Results 1-5 of 5 for waste management speaker:Joe Higgins
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Joe Higgins: What the Taoiseach and the Government are proposing here is a gross abuse of parliamentary procedure. They are attempting to introduce substantial measures, for example, on motor taxation, on waste management and on water charges and related issues but instead of having separate Bills for each issue, with a proper Second Stage for each, they are attempting to roll the whole lot together in...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Joe Higgins: ...the Atlantic between 1540 and 1580 - Gold robbed from Latin America paid for everything". He concluded: There was hardly any lasting positive effect on the Spanish economy. How did Spain manage to waste one of the biggest financial windfalls in human history? And are there any lessons for modern Europe and Ireland in the history of the Spanish gold rush? In Ireland, were there any...
- Irish Ferries: Motion (Resumed). (12 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: ...by tabling this motion. I find it reprehensible that, apart from The Irish Times, not a single other organ of the millionaire-owned press has covered the debate so far. The exposure of the criminal waste of taxpayers' funds in the health information technology services was widely reported, and rightly so, but what beckons in Irish Ferries is more fundamental to the future shape of this...
- Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: The EPA audit of waste in 2001 showed up the complete sham of a policy over which the Government has stood for years when it reported a complete failure to significantly reduce waste or to put effective recycling programmes in place. All we had were gestures and posturing. The latter were particularly represented in the so-called "Race against waste" television advertisements when, quite...
- Water Services Bill 2003 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (5 Oct 2004)
Joe Higgins: ...but as I will show in the limited time available, the suggestion is that water is free and, therefore, having it supplied to our homes without a specific tax or charge on it means we will wantonly waste it. That is always the subtext for saying we must have direct water charges. I reject that. The explanatory memorandum states the Bill deals with management of water in the pipe from...