Results 1-20 of 20 for waste management speaker:Clare Daly

Prohibition of Above-cost Ticket Touting Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: ...used to buy tickets in bulk. Is she really? Given that there is no commonly agreed definition of bots and that the people who use them are smart enough to disguise their use, that is not going to get her very far at all. Even if by some miracle, the Government manages to do what no-one else in the world can do, it would take two minutes for someone to pay a bunch of lads in Bangladesh...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (5 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: 529. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the annual cost of permits either on average or as a scale under the national waste management policy; the amount spent on inspections of waste collection operators; the amount of this cost borne by permit fees; and the amount of this cost borne by the State in each of the years 2008 to 2018. [5085/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (10 Oct 2018)

Clare Daly: 45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a policy review of waste management here will be conducted in view of the publication of the recommendations of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission's report into the operation of household waste collection. [41062/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Waste Management (18 Sep 2018)

Clare Daly: 47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the supports available to facilitate communities interested in establishing local community-based waste collection co-operatives in the interests of best waste management and environmental practice. [37314/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Waste Management (18 Sep 2018)

Clare Daly: I do not think it is an overstatement to say that there is a crisis in waste management. Multiple operators trudge up and down the same road every day to pick up the odd bin here and there. There are appalling working conditions, rising prices and one would probably need a university degree even to work out what one is supposed to put in each particular bin. There is a desire in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Waste Management (18 Sep 2018)

Clare Daly: ...the Minister's Department could play a role in, not necessarily subsidising it but stepping in and giving some form of direction and assistance. From a climate change point of view, not to mind waste management, starting and keeping it local is best for the environment, the consumer and also potentially workers.

Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018: First Stage (3 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: ...its members and provides healthy, fair trade, cruelty-free and environmentally friendly produce, for which there is a big market. We have the incredibly successful Belfast Cleaning Company, a worker-owned and managed company that has been operating successfully on a cross-community basis in Belfast for the past five years. The Magpie Recycling Co-operative in Brighton began with three...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: ...in the University of Limerick study. What is the point in the Government paying for a study, lauding that study, producing its findings and then enacting legislation which will not take account of it? That is a shameful waste of money. The Bill will have to be substantially amended to meet the levels contained in the University of Limerick report. The bands in the Bill are too wide,...

Animal Welfare: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: ...of animals. It is a consequence of a society that commodifies animals for human profit. I was fully expecting somebody to say that there are far more important issues out there and ask why are we wasting our time on this. It is illustrative that nobody did so. This indicates that animal welfare is a serious issue, a fact that everybody acknowledges for a couple of reasons. Cruelty to...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2017)

Clare Daly: ...legislation. I cannot understand it. Let us look back. The HSE director general, Tony O'Brien, threatened to injunct HIQA when he saw its first draft report on Portlaoise and its criticisms of senior management. All this happened at a time when the HSE had a voluntary open disclosure policy similar to the one we are debating here. It has not done much good for the families in...

Prisons (Solitary Confinement) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2016)

Clare Daly: ...in prison policy, such as the one this Bill seeks to address, it does not mean we are unaware of the excellent work being undertaken in some sections of the Prison Service by staff, inmates, management, professional staff and so on. I want to start by stepping back a bit and looking at where we are going with our penal policy and asking whether it is working. Every day we have...

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

Clare Daly: 240. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how it is that the polluter-pays principle, under which fees to collect household waste are to be charged under the Waste Management (Collection Permit) Amendment Regulations 2016, is upheld by the practice of waste companies charging flat per-week service charges to consumers under the pay-by-weight scheme, a charge...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management Regulations (14 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 241. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how he will monitor the compliance of waste companies with the Metrology Act 1996, and with the technical specifications laid out in the Waste Management (Collection Permit) Amendment Regulations 2016; his plans to institute an inspection scheme; how consumers can have confidence that the reported weights of their waste...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (7 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: ...so on. That is only one side of the equation because, ultimately, it is this Government and other Government policies that have contributed to this situation. The Dublin City Council housing manager had to take to the media outlets to highlight the fact that his budget for this city will be €18 million short to deal with the homeless crisis. Even today three people contacted...

Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (22 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: .... Parking fines and clamping release fees have become another stealth payment that people must pay. In some cases, they must pay to park outside their own homes. Some people are living in areas regulated by management companies, for example, and those companies are failing to provide a decent service and are in dispute with residents. As a punitive measure, the management companies are...

Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: ...to level the playing field and begin to eat into some of the rising inequality we have seen in recent years - an inequality that accelerated during this Government's term of office - was wasted. Instead the decision was taken to enrich those at the top to the detriment of everybody else. Not only is this bad for citizens on social welfare and the growing group made up of the working...

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Second Stage (28 May 2014)

Clare Daly: ...scheme as proposed, she would have been asked to do work that had been scientifically discredited, for example, screening and measuring well children. She would have been asked to tick boxes and waste time on bureaucracy instead of dealing with sick patients. It gave no indication of how much GPs would be paid. How could any business operate like this? It created layers of extra...

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

Clare Daly: ...of Aer Lingus and transatlantic flights. It showed imagination in creating companies that provided quality employment and services over many decades. This is something the private sector has not managed to emulate. There is great potential for using research and development in wind and wave energy to create employment in this State. Ireland has among the best conditions in the world...

Construction Contracts Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 May 2012)

Clare Daly: ...Roads Authority, NRA, still paid the company the money. It was the subcontractors further down who lost out. Huge numbers of subcontractors are trying to chase money through the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, but they are being told to go to the courts and that NAMA can do nothing as they do not fit in on the scale. The issue of State work is crucial. Many State contracts have...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2011)

Clare Daly: ...service providers operating, but prices have not fallen for the average consumer; rather, they have increased, while in many instances services are significantly worse. We see this clearly in the waste management sector, in which the turning of the public refuse collection service into a commodity to make profits has led to the ridiculous situation where every day multiple refuse company...