Results 121-140 of 346 for waste management speaker:Eamon Ryan

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Usage (14 Jun 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...are supplied with heat, rather than fuel, commercial rates apply, as the energy service operator is purchasing the fuel at a large scale. However, under the Multi-Unit Developments Act, 2011, Owners’ Management Companies are precluded from entering contracts of duration greater than three years, and this provides a possibility to renegotiate energy supplier contracts. The 2018...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Prices (2 Jun 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Absolutely. District heating is going to play an extremely important role in the decarbonisation of the heating sector. There are certain areas, especially where waste heat is available, where this approach will be the preferred solution compared to retrofitting or insulating buildings. It can have real advantages and offer protection for our country. There are slight variations and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (2 Jun 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 158, 159, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172 and 173 together. The Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022 (‘the Bill’) aims to support Ireland’s transition to a circular economy by providing the necessary legislative basis for several key measures including the Circular Economy Strategy; the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (2 Jun 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Programme for Government, Our Shared Future, and the Waste Action Plan 2020-2025, A Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy (September 2020) committed to a range of actions to support Ireland’s transition to a circular economy. This included the adoption of a high-level whole-of-government Circular Economy Strategy. The Circular Economy Strategy (December 2021) provides a...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...forward additional amendments on Committee Stage of this Bill in the Seanad. The proposed amendments, which align the licensing aspects of the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 and the Waste Management Act 1996 with the revised emergency planning provisions under section 181 of the Planning Acts, are critical in terms of progressing the State's response to the energy emergency....

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I am very glad to be here for Report Stage of the Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill. I commend the Members, the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, and the officials on the processing of the Bill to date. There has been a lot of listening and amending. Today I will be introducing a series of amendments based on many of the...

Transport, Accelerating Sustainable Mobility: Statements (31 May 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...pattern around each of our five cities, in particular, where people moved out and commuted ever-longer distances. As I said, it did not work in climate terms and it did not work in the time wasted by people they could have otherwise spent in a range of other much more preferable activities. It was also very expensive in resource terms and having to provide the infrastructure for it. ...

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

Eamon Ryan: The Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022 aims to support Ireland’s transition to a circular economy by providing the necessary legislative basis for several key actions in the Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy (WAPCE). The Bill provides for a mandatory segregation and incentivised charging regime for commercial...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Policies (25 May 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022 (‘the Bill’) aims to support Ireland’s transition to a circular economy by providing the necessary legislative basis for several key measures including the Circular Economy Strategy; the Circular Economy Programme; the National Food Loss Prevention Roadmap; and the...

Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ..., that makes it totally uneconomic. In any case, as we have seen, the UK is equivalent to us and has 60 or 70 years' experience of building nuclear plants. We do not have any experience or any waste issue problems with it but it does. It has much experience and history and a similar modern economy to us. Not only would we have to pay for the 1.5 GW of additional spinning reserve, the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (18 May 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...2030.  The National Retrofit Plan sets out how the Government will achieve these targets. The retrofit of these homes will improve the energy efficiency of the residential sector and reduce energy waste in these homes. The Government has also put a range of policies and measures in place to support households who are at risk of energy poverty. These measures supplement...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Information and Communications Technology (17 May 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ..., there is an arrangement in place with a charity that provides computers, teacher training and innovative learning programmes to schools across Africa. This charity uses ISO14001 (Environmental Management) certified IT Asset Disposition partners. Where reuse of hardware is not possible we partner with WEEE compliant disposal companies who are ISO14001 certified to ensure appropriate...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 May 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Deputy raises a serious issue. The Government this week brought the Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022 to the Oireachtas environment committee on Committee Stage. That provides a lot of the answers and reassurances to the company. In the development of the likes of the deposit refund scheme, where plastic and PET bottles are...

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

Eamon Ryan: ...targets for EU Member States for the period 2013 to 2020. These targets cover emissions from sectors outside of the EU Emissions Trading System, such as agriculture, transport, buildings and waste. To enable Member States to comply with their annual emissions targets, the legislative framework of the ESD provides for a number of compliance options, including banking excess allowances from...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Hedge Cutting (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Under the Waste Management (Prohibition of Waste Disposal by Burning) Regulations 2009, the burning of household, garden, commercial or industrial waste is not permitted. An exemption is provided in the legislation to allow farmers, as a last resort and when no alternatives are available, to dispose of green waste generated by agricultural practices, by burning. The local...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ..., we are very clear that we are not saying that road will never proceed. However, it does have to be within an overall budget and Transport Infrastructure Ireland will have to assess how it will manage and deliver projects, so it has not completely gone to waste and it could well be used. My understanding of how this process works is that the CPO only comes in at the very later...

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

Eamon Ryan: ...in the Monitoring and Reporting (M&R) System, which was established by the SEAI to enable public bodies to track their energy efficiency performance and facilitates them in their energy management.In 2009 the Government set an ambitious target for the Public Sector to improve energy efficiency by 33% by the end of 2020. The most recently published data covers the period to end...

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

Eamon Ryan: Details requested of all funding provided by my Department to Mayo County Council from January 2017 to date have been provided in the table below: Regional Waste Management Planning Office  2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Funds allocated €78,000 €78,000 €97,500 ...

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

Eamon Ryan: I intend to introduce legislation, by way of amendment to the Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022, to allow for a broader type of amendment to be made to Industrial Emissions, Integrated Pollution Control and Waste Management licences issued by the Environmental Protection Agency. The proposed changes will be proportionate and will not...

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