Results 1-6 of 6 for waste management speaker:Lynn Ruane

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I want to raise some concerns about the ordering of business this week and last week. I refer to the Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022. We have the Higher Education Authority Bill 2022 coming up this week as well as the Electoral Reform Bill 2022. Those two Bills are once in a lifetime pieces of legislation in their importance,...

Seanad: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ..." into the legislation. It proposed to define just transition as a transition that ensures the economic, environmental and social consequences of the ecological transformation of economies and societies are managed in ways that maximise opportunities of decent work for all, reduce inequalities, promote social justice, and support industries, workers and communities negatively affected in...

Seanad: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...page 13, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: “(e) to assist the establishment of public-public partnerships for research and development in the area of the circular economy and waste management;”.

Seanad: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...scrutiny report, the committee recommended that there should be specific measures for tracking, reuse and repair of products that are built with critical materials such as precious minerals. It also recommended that given the importance of the management of minerals, including precious minerals, in the context of national and global circular economy strategies, regulation and, where...

Seanad: Local Government (Surveillance Powers in Relation to Certain Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Jan 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...of civil liberties. When we think about this we have to talk about the technology. Technology advances very quickly. The Senator's intention is to give powers under relevant offences, such as waste management and litter pollution Acts, and for this to be very particular. However, once something is introduced, the next Government and Governments after that can add to it. I understand...

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Lynn Ruane: ...worse because when one lives in a housing estate like Killinarden, we all live on top of each other, so to speak. Our sitting room is in our kitchen so we cannot have three bins to dispose of our waste. The structures are not in place for us to do it. If we have a brown bin, a green bin and a black bin outside our doors, and some of us live in very small apartments and flats, and they...