Results 1-20 of 33 for waste management speaker:Catherine Connolly

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...questions as to where the material was going but, theoretically, we led in Galway city and tried to lead in the county, as I gather, with education officers encouraging people, no incineration, zero waste and working towards all of that. We brought in a city plan that reflected those principles and what the people of Galway wanted. There were monster meetings in the Corrib Great Southern...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...analyse a budget. Notwithstanding the good points and the payments that are being made, I would like to give some of the reaction. The Antipoverty Network in Ireland described the budget as a wasted opportunity. It said that by prioritising short-term one-off payments over adequate and sustainable permanent measures that would enable Ireland to meet its antipoverty targets, the...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...plan. They come under extraordinary pressure then to pass zonings or not, which leaves a lot to be desired. That is the mess we have left them in with no real power. In my time, we took the waste management power from councillors, disgracefully so. The city council in Galway did its best to bring in a waste management plan at the time. We put an emphasis on zero waste and recycling...

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...written on the policy, entitled The Burning Issue. Does the Minister of State know what the Government of the time did? This will be of interest to him. It took power away from local authorities to develop their own waste management plans. Does the Minister of State remember any of this? Galway City Council was showing the way forward, yet it was the second-last local authority whose...

Transport in Galway and Other Areas: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...teething problems and possible flooding issues. The usage of the railway line between Ennis and Limerick has surprised us all. I do not hear the voices in Dublin that were condemnatory of the waste of money now coming forward and saying that this is wonderful, that they were wrong and that they need to look at it. There is nothing like that. In this report, the OECD acknowledges that...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...charges and to keep water services within the local authority. It appalled me what we were doing - I watched it as I was an active member - to underfund, underresource and undermine the local authority. We did it on every level. We did it on waste management. The unions stood by and watched it happening at the time. Galway, for example, was the second last local authority to succumb....

An Bord Pleanála: Statements (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...the final straw in undermining local authorities, depleting them of staff and allowing staff to be moved all of the time. When they have acquired skill, suddenly they are moved. We removed the Waste Management Act. They have no power at all in relation to waste management. We have left the local authorities bereft of power and resources. We have managers in place who have corporatised...

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Commission of Investigation Report: Statements (14 Sep 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...put €43 billion into IBRC. What is all this about? The business was sold at such a low value that there was a write-off of €118 million that the taxpayer is accountable for. We are hearing today that this is a waste of time and we are rushing in to get rid of commissions of investigation. I would say that is all premature. I would ask the Deputies, and particularly the...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (22 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...-olds which is due to commence in August 2022, and if he will make a statement on the matter; (10) Deputies Richard O'Donoghue and Mattie McGrath - to as when there will be a proper investigation into the management of the University Hospital Limerick; (11) Deputy Ciarán Cannon - to ask the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how and when he intends to address the...

Regulations for the Sale and Distribution of Turf: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...ground, taking Galway city as an example, is that urgent action is not being taken in relation to climate change. We are not rolling our park and ride, public transport, and so on. We took away waste management responsibilities from the county councils way back in 2001, when Galway City Council distinguished itself by working towards a zero waste strategy. However, it was unacceptable...

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ..., which is a damning statistic, is it not? More had trust in An Garda Síochána, which is extraordinary. This is testament to our experience of An Garda Síochána on the ground and certainly not the behaviour of management and the decisions made which were investigated by an endless list of tribunals, including the Morris tribunal. Despite this, there is more trust in...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...their best to lead us. They did that in Galway. Does the Minister remember what happened when they led us in Galway and we introduced recycling? The then Government took the power away and brought in a waste management plan. The Government did not like what we were doing, which was zero waste in a positive way. I have no problem with carbon budgets, but I support Deputy Paul...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...as somebody who was elected to Galway City Council in 1999. We were led by the people of Galway. I do not know if the Minister of State is familiar with what happened but we fought a campaign on waste. I was only part of it because we were led by the people. It was captured in a book entitled The Burning Issue, which catalogued the outrage at the proposal to develop an incinerator in...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...of test excavations in 2016 and 2017 to ground "truth anomalies" that had been identified by remote sensing. The truth anomalies were not just in the ground, of course. It is amazing that that term is being used. On 3 March 2017, the commission of investigation released a press statement detailing that, in the course of the test excavations, significant quantities of juvenile human...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State, who is accepting that. I will not waste my time praising the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, but it is beyond endurance that the senior Minister is not here. I thank Sinn Féin for using its Private Members' time but I asked the Government to put it on the agenda. This report has implications for all of the CAMHS throughout the country and if we cannot...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (15 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...than the middle part that tells me there is a reconfiguration, I got a hymn of praise to the amount of money provided. I know the Ministers are working hard. I have said that. I am not going to waste my precious time on that, but on the very bad decision to close a wonderful kitchen, which is fully equipped and where the chef has been there for more than 20 years. There is a lovely and...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...in 2000. A book was written about it, The Burning Issue. There were monster meetings and we showed the way. What was the response of the Government? To privatise the refuse service and to take away our power under the waste management Act. That was the response. I can understand if people get tired because I am getting tired, despite the salary I am paid, listening to the same thing...

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...I will start from the motion's last sentence, just as Deputy Harkin did, which calls for the Government "to put in place a transparent cost structure for new, and extensions to existing, water and waste water treatment infrastructure". It is an absolute necessity and it must be done urgently. I support the motion in general, although if I have time I will return to one part where there...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...all the time. The Minister is shaking his head. The CEO of the county council has moved on to greater things in Mayo. He was acting CEO for five years or maybe longer. We have left the county council without a manager after having someone as the acting manager for five years. Galway has a city manager who has been in office for more than seven years. The only idea the previous...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: ...us. They were way ahead of us 20 years ago in Galway when they led the debate against incineration. They did not do so in the manner of "not in my backyard" but they said that they wanted zero waste, and we were led by the nose to do that. The response was to remove the power from the local authority to make a waste management plan. We we did everything right and the power was taken...