Results 1-19 of 19 for waste management speaker:Willie Penrose

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Business: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: ...sat drinking coffee for the year they could return without issue. This is a joke. The dead hand of bureaucracy is holding back the credit unions and an exploration of the wider public banking model. Irish Rural Link, credit unions, managers such as Mr. Farrell and other organisations and parties should meet in the stakeholder forum to outline what does not work here. Of course, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Willie Penrose: ...crisis over the next period of time, which I stated at this committee last January and before that in November. It is very important that everybody plays a role, including the farmers, as to management of stock and various matters. I know the Minister is very committed to Food Wise 2025 and so on. I would like to see these things achieve their objectives, but they should be subject to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (13 Sep 2016)

Willie Penrose: ...having said as much over the last ten years: the multiple retailers have excessive power and they will utilise it. Unless there is a statutory way of dealing with them, those voluntary codes are a waste of time. I believe there has been an opportunity missed in the recent legislation. It has to be reviewed and put back on track. A proper statutory form of dealing with that process at...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (6 Apr 2011)

Willie Penrose: Appropriate measures to ensure that waste, which includes wastewater from septic tanks and proprietary waste systems, is recovered or disposed of without endangering human health and without using processes that could harm the environment, have necessarily been taken by my Department in order to address a recent ECJ judgment (C188/08) which found that Ireland was in breach of Article 4 of the...

Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (26 May 2010)

Willie Penrose: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the final instalment of the farm waste management grants will be awarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21986/10]

Labour Services (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Oct 2009)

Willie Penrose: ...will be in place in future. This is especially important in light of the comments of Deputy O'Dowd. I have had a good deal of interaction with FÁS. All the people I have met in FÁS, including managers, assistant managers, the Minister's staff, other staff and so on have treated me with nothing but the height of courtesy. They have worked with diligence and respect and have done a good...

Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (9 Jun 2009)

Willie Penrose: Question 574: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will request his officials dealing with the farm waste management scheme to carry out an inspection of a slatted shed erected by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath which was approved under the scheme in order to allow matters to progress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22509/09]

Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (25 Feb 2009)

Willie Penrose: Question 213: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if, in the context of the significant number of farmers who have the farm waste management grants which are duly payable to them, it is proposed to be granted over three years on a 40:40:20 basis, if they will be paid on a 50:50 basis; if the interest accruing on the outstanding loans which farmers negotiated with the...

Estimates for Public Services 2008 (17 Dec 2008)

Willie Penrose: ...in terms of Brazil. We have strict regulations due to foot and mouth disease and BSE. Everything is in its place. It is about time. I am generally not critical. However, I am critical of the waste management scheme. The Government met at Farmleigh House, but the Labour Party has been advocating the building of schools. Some 400 need to be built, a labour intensive project that would...

Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2008)

Willie Penrose: ...The cut in the disadvantaged area grant will result in a loss of income per farm of €995 in Longford and €982 in Westmeath. I called some time ago for an extension of the deadline for the farm waste management scheme. Between 2000 and 2006, €978 million was spent, excluding VAT, on capital investment in farm buildings. This year €1 billion will be spent, yet next year only €330...

Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion (25 Nov 2008)

Willie Penrose: ...in the real economy, which is not sheltered in any shape or form? In the local newspapers Johnny Owens stated: "I am expecting to be forced to get rid of more workers when the Government's Farm Waste Management Scheme comes to an end in December." I visited him at his home last Saturday; I wanted to know if I could use his name in my contribution. I know him and his family since my early...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (29 Oct 2008)

Willie Penrose: Question 383: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received the report of an investigation of the waste waiver schemes administered by local authorities; if on foot thereof, he will instruct his Department to take a lead role in helping and encouraging local authorities by carrying out a review of the administrative inconsistencies and anomalies...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Oct 2008)

Willie Penrose: Question 198: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a payment to a farmer (details supplied) in County Westmeath under the farm waste management grant scheme has not been awarded; if he will take steps to have same awarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34268/08]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (30 Sep 2008)

Willie Penrose: Question 553: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a payment under the farm waste management scheme has not been granted to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath, despite the fact that it was approved in early July 2008; if in this context he will take steps to have same awarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32496/08]

Schools Building Projects. (30 Apr 2008)

Willie Penrose: ...placed in priority banding 1, a decisive indication that a new school was the only way forward. I salute the school principal, Val O'Connor, and all the teachers who, together with the board of management and the parents' association, must be rightly proud of the excellent academic achievements of the school's pupils over the last number of years, complemented by their heroic achievements...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (26 Sep 2007)

Willie Penrose: Question 669: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will take steps to ensure that a grant due to a person (details supplied) in County Longford under the farm waste management scheme is awarded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20951/07]

Schools Building Projects. (21 Jun 2006)

Willie Penrose: ...the opportunity to raise this matter, which is of considerable importance in terms of the safety of the students attending Coláiste Mhuire, Mullingar, and greatly concerns parents and the board of management of the school. Coláiste Mhuire is one of a number of secondary schools in Mullingar and my own alma mater. I remember attending the school in the late 1960s. I appeal to the Minister...

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (31 May 2006)

Willie Penrose: ...for the better. Section 3 effectively provides that major construction projects, including private projects, can be built without going through the normal planning process. These projects include waste incinerators, chemical treatment plants, major landfills, oil refineries, large oil and gas storage tanks, oil and gas pipelines, wind farms, electricity pylons, airports, seaports, railway...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (18 May 2005)

Willie Penrose: ...structure and remit of the proposed new division dealing with major planning applications in respect of the proposed reform of An Bord Pleanála; if planning applications for incinerators and other waste management facilities will be dealt with by this division; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16343/05]