Results 1-20 of 24 for waste management speaker:Ruairi Quinn

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (27 May 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: ...before full metered charges were introduced from 1 January 2010. The Department has issued guidance to schools on the most appropriate measures to minimise excess consumption of water and to reduce waste, where it exists and are updated on an ongoing basis on www.energyineducation.ie. Schools are advised to develop a water management plan, in order that they would be familiar with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Broadband Services Provision (11 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: ...in accordance with industry standards and comply with all applicable laws with particular but not exclusive regard to the requirements of the Safety Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, the Waste Management Act 1996, the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 and employment legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (30 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: ...the working hours of full-time SNAs is as outlined in the standard SNA contract of employment, which was agreed by this Department, the Trade Unions (IMPACT and SIPTU) representing SNAs and the Management Bodies in 2005. In that context, the standard SNA contract has been designed to be flexible to cater for the different spectrum of working hours across all the various schools including...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Outsourcing of Public Services (22 Jan 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: ...and training courses at various levels, services provided for teachers and special needs assistants and a range of corporate functions for education providers such as ICT support, payroll, HR, waste management, cleaning and security. For instance, in 2012, the Momentum initiative was announced following a two-stage application process for providers, where value for money as well as...

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: ...debate should have some confidence in the progress made so far. Experience and talent acquired in the course of somebody acting in a capacity above what he or was doing previously should not be wasted but it seems that is a management decision rather than one for legislation. I know the Senator is seeking clarification rather than a change to the legislation but it is a matter for discussion.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Facilities (5 Mar 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: ...7 universities Applicable Analysis: An International Journal Taylor and Francis STEM 2013 Was available in the 7 universities & RCSI Applied Artificial Intelligence Taylor and Francis STEM 2013 Was available in the 7 universities & RCSI Applied Spectroscopy Reviews Taylor and Francis STEM 2013 Was available in the 7 universities & RCSI Aquaculture Economics &...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Services (11 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: ...and training courses at various levels, services provided for teachers and special needs assistants and a range of corporate functions for education providers such as ICT support, payroll, HR, waste management, cleaning and security.

Written Answers — Departmental Contracts: Departmental Contracts (19 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: ...and training courses at various levels, services provided for teachers and special needs assistants and a range of corporate functions for education providers such as ICT support, payroll, HR, waste management, cleaning, security etc. If the Deputy have a particular interest regarding a specific area of public service provision, my officials will endeavour to supply the details as far as...

Written Answers — Third Level Courses: Third Level Courses (23 Feb 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: ...Certificate in Export Marketing & Enterprise Development Level 7 50 1 Dublin Business School Certificate in Financial Services Level 7 40 1 Dublin Business School Advanced Certificate in Project Management for ICT Professional Level 8 24 1 Dublin Business School Certificate in Advanced Networking & Cloud Technologies Level 8 34 1 Dublin Business School Certificate in Database...

Written Answers — Radioactive Waste: Radioactive Waste (4 Oct 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 208 to 212, inclusive, and 214 together. The management of radioactive waste is the responsibility of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government working in conjunction with the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII). Information available from the RPII regarding disused radioactive waste in the country's education sector...

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

Ruairi Quinn: ...share issue experiment had bombed. Many of them purchased apartments in Carrick-on-Shannon. Some of them go up there periodically to have a barbecue or party, but those properties are essentially wasting away. These guys felt that since they were paying very heavy taxes - which, in fact, they were not - that this was a type of no-cost option. All of the people in the transaction chain...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (10 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: ...and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 397 of 17 February 2009, and in view of the fact that he or his representatives on the Project Procurement Board for the Dublin Bay waste management incinerator have not had sight of the contract for the public private partnership, if he will confirm that he is unable to state the capital cost of the incinerator to the State and...

e-Government Services: Motion (29 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: ...the buildings unit of the Department of Education and Science in Tullamore but no one has an answering service at his or her telephone number. I can go on-line at any time of the day or night and manage my bank account, buy car insurance, buy just about any book or piece of music ever published, reserve a hotel room or a holiday in any country in the world, buy a plane ticket, reserve my...

School Accommodation. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: ...of those prefabs. She cannot say what is the cost of those prefabs. She cannot say when permanent accommodation, as in her reply to the previous question, will be put in place. Instead she will waste money on new prefabs when the parents and everybody else in that school outside Mallow, albeit with 70 odd pupils, want a permanent building. Is it any wonder her Department is rated as...

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: Based on various calculations required under law, the economics of public private partnership are built on a foundation of sand. The waste management planning regulations of 1997 require a waste management plan to include systems for monitoring the before, during and after of any changes made by the plan. The waste management plan agreed by the elected members of Dublin City Council in...

Citizens Information Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: ...of issues I would like clarified on Committee Stage because considerable money will be spent in this area. I have no problem with the spending of such money but I have a big problem with it being wasted. People would like to know what these advocates will do that is different from what is currently being done. In the case of people who have a communications problem, be they blind, deaf...

White Paper on Irish Aid: Statements (2 Nov 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: ...to the Minister of State, Deputy Conor Lenihan, and the Government on the production of the White Paper. If we do not deal with the issue of corruption and poor governance, this money will be wasted. The people in the Visitors Gallery and the taxpayers paying €700 million to €1 billion per year and who find it hard to understand why they cannot get remedial teachers for their...

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: ...solved this problem by removing all relevant powers from the elected representatives of the people on Dublin City Council and vesting them in civil servants instead. Ministerial diktat runs the waste policy of Dublin city. The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government claimed last night in the House and on RTE radio earlier, that CHP will be undertaken in Poolbeg. He...

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (25 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: ...stages in providing a primary school was a bureaucratic procedure designed to conceal the fact that resources were scarce and to ration out those resources over a period with a veneer of proper management. Now there is a crisis because parents cannot enrol their children in school, yet the procedure for the provision of primary schools has not been radically transformed when it needs to...

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (25 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: If the waste management plan is successful, we will reduce the flow of fuel to incinerators and, if the fuel is not burnt at a sufficient volume to a sufficient temperature, there is a risk of dioxins entering the system. This was one of the conclusions drawn from the Merck Sharp and Dohme controversy in Tipperary many years ago. It is difficult to take at face value the proposition that this...