Results 1-13 of 13 for waste management speaker:Olivia Mitchell

Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2014)

Olivia Mitchell: ..., physios, etc. It is almost impossible to collate a complete health history based on a name alone, particularly where a person has a complex or long-term complaint. We must access and manage information more effectively. Not to put a tooth in it, but a slightly worrying question is, if 30% of our budget is spent on filing, how much of a health professional's time is wasted as a result....

Health Service Budget: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2012)

Olivia Mitchell: ...takes the easy option of demanding that services be maintained regardless of the overrun. All of us wish that services could be maintained but the issue is achieving it. The clear absence of any management structure when setting up the HSE was disastrous and it has dogged it ever since. It merely introduced a layer of management on top of the layer of management that existed for the...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (8 May 2008)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 554: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there are implications for Government waste management policy in respect of incineration and recycling, in view of claims of waste ownership by Dublin local authorities. [17206/08]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (25 Oct 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 163: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the looming crisis in waste management due to the absence of direction and co-ordination of a clear regulatory framework and of clarity of direction in terms of waste ownership and provision of infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25857/07]

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: ...emissions. The Green Party previously refused even to accept the role of incineration as set out in the EU hierarchy. Nor did it accept the notion that there is any energy saving in terms of the waste to energy function of incineration. Whatever about past utterances, what I am interested in now is action. The Minister must make a decision on this and we ask him to do so according to...

Transport 21: Statements (Resumed) (9 Nov 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: ...engineering projects have been a result of a lack of capacity in the economy but, since the expansion of the EU, labour has been readily available, although the need remains to strengthen project management teams and the technical and financial support required for major projects. Given the magnitude of the investments in transport planned for the next ten years, it is essential we spend...

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: ...The budget has gone from €29.6 million to €42.7 million and nobody knows where it will end. The €10.5 million already spent is dead money. It makes no contribution and has been completely wasted. We will have to start again. More has been lost in the initial financial outlay of the €10.5 million. The opportunity cost of failure to deliver something promised as far back as 1997...

Road Traffic Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (20 Jun 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: ...and unacceptably high numbers killed and seriously injured on our roads. Most measures in the Bill, such as the graduated licence, depend on enforcement of the existing legislation. We have not managed to do that. It seems a pointless exercise to introduce graduated licences because one must take a test to graduate to the next level. Until the testing system is sorted, there is no point in...

Written Answers — End-of-Life Vehicles: End-of-Life Vehicles (9 Mar 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: ...and Local Government the means by which it is proposed to impose the full cost of dismantling, treating and recycling end-of-life vehicles on manufacturers as per the recently published draft waste management, end-of-life, vehicle regulations 2006. [9862/06]

Road Safety: Motion. (8 Nov 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: .... I do not know what it has cost since then in terms of maintenance and upkeep. Will it ever deliver on its promise? Until the system is fully and effectively functioning Garda time and energy is wasted and we will continue to have more road deaths. Random breath testing was promised by a previous Minister for Transport in 1999 but it has fallen completely off the radar. I accept there are...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (28 Sep 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 1372: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce the necessary legislative changes to ensure that each residential unit in managed residential developments is billed for the volume or weight of waste which the unit produces in order that residents are given the opportunity to control their own waste bills rather than allowing the...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (28 Sep 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 1373: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will amend the draft Waste Management (Collection Permit) Regulations 2005 to prevent waste collection permit holders from charging residential management companies for a shared weight bin rate. [24974/05]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (28 Sep 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 1374: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact in spite of the requirement in section 21 of the Waste Management (Collection Permit) Regulations 2001 that all permits be reviewed once every two years. Since 2001 none of the permits in the Dublin area has been subject to such a review. 24975/05