Results 1-20 of 23 for waste management speaker:Simon Harris

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (31 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...of 25 years post construction. The annually published appropriation accounts for my Department contains a section on the payments of PPP projects. This table lists the operational PPPs currently managed by my Department, including for NMCI and CSM, and includes the cumulative expenditure to the previous year, the expenditure during the year as well as the legally enforceable commitments to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gangland Crime (25 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...Deputy that tackling organised crime activity is the overriding priority for An Garda Síochána and the Government. The Deputy will be aware that the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management and administration of Garda business by law, and that I, as Minister, have no role in operational policing matters. We should not underestimate the difficulties which the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (22 Mar 2023)

Simon Harris: As the Deputy will be aware, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management and administration of Garda business, including the recruitment and training of Garda members and staff, under Section 26 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended). As Minister, I have no role in these independent functions. To be of assistance I have contacted the Garda authorities and have been...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (15 Feb 2023)

Simon Harris: ...fixed for all prisons/institutions at 50 cent per session with a maximum of €3.50 per week for work training activities, such as work in kitchens, laundry, industrial cleaning, grounds maintenance, industrial waste management, painting and stores. The Incentivised Regimes policy was subject to a national review which concluded in September 2020. One of the recommendations from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (18 Jan 2023)

Simon Harris: ...principles places a new and clear emphasis on a series of goals such as compact cities, strengthened rural environments, increased connectivity, a focus on heritage, wellness and healthcare and a sustainable management of water, waste and other environmental resources. These are all spatial and material in nature and are typical of the subject areas architecture schools work on and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Recycling Policy (5 Oct 2022)

Simon Harris: ...of these buildings are shared and operated by the Department of Education and as such my staff in those buildings adhere to Department of Education initiatives on recycling. The Property Management Services in the Office of Public Works, acquired new office space for my Department’s Head Quarters at 52 Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2 in September 2021. My Department operates...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology (17 May 2022)

Simon Harris: ...DPER circular 30/03 "Depreciation and Disposal of PCs and other computer hardware". The disposal is conducted by certified recycling companies selected from an Office of Government Procurement waste framework. Where viable these firms remove the hard disks containing data and refurbish the equipment. The equipment and/or its constituent components can then be reused. The hard disks...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (15 Dec 2021)

Simon Harris: ...apprentices or through the new grant. - Also under the Apprenticeship Action Plan, a new National Apprenticeship Office will provide even closer cooperation between SOLAS and the Higher Education Authority, to manage apprenticeship delivery across the further and higher education sectors. Safe return to campus My Department has also worked with the further and higher education sector to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (3 Jun 2020)

Simon Harris: The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has issued Guidance on Managing Infection Related Risks in Dental Services. It supports the use of the normal PPE used in routine dentistry. The Dental Council has indicated that dentists should take a case by case assessment when deciding if additional PPE is warranted. A national approach to the supply of PPE for dentists has been initiated by the...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: ...in information and communications technology, ICT, with the new hospital planned as Ireland's first digital hospital. It also includes the comprehensive children's hospital integration project, the €40 million wasted on the former Mater site project and the planned construction of the children's research and innovation centre, which is to be funded through philanthropic funding. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: HSE Expenditure (2 Jul 2019)

Simon Harris: ...on an almost monthly basis in the run up to any budget. My message to the HSE is to deliver the service plan in full and, in parallel, to put in place greater controls in respect of individual managers. We have discussed this matter in the House. One cannot have individual managers recruiting without paying heed to the budget. In addition, they need to reduce the waste and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: ...not about personalities, it does read like a "Who's Who" in terms of who we would want to develop capital projects. Without getting into the names, we are talking about chartered engineers, former managing directors of very large construction companies, a solicitor with 40 years' experience in dealing with public authorities, developers, architects, engineers, surveyors and builders. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Simon Harris: ...engagement it has had and will continue to have. The Committee of Public Accounts will also engage on the issue later this week and I will be back at this committee next week with senior HSE management for our quarterly exchange. We will continue to scrutinise this issue for quite some time. When the overrun became apparent to me, it would be an understatement to say I was very...

Seanad: Emergency Department Waiting Times: Statements (31 Jan 2018)

Simon Harris: ...period. This represents an increase of 2.3% in emergency department attendances and a 2% increase in emergency department admissions, when compared to 2016. Despite the intensive efforts of staff, management and the HSE through the course of the winter, since the beginning of January this year we have seen a rise of 8.4% in the number of patients waiting on trolleys. This reflects an...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Simon Harris: ...of reform, as agreed by the Government, arising from the Sláintecare report. The office will be led by a senior programme executive with a strong track record in implementing reform. The recruitment process to fill this position is under way and being managed by the Public Appointments Service. It is essential that we be positioned to attract candidates of calibre to lead what will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Standards (28 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: Policy responsibility relating to planning applications, waste management, primary food production, animal health, and the environment reside with the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department of Communications, Climate Action and the Environment respectively. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland...

Report of the Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Motion (29 Sep 2016)

Simon Harris: ...The committee has set itself a very ambitious work programme. This includes work packages on the funding model, integrated care, resource allocation, access to care, primary care, chronic disease management, organisational reform and workforce planning, among others. I appreciate the breadth of this agenda and I do not think anyone in this House underestimates the challenging agenda that...

Health Care Committee Establishment: Motion (1 Jun 2016)

Simon Harris: ...demand on health services, including the changing demographics in the Irish population; (g) the Committee shall examine and recommend how to progress a changed model of healthcare that advocates the principles of prevention and early intervention, self-management and primary care services as well as integrated care; (h) the Committee shall examine different funding models for the health...

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2015)

Simon Harris: ...else. We cannot just allow money to disappear and say that services will continue. It is going to have to be passed on to somebody else. Deputy Wallace made the point that people in housing estates with management companies are paying the same amounts and those in management companies are not getting anything extra for their management fee. That is just not true. I live in an...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2015: Motion (4 Mar 2015)

Simon Harris: ...year. The capital carryover facility forms an integral part of the five-year rolling multi-annual capital envelopes introduced a decade ago. The multi-annual system is designed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the management by Departments and agencies of capital programmes and projects. It recognises the difficulties inherent in the planning and profiling of capital...