Results 1-20 of 26 for waste management speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., and his family. I raise it under this particular question because I first met Owen when he was a bin man working for the council in Bray. He was fighting against the then drive to privatise waste collection services. He was very passionate, along with his colleagues, in fighting the privatisation of waste collection services. The other feature of Owen's life was that he was an...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...those who are vulnerable or at risk, as an explicit objective of An Garda Síochána; provide a new coherent governance and oversight framework for policing that will strengthen both the internal management of An Garda Síochána and independent external oversight supporting clear and effective accountability; make community safety a whole of government responsibility by...

Appropriation Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...allowed to carry over the maximum amount. However, €340 million is a huge amount and there was also other money that was not spent on housing. I would argue that much of the money we spent on housing was wasteful expenditure that does not help to deal with the housing crisis. It is a shocking fact that the Government cannot spend €700 million in the teeth of an absolutely...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: School Accommodation (24 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The conditions the planning application failed to meet were around things like lack of public lighting, lack of proper pest control, failure to put in correct waste management systems and other green conditions in those conditions mentioned by the Minister. What the parents of Gaelscoil Laighean find really hard to believe is that where there are particular conditions around building a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Census of Population (22 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...that I have heard about the time capsule section. I think that in the time capsule section on my form, I will ask the people who are still here in 100 years whether 100 years of Government has managed to sort out the housing crisis. I fear we may well find that it has not. I wonder if the Government will have even managed the review of the social housing income threshold. Indeed, the...

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...fixing our decrepit and broken water infrastructure. The evidence is still there. There has been a leak on Kildare Street for two weeks. The Tánaiste should go outside and take a look at it. On Friday, I managed to have a case featured on national radio involving one street in Dún Laoghaire where residents reported water leakage and water shortages in January. Irish Water...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (6 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...since I was elected to the Dáil, for six or seven years, and have argued with him, among other Ministers responsible for transport, that it should have happened long ago. The company had driven out the ferry and wasted millions of euro and there has been a risk assessment and due diligence. The county manager of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown says the council still does not know, after...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...a couple living in Dublin. A teacher on €35,000 and a clerical worker in the council, on a starting salary of €23,000, who go to EBS would be allowed to borrow approximately €240,000. If they manage to save a deposit of €27,000 they could buy a house for €270,000. The problem is that the average rent for a one-bedroomed apartment is €1,200 per...

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...much control of our economy, the atmosphere of crisis was used to intensify an already ongoing assault on the share of national income going to working people. That is what has been done. Never waste a good crisis. Down to the letter, it was the shock doctrine that Naomi Klein had written about. My God, did Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael embrace the shock doctrine and target it at...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Disposal Charges (21 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the arrangements agreed with the waste management companies on the introduction of the pay-by-weight schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49102/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...has tried to justify domestic water charges on the basis that we urgently need to address the huge problems with our water infrastructure and to comply with EU directives in the context of the management of our water resources. I do not give that any credibility, frankly, because if the Taoiseach was really interested in such matters, then instead of wasting what could amount to €1...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal Charges (5 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 241. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the use of bin tags in houses that are unable to have wheelie bins will be affected by the new waste management legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19203/16]

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the sort of health services people who are sick and in pain need. Trying to trawl through the complexities of this stuff is a pointless and futile exercise. All of it is unnecessary; it is waste. We are developing a complicated system to guarantee the private profits of a parasitical, profit seeking, health insurance industry that does nothing to deliver the health services people need....

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...these amendments for me. This series of amendments goes to the heart of all the amendments I have proposed. There are 28 or 30 in total and they relate to who we will listen to when it comes to developing and managing our harbours and what their priorities are. I cannot speak about other harbours and I do not intend to do so. That is up to people from those areas and the various...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...constituency office. It involves a low-paid civil servant who is facing eviction because his landlord has jacked the rent up from €1,000, which was already a difficult matter for this worker to manage, to €1,300. He is now facing eviction. He is married, he has two children and he is in receipt of the family income supplement. With the family income supplement his total...

Harbours Bill 2015: Second Stage (16 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of the council. It would become a department of the council and, by extension, the councillors, the elected representatives, would have real control over the policies pursued by the harbour and all governance issues to do with its management and operation. If we go for option two and not option one, the elected representatives, not the unelected executives, would have real power over the...

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...€100,000 a year each, or chairpersons and directors who between them over the past ten years have taken €100,000 to €40,000 in expenses. One can go on through the list. Millions of euro were wasted on consultants' plans when the harbour, as an amenity and a working port, has been run into the ground. This wasteful, parasitical executive management and board...

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Minister, Deputy Varadkar, said he favoured it being a corporate subsidiary. I want clarity, and a commitment, that it will not be a corporate subsidiary because in terms of the jobs for the boys, the management structure, administration, excessive fees, excessive salaries and massive amounts of money wasted on master plans that never came to fruition, there was waste at every level while...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Company has been a law unto itself and is insulated from the local community's opinions on what is the right way to develop the harbour so that it might complement and contribute to the town and local area. It has managed to alienate its own workforce spectacularly to the point of there being legal cases, industrial relations issues, etc. What does the council have to say about this...

Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...should be associated with these, we must consider how we can play some part in addressing this significant problem. To connect this with a slightly parochial concern, one of the main ambitions of the management of the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company is to replace its declining ferry business with business from cruise liners. I wonder whether those cruise liners are likely to be from...