Results 1-5 of 5 for waste management speaker:Colm Burke

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (25 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what progress has been made to date in respect of the key actions aimed at tackling rising waste generation and to improve the management of waste being generated in Ireland, as set out in the EPA 2021 National Waste Statistics Report in view that Ireland is on course to miss EU waste recycling targets in 2025; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (23 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the new national waste management plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2626/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Colm Burke: ...in staff numbers since December 2014. My understanding is that there are now 12,000 additional people working in the HSE, of whom over 2,600 of them are working in the area of administration and management. In the past three to four years I have not seen a clear plan being set out by the HSE for where it needs to increase its workforce. Yes, we have heard about increasing the numbers of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: On the management issue, the hospitals I am talking about are not small hospitals. If something has gone on for 18 years I am concerned about the fact that no action has been taken. I accept that over the past five to six years it has been difficult to do that but it needs to be given priority. It cannot be allowed to continue that there is a lack of continuity. On orthopaedic surgery...

Seanad: Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Colm Burke: ...able to recruit the staff. The Minister has given a commitment to recruit an extra 1,000 nurses this year and I welcome that. However, in all the units throughout the country, to open up the beds, staff are needed to manage them. I have a problem with our health service. We have followed the health system of the UK over the past 40 or 50 years and we now need to look at alternative...