Results 1-4 of 4 for waste management speaker:Mark Ward

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)

Mark Ward: The EU waste management policy highlights the need to reduce waste and dumping, and to reach our recycling targets. I highlight the campaign led by Sinn Féin councillor and European election candidate Daithí Doolan to bring the bins back into public ownership. Monthly bin charges jumped by 48% last year. Customers are charged for brown bin collections. These price hikes are...

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Mark Ward: ...to check the medication prescribed or the quantity of service. Concerns were raised about the overprescription of medication in 2018 and again in 2019. Despite this, when a new senior medical manager started in 2020, concerns about the doctor were not communicated to that new medical manager. There were ample opportunities to prevent these young people from having to experience such...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (22 Sep 2020)

Mark Ward: 166. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the positive environmental impacts that would result from returning waste management to local authority control; if such a move will be supported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25356/20]

Waste Management (Amendment) (Regulator) Bill 2019: First Stage (5 Dec 2019)

Mark Ward: I am delighted to co-sponsor this Bill which is a continuation of a campaign that I started during my time on South Dublin County Council. In June 2016, I reported the waste management companies to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission when waste management companies raised their prices in unison after the proposed pay-by-weight scheme. A conservative estimate saw customers...