Results 1-10 of 10 for waste management speaker:Seán Canney

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (16 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: 158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will expedite legislation to amend both the Litter Pollution Act 1997 and the Waste Management Act 1996 to provide a lawful basis for local authorities to use CCTV in detecting and prosecuting illegal dumping; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55946/21]

National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Statements (2 Jun 2021)

Seán Canney: ...additional money from the local property tax. I heard people say that infrastructure is how the economy will develop. We will not be able to put in the houses in Galway East because there are no waste water treatment plants in our towns and villages. We are being pressurised not to build in rural areas. We need a recalibration of what we are doing there. Also on regional development,...

Environmental Policy: Motion [Private Members] (18 Dec 2019)

Seán Canney: ...of society engage fully, and take all the necessary actions, to protect and improve water quality. Current pressures in the context of water quality come from a range of sources including agriculture, urban waste water, septic tanks, forestry and so on. This Government's river basin management plan improves upon the previous approach in that it involves a more complete assessment of the...

Environmental Impact of Quarries and Incinerators: Motion [Private Members] (4 Dec 2019)

Seán Canney: ..., consenting or certification of activities that could have an impact on the environment or on human health. The agency is the competent authority for granting and enforcing industrial and waste licences, and it undertakes an annual programme of audits and inspections of agency-licensed facilities. The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment is constrained by the...

Prevention of Single-Use Plastic Waste: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Canney: Plastic waste is an emotive topic and rightly provokes passionate debate. People are concerned about the proliferation of plastics in our lives and the impacts, known and unknown, of plastic leaking into our water and food systems. Plastic, however, is not bad in its own right. The development of plastic has facilitated enormous advances across engineering, human health and energy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Seán Canney: ...of the biggest problems in our housing situation is our reliance on local authorities which do not have in-house expertise in planning, environmental assessment, procurement, delivering projects or managing budgets. We have to examine this. We must resource local authorities properly if we are going to rely on them. The national planning framework states that local authorities are going...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (5 Apr 2017)

Seán Canney: ...is being carried out by Wicklow County Council (WCC) with funding provided by the Office of Public Works (OPW). WCC is the Contracting Authority for the project and is responsible for the overall management of the works. The OPW has no involvement in the day to day management of the project. Wicklow County Council has advised that approximately 32,000 cubic metres of materials were...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Seán Canney: I thank the Minister and his team for coming in. I listened to his forthright presentation and was impressed with it because he is telling it as it is. In respect of active land management and how it would work, I presume that is what Deputy Durkan is talking about in respect of serviced sites. The Minister said that 38% of the cost of a house goes on taxes. My concern is if we reduce...

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Seán Canney: There is a huge number of villages and towns around the country which are in need of public waste water treatment plants. They need them for a number of reasons. In east Galway, where we have tourism, we need to make sure that our waterways and fishing ways are unpolluted. There is only one way we will do that, and that is by making sure that we have proper public waste water treatment...

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Seán Canney: ...up in the Dáil Chamber for the first time to speak on a very important subject, namely, Irish Water. There has been a huge discussion about how Irish Water works, how it was established and the waste of money involved in setting it up and we have all heard about this. It has been very well voiced in the public domain in recent years. We must be very careful because there are...