Results 1-19 of 19 for waste management speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Electricity Transmission Network (25 Mar 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: ...2,000 km of existing lines. Grid25 will reduce our dependency on imported fossil fuels by putting the infrastructure in place to enable us use our own natural resources, help us create less carbon waste and enable us to reach our 40% targets for the generation of electricity from renewable sources by 2020. It will also provide capacity to facilitate regional economic development,...

Topical Issue Debate: Inland Waterways Maintenance (21 Jan 2014)

Pat Rabbitte: ..., the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works, Deputy Brian Hayes, who is absent on business, I welcome the opportunity to address the House on the subject of the management structure of the River Shannon. At the outset, it would be useful to outline briefly the position regarding the responsibilities and involvement of different agencies to the Shannon....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation Issues (10 Dec 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: ...and industry research suggest that there is a potentially significant role for biogas in meeting our renewable energy requirements as well as contributing to wider Government policy in agriculture, waste management and air and water quality. However, the technologies underpinning the sector are at a relatively early stage of development with the result that there is uncertainty...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: ...efficient, given that we have to import our energy resources. Separately, we have put in place the energy efficiency fund to concentrate on public and commercial buildings in which there is immense waste. I refer to schools and hospitals, for example. If one looks at hospitals, experts will say there is an immense waste of energy. The Government put €35 million of seed capital...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Offshore Exploration (30 Apr 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: ...stationed at the drilling unit at all times. A Cork based company has been engaged by the operator in providing shore base services, including stevedoring and equipment storage. In addition, waste management services and fuel supply are also being provided by Irish companies. Helicopter flights to and from the drilling unit are being operated out of Cork Airport.

Other Questions: Semi-State Companies (29 Nov 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: ...is, therefore, the way forward. In this regard, the company has been very successful in some of its operations. The Deputy put his finger on an aspect that was not successful thus far, namely, the waste management initiative. However, if he researches the matter, he will find particular reasons the waste sector in Ireland generally, and not just in Bord na Móna, has got itself into...

Written Answers — Peatland Resources: Peatland Resources (24 Apr 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: ...Contract with Nature' strategy which seeks to transform the Group into a sustainable provider of goods and services in the electricity, horticulture, heat, feedstock, clean air and clean water and waste management markets. A key element of this strategy involves securing appropriate and sustainable uses of Bord na Móna's peatlands, which to date have been primarily used for peat...

Macroeconomic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (28 Oct 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: ...Accounts considers various stories of overspending by one Department or another. Year after year, the Comptroller and Auditor General produces annual reports detailing the breathtaking scale of waste. From time to time, his office carries out value for money audits which expose the extent to which we are not getting value for money. The budgetary cycle is such is that we are usually...

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (11 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: ...?" What we are saying on this side of the House is intended to assist the Garda Síochána and the very many thousands of people in the force who want to do their job in accordance with modern management practice and best practice in general. The 25 or 27 recommendations in that report are very worrying. In the land of the Celtic tiger, I do not know how we reached the year 2010 when the...

Garda Síochána Inspectorate. (4 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: ...will take some time to complete and, therefore, a definitive timeframe cannot be given. What can be so complicated about taking the necessary action to ensure valuable Garda time is no longer wasted in taking long-hand notes of electronically recorded interviews? What does it take to bring modern management procedures to bear on the operation of the Garda Síochána?

Services for People with Disabilities. (10 Apr 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: ..., in reply to a parliamentary question I put on 12 February 2008 I was told by the Minister for Health and Children, along with the usual macro statistics: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the...

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: ...in September 2006, deplored the manner of purchase of the lands at Thornton Hall and said that at least twice the market value was paid for them. He went on to say: "In the circumstances, a well managed, confidential, third party approach might have allowed the Prison Service to procure suitable land at a much lower price than was paid for the land at Thornton." Mr. Purcell, although...

Leaders' Questions. (20 Jun 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: One thing the Taoiseach has managed up to now differently from his Ministers is not to convey arrogant dismissiveness of the views of others, but he now seems to be venturing into that and demonstrating lack of sure-footedness in other areas as well. The Commission on Electronic Voting issued a report that was damning in its criticism of the system the Taoiseach now seeks to give the...

Whistleblowers Protection Bill 1999: Leave to Withdraw. (4 Apr 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ...a FÁS course, working in a hospital, a blood bank, a shopping store, a beef factory, a financial institution or a Department to refuse to be complicit with improper decisions taken by his or her management superiors. There is genuine concern at the failure of our regulatory institutions, such as the Revenue Commissioners and the Central Bank, to crack down on glaring abuses of the system....

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ...and public services. While it is important to reverse some of the most regressive of Mr. McCreevy's tax breaks, the clear focus of the next Minister for Finance must be on public expenditure management and reform. We need to focus on the development and delivery of high quality public services with value for money for the taxpayer in the interests of society and the economy. Tackling that...

Public Expenditure: Motion (Resumed). (18 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: .... It is possible to detect in recent public utterances a strategy on the part of the Government whereby backbenchers and others are sent out to blame civil and public servants for the chronic mismanagement exposed by different offices of the State. Ministers are getting it in the neck. They know that the mismanagement has happened and that the scale of it is indefensible. They are circling...

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ..., he is right. It is possible to implement a national waiver scheme. My colleague, Deputy Gilmore, when he presented this motion, clearly set out three ways it could be done. For pensioners, the waste waiver could be added as an additional free scheme. For others on social welfare and pensioners who do not qualify for free schemes, the waiver could be paid as an additional payment, like...

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: .... I do not know what the Deputy is saying but I agree with it. The issue in this debate is straightforward. In a country as small as this, where 21 of the larger local authorities have privatised waste collection and where there is a question of clarity about what the law permits in terms of a waiver scheme in the case of private collection, serious hardship is being unnecessarily visited...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (3 Feb 2004)

Pat Rabbitte: ...and thermal treatment; the specific steps he intends to take to deal with the finding in the report that Ireland had insufficient resources to carry out adequate risk assessments for proposed waste management facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2877/04]