Results 1-20 of 22 for waste management speaker:Joan Collins

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (13 Dec 2023)

Joan Collins: What we have to do here is set the principle, and this must be done by the Government, that waste collection must be remunicipalised. Very important issues are at stake here. One is the overseeing of waste management. Waste has a great effect on pollution, water quality in our seas and rivers, and the spread of microplastics, not to mention the waste we export for other countries to deal...

Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: ...agreed, supported and signed by right to water parties, the Right2Water campaign, the unions and the thousands of people on the streets. That wording did not just deal with ownership but public management of water sanitation services inserted into Article 28.4.2.1° of the Constitution which deals with the responsibilities of the State. We do not want to place this text in the...

Prevention of Single-Use Plastic Waste: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2018)

Joan Collins: ...environment is one of the defining issues facing human kind over the coming period. As the IPCC noted, it is something that Governments will have to be responsible for. I support the Green Party waste management Bill as it is a no-brainer, it has to be done. The documentary "Drowning in Plastic" exposes the global consequences of plastic, focusing on marine plastic and its movement...

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Joan Collins: ...Fáil's eye being wiped or whether it is, through its confidence-and-supply arrangement, in tacit agreement with the Government. This is very different from the idea of a fine for deliberate excessive waste as was posited at the committee. Irish Water has been given the right to charge for water usage above a level which we can only guess at this point. How will it be implemented...

Waste Disposal: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2017)

Joan Collins: I find the Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Labour Party and potentially the Green Party position on this issue bizarre. All of them were complicit in the privatisation of our waste services, a service provided for 80 to 100 years through local authorities and introduced specifically to address the issue of cholera, waste on our streets and to prevent the spread of disease. It was a very...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Management (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: ...the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 586 of 23 of May 2017, if the review he referred to regarding an incentivised system in regard to waste management has been completed; if the situation that ensued in 2016 whereby families were charged more for their waste collection than previously will not recur; if there is a provision in...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Collins: ...equation. Despite these shenanigans, this is not a victory for those who wanted to commodify water as a step to privatisation, though I have got some concerns. If the two parties think they have managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and from the Right2Water movement, they can think again. The changes to the report made over the weekend amount to nothing more than saving...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uisce faoi Úinéireacht Phoiblí) (Uimh. 2) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: ...read a Second Time." I want to begin by thanking all of the parties, groups and independent Deputies that have indicated their support for this Bill advocating a referendum on the public ownership and management of our water, the Thirty Fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No.2) Bill 2016. The Bill specifically states: The Government shall be collectively...

Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (19 Jul 2016)

Joan Collins: ...are breaking the agreement made with them and something must be done about it. I put a question to the Minister a couple of weeks ago about having an investigation into the companies. He stated:Waste collection is the statutory responsibility of local authorities. Under section 33 of the Waste Management Act 1996, as amended, there is a general duty on a local authority to either itself...

Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (19 Jul 2016)

Joan Collins: As Deputy Barry stated, the Irish Waste Management Association agreed with the Minister recently to implement the price freeze that has been spoken about. As I stated on Thursday last on Leaders' Questions to the Tánaiste, there was a collective sigh of relief across the country such was the anger and anxiety of waste customers. Greyhound has done the exact same. The company has...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Joan Collins: ...of funding water services in the short, medium and long terms, including water poverty for low-income families, and possible future privatisation; the protection of public ownership of water, including its management and delivery; and the effect of borrowing to fund water infrastructure. For example, Detroit in the USA was under significant pressure to repay its loans. People were cut...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jun 2015)

Joan Collins: ...It is an absolute scandal and the Labour Party should be ashamed of itself. We know what happens when utilities are commodified. Deputy Eric Byrne and I opposed bin charges because we knew that once waste collection was commodified it would become attractive to corporations around Europe and the world. Water is the new oil. From Dublin to Detroit and from Bray to Bolivia, people are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Waste Management Regulations (13 May 2015)

Joan Collins: 3. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress of the investigation into the need for regulation in the waste management industry. [18466/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Waste Management Regulations (13 May 2015)

Joan Collins: This question relates to the progress of the investigation and the need for regulation across the board in the waste management industry, including maintenance of vehicles, the National Employment Rights Authority, NERA, and the Labour Court.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Waste Management Regulations (13 May 2015)

Joan Collins: Is the Minister recommending that some type of wage rate be set in the waste industry? I note from the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, that although waste management facilities only account for 15% of licences, they account for over 50% of the EPA investigations. That is a lot of investigations by the EPA for a small cohort of businesses. Did anything particular in that respect come...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Investigations (12 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: 13. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the investigation into the waste management industry. [5837/15]

Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: ...Palestine and, obviously, the withdrawal of funding for the neurological organisations. However, I am compelled to raise again some of the issues regarding the dispute in Dublin city between the waste management company, Greyhound, and its workforce, which now has been locked out for more than four weeks as this dispute is now in its fifth week. I understand there has been communication...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2014)

Joan Collins: ...dismissal cases in recent years, with the workers involved often finding themselves in a very difficult situation as they wait for their case to be heard. In the past 24 hours, workers at Greyhound, a waste disposal company, have been locked out of their work premises. Their employer has not said that they are sacked or issued P45s; they have no idea what is happening. They have had a...

Cannabis Regulation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: ...drug gangs knew about it, pinpointed her and extorted €64,000 from her. That is what is going on in our communities and it must stop. There was the horror story of a dismembered body found on waste ground in west Dublin. That is what this issue is about. A recent statement by Kofi Annan and others from the Global Commission on Drugs Policy which called for new thinking and...

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

Joan Collins: ...Gáis to the new company, Irish Water. It would be good to know if that is the case. The Victorians understood that, despite the limits of science and medicine at the time, clean drinking water, the management of sewerage systems and the collection and disposal of household waste were essential to public health. That was the reason we had a public system to provide water and to...