Results 1-20 of 60 for waste management speaker:James Bannon

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Administration (29 Jan 2014)

James Bannon: ...building. The delay would be unnecessary. The pupils are out of the school at the moment. They are in alternative accommodation and if the students were put back into the school, we the board of management would have to provide, with the assistance of the Department, security around the school while the two classrooms were being constructed. This will have a knock-on effect of forcing...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2013)

James Bannon: ...forward to create an effective, well-honed economically viable Government. However, even with the considerable pruning of excess by the Government, more needs to be done to achieve the change on waste that the public knows is taking place. As never before, it is time for the concept of jobs for the boys to be thrown out. An inflated Government that panders to the deflated egos of...

Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2013)

James Bannon: ...This was to update the 2004 audit of innovation and extend the analysis to the knowledge intensive services sector comprising of research and development, information and communications technology and management support services. For the first time, knowledge intensive services innovation and technology and knowledge transfer providers from both the private and public sectors were...

Companies Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2013)

James Bannon: ...the failure of the previous Government to change things during its 20 years or so in office. The Bill before us today outlines a process that will help us move forward by cutting down on costs, waste and inefficiency. This will favour the development of businesses. The Bill is a common-sense revolution of company law that will help cut the cost of starting a company and will help make...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (11 Jul 2012)

James Bannon: Question 165: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that waste water and drainage schemes in Longford/Westmeath which are supported under the Water Services Investment Programme are planned and prioritised with flood risk management considerations highlighted and assessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33930/12]

Health Service Staff (12 Apr 2011)

James Bannon: .... I understand an attempt has been made by the HSE to establish a national pool of nurses, which would eliminate the middle man or woman. While this would go some way towards removing the terrible waste, I cannot help but think that if the health boards were still in place, this could be done better at a regional or local level. Another abuse of the system is the allowing of...

Property Services (Regulation) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (9 Nov 2010)

James Bannon: ...familiar with the problems experienced by people throughout Ireland, including my constituents, due to the lack of regulation of the property services sector, particularly with regard to property management agents, I welcome this Bill. I also welcome it as a licensed auctioneer who has awaited the regulation of this sector. I do not understand why the provisions of this legislation could...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (6 Oct 2009)

James Bannon: Question 1051: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the outstanding farm waste management grants; the number of persons awaiting such grants in Counties Longford and Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33350/09]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (28 May 2009)

James Bannon: ...Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the threat to the livelihoods of Irish farmers caused by the budgetary cutbacks which have resulted in cuts to farm waste management grants, forestry grants, suckler cow grants to name but a few.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Apr 2009)

James Bannon: Question 129: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will receive payment under the farm waste management grant scheme in respect of a slatted shed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14995/09]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (1 Apr 2009)

James Bannon: Question 152: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Longford will be granted their farm waste management grant in respect of a slatted shed application which was passed in September 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13659/09]

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (11 Mar 2009)

James Bannon: ...would consider an allowance for the recycling of posters. This is an initiative that would lessen the public's aversion to the rash of posters that, once the election is over, add to our waste problems. The extension of the role of local authorities in the Bill at the expense of a provision to set up an independent electoral commission is disappointing. While local authorities have done...

Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32. (26 Feb 2009)

James Bannon: ...into a cashflow crisis by the failure of the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to honour his commitment to reimburse loans taken out for the building of slatted sheds under the farm waste management scheme, under which €400 million is outstanding, while farmers unable to meet bank charges are facing ruin caused by the Minister's stubborn refusal to extend the deadline for...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Feb 2009)

James Bannon: ...get extra allowances in respect of them. The position of chairman or convenor of an Oireachtas committee should not be regarded as an honorary one. Section 12 of this Bill relates to the farm waste management scheme, the mishandling of which by the Government is driving many people in the farming sector to bankruptcy. The farmers of this country have been plunged into a cash-flow crisis....

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (9 Oct 2008)

James Bannon: ...Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the threat to the economic viability of the farming industry as a result of the Government's refusal to extend the deadline for the farm waste management scheme beyond 31 December 2008 or to engage in constructive negotiations with the European Commission, despite the fact that such a refusal will destroy the livelihoods of...

Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (30 Sep 2008)

James Bannon: Question 537: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Longford who was approved for a farm waste management grant for the building of a slatted shed has not received payment of same to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31953/08]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (24 Sep 2008)

James Bannon: Question 1634: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason for the delay in the awarding of grants, previously approved, under the farm waste management grant for the building of waste storage facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29633/08]

Schools Building Projects. (24 Jun 2008)

James Bannon: ...the cutback in all areas since the general election, is a negative factor in its advancement. If I am on the right track I can only condemn such cost-cutting forcefully. That a Government which wasted so much of the hard-earned money of the Celtic tiger years should make good the Exchequer deficit at the cost of the education of our people is not only a shocking indictment of the...

Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)

James Bannon: ...are €89 per day and she has no idea how the frequently required journeys will be financed or how she will be able to withstand the long hours spent travelling. On one occasion this constituent managed to get an ambulance bus from the Mater which took from noon until she arrived in Longford at 7 p.m. and then had to take a taxi to her home, arriving at 9.10 p.m. This would be a gruelling...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: ...of what should be a relatively simple administrative matter. A total of €12 million of taxpayers' money has been spent in attempting to sort out this fiasco and a further €60 million was wasted on the e-voting disaster. If ever we were seeking a resigning issue, this is it. The preservation of our democracy demands it. It is now the responsibility of voters to check the draft...