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Period Poverty: Motion (13 Mar 2019)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: ...feed their family or bake bread. I suppose it is no surprise, therefore, that menstruation is viewed in the same light despite the fact that it is one of the three ways that the human female body excretes waste. It is a normal bodily function in which we have no choice, just as we have no choice in urination or defecation. However, the fact is that the only sanitary product provided for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Upcoming CAP Negotiations: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 Nov 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: ...presentation. I wanted to ask about the reduced budget, which is essentially guaranteed following the exit of the UK from the European Union. How will the Government advocate for us in terms of managing that shortfall? There will have to be forward planning, which would have been going on, I suppose, over the past couple of years in any case. Is the Department taking the use of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Management (11 Jul 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 622. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if owners or management companies of apartment blocks are required to provide full waste disposal and recycling services including glass to owners or tenants of the apartments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32425/17]

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (1 Jul 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: ...the Bourn Vincent Memorial Park Act 1932 to the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht; to amend and extend the Air Pollution Act 1987, the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 and the Waste Management Act 1996; to amend other Acts and to provide for related matters.These changes are provided for in amendments Nos. 1 to 4, inclusive, which are on the list provided to the Deputy....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: ...I disagree with some of the previous speakers I am cognisant of the fact that we need Irish Water. We have needed such a body for a considerable time given the amount of taxpayers’ money that is wasted in treating water and the fact that 40% of it leaks back into the ground. Irish Water will also be responsible for wastewater. Other speakers have referred to the significant...