Results 1-9 of 9 for waste management speaker:Rose Conway Walsh

Seanad: Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (26 Jun 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: .... The Fine Gael fantasy tax cut is even mapped out, stripping €3 billion from the public purse. On top of this, a further €200 million is being used to mop up the fiscal mess and serious waste caused by this Government in regard to the broadband plan. Before I came to the Seanad I attended a meeting of the Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment,...

Seanad: National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Bill 2018: Second Stage (12 Jun 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...as flood defence and relief schemes, thereby reducing the likelihood and scale of damage caused by natural disasters such as flooding. Despite this, the Government has cut capital funding in flood risk management for 2019 by €3 million. The other explicit purpose of the reserve fund is to provide money for the banks. The evidence and options before us, and the provisions of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...of the children's hospital, I think the reason people are so angry is that it is one of a whole line of procurement failures. People have lost confidence in those, including the Minister, who are managing the procurement process and continue using the procurement model that has led us to so many failures. These failures include the situation we faced with Carillion, which the committee...

Seanad: Versatis Medicated Plasters: Statements (21 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...fact that there are 700,000 people waiting for treatment and for procedures in this country. The Minister needs to take that into consideration. He needs to look at the waiting list for the pain management clinics as well. We cannot get the right figures for the pain management clinic that is nearest to my constituency in Galway. However, I can tell the Minister that patients have...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: .... Our thoughts and prayers are with them at this painful time, as indeed they are with those who lost their lives in the incident in Marseilles at the weekend. I wish to move the National Asset Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2017.This Bill will amend the NAMA and National Treasury Management Agency Acts to empower NAMA and the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, to contribute to...

Seanad: Household Waste Charges: Statements (5 Jul 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...around with essential services under the pretext that if we leave everything to the market, it will be okay. There are counties where a pay-by-weight system operates but where there is only one waste operator. How does the Minister explain that in terms of the competition regulating the market? In theory, the customers of this company are at the mercy of the CEO as to whether charges are...

Seanad: Litter Pollution (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (10 May 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. I welcome the introduction of this Bill. Sinn Féin will support its passage through Second Stage. The issue of proper waste management is one that has impacted on many communities. Sinn Féin is against the privatisation of council and domestic refuse services. We increasingly find the impact of privatisation, particularly in rural...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (15 Jul 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...not have the final say on the outcome of the baby. However, we can only go on their record or the members of the family who were born before that. We had Eircom and then privatisation of that company. Then, we had waste management privatisation. We also had centralisation of the hospital services and then privatisation. One would be forgiven for thinking that they had the same thing...

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: ..., but that is not what happened in County Mayo. Sinn Féin only had one member on the council at the time and he could not get another councillor to second his motion to stop the privatisation of waste collection services in the county because we knew that was the wrong thing to do. If county managers cannot deliver essential services such as this effectively and efficiently, they...