Results 1-8 of 8 for waste management speaker:Stephen Donnelly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Waste Management (23 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Management of radioactive waste is a matter for the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications in the first instance. The Deputy should relay the question to that Department for response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: ...department, which is an absolutely basic operational procedure for emergency medicine. She told me that it took five years to get it in place. At the time her colleagues told her she was wasting her time and that she would be exhausted by the end of it. They got it after five years but she said to me it was the last time they were going to embark on that kind of local reform programme....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Waste Disposal (20 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I have no function in relation to the disposal of municipal medical waste. The Deputy may wish to note that the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment is responsible for national waste management policy, and has recently published a new National Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy (2020 – 2025). I also understand that waste management planning is the...

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Jan 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: .... At the same time, we are suffering from the longest waiting lists in Europe, the longest waiting lists we have ever had and a series of enormous overspends. How is this happening? How is so much valuable money being so badly wasted? Much of the blame rests with actions taken or not taken by this Government since 2011. It has managed to alienate pretty much the entire healthcare...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: ...should be paying taxes. Tolerating this sort of tax avoidance and tolerating the lack of transparency that we see in structures such as qualified investment funds and the Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicle, ICAV, does two things. First, it deprives the State of much-needed income and, second, it gives ammunition to anyone from abroad who wants to attack Ireland's corporation tax...

Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: ..., potentially before an election, Government satisfaction ratings continue to drop in the polls. Perhaps the public has decided the Fianna Fáil style of politics should no longer be tolerated. Budget 2015 wastes public money and health care provides a clear example. This year health care spending will overrun by around €500 million. Some parts of the health service are run...

Estimates for Public Services 2013: Motion (11 Jul 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: It may be that after so much time any of us would simply not be able to see the waste. This is not a personal jibe at the Minister. I hope that when he described the systematic identification of non-wage inefficiency as a con job that was a rhetorical flourish. I doubt if he necessarily believes that. I would like to take some minutes to explain the idea further because I really believe...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: ...it to the committee "at the first available opportunity" and that I had not been "inhibited in any way whatsoever" before describing my intervention as "a wrangle about process rather than dealing with the document", which was, he said, "a waste of time." I was allowed to speak for five minutes, having received the document only two hours before the committee met. It was subsequently...