Results 1-6 of 6 for waste management speaker:Sandra McLellan

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Sandra McLellan: ...or for-profit enterprises, the obvious next step is to cut or eradicate all allowances or credits, leading to increasing prices and deteriorating services. The privatisation of industries such as waste management provides clear evidence of what happens when corporations take control of public services. Water charges will increase in the coming years as a result of the introduction of...

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (Resumed) (17 Apr 2014)

Sandra McLellan: ...course the Government wants to bolster the profit margins of ailing private insurance companies. The Minister attempts to calm the public's fears by saying that "Under UHI public hospitals will no longer be managed by the HSE. They will be independent, not-for-profit trusts, with managers accountable to their boards." After the debacle of Rehab and its links with Fine Gael, his honeyed...

Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)

Sandra McLellan: ...requires new groynes at the front strand to be installed. The current groynes are totally ineffective, having been there since the 1970s. In fact, new groynes were part of the recommendation from the coastal management report, which was published in 2000. If this work is not done, we will be revisiting the tears and frustration we recently experienced for many more years. Last Friday,...

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: ...to be improved. In the first instance, far too many powers have gradually been taken from councils and transferred to central government, in particular, those related to functions planning, housing, transport, roads, waste management and now water services. The Minister’s Bill, for all his talk, does not even remotely reverse that agenda. His Putting People First document was a...

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Sandra McLellan: ...environmental justice. Before my party is accused of being woolly-headed about the issue of water conservation I will make it clear that Sinn Féin is very much in favour of a sustainable and co-ordinated approach to the management of the country's water. Key to that, however, is the related issue of sustainability and environmental justice. We must not under any circumstances...

Private Members' Business. Local Authority Public Administration Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Jan 2012)

Sandra McLellan: ...local government. This would include the ability to collect tax revenue. We have called for the restoration or introduction of councillors' prior powers over planning, housing, transportation and waste management and to correspondingly limit managers' powers as well as reform of local government structures to make it more accountable. This should include direct election of chairpersons...