Results 1-20 of 32 for waste management speaker:Catherine Murphy

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...see are happening. For example, Irish Water will have a contract with a contractor to do a large piece of work where before it used to be the local authority. This is now done by Irish Water, in the case of water and wastewater. The local authority cannot apply penalties, for example, and must have Irish Water do this. It is now a two-stage process. There is a further example of a big...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...is a direct quote. It is aware that Benefacts Analytics had that service, and obviously, it was dispensed with. Why was Benefacts Analytics being used in 2020 and 2021 by Tusla in its financial management processes? Why was that not considered as the basis for further development? Those are my three areas. I do not know if the committee is aware, but the Carmichael Ireland Centre...

Court Proceedings (Delays) Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...eight days' annual leave, so there was a kind of a double sanction, as it were. We have to ask if that is a good use of the court's time. Both individuals I talked to are stressed about the issue. It seems to me that it shows a failing in how the court's time is managed. That may well be to do with inadequate court staffing levels, but it is also wasteful of the time of those involved,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. It is how we get to see how they are managing what there is, whether it is effectively managed and whether there is waste, which is an issue. We are looking at waste but also talking about delivery of a service.

Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Jul 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...We can pick the dates every year on which we are going to see this kind of thing. It tends to be two or three weeks before the summer recess, or just before the Christmas recess. It is almost like a management tool to get Bills that are unpopular or dangerous through at breakneck speed. There was no meaningful consultation with the DPC at all. Sending it the Bill in advance is not...

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I have been following this story for the past week and during the debate tonight and I am struggling to figure out exactly who is in charge. Is it the management that is running the hospital or what input does the Government have? The Taoiseach made his position quite clear earlier today regarding UHL. He said the HSE is directly responsible for the running and the management of hospitals...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...in the Department think of this aspect? It may be there are other Bills where we should learn from this shortcoming. A point I would like to build on is the context of human rights. The court management office and the court presenters must be cognisant of the position relating to Articles 6 and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights, in summary, the right to a fair and public...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (21 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the regional waste management plans; the regions covered by the plans; if domestic waste generated in those regions is wholly disposed of within those regions; if not, the type of waste that is disposed of outside the region; the location of the waste disposed of and the volumes; and if he will make a...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: ...for Finance made quite the song and dance yesterday about what he referred to as good governance and responsible politics. He even had the audacity to go so far as to claim credit for the responsible management of the public finances and somehow managed to do it with a straight face. Perhaps that is because he studiously avoided any reference to the billions of euro wasted on cost...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: ..., I wish to discuss the ongoing work on the national children's hospital. I am very concerned by some things that have been brought to my attention by people working on the site. I refer to the management of the site and the degree of waste. Could the witnesses tell me anything about the oversight that is in place and who is carrying it out? I am quite concerned by reports of really...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: ...all of the attention will be on two budget options and whether the Government will opt for budget A or budget B in the autumn. Regardless of which budget is presented, we cannot afford any more wasteful spending as a result of particularly poor economic decisions. Unfortunately, disastrous economic decisions continue to be made. It is no longer news that we are in the grip of a housing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Last week at the Committee of Public Accounts I raised the issue of the national broadband plan. There are now significant concerns as to how the process to date has been managed, whether the awarding of the contract, if we get to that stage, will have been done in the best manner possible and whether the State will get the best possible deal. We know there will have been no competitive...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: -----a private site. The Department states it has not spent any money on private sites. Parking the Kerdiffstown site, there are 61 public ones. When local authorities had an involvement in waste management, that was included in the costs when there were charges. There is not separate income to deal with the public sites, which, I presume, are all owned by local authorities. Do we know...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: ...about opportunities. Today was an opportunity for bold and brave vision, and an opportunity to take Ireland on new path. However, today the Government decided to let those opportunities go to waste, choosing instead to try to please as many groups as possible in some small way rather than focusing on targeted measures which could achieve real and substantial change. Let us be clear that...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: ...no difficulty with some of the provisions, but it would have been very helpful to have had a decent Second Stage debate to discuss some of the issues being addressed by way of amendments. The waste industry has left a trail of destruction in its wake in some parts of the country and some of the problems have been very expensive to remediate. There have been improvements during the...

Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: ...if we are to escape paying large amounts of hard cash under our climate change obligations. There must be investment in public transport and cities and towns must function in a way that is not wasteful of time and energy. Compared with many western European countries, some of which are our competitors, we are still in the ha'penny place in terms of broadband. This impacts on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (Resumed) (18 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I thank our guests for coming before us. Since 2000 there has been quite a dramatic change in people's behaviour in the context of waste management. Some of this has to do with the introduction of green bins, composting, etc. It is clear that there has been a change since the notion of the incinerator was first mooted. The first contract that was drawn up contained a guarantee in respect...

Seanad Reform: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2014)

Catherine Murphy: ...about the concentration of 43 local authorities into a unitary Irish Water but the pipes are still located in the local authority areas. The White Paper might have offered us a different way of managing this change by connecting our institutions. The Seanad could deliver that kind of change and I support the call in this motion to engage all parties and groups in the Oireachtas, as well...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (23 Sep 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 516. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the basis in national waste policy for the proposal by the four Dublin local authorities to develop an incinerator to meet national waste management needs, rather than the needs of the Dublin region as originally envisaged; if a regional approach to waste management has been abandoned by the Government; and if an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Towards a Zero Waste Approach to Water: Dublin Institute of Technology (8 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: ...be of a higher standard than some of the water that has been treated with chemicals, which in some cases are fairly sinister? Treated water is heavily chlorinated and can be very unappetising. Water treatment can be managed well where there is treatment along a system as opposed to close to the outlet. I presume the waste water and storm water go into the combined sewer system but that...