Results 1-20 of 75 for waste management speaker:Brian Stanley

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management (16 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...is absolute insanity what is going on. The first thing is to bring in consultants. I am not against bringing in expert advice but I can tell Mr. Moloney of occasions when we have had expert advice. One of them was the waste management plans back in the 2000s. Each county council was instructed to get involved in this and draw up waste management plans. There were eight regional plans,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy is asking about the consistency of the declarations. I do not want to waste the committee's time. Does Mr. Walsh or any other person within the management structure, for example, the deputy chair, examine declarations to see if there are inconsistencies between years? I believe that that is the Deputy's question.

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...and running Treo Nua in Portlaoise, where there is an excellent childcare facility. I have also dealt with some of the smaller providers in the constituency and heard about the struggles they are trying to manage in running their facilities. I urge the Government to be more cognisant of how to structure the fees and so on. Childcare fees have become so expensive that they are...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...the following officials: Mr. Mark Griffin, Secretary General of the Department; Mr. Ciarán Ó hÓbáin, assistant secretary, communications; Mr. Fergal Mulligan, national broadband plan programme manager; Mr. Robert Deegan, principal officer, energy division; Mr. Philip Nugent, assistant secretary, natural resources and waste; and Ms Catherine McGinty, assistant principal...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: Mr. Griffin sets out in his correspondence that the Department is engaging with the County and City Management Association. It states, "The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications is working on the draft heads of a Circular Economy Bill, with a view to underpinning measures promoting the development of a circular economy." It goes on to say, "This could help to ensure that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Brian Stanley: .... We are also joined remotely from outside the precincts of Leinster House by the following officials from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications: Mr. Philip Nugent, assistant secretary for waste and natural resources, Mr. Robert Deegan, principal officer, Mr. Frank Maughan, principal officer and Mr. Fergal Mulligan, national broadband plan programme manager. I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Brian Stanley: .... Unfortunately, many rural county councils have had to erect cameras at places where there is likely to be dumping taking place, including at bring banks, to stop people from dumping residual waste and to try to manage bring banks better. Typically, it is a mobile set of cameras that moves from location to location. I know the Data Protection Commission has a job to do and I do not...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Brian Stanley: ...out a survey and spoke to many people who went through that system and to people who work in it. I will read from what they have found from speaking to jobseekers. One said she was currently working part time as an assistant manager in a shop and she absolutely loves it. She is in a secure job and works three or four days per week. She ends up with between €30 and €56 of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2019)

Brian Stanley: ...over it. We are trying to conduct a ten-year catch-up of what is happening and there are a few things I wanted to say to Mr. Mulvey. The issue of the unions has been laid on strong. I have met the management of Bord na Móna on a number of occasions on this. I met the management team for two and a half hours recently on this issue and I am aware that it is trying to do a number...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Brian Stanley: ..., I was not as grey as I am now. We saw the benefits at an early stage. Unfortunately, we are going backwards now. I would like to pick up on the point about the quality of jobs. Bord na Móna management will say that some of the industries into which they are moving, such as waste processing, are not cash rich and have very low margins. If de-unionisation is happening, I would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: Discussion (5 Mar 2019)

Brian Stanley: ...-in tariff is a big issue. Householders, small businesses or farmers will not invest in something unless there is some guarantee and certainty around the return on investment. On efficiency, managing the grid and the technology, I am not an engineer but some of the research we have done shows that up to 15% of electricity leaks from the grid. The closer electricity is generated to...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ratification of the Minamata Convention on Mercury: Motion (5 Feb 2019)

Brian Stanley: Are there any issues of concern surrounding mercury waste or what may be done with it? I refer to possible historical or legacy issues. The regulations to replace the previous mercury regulations are good. I refer to the ban on metallic mercury imports and certain compounds, the regulation of industry, the use of environmentally sound management of dental amalgams, etc., and the regulation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...a baseload, or a continuous source of power such as biogas. I would like Bord na Móna to put more focus on that. There are opportunities to do that because we have a significant agricultural sector and a significant problem with agricultural waste. We know that because the Government had to go to the EU again recently regarding pig slurry, which other countries turn into power....

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

Brian Stanley: ...at source, or eliminate at source where we can. We need to reuse. Recycling is way down the chain. It is good if it is the only option open to us, but we need to take other actions first such as eliminating waste at source or reusing. We have to ask how we are dealing with the waste. Of course the Chinese market is now closed. We can no longer dump it on the Chinese. Other states...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...mentioned that. I understand it is starting to look seriously at the option now. We have a significant agriculture sector, which is not a bad thing, but we also have a significant amount of agricultural waste and that is a problem. From talking to people who have developed plants, in particular the one in Nurney, I believe we have an opportunity for jobs, to reduce greenhouse gas...

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Brian Stanley: I raise with the Taoiseach the commitment to protect the environment in the programme for Government. Perhaps he saw the recent "RTÉ Investigates" programme, "Ireland's Wild Waste". It is more like the Wild West. The side by side competition and privatisation model in Ireland is chaotic and has been shown to be failing in protecting the environment. Ireland has one of the best...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Brian Stanley: ...of producing it here - after all, we have done more complicated things in harder times - and doing so will protect rural jobs and reduce our emissions. We have failed to harness the potential to generate biogas from farm waste. We have a large agricultural sector relative to our size, but we need to diversify and make it more sustainable. A European Commission report has identified...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna: Chairperson Designate (28 Nov 2017)

Brian Stanley: ...hard to make sure that happened. The employees of Bord na Móna are hard workers. Biomass is one of the issues we need to address. Another issue I wish to raise concerns biogas. Bord na Móna is involved in the waste management industry. I am a customer of AES, one of the company's subsidiaries. Has Bord na Móna considered biogas? We have a fairly large agriculture...

Wind Turbine Regulation Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Sep 2017)

Brian Stanley: ..., having spoken to people in the industry over the past year or year and a half since I took up this brief, I understand that cost is tumbling. We need to re-examine this area. Biogas production can include farm waste. We are in the crazy position that we are once again looking for a derogation from Europe in regard to the spread of slurry. I support the call for that derogation...

Waste Reduction (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: First Stage (12 Jul 2017)

Brian Stanley: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Waste Management Act 1996, the Litter Pollution Act 1997 and the Residential Tenancies Act 2004; and to provide for related matters. Last night, the House had a long discussion on waste management legislation proposed by the Labour Party and the Green Party. While I welcome the Bill in question, which deals with...