Results 1-20 of 33 for waste management speaker:Bríd Smith

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

Bríd Smith: ...report calls for the return and the expansion of the town council system, increased revenue and funding powers with parallel systems of accountability and transparency to move the relative level of local authority-managed public spending towards the European average, an immediate end to outsourcing of council housing maintenance and a shift to a new local authority public-led housing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...not because we are miserable and do not want to pay our way in society, but because we predicted at the time, quite rightly, that it would be a disaster, that it would lead to the privatisation of waste collection services up and down the country, and that this privatisation would in turn be a disaster for workers, for the environment and for the communities which these services are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: Part of the Tánaiste's statement has made my case for me. If people are incentivised to recycle, they separate their organic waste and their paper, plastic and bottles, they pay for their black-bin waste, and they do not pay for the recycling. Then they are incentivised. That incentive is now being taken from them by this increase announced by Panda followed by another increase...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...responsible for at the end of the life of those products? No. Is it banning harmful chemicals used in creating packaging, banning pesticides or perhaps starting to look at how the privatisation of waste management has damaged the goals of reducing waste and safeguarding the environment? No. The largest block of this Bill is concerned with the use of CCTV cameras by local authorities...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...and say, "He got away with it again". I refer to normal people like a young care worker in a small local hospital who was suspended for seven weeks for daring to put a post on Facebook criticising a management decision to spend multiples of her annual wage, which was less than €30,000 a year at the time, on a piece of art when there was a trolley crisis in her hospital. She did...

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

Bríd Smith: ...the monitors have identified are in areas of economic deprivation such as Ballyfermot, where I live. As well as having a high level of traffic congestion, there is an over-concentration of waste management facilities dotted around west Dublin where Ballyfermot is located. This gives rise to an increase in the number of pollutants in the air. The delay in the ban on solid fuels has been...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: In a significant development, Dublin City Council yesterday endorsed a motion from one of our councillors, Tina MacVeigh from People Before Profit, to re-municipalise waste management in the city. That means taking the waste management system back into public control and ownership. This very important development paves the way for addressing environmental concerns, the concerns of the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: We need sustainable waste management and we can only achieve that via public control.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: The Minister is opposed to the re-municipalisation of waste management. He does not agree with it.

Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...one nurse to every 11 patients, at worst. The latter end of that scale tends to apply in the psychiatric services. The Taoiseach, a former Minister for Health, and the current Minister for Health manage a system that oversaw the trolley crisis grow last year to 108,000-plus people on trolleys, in which nursing numbers fell by 6% last year which means there are 1,754 fewer staff nurses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...I was a councillor and three times we voted against it going ahead, rightly or wrongly. It meant we had no recourse to Parliament to ask whether it could do something about it. Instead, the city manager made the decision, first under John Tierney and later under the current regime in Dublin City Council. The power the Minister has to listen to the democratic wishes of the people was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...Recycling whereby if somebody makes a complaint an inspector is sent, or are there EPA people on site constantly monitoring what happens in the incinerator? In addition, there is residual waste from incineration. I understand a dump in Drehid, County Kildare, was recently given planning permission to take that waste. Can the witnesses describe how toxic, dangerous, safe or otherwise...

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

Bríd Smith: ...to do something about it. It behoves the Government to take the lead on this matter. The previous Minister, Deputy Denis Naughten, said the Bill might have unforeseen consequences for the waste management industry through losing profits and possibly having to pass on the cost to people who pay their bin charges. We must reject this. This is the industry of Tony Soprano, in which...

Dublin Fire Brigade: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...of paramedics, ambulances and fire engines be applied in Britain because it was such an impressive system. He estimated that he could save approximately £200 million for the British system, but we wasted €100,000 on this expert's report and left it sitting on the shelf to gather dust because Mr. Keegan did not agree with it. As he had done as county manager at Dún...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Household Waste Collection Price Monitoring Group (31 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 24. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will commission a report on the feasibility of the remunicipalisation of the household waste collection service in view of the rising costs, poorer services and the increased difficulties in achieving sustainable waste management under the current privatised system; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...rained heavily not only this winter but the previous winter as well. We had a fodder crisis because the big producers bought up all the fodder when the climate responded as it did. Thus family farmers cannot manage to feed their cattle and cattle are dying. Yet, these family farmers have admitted to us that they are coming under increasing pressure all the time from the Department and...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...of thousands of workers are not informed of their terms and conditions, their hours are not notified to them in advance and they work under low-hour and zero-hour contracts. I do not know how they manage to survive. It is interesting that, having spent years denying there was a problem, the Government has decided that it wants to address the increase in casualisation and the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Disposal Charges (21 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 469. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the arrangements agreed with the waste management companies on the introduction of the pay-by-weight schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49099/17]

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...crucial issue is that while all this was happening and while there is an attempt to implement some kind of charge for overuse, there is no evidence that the average Irish man, woman or child is guilty of overuse of water or of wasting water. Irish Water has given the Government figures that show that average usage here is below average usage in Great Britain, Denmark, etc., where they...

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...to safeguard the service in future and to keep the environment safe in our cities and towns is for this service to be taken back into the ownership and control of the local authorities. The City Manager of Dublin City Council agrees with this. The city council is browned off - not to put too fine a pun on it - collecting illegally dumped waste while those who are getting the profits from...