryan: European, national and regional waste management policy is predicated on the waste hierarchy as set out in Article 4 of the 2008 Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC), whereby the prevention, preparing for reuse, recycling and other recovery of waste are preferred options to the disposal or landfilling of waste. The Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy launched in September 2020...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: There is no national waiver scheme for household waste collection. The waste management market in Ireland is now serviced by private companies, where prices charged are matters between those companies and their customers, subject to compliance with all applicable environmental and other relevant legislation, including contract and consumer legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Charges (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: There is no national waiver scheme for household waste collection. The waste management market in Ireland is now serviced by private companies, where prices charged are matters between those companies and their customers, subject to compliance with all applicable environmental and other relevant legislation, including contract and consumer legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Budgets (4 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 168 to 172, inclusive, together. My Department prepares a profile of projected monthly spending at the start of each year and actively manages expenditure throughout the fiscal year to deliver on its agreed business priorities and objectives.  However, it is not unusual for actual expenditure to vary from profiled expenditure. The war in Ukraine has...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...to provide affordable housing for our people, we need to deliver health reform and we need to accelerate climate action. We have to stick to that course and focus on those three tasks while also managing an energy crisis that arrived on our shores in a way that no one could have expected. Energy is being used as a weapon of war and that has affected and changed everything. This has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (22 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...rush hour. If that 30% is taken out, it frees the roads up for everyone. Everyone knows this as traffic is much lower in the summer. There are so many benefits to this. It is good for traffic management and children's health and it is great for parents. I agree with Deputy O'Rourke that this is one of the ways we should not waste a good crisis, as Deputy Bruton said. There is a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (22 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The waste management market in Ireland is serviced by private companies, where prices charged are matters between those companies and their customers, subject to compliance with all applicable environmental and other relevant legislation, including contract and consumer legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (20 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The waste management market in Ireland is serviced by private companies, where prices charged are matters between those companies and their customers, subject to compliance with all applicable environmental and other relevant legislation, including contract and consumer legislation. 

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Engagement with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (13 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...had analysis done on the potential for land-use emissions reductions. It was very interesting to note the variation in what was deemed possible, particularly with the re-wetting of bogs and the management of wetlands. The variation was somewhere between 5 million and 10 million tonnes. We had a presentation which showed that we could get up to 11 million tonnes from re-wetting of bogs,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Engagement with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (13 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...emissions", which might be 1% of the total emissions within the county. They have a key role in everyone's emissions, a key role within the law and a key role particularly in areas like transport, waste management and water. They have a critical role, as do State companies. People may not have noticed but a very significant Government decision was made earlier this summer on the role of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Engagement with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (13 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...the Chair is right. I am glad to hear that he got a good sense from the office in Limerick. As I said, I have been visiting local authorities. In addition, I called each of the city and county managers just before the recess and asked them to submit what we are calling pathfinder projects which will accelerate key sustainable mobility projects that could help us to decarbonise, to meet...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with Deputy Bruton's sentiments regarding the officials here. People should realise that in managing this issue or crisis but also in having managed the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit, public servants across the board have been through a series of crisis management periods. We should not ignore the fact their work in that regard has been incredibly stressful and pressurised, so it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ..., to refer to the sectoral emissions agreement this summer, we have agreed something like 5.8 TWh of energy coming from biomethane and anaerobic digestion, which comes from a mixture of grass, food waste and slurry waste. If I recall correctly, that could involve up to 210 anaerobic digestion sites. That could provide about 15% of our gas needs and would give us some security. Members...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Food Waste (14 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimate that Ireland generated approximately 1.1 million tonnes of food waste in 2019 (latest year for which EPA published data is available). The EPA estimate that 528,000 tonnes of Irish waste was accepted for treatment at composting and anaerobic digestion facilities. Municipal biowaste (kitchen and canteen food waste, garden and park green waste,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Budget 2022 (13 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...the initial critical mass. Following strong progress on the establishment phase of both projects, my focus has now shifted to the next stage of development. To this end, my officials have been consulting with hub managers across the country, with local authorities and communities, and with other stakeholders, to better inform the future strategic direction of the...