Results 1-14 of 14 for waste management speaker:Luke Flanagan

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: ...to give debt write-downs on mortgages for people who are struggling to live and being tortured by the banks. We decided to give it to the multimillionaire, and then we thank him for paying the Republic of Ireland soccer manager's salary. Actually, we are giving that man ten times more out of one of our banks alone than he is paying a manager who could not even win last night. With...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: ...money the Minister will spend on Irish Water, does he think he will get good value given that it is being run by a man called John Tierney who in the past has been described as weak on financial management? In a project he was involved in there needed to be evidence of much more comprehensive oversight in monitoring and controlling expenditure. Can the Minister comment on that because...

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Luke Flanagan: ...we have done the equivalent of what they did in Windscale and changed the name to Sellafield. One is still left with the potential disaster on one's doorstep. All we get is a change from county manager to chief executive officer. It is a change in name but it is not a change in reality. It is purely tokenism. Even the Minister himself says that it is just about giving it a nicer name....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Climate Change: Discussion (20 Jun 2013)

Luke Flanagan: ...facility in Callan on the Tipperary-Kilkenny border where this is practised. It has not spread and I suggest that one of the reasons it has not spread is because people are a bit paranoid about waste management facilities being beside them. Given that the technology is proven and we do not need to pilot it anymore, has the Department considered going down the route of getting communities...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: EU Directives (9 May 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 141. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government regarding EU Directive 2011 / 70 / EURATOM (Nuclear Waste), Under Article 6 (3) describing financing of Competent Regulatory Authority, Member States are required to ensure that the competent regulatory authority is given legal powers and human and financial resources necessary to fulfill its obligations in connection...

Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)

Luke Flanagan: ...with the notion of universal health care. It makes sense. One of the issues that must be tackled if one wants it to work out well, because otherwise it will cost too much, is that one must get rid of the waste and overspending. The cost of drugs is the obvious case that comes to mind in the context of overspending. Another such cost is the cost of consultants. There is also a layer of...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: ...The most important part of this debate relates to where this money is spent. A hard-up person who has no money left will have to pay money over to a local authority - in my case, one in which the county manager - a nice man, in fact, a gentleman - gets paid more than the Prime Minister of Spain. There are four chief fire officers in County Roscommon, costing us the guts of...

Shannon Airport: Motion (11 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: ...Airport, Liam Scollan, issued an excellent statement on this matter in which he stated:The decision to intervene so generously in one airport while ignoring other airports amounted to an unfair, wasteful and possibly illegal use of scarce resources, which would not serve the interests of national aviation. They could trigger the terminal decline of an efficient, growing airport like...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management Regulations (18 Sep 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the ongoing waste dumping in our forests, bogs, and all over our country, if he will consider amending the Waste Management Act 1996 to include rewards to citizens who assist in bringing convictions either by supplying evidence or by taking cases themselves; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37018/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management Regulations (18 Sep 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider amending the Waste Management Act 1996 to include on the spot fines for dumping; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37019/12]

Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2012: Second Stage (23 May 2012)

Luke Flanagan: ...the major part of the moneys it gets. With regard to the remainder, on which the council can make a decision, councillors run off with their tails between their legs if threatened by the county manager that unless they vote a certain way on the budget, X, Y or Z will happen. Under the current system, unless councillors are very brave, or very politically naive as some might call me for...

Turbary Rights: Motion (6 Mar 2012)

Luke Flanagan: ...on the hydrology of the bog. There is no necessity to put down a liner or a dam between the area of co-existence where they cut turf and the area that is conserved. Based on what we know from our management of these areas, that is not required. However, if that is what the State bodies need to be done, it will be done. We have been told by environmental groups that the liners or dams...

Government and Oireachtas Reform: Motion (31 May 2011)

Luke Flanagan: -----and every county manager in the country. We can then use a system set up through the Better Local Government programme which involves corporate policy groups and strategic policy committees. Through this system, we can give the people in local government real power to develop policies and drive ideas, and, in the case of Roscommon County Council, manage a budget of €70 million. The...

Waste Management (17 May 2011)

Luke Flanagan: I thank the Minister. I still have not established whether he plans on going down the route of mechanical biological treatment or incineration. When I was a local authority member, the regional waste management plans were discussed at the county council. At the time the Minister was in opposition and there was considerable talk about how Fine Gael was planning on having a zero waste...