Results 1-14 of 14 for waste management speaker:Sean Barrett

Seanad: Irish Water: Motion (13 Jan 2016)

Sean Barrett: ...ESRI has commented on that; there are probably about 4,000 people doing the work of 2,000. The McLoughlin report on local government, which was published in 2010, estimated that there was a 30% surplus in county managers, a 20% surplus in directors of services, a 15% surplus in senior and middle managers and a 10% surplus in corporate service staff.It was recommended that there be 15%...

Seanad: Water Services: Motion (21 Jan 2015)

Sean Barrett: ...tax the House was asked to agree. We used to pay for it through our taxation in a progressive way. That refutes the first fallacy in the Government's approach. The second fallacy is the idea that we were all wasting water. We found out as this debate went on that 94% of it was wasted by the engineers and 6% of it was wasted by households. What did we do? We hired all the engineers...

Seanad: Improving the Quality of Early Years Education: Statements (21 Jan 2015)

Sean Barrett: ...we start a new programme, we should consider all the others and see if there are any returns or programmes which have outlived usefulness. There were some suggestions from an bord snip nua, such as 36 management allowances which cost €236 million per year and which seemed to grow out of a period of social partnership when, to try to conceal the overall rate of pay increase, people...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Sean Barrett: ...of personnel. The Secretary General of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government sat on the McLoughlin review which indicated massive over-manning at director of services level and county manager level. We have shunted all of those people into this quango and are asking old people living in the country to pay €260 because we want to maintain this...

Seanad: Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (23 Sep 2014)

Sean Barrett: The Minister knows about the marketers' advice on what was supposed to be wrong with the image logo of Trinity College Dublin's on the shield. It was a complete and utter waste of money and I was trying to stop the Department being seduced by this nonsense. Can we get good doctors out of it? I do not care who is engaged in the marketing, except that the cost should be set at about the...

Seanad: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Second Stage (18 Sep 2014)

Sean Barrett: ...welcome. In his speech the Minister referred to seven extensions but the Bill refers to 38 exemptions on pages 79 and 80. Each one of those should be discussed on the next Stage. How do people manage to talk themselves out of something which the Minister and Minister of State are persuaded of? The clue I always seek in legislation is who has opted out. Thirty-eight bodies have opted...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Céim an Choiste - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: ...navigation systems. We got in the professors in the relevant subjects to explain that it was not necessary to do a written examination for every county in Ireland in order to drive a taxi. We managed to cure somewhat the technophobia of the Minister of State. How do we tax heavy goods vehicles on the roads? We got in touch with the civil engineering department in the college and...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Céim an Choiste - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: ...with me in respect of his road safety legislation. I will charge him for whatever research I carry out on his behalf in this regard and there will be the usual cries regarding useless Senators wasting money. This is despite the fact that we will assist in drawing up a better Bill for a Department which does not have a great reputation for preparing legislation. We are here to help and...

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

Sean Barrett: ...flooding. Some of the thinking relating to the Irish situation in respect of this matter is that little old ladies, widows, etc., take far too many baths, drink loads of water and are generally wasting large volumes of it. The evidence points to the contrary, however. If one removes the 60% for which the engineers are responsible - a great deal of which disappears out of the system -...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2012)

Sean Barrett: ...observing them and issuing reports on their performance are often on salaries twice or three times as large. This was reflected in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on top level management which made particular reference to the 13 vice presidents of universities. The way to obtain these positions is to get out of the lecture hall. Resources should primarily be put into...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (10 May 2012)

Sean Barrett: ...property with which the charity is endowed, shall be for ever vested in a certain number of persons, and their successors, to subserve the particular purposes designated by the founder, and to be managed in a particular way [...] Nothing seems better settled, at the common law, than the doctrine, that the crown cannot force upon a private corporation a new charter[.] This unnecessary and...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Sean Barrett: ...different. It is promoting managerialism. The heads welcome this and want more meddling, more bureaucracy and so on. It is stated on page 124 of the report that it "has resulted in better management information for senior institutional management [The important people are those who teach the courses, not the senior institutional management] and better feedback ... for institutional...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister of State most sincerely for his response, which is good to hear. As he will be aware, the Comptroller and Auditor General examined all these matters in his resource management study. What he found was that the funds provided for this purpose were top-sliced from the teaching budget. Top-slicing is a word I hate and is regarded in golf as ending up in a bunker. Much of...

Seanad: European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (22 Sep 2011)

Sean Barrett: .... However, it is also the socialisation of inefficient banking. This was done nationally on 30 September three years ago and today the European banks are doing it. Their inefficiencies and wasteful lending are being visited on the taxpayer yet again. Due to the faults in the euro, it is estimated that to leave it would cost €11,000 per family. Based on the Colm McCarthy estimate, we...