Results 1-16 of 16 for waste management speaker:John Browne

Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)

John Browne: ...companies because it was recognised that it was not working as it should have within local authorities. Local authority members and officials see their role as overseeing such matters as roads, planning and waste management, and they are not in the business of creating or developing jobs, other than protecting their own jobs within the structure of local authorities. That is why I am...

Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)

John Browne: That is the general concern of ordinary people. We all know about the huge waste of money in local authorities, but we are now going to hand over another block of enterprise to councils who will be the ring-masters. If the Minister goes ahead with this project - I certainly hope he does not - he should ensure that whatever moneys are allocated in future will be ring-fenced and that county...

Forestry Bill 2013: Second Stage (8 Oct 2013)

John Browne: .... The Bill should set specific targets for the industry relating to afforestation levels in the coming years. The licensing rules outlined by the Bill should be reduced to alleviate the burden of red tape and forestry management. Many of the farmers to whom the Minister of State referred who have moved into the forestry sector in recent years complain continually about the level of red...

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2013)

John Browne: ...away with a number of years ago after it was found in court to be unlawful. More often than not, many Ministers for justice, working in conjunction with departmental officials, reduced fines to manageable proportions when people made cases to them on medical or hardship grounds. Judges serve fines on people without taking into account their ability to pay. Many people have attended my...

Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (13 Mar 2012)

John Browne: ..., refuse and rates. These two reasons are causing severe difficulties for business people. Last year, the McCarthy report stated that savings of half a billion euro could be made by cutting out waste in local authorities and yet this Government has not seen fit to bring about those savings. If the local authorities could make those savings this revenue could be passed on as savings in...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Nov 2011)

John Browne: ..., Fisheries and Food when farmers were jumped on by the EU and asked to upgrade their farmyards, and close to €500 million was allocated to farmers to upgrade their systems under the farm waste management scheme. I had no problem with that as I believe farmers were entitled to get grant aid to upgrade their systems and bring them up to modern, EU standards. This will be very difficult...

Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) (25 May 2011)

John Browne: ...and use these virtues as a selling point into Europe and elsewhere, as proposed by Deputy Cowen and others. In recent years, the agricultural industry has invested a great deal of money in farm waste management and environmental matters in particular. They brought it up to a high standard, at enormous cost to farmers, but they were also given substantial grants by the outgoing Government....

Education (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2010)

John Browne: ...much to say to the Tánaiste in respect of this matter. I have no difficulty with the proposed amalgamation. Under the existing VEC system, there has been too much bureaucracy and administrative waste. There is certainly a need to bring about a change. I welcome that change but I am not overly happy with regard to the amalgamation of the Wexford and Wicklow VECs. Some of the changes...

Seanad: Sea Fishing (20 Nov 2007)

John Browne: ...in the vessel's logbook as part of the catch and the true amount of fish taken out of a stock cannot be determined accurately. This has implications for appropriate and sustainable fisheries management. It also particularly impacts on young fish. The specification of minimum landing sizes is intended to provide protection, in particular for young fish, to provide for the continuation of...

Written Answers — Water Pollution: Water Pollution (5 Apr 2007)

John Browne: The primary responsibility of the Regional Fisheries Boards is the conservation, protection, management and development of the inland fisheries resource. I am advised by the Eastern Regional Board that they do not have a monitoring role in respect of waste water treatment plants other than sampling on occasions where a serious discharge incident is reported, with a view to prosecution. No...

Seanad: Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (28 Nov 2006)

John Browne: ...these businesses, its future strategy is to develop interests in the renewable energy sector, including investment in co-fuelling peat-fired power plants with biomass, wind farms and possible waste-to-energy. Bord na Móna also intends to develop a waste management facility, including landfill and composting. The strategy will be financed through a mixture of own resources and debt. The...

Grant Payments. (8 Dec 2005)

John Browne: To assist farmers to meet the additional requirements of the nitrates action programme, I have announced details of a proposed revised farm waste management scheme for which EU state aid approval has been sought. I hope that early approval of the scheme will be forthcoming so that the revised scheme can be introduced next January. Negotiations are taking place with the European Commission on...

Public Expenditure: Motion (Resumed). (18 May 2005)

John Browne: There is a developing mythology that the Government's public capital programme involves projects that are of little public benefit and that, in the words of the Opposition motion, are "a total waste of money". This is neither a balanced nor an accurate view. The Punchestown agricultural and equestrian exhibition and event centre is occasionally mentioned in this context. This centre is a...

Animal Diseases. (2 Mar 2005)

John Browne: Johne's disease is widespread in other EU member states and indeed worldwide. It is a chronic infectious disease of cattle, which gives rise to gradual wasting and loss of condition. Most cattle are infected early in life and while adult animals can become infected, it is rare and they usually have other problems such as deficiencies with their immune system. The disease has been notifiable...

Seanad: Grant Payments. (12 May 2004)

John Browne: .... The PRTLI beneficiaries include key strategic research centres and programmes such as the centre for biopolymer and biomolecular research at Athlone Institute of Technology; the smart space management project at Waterford Institute of Technology; ecotoxicology, waste reduction and air pollution at Cork Institute of Technology; the biosolids research programme at Sligo Institute of...

Seanad: Adjournment Matter. - Mining Leases. (9 Apr 2003)

John Browne: ...of mining has left the Silvermines area with the typical residue of such activity, including old spoil dumps, mineshafts and derelict buildings. The most significant of these is Mogul's tailings management facility, TMF, at Gortmore, west of Silvermines village. This facility is a purpose-built ring dam designed to be a disposal site for the company's mining waste. Minerals were extracted...