Results 1-18 of 18 for waste management speaker:Joanna Tuffy

Topical Issue Matters (5 Jul 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: ...in each case: (1) Deputies Sandra McLellan and Noel Harrington - ambulance services in west Cork; (2) Deputy Joe McHugh - cross-Border cardiac services in the north west; (3) Deputy Niall Collins - waste management costs for households in the Dublin area; (4) Deputy Colm Keaveney - proposed anti-homosexual laws in the Ukraine; (5) Deputy Joan Collins - a separate cystic fibrosis hospital...

Fifth Report of the Joint Committee on Climate Change and Energy Security: Motion (11 Nov 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: ...or they may not know what they will involve in practice. It is an issue to which we need to give much more thought. Green jobs are talked about as if they relate only to the construction and waste management sectors but we need to focus on the scientific area as in the invention of products, say, to help conserve energy and to help our economic growth and the development of start up...

Carbon Budget: Statements (11 Dec 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: ...Government cut through the environment budget. That budget covers the Environment Protection Agency etc. and 25% less will be spent under the environment heading. Some 67% less is to be spent on waste management, which is very important in the reduction of emissions. We must ensure people do not send rubbish to landfill or incinerate it. The local government fund has been cut by 12%....

FÁS: Motion (6 Oct 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: ...None of that is being examined. There is a problem regarding all the scandals that have come out. There was a culture in FÁS which came from the Government, because there has been a culture of waste of public money and extravagant expenditure by the Government, which was followed through in terms of how the management and board of directors managed and governed FÁS. Several things need...

Waste Disposal. (5 Feb 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: The Minister referred to the downturn in the market for recyclable material. He had a meeting before Christmas with waste management operators about that issue. He suggested on the RTE "One o'clock News" that some of the material such as paper and cardboard could be processed in some way to make fuel pellets and that it could be used as fuel and burned in one of the ESB plants in the midlands.

Written Answers — Waste Disposal: Waste Disposal (29 Jan 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 135: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will report on his meeting on 19 December 2008 with representatives of the waste management industry in relation to the collapse in the global market for recyclable waste and his proposals to use some of the waste for fuel; if this was implemented; the outcome of the request by industry representatives...

Schools Building Projects. (6 Nov 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: ...for its suitability to provide a two-stream primary school. The survey report is with the Department of Education and Science since August 2007. The parents, teachers, pupils and board of management of the school are concerned about the lack of progress since that survey was forwarded to the Department. From inquiries they have made there have not been any discussions between the...

Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: ...Department or the HEA on vacant places. Those places are paid for by the taxpayer. The equipment is paid for and the teachers are employed. Those course places remain unfilled and are going to waste. There is no transparency about that and there should be. Not only are those courses unfilled, but also the subjects they include are degree courses in universities and institutes of...

Water Pollution. (5 Jun 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: .... The water was contaminated with phenol by an aluminium chloride product that, according to a HSE report, "was not recommended for use in the treatment of drinking water and was suitable only for waste water treatment". Of the nine group schemes to which such a product was supplied, five were found to have been contaminated. I welcome the HSE's findings. As phenol is unpalatable at low...

Dublin Transport Authority Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: ...it was defeated because it would have been unsustainable. It was not near any public transport nodes. It would have led to urban sprawl in a rural area and issues about connections to water, waste facilities and so on would have arisen. Some months ago the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government provided information about a survey he had done on climate change. The...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (8 May 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: ...605: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for the Government to drive down the cost of waste management charges to households and businesses. [17952/08]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (8 May 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: ...for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to establish community monitoring arrangements of major waste management facilities. [17953/08]

Student Support Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: ...new provision? There could be injustices on the other side also. If a 40-year old loses his or her job in the construction sector and moves back in with his or her parents because he or she never managed to buy his or her own property, he or she will be assessed on his or her parents' income. Will that situation continue to obtain? In the current housing environment he or she could be...

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Joanna Tuffy: ...prediction will have to be adjusted downwards and the amount to be spent on carbon credit purchase revised upwards? There was no reference in the Minister, Deputy Gormley's speech to the role of waste management in reducing emissions. Was that because the budget provided no increase in money available under the environment subheading for recycling services? How can we, as the Minister...

Written Answers — Waste Disposal: Waste Disposal (4 Oct 2007)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 135: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the monitoring carried out by his Department of waste that is collected as recyclable waste by local authorities and exported abroad for treatment and in particular if the Department is satisfied as to the percentage of that waste being recycled in the exporting countries and if the manner in which that...

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Apr 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: I ask the Leader to request the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Cullen, to attend the House to discuss waste management. Yesterday, the Minister launched a report on Ireland's waste management over the next five years and said we need more incinerators. We need to pose a number of questions to the Minister in this regard. For example, if incinerators are to...

Seanad: Employment Permits Bill 2003: Second Stage. (27 Mar 2003)

Joanna Tuffy: ...welcome them and promote integration rather than treat them as safety valves if we fail economically. If we do, it will be our fault generally and the Government's, in particular. We will have wasted the opportunities our economic boom provided. If we are serious about competitiveness, encouraging foreign investment and the growth of indigenous industry, we should stop cutting back...

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (5 Feb 2003)

Joanna Tuffy: Waste and other service charges are an unfair form of taxation. They are not income related and waivers do not address this aspect. Often, those on low incomes must pay. For example, in South Dublin County Council, of which I am a member, people are entitled to waivers if their sole income is from social welfare or if they are entitled to family income supplement. This means that those on...