Results 1-11 of 11 for waste management speaker:Alice-Mary Higgins

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...previously about some of the areas, which are hotly debated. People will make decisions on who they vote for based on these kinds of areas, and Senator Gavan spoke very eloquently on the issue of waste management and waste municipalisation, potentially. They also include things like archaeological heritage and monuments within the city of Limerick. It is important to draw attention to...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...general who is, at the end of the day, an unelected official, and not to an elected and accountable person such as a mayor. In many of these, it is not just sections, it is the whole Act. Waste management was identified by Senator Gavan as an area in which there is lively and vibrant debate around re-municipalisation and different approaches. It has huge implications in terms of the...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...and highlighted, which is the lack of financial autonomy, was also identified as a key obstacle to effective local self-government. The report highlighted that local authorities in Ireland do not manage a substantial share of public affairs under their own responsibility. It concluded that Ireland is far from compliant with that principle of subsidiarity, which requires that decisions...

Seanad: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (7 Jul 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...definition defines just transition as a transition that ensures the economic, environmental and social consequences of the necessary fast but fair 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 who are negatively affected". It...

Seanad: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (7 Jul 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...In page 15, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “(j) 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: Report and Final Stages (7 Jul 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...is working. We are beginning to see early case law with prosecutions being taken on planned obsolescence in France and Italy. Amendments Nos. 55 and 57 relate to the fundamental issue of resource management. It is no longer about waste but about resource management and the best possible management of finite resources. We talk about our carbon emissions space as being finite and a...

Seanad: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (7 Jul 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...in those respects look to insert "precious metals" into a number of provisions here. I propose to put in the phrase, "precious metals", because fundamentally we are at a point in resource management where we need to be looking to the absolute best use of the finite resources we have on this planet. One of the things that fuels the fact we have those kinds of waste and disposal we heard...

Seanad: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...Bill is focused on the economy and how it fits within the planetary boundaries and our fair share of them in terms not just of emissions but of resources, and effective and appropriate resource management. As a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Environment and Climate Action, we engaged very extensively in a period of pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill. I am pleased to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Oct 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...the three Rs - reduce, reuse and recycle - I felt that the reduction part of that is one of the parts that is not strong enough in the proposed Bill. There is a strong focus on the recycle and the waste management. There is a strong focus on those components. There is some discussion around the reuse piece but that reduction piece - the initial piece around thinking about the inputs...

Seanad: Living with Covid-19 Restrictions: Statements (10 Nov 2020)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...concerned about how this new lockdown is to be used. The previous lockdown, during which the public did extraordinary work to flatten the curve almost to a point at which zero-Covid was in sight, was wasted when we moved rapidly away from restrictions when sufficient work had clearly not been done in scaling up ICU capacity and health service recruitment. It is vital that the Minister of...

Seanad: An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19) 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Mar 2020)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...proposes a new section 10 in the Bill. I had my own version of section 10 that related to consents, permits and leases for the Air Pollution Act, the Environmental Protection Agency Act, the Waste Management Act, the Local Government Act and other Acts. I am conscious they have not really been addressed in this Bill and perhaps it points to an arrow or another area for consents, permits...