Results 1-20 of 69 for waste management speaker:Darragh O'Brien

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...x2014; (I) a permission under Part 4 and an integrated pollution control licence or industrial emissions licence under Part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992, (II) a permission under Part 4 and a waste licence under Part V of the Waste Management Act 1996, (III) a permission under Part 4 and a waste water discharge licence under the Waste Water Discharge...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (20 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 589 to 593, inclusive, together. The policy of providing grant funding for remedial work on Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems (DWWTS), including septic tanks, arises from the need to address damage being done to water quality in sensitive areas in particular. The grants are focused on the areas of greatest environmental priority and are available...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (5 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...to a specific Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report. I am assuming that the report referred to is Antimicrobial Resistance and the Environment – Sources, Persistence, Transmission and Risk Management (AREST). If this is the case, the report was published in February 2024. The findings and recommendations of the research study will be examined more closely. In particular,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (27 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I understand the Question refers to Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems (DWWTS), commonly known as septic tanks, and their selection for inspection under the National Inspection Plan and the grants available to households. The policy of providing grant support to households for remedial work on septic tanks arises from the need to address damage being done to water quality in sensitive...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (22 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The policy of providing grant funding for remedial work on domestic waste water treatment systems (DWWTS) arises from the need to address damage being done to water quality in sensitive areas in particular. The three grant schemes available to householders are focused on the areas of greatest environmental priority and are not general in application. Householders can avail of the grants if...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...shall have regard to the fact that functions relating to the control of emissions arising from an activity subject to an integrated pollution control licence, industrial emissions licence, waste water discharge licence or a waste licence vest in the Environmental Protection Agency. The Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 and the Waste Management Act 1996 already adequately and in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: .... That is the reason for the amendment to delete the section. It is already well covered under the two Acts that have already gone through, the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 and the Waste Management Act 1996. As I said in my initial response, these more adequately and, crucially, in more detail provide that the EPA is responsible for controlling emissions from licensed...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...got is that it is not appropriate for that to be there because it crosses over with two previous pieces of legislation that are in place, those being the Environmental Protection Act 1992 and the Waste Management Act 1996. I must have regard to that advice. All of us understand that a permission relates to use and what can be done in a building. Emissions are a separate matter and I...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: .... I said in response to Deputy Ó Broin's intervention that planning permission and permissions granted relate to use. Emissions are separate and are matters for licensing. Take, for example, a wastewater treatment plant, for argument's sake. Considerations in that regard include the capacity and what is allowed by the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, which is the authority in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waste Management (20 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The policy of providing grant funding for remedial work on domestic waste water treatment systems arises from the need to address damage being done to water quality in sensitive areas in particular. There are three grant schemes available to householders relating to DWWTS, commonly known as septic tank grants. The grants are focused on these areas of greatest environmental priority. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Priorities (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Health Among Residents of Oliver Bond Report". I anticipate that there will be input also provided by the report authors. The details of that meeting will be finalised in due course. The management and maintenance of DCC’s housing stock is strictly a matter for the Local Authority. DCC have advised that the Council has been undertaking works to improve the living conditions of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (31 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...with local organisations to understand further the remit and function of this proposed role. For Public Works contracts such as redevelopment it is a matter for DCC to bring forward proposals for Capital Works Management Framework Stage approvals from my Department. The stage applied for by the Council is dependent on the progress of the redevelopment involved. Stage 1 Capital Appraisal...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (28 Nov 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: There are currently three separate Domestic Waste Water Treatment System (DWWTS) grant schemes, commonly known as Septic Tank Grants, available to householders. The purpose of the grants is to provide financial assistance to householders to repair or upgrade septic tanks. In order to avail of the grants, householders must have failed an inspection under the National Inspection Plan and be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (16 Nov 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: There are currently three grant schemes available to householders relating to Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems (DWWTS) commonly known as Septic Tank Grants. The purpose of the grants is to provide financial assistance to households to carry out works to defective septic tanks. The grants are focused on the areas of greatest environmental priority to protect human health and the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (9 Nov 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Programme, through Exchequer funding, delivers improvements to private domestic water services in rural areas where there are no public (Uisce Éireann) water services. It provides operational and management subsidies for the group water sector and also provides capital investment in the wider rural water sector. The Multi-annual Rural Water Programme provides capital funding...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: EU Directives (17 Oct 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...27/6/85 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment C-261/18 INFR (2013)2056 - Application of Directive concerning urban waste water Directive 91/271/EEC concerning urban waste-water treatment C-427/17 INFR (2015)2006 - Designation of Special Areas of Conservation in Ireland ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Pollution (10 Oct 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 298 and 299 together. Primary responsibility for the monitoring, management, protection and improvement of water quality is assigned to local authorities under the Local Government (Water Pollution) Acts and related legislation. Since 1 January 2014, Uisce Éireann has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Pollution (27 Jun 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The management and protection of bathing waters requires an integrated catchment management approach incorporating the physical, geographical, social and hydrological characteristics of the catchment area of the bathing water and careful management of activities that could be a source of pollution. The primary responsibility for the monitoring, management, protection and improvement of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...guidelines will continue to allow county development plans to provide for housing in the countryside based on the considerations detailed in NPO 19 of the NPF, and will also highlight the need to manage development in certain areas, such as the areas around cities and larger towns and environmentally sensitive areas, in order to avoid over-development. The draft guidelines are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (18 Apr 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department is currently preparing Ireland’s third-cycle River Basin Management Plan, which will be a strategic government plan that will outline the national policies and high-level goals that will protect and restore our natural waters. The aim of the next plan is the identification and implementation of the “right measure in the right place”, with targeted measures...