Results 1-10 of 10 for waste management speaker:Trevor Ó Clochartaigh

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...Larkin's contribution was that we must look at the overall cost of education and follow the money. His basic argument appeared to be that rather than an education system, we have corporations in which there is significant waste and that much of the money being provided to these corporations is not being used to educate students. Will he indicate where the money is going? Dr. Corbet...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (15 Jul 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...of Irish Water and water charges and who breaks his or her word when these issues are finally voted on in the Houses. The most recent Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael deal involved the proposed suspension, for 12 months, of the pay-by-weight waste disposal system. There was utter chaos in my area of Connemara where people were forced to sign up to contracts with the local waste company. Some...

Seanad: Waste Disposal Charges: Statements (30 Jun 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...customers of Barna Recycling. The Minister's assertion that nobody is going to pay more than they are currently paying provides an anomaly for those who use bags or the people who have disposed of their waste in a proper manner. A number of cases have come up. For example, a pensioner on Raidió na Gaeltachta this morning explained that she had been recycling all her life. She...

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move:That Seanad Éireann resolves that Statutory Instrument No. 24 of 2016 – Waste Management (Collection Permit) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 – be annulled. Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Seán Kyne. Silim gurb é seo an chéad uair dúinn labhairt le chéile sa Teach seo. Ba mhaith liom tréaslú leis tar éis...

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...great work they do for us but even in its explanatory note it has been made quite clear that its reading, which I would take as an independent reading and not a Sinn Féin reading or that of anybody else, is that the waste management regulations introduce new rules to come into effect from 1 July 2016, namely, an obligation on all householders, with some exceptions, to segregate food...

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (4 Dec 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...ordinary people for the use of something they already own and pay for through their taxes. Our approach is different. It is based on ensuring that water provision remains in public ownership and is paid for through progressive taxation. Sinn Féin proposes investing money from the NPRF in creating real jobs that have a positive legacy. The money being wasted on meters should be...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Pat The Cope Gallagher, MEP (25 Apr 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...approach would suit our fishing communities. The most significant outcome on the ongoing reform process was the recent decision to ban discarding of dead fish. On the issue of discards, the focus needs to be on yields rather than quotas. We are happy to see a ban on discards. This practice is wasteful, unsustainable and environmentally unfriendly, as Mr. Gallagher has indicated....

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...in a similar situation. The debate I would like to call for today concerns a serious issue. Many health issues are raised here on a daily basis, but we need a specific debate on the structure and management of the HSE. We need this debate so that we can make significant savings within the system. We had a wonderful, though harrowing, presentation yesterday in the AV room from a vascular...

Seanad: Irish Water and Related Reforms: Statements (Resumed) (20 Sep 2012)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...to provide a good service. These well founded concerns have been used as justification for the erroneous conclusion that there is a need for water charges. That is not the case. On the issue of waste, for example, the real offender is not the ordinary citizen but the water distribution network. The average loss through leakage is at least 36%, and likely worse, and was aggravated in...

Seanad: Water Charges: Motion (8 Jun 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...that the €500 million which will be spent on installing such meters would be better spent on improving our water supply system, given that as much as 58% of treated water across the country is wasted through broken pipes before it reaches dwellings; — is opposed to the introduction of new stealth taxes such as water charges and a flat rate domestic charge, which will have no effect...