Results 1-20 of 28 for waste management speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Nov 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...capacity in the health service and how it contributes to hospital overcrowding for almost a decade; - delayed discharge is significant and linked to a growing waiting list for home care support; - delayed discharges constitute one of the biggest financial wastes of money and resources in the health service and cost the health service nearly €600 million since 2016; - the freezing...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...significant overspends in 2015 and 2016 will not only have a crippling effect on the budgets of these hospital sites but will also have a serious impact on the quality of services and the general morale of those involved in management and front-line provision and that holding to this template will ultimately have a significant negative impact on the quality of the service being provided? ...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...in so far as it goes. However, as I have already stated on numerous occasions, Sinn Féin would go much further and would extend the principle of solidarity to the way we fund, organise, structure and manage our entire health care system. I will return to this point later. Risk equalisation makes possible the scheme of community rating which ensures that all consumers are charged...

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...was arrived at. It was apparently dictated by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. When the 2014 HSE service plan was published, the figure had magically changed to €23 million. This surely calls into question the entire management of health funding and health services by the Minister and the Government. While the Cabinet's juggling with figures is shrouded in...

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...power has been taken away from democratically elected councillors and we in Sinn Féin want to see maximum power devolved from central Government to local authorities. These powers include economic planning, waste management, water and sewage and housing. Any reform of local government must ensure the efficient and cost-effective delivery of services, of structures fit for purpose...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...I know people with epilepsy and can assure the Minister and the House of the genuineness of their concerns in this matter. It is not about Opposition Members seeking some minor note that we have managed to amend a government Bill - far from it. It must be acknowledged, too, that each and every one of us on these benches indicated on Second Stage that we absolutely supported the...

Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...over many years. It is plain silly for any Minister to tell Members the loss of 7,500 staff in the last two months, and 9,000 staff in total, is no big deal. It is a very big deal. Change management consultant Eddie Molloy has commented that such a significant loss of senior knowledge and skills across the public sector would take five years to process if managed correctly. While the...

Hospital Services (11 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...spending in the health services? In response to previous parliamentary questions she estimated these cuts at between €600 million and €1 billion. How will she explain the ongoing abuse and waste within our two tier system to patients who depend on public hospitals? Clinical directors and hospital managers have had to write to almost 300 consultants regarding blatant breaches of...

Macro-Economic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...based on a fair taxation system that ensures the wealthy pay their share, on investment in jobs which will increase State revenue and reduce the social welfare bill, and on the elimination of wasteful public spending. Our approach is based on the reality that there is wealth in the State and that 1% of the population controls 20% of that wealth. If that inequality had been addressed a...

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (Resumed) (5 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: .... Sean Fitzpatrick and Chief Executive, Mr. David Drumm, that Anglo Irish Bank was insolvent and requested a takeover of the bank; — noting that immediately following this meeting Bank of Ireland management then contacted Allied Irish Bank and both banks immediately sought a meeting with the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan; —further noting that following these meetings the...

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...facilities even though there is idle space aplenty within the local hospital site that could accommodate such services. This story is replicated in many locations nationwide and this constitutes waste and is where real savings could be addressed. It entails better HSE management to ensure there is no waste of money and not to penalise the poorest, that is, the medical card holders across...

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...leadership of Fianna Fáil has brought the State and the economy. Where would the political leadership of Fine Gael bring us? With the Fianna Fáil Government on the ropes, Fine Gael has managed to deliver a knockout punch – to itself. We have no confidence in either Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael. However, the motion before us today is about the Taoiseach, Deputy Brian Cowen, and the...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (20 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 788: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether the measures adopted in the Waste Management (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Regulations 2005 have been sufficient to encourage and facilitate consumer recycling of electrical and electronic waste; the process by which the effectiveness of the regulations is being evaluated;...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...outrage that 27% has been cut from the budget for building, equipping and furnishing primary schools. Children will continue to be taught in dilapidated buildings and millions will continue to be wasted in rents for so-called temporary prefabricated accommodation. Earlier this year the Government announced a €150 million programme for installing IT equipment in schools, but only those...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to the hardship caused to farmers following his decision to defer the full payment of grants allocated under the farm waste management scheme and in particular the case of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; if he will review this case with a view to making a speedier payment in order to alleviate the...

Pre-Budget Statements (24 Mar 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...The Government must ring-fence social expenditure to support all those who are on the threshold of poverty. Revenue must be raised through taxing those who can afford to pay, through eliminating waste in public expenditure and through job retention and job creation — the most critical element that the Government has failed to grasp so far. We need a real and effective employment...

Requests to Move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (30 Oct 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...and the need for the Government to introduce a range of measures including the carrying out by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of the promised review of costings under the farm waste management scheme, the need to restore the grant under the scheme to 70% of costs and to extend the scheme to June 2009.

Capitation Grants: Motion (11 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...classes pupils are obliged to sit on the floor. Their class size has been described as unsuitable for many of today's subjects such as practical science. A spokesperson from the school's board of management stated that it is now over three years since they first submitted proposals to the Minister for Education and Science, yet they have heard nothing in return. She said that they...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (1 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 208: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, further to his comment that Ireland requires no more than two incinerators to deal with waste, which are to be located in Counties Cork and Meath, and in view of An Taoiseach's recent announcement that based on his examination of new technologies, perhaps Ireland will not need eight incinerators, there...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (27 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 257: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that residents who pay waste management charges to property management companies are unable to claim tax relief on these charges; his views on whether this discriminates against such residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11186/07]