Results 1-20 of 41 for waste management speaker:Seán Fleming

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Illegal Dumping (30 Apr 2024)

Seán Fleming: ...Smyth, also has a clear role in this area due to the data protection issue. The Circular Economy and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 advanced a number of priority provisions identified in the waste action plan, including the provision of GDPR-compliant use of technologies, such as CCTV. The Act facilitates the use of CCTV schemes, under either the Litter Pollution Act or the Waste...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Aid (16 Nov 2023)

Seán Fleming: I propose to take Questions Nos. 64 and 72 together. In Budget 2024, the Government provided the highest ever allocation for the international development assistance programme managed, under Vote 27, by the Department of Foreign Affairs. The allocation of €776.5 million represents an increase of €60 million, or 8.4% of the 2023 allocation. This will help to ensure that Ireland...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...deal with several other issues that are primarily funded in the context of the health service, such as patient care, health and social care, professional support day services, respite services and management of administration. The correspondence also gives a further breakdown of the information. I will pick one as an example. The Irish Wheelchair Association has 2,638 staff but only...

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: With whatever is available or not available as the case may be. We touched on recycling and Ms Burke said the amount of waste going to landfill is decreasing but much of it is being managed by heat recovery or, to use the old-fashioned word, incinerator or waste heat recovery biomass. Does the EPA have a role in terms of all the new applications that are submitted? If, say, Bord na...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (4 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...issues, a number of governance issues - the college was not in full compliance with the code of practice for the governance of State bodies - the board’s decision to discontinue a human resources management project resulting in a waste of public money amounting to €138,000, and the recognition of a deferred pension funding asset of €87 million, which is the standard...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...were heard by Mr. Justice Humphreys. According to the correspondent, the judge excoriated various public bodies, Wicklow County Council and the Department as the job done is so bad that public moneys were wasted and a further remedial project must recommence. Much money has been expended on this matter. The topic was discussed by the committee recently and we will ask for a very...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...College Cork, dated 8 June 2018 providing follow-up information requested by the committee on Cork University Foundation, Athena Swan, Infini-LED, IMI pay scales, the IMI aspiring leaders programme and a note on key management personnel. We will note and publish that information and members are free to use it as they see fit. The next item is No. 1376B from Mr. Ciarán Breen,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...the other two thirds come? The local authorities derive income from commercial rates, planning fees, development levies, housing rent payments, housing loans, mortgage protection schemes, parking fees, waste management recycling charges, landfill levies, contributions made locally under local improvement schemes, the community involvement scheme, the disabled person's housing aid scheme,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I am very disappointed that the Secretary General does not know and I hope it is in excess of 1 million. However, the cost of waste collection in County Laois is €360 per annum for a wheelie bin. I pay it, but it is bad value for money. It is €1 a day and €7 a week for a person in receipt of social welfare payments. I used to travel through towns years ago and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: The number of households should be uppermost in people's minds when we talk about waste management. By his own admission, the Secretary General tells me at least 600,000 houses are outside the system, if it is 1 million. That is an awful admission but the Department does not seem to know about it or have any information. I am being a bit difficult on this because I do not believe the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: The public system of waste management is fundamentally flawed because I do not believe people at Government level. The fact is that even Mr. Griffin, the Secretary General of the Department, cannot tell me. I am not being personal; I am saying it is endemic in the system not to want to know. The Department does not ask those kinds of questions, it just issues licences and there it goes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...can dispose of it at that stage. There might be something in it that we can refer on to the Minister in the future. Nos. 394C (i) and(ii) were received on 29 March 2017 from an individual alleging waste of taxpayers' funds in the Irish Prison Service. The person wishes to draw the committee’s attention to the inadequacy of the internal audit unit to properly police and protect...

National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Second Stage (25 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...of local government if shared service work at local government level was to be taken over by the NSSO. Local authorities have taken the lead when it comes to shared services in areas such as waste management and the processing of permits and housing loan applications. I would not like to see this work subsumed into a national office under the supervision of a Minister and removed from...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...is that approximately 84% of water leaks are from the public mains, not from private property. This is the reason Irish Water stated recently, "The real bull work of water conservation and leakage management is to have district meters. We have about 10,000 of them across the country." The councils already had them in place as part of their infrastructure. It should be clear that 84% of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...about helping small businesses but when we look at the stark facts, we see that the percentage of local authority income coming from commercial rates is increasing year on year. On the issue of waste, we now have three regions in the country. Submissions were completed at the end of January and we are meeting our target of 45% recycling, which is good, and landfill of 39%. However, I...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Minister is answering the question, so we are not wasting time. One question that I raised on Second Stage was about a situation in which one of the big banks - AIB or Bank of Ireland - sells the loan to a company outside Ireland, which in turn appoints a credit servicing firm to do the work for it in Ireland. Essentially, the Minister is saying that the owner, who could be in any other...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...insert the following:“(2) Section 33A of the Central Bank Act 1997 is amended by inserting the following subsection after subsection (5)—“(6) The Bank shall also impose a condition that debt management firm and/or a credit servicing firm shall be subject to the Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears 2013, in relation to all mortgages, including a mortgage that was not...

Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...sacrifice that is responsible rather than the work of a Minister. For the first three years, the Government followed the agreement in place with the troika. It now has to follow EU rules on managing finances from now on, which is quite proper. We can consider the big ticket items of this Government, which the Ministers had a role in and which they chose to follow but which are...

Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (12 Feb 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...not asking the Minister of State to change this, because the system is so broken that a little tinkering with the system is not the issue, but it is symptomatic. One can pay online every sort of a fine, waste management bills and almost anything else one likes to a local authority because they have become very efficient, but the system does not allow online payment for commercial rates....

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...not adequate yet. When we are on the fourth round, he will be promising more. I do not know how long this debacle will continue. I could talk about the bonus culture, the super-quango and the waste of money, but I will deal instead with the legislation before us today. I have serious concerns in regard to a number of issues. The explanatory note on the legislation, published by the...