Results 1-18 of 18 for waste management speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 143: In page 61, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(vi) compliance with the State’s European Union obligations for waste management, water quality, air quality, nature conservation and restoration, and reduction of green house gas emissions,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This comes back to the various areas to be considered in the national planning framework. Amendment No. 142 seeks to insert the words "air quality management". Amendment No. 143 seeks to insert the wording "compliance with the State’s European Union obligations for waste management, water quality, air quality, nature conservation and restoration, and reduction of green house gas...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...and a licence was to do something. Planning permission is granted for a building and a licence is granted to run a pub in a building. They are not the same. Planning permission is provided for a waste management treatment plant and then permission is granted to run a waste management treatment plant. They are different categories.

Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...McGrath mentioned droughts and reduction of water supply from natural watercourses, but there are also floods. Obviously, that is a direct consequence both of climate change and the historical mismanagement of our natural water system. Therefore, if we want to ensure people have access to that vital natural resource, we need to be able to measure it. We need to know what is happening....

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...at them with an open mind and support them, if necessary. What the Minister is proposing is very controversial. We should not dispute that at all. It will cause enormous difficulties for elected members. There will be many managers who will be very reluctant to use this as they have been reluctant to use emergency powers to date. It will also cause very significant difficulties with...

Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...requested the debate, primarily to give us an opportunity in the Dáil to discuss the conclusions and outworking of the negotiations between water services workers, Irish Water, the County and City Management Association, CCMA, and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on the future delivery of domestic water services. Before I make my remarks specifically on this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...is desired, then achieving it will require the following resources. This would allow for an informed discussion, whether in Government or here in the committee, to consider how such aspects can be managed. I say that because if one good thing were to emerge from this process, it would be not just a consolidated and clarified Planning and Development Act, which would be welcome, but that...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are happy to support this group of amendments. It seems to me from listening to a number of Government backbenchers that they just do not understand the reason we need an active land management agency, despite the fact that for 40 years, report after report, including Government reports, have explained why it is needed. Unless there is an active land management agency whose sole function...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 Feb 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...been eminently more affordable than what is on the table. In the same local authority area we have the former Dundrum Central Mental Hospital, now called Dundrum Central which has the potential for 1,300 homes. It is HSE land currently being managed, as far as I understand, by the Office of Public Works. Unless the Minister can confirm to us today, and if he does I will be very glad to...

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...that - euro for euro - as grants for roads and housing were taken away, they were replaced by the local property tax. During that period, a number of key services, such as those relating to water and waste management, were removed from local authorities. Not only are people paying more, they are paying more for fewer services. One of the reasons we will be enthusiastically supporting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Prohibition of Certain Products Containing Plastic Microbeads Bill 2018: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...level? Will the witnesses elaborate on that? It is important that there is a third sanction, which is that individual members of a board of directors can be held accountable. This is a power the EPA has in enforcing waste management regulations and so on. If the witnesses have specific concerns about that, I would be interested in hearing them. I have a query about Ms Dean's reference...

Water Conservation: Statements (12 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...to emphasise the message of conservation. It is important to make it clear that the heaviest burden of conservation needs to fall on the shoulders of those responsible for the largest levels of waste in our system. Domestic users have a role to play and the evidence shows they are playing that role very well. However, it is crucial for business and for the Government to play their part...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (22 Feb 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...the issues motivating the proposed change, an alternative service level agreement or a different type of service level agreement was considered. I refer in particular to addressing issues such as management practices, operational practices and efficiencies etc. Mr. Quinn mentioned the ESB as an example of a freestanding public utility. It is a public utility that has a very strong...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...answer them at this point and indicate when he can? When I say prices, I do not mean an answer such as less than €320,000. I have given bands and I am going to keep on coming back. I prefer not to waste the Department's time with freedom of information requests. However, this reluctance to give us this information makes me all the more nervous about the delivery of affordable...

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: .... People do not understand and are not being informed of what is happening at every stage. I will not repeat the points people have made. Direct provision is a scandal. It is not a badly managed system. It is not a system that needs some tweaks and changes. It is a scandal. It is about time every politician in the House declared it a scandal and said it has to end. Then the...

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...for the citizens of the city and county and to win public confidence from that point on. The powers Sinn Féin would like for a mayor of Dublin would cover public transport, major roads, tourism and waste management. I take the point the Minister made on this last matter but I believe this is actually one of the attractive things about incorporating waste management into the role,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management Regulations (28 Jun 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 169. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government where the functions relating to waste management, regulation of waste collection companies and regulation of recycling facilities will be located after the division of the existing Department of Environment, Community and Local Government into two new Departments. [18001/16]

Domestic Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...resource. We believe that water should be provided on the basis of need and not ability to pay, that water and sanitation services should be funded through general taxation and commercial charges and that the public ownership and management of water services must be protected in the Constitution. We also believe that water conservation would be far better pursued in the first instance by...