Results 1-20 of 21 for waste management speaker:Pat Breen

Seanad: Report of Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Statements (6 Nov 2019)

Pat Breen: ...the SME and entrepreneurship agenda through the recently established SME and entrepreneurship consultative group, which I am chairing, and we had the first meeting in March. This brings together policymakers and programme managers from our agencies such as Enterprise lreland and the LEOs, all sitting alongside representative groups and businesses themselves. I will lead this group into...

Seanad: Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (Resumed) (30 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: ..., SBCI, to the SME market by end of 2016, subject to demand and sourcing additional funding to support the lending activities of the SBCI into the future. Senator Nash mentioned this. We will also ensure that financial management capability training is available in all local enterprise areas. It is important to ensure we have these training facilities. We will also deliver a range of...

Waste Management (5 May 2010)

Pat Breen: ...out to quiet country roads to throw them and other rubbish into the ditches. I have witnessed this being done at the back of my own house. Televisions, kitchen units, shelves, bottles, old waste paper, clothing, baskets, paper and so on are being dumped. Not only is this dumping of rubbish ugly but it gathers rats and other vermin, which then become a problem. Perishable items and food...

State Airports. (17 Feb 2010)

Pat Breen: ...are blue in the face with reports. We need Government action. Even the chairman of the task force is frustrated by the Government's inaction. He is on record as saying that he has no notion of wasting his time moving on to complete the final report until a number of the recommendations of the interim report are acted upon. If the Tánaiste is going to wait for the task force's final...

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Pat Breen: ...considerably. The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Deputy Brendan Smith must clarify the situation regarding the REPS 4 scheme. There are already farmers who signed up to the farm waste management scheme who will only receive 40% of the payments they are owed before the end of this year. I ask the Minister to clarify the situation regarding REPS. I tabled a parliamentary...

Schools Building Projects. (10 Mar 2009)

Pat Breen: ...issue. I am a regular visitor to Ennis CBS and visited it again last Friday morning with my colleague, Deputy Carey. I commend Brother de Róiste on the work he, his staff and the board of management do in trying to operate under difficult circumstances. The school was built in 1930 and is totally unsuitable for the diversity of students, 570 in all, now attending it. The children must...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (10 Mar 2009)

Pat Breen: ...438: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 391 of 3 February 2009, the date when he expects payments to issue to applicants of the farm waste management scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9532/09]

Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (4 Mar 2009)

Pat Breen: ...160: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will clarify the situation regarding REP scheme four; his plans to phase in payments in line with his recent decision on the farm waste management scheme; if funding is available in the long-term for this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9122/09]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (3 Feb 2009)

Pat Breen: Question 391: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 47 of 30 October 2008, his views regarding the farm waste management scheme; when farmers can expect to receive payments under this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3184/09]

The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)

Pat Breen: ...because they are less favourable than the United Kingdom's. There is a crisis in the farming community. Many farmers took on bridging loans because they wanted to undertake projects under the farm waste management scheme. Last night, the House was told that, more or less, there is no money to pay the farmers because the Government cannot do its sums. These factors exist against a...

Requests to Move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (17 Dec 2008)

Pat Breen: ...extreme importance, namely, health and safety issues regarding farmers who are desperately trying to complete slatted house units in order to comply with the deadline of 31 December under the farm waste management scheme. Two people have already been seriously injured while erecting slatted houses on farms in County Clare in the past two weeks. The deadline is unreasonable and the...

Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (9 Dec 2008)

Pat Breen: Question 393: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will follow his counterpart in Northern Ireland and extend the farm waste management scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44876/08]

Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (30 Oct 2008)

Pat Breen: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans to meet with the EU Agriculture Commissioner before the end of December 2008 to seek an extension to the farm waste management scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37406/08]

Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (24 Sep 2008)

Pat Breen: Question 1569: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will extend the date for completion of works under the farm waste management scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29960/08]

Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (8 May 2008)

Pat Breen: ... if, in view of the situation currently being experienced by many farmers particularly in the pig sector (details supplied), he will approach the European Commission to alter the terms of the farm waste management scheme beyond the 31 December 2008 deadline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17151/08]

Industrial Development Bill 2006: Second Stage (16 Nov 2006)

Pat Breen: ...in a limbo about who was responsible for what. That indecision created much uncertainty in the region with few new job announcements. Some 16 months of potential enterprise creation have been wasted through Government indecision and messing. The original decision to strip Shannon Development of its enterprise creation functions was made under the cover of "an enhanced regional economic...

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (13 Jun 2006)

Pat Breen: ...been extended, which is to be welcomed. I am, however, concerned that the Turkish workers may become the victims of the stand-off between the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and Gama management following last year's dispute. The failure to invest in other key infrastructure areas cannot be put down to the planning process. The failure until recently to invest in the rail...

Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (23 May 2006)

Pat Breen: Question 376: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if approval for the revised costings structure sought in the standard costs for the farm waste management and other related schemes has been received from the Department of Finance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19259/06]

Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (11 May 2006)

Pat Breen: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 319 of 25 April 2006, if the revised costings structure sought in the standard costs for the farm waste management and other related schemes is before his Department for approval purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17699/06]

Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (29 Mar 2006)

Pat Breen: Question 98: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has satisfied herself with the allocation of funding available to meet the farm waste management grant scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12029/06]