Results 1-20 of 164 for waste management speaker:Alan Kelly

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Projects (1 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: When it comes to managing waste, I do not want to let this opportunity go without talking about the scenes of litter and waste in Dublin city, as have been profiled in recent days, particularly online. Some of the reasons for consternation and blaming young people are outrageous and wrong. Young people have suffered so much over the past 18 months. We have a genuine issue in that we are...

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: ...the odd time, those two hospitals usually have the most number of people trying to get into them. For us in Tipperary, it really is like talking about the weather. This is not an issue of staff or management, whom I support in both locations. They dread going into their respective hospitals. Imagine being a public representative whose constituents dread going into their local hospital....

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: ...have enough space or nurses. There are real issues in recruitment. A range of vacancies in Limerick have not been filled. Two weeks ago with other Oireachtas Members from County Tipperary I met management of the HSE and South Tipperary General Hospital where one of the modular units is to be built. They told us straight up that it would not be opened within the timelines it should be...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...else, who hang around Fine Gael at this time, and I wonder why climate change measures are not being brought about. There is a total lack of investment in what is required for water and waste. Why do I say that? Not everyone may be aware that water and waste are major user of energy, which need to be modernised. The scale of investment here will not do it. The whole issue of...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...to her tweet for a reason. The information that was provided during Leaders' Questions earlier today when the Taoiseach was questioned on this issue is already out of date. It was actually a waste of time. The Minister for Health needs to assure us that the information he is giving us tonight will not be out of date by tomorrow. I have no confidence that this will be the case. It is...

Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: ...element because it might trip us up when we make decisions. I am referring to the status of the home, which is not just a normal building. I wonder what status the home will have and how it will be managed, how the regulatory framework will work, the type of regulatory framework and what standards will pertain. I do not think we can be definitive about this matter. We will have to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (4 May 2016)

Alan Kelly: ...from both local authority treatment plants and septic tank systems must be carried out in accordance with relevant environmental and other applicable legislation, including the provisions of the Waste Management (Use of Sewage Sludge in Agriculture) Regulations 1998, as amended, and the European Communities (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2014. In brief,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (4 May 2016)

Alan Kelly: My Department has met with groups who represent persons with special needs and has also been in contact with the HSE and the waste management industry to discuss the issue and to try to find a workable and fair solution to this important matter. Notwithstanding the complexity of the issues involved, I am satisfied that a number of possible solutions are being explored as a matter of urgency.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: ...housing, and such a recommendation may come from the committee. I have no objection in principle to that. Appointing a Minister for housing and taking the function from the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government is a waste of time. We will have a Minister for the environment, who will have a particular role, but unless sections are taken from the Departments of...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: ...because a higher than average percentage of people who are involved in various schemes for purchasing their local authority houses, etc., are now in arrears. We have to be very careful about that. I agree with Deputy Canney's remarks on the area of land management. He asked me what my recommendations would be and I thank him for asking that. I will do that at the end. I have more than...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (27 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: My Department has met with groups who represent persons with special needs and have been in contact with the HSE and the waste management industry to discuss the issue and to try to find a workable and fair solution to this important matter. Notwithstanding the complexity of the issues involved, I am satisfied that a number of possible solutions are being explored as a matter of urgency.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Illegal Dumping (26 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: Enforcement action against illegal waste activity is a matter for the local authorities and the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Environmental Enforcement. My Department provides the legislative framework under which both local authority and EPA enforcement action is initiated and also continues to provide significant financial support to a network of local authority...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (26 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: The Waste Management (Collection Permit) Regulations 2007, as amended, require a waste collector to weigh household waste and charge on a per kilogramme pay by weight basis. A service fee may also be charged. In the case of multi-unit complexes, such as apartment blocks who share bins, such fees will be charged to the management company or person who arranges for the collection of the waste...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (21 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 143 and 144 together. The charges applied by waste management companies are a matter between those companies and their customers, subject to compliance with all applicable environmental and other relevant legislation, including contract and consumer legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (20 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: Neither I nor my Department have any responsibility for, or role in relation to, the identification, management, operation or maintenance of water services infrastructure. With effect from 1 January 2014, Irish Water is responsible for public water services and water services infrastructure including water supply pipes or drainage pipes extending from a waterworks or waste water works to the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water (20 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: ...of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels for public water services including the delivery of water services capital infrastructure, including the management of urban waste water collection and treatment infrastructure. All discharges to the aquatic environment from sewerage systems owned, managed and operated by Irish Water require a waste...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Illegal Dumping (20 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: Enforcement action against illegal waste activity, including littering offences, is a matter for the local authorities and the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Enforcement, and my Department does not compile statistics in relation to fines imposed. Such statistics are publicly accessible through the Local Government Management Agency’s series of annual...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Contracts Data (14 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: ...Electoral Act 1997 (Section 78 (a) and (b)) (Commencement) Order 2016. S.I. 21 of 2016 - Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) (Prescribed Forms) (Amendment) Regulations 2016. S.I. 24 of 2016 - The Waste Management (Collection Permit ) (Amendment) Regulations 2016. S.I. 25 of 2016 - Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 (Establishment Day) Order 2016. S.I. 38 of 2016 -...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (14 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: Dealing with vacancies that occur within existing social housing stock is a normal part of the management function of local authorities. My Department places no monetary limits on what a local authority spends on refurbishing such units. However, in 2014 my Department recognised that a backlog of such units had built up over several years and, accordingly, introduced a funding programme to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (14 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: Government waste policy is predicated on the waste hierarchy as set out in the EU’s Waste Framework Directive, which places the prevention of waste at the pinnacle of the hierarchy. A number of specific measures have been, and will continue to be, introduced to reduce the amount of waste generated in the State and to increase the segregation of waste which cannot be prevented, in line...