Results 1-20 of 74 for waste management speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (14 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which the national waste management plan continues to address the relevant issues, with particular reference to reduction, reuse and recycle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21838/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Targets (2 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ..., given that the Minister's colleague, the Minister for Finance, issued a similar statement bringing to the public attention the tendency to overspend in certain areas, is it within the capacity of management to curtail this in sufficient amounts and numbers between now and remainder of the year? The tendency in an election year, and we have two elections coming up shortly, is that...

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

Bernard Durkan: 104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which the national waste management plan continues to address the relevant issues, with particular reference to reduction, reuse and recycle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50481/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (15 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which waste reduction and management can be improved to make a more serious contribution to threats to the environment with particular reference to the need to reduce the use of landfills and the utilisation of the most modern methods that waste management in order to protect the environment; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (27 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which the national waste management plan continues to address the relevant issues, with particular reference to reduction, reuse and recycle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20162/23]

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

Bernard Durkan: 176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which the national waste management plan continues to address the relevant issues, with particular reference to reduction, reuse and recycle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63008/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which waste management is being utilised in the context of carbon reduction and waste to heat combinations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10781/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (1 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which the national waste management plan continues to address the relevant issues with particular reference to reduction, reuse and recycle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29804/21]

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: ...on the housing market because we did not need as many houses. Well, we needed them all right but we were not here to get them. We therefore have to plan for the future and plan on the basis that a successful economy that is well managed will carry long into the future an ongoing annual demand for a certain number of houses, and they need to be houses. Another thing I want to refer to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (13 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which the national waste management plan continues to address the relevant issues, with particular reference to reduction, reuse and recycle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1899/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (15 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which he expects Ireland should proceed in respect of waste management, whether by combination of landfill and reduction or by other means; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16205/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector (Resumed): Discussion with Fórsa (4 Dec 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their submission. I agree on the need for managers to direct; we need a command system. I feel that the command system has failed but I cannot put my finger on the reason for that. For instance, if people are on trolleys in a hospital I immediately ask why they are there. Is the hospital the appropriate place for them in the first instance?...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019)

Bernard Durkan: ...what has gone wrong because we did not think about it before. That is not acceptable behaviour at all. This is nonsensical stuff. We are having a debate that we should not have at all. It is a waste of time. We are returning to every item of expenditure on the basis that the children's hospital overrun is causing all the problems. It is not. If people had followed the debate that...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (14 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 243. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which waste reduction and management can be improved to make a more serious contribution to preventing threats to the environment with particular reference to the need to reduce the use of landfills and the utilisation of the most modern methods of waste management in order to protect the environment;...

Committee Report on Garda Oversight and Accountability: Motion (2 Feb 2017)

Bernard Durkan: ...confidence. As a result, gardaí are now said to have low morale, low confidence and low self-esteem. That is not good. It is now incumbent on everybody - us, as public representatives, gardaí, management of An Garda Síochána and the Minister - to recognise the importance and seriousness of ensuring issues that cause concern to the general public which are raised time...

Agriculture: Statements (4 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: ...of the milk quotas. That creates challenges. The one thing about any industry, be it agriculture, the motor industry, the service industry or whatever the case may be, is that they must be managed on the basis of events. I remind Members of the famous phrase by a certain gentleman in another jurisdiction: "Events, dear boy, events." Those events will affect us all in the future, so I...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (5 Nov 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 227. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which it is expected to deal with waste management by way of reduce, reuse and recycle strategies, landfills continue to be relied upon or incineration is used, or proposed, as a means of waste management; the number of landfills currently in operation; the number of incinerators dealing with domestic...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (5 Nov 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 228. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if studies have been done with a view to reducing the cost of waste management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38814/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (16 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 720. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which the various forms of waste management are currently being used, with particular reference to the maximum use of reduction, recycling, re-use, landfill, or thermal disposal; the extent to which current practice is in accordance with international guidelines in this regard; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (11 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 167. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total investment in waste water management in each of the past five years to date; the expected expenditure in this area over the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34111/13]