Results 1-20 of 36 for waste management speaker:Joan Burton

Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: ...secondary schools. We have spoken about that mainstreaming on many occasions and it was the correct decision. The Minister recently recognised this key role of the secretaries in respect of schools managed by education and training boards, ETBs, whether community national schools at primary level or community colleges at second level. He has said that where such a school has more than...

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: ...the accounts held there by many people were reflected in the first of the banking scandals. Many services of Irish companies, North and South, are routed through the Isle of Man. They range from waste to financial services. We really do not know very much about this location just off our shores with its secretive tax-efficient operations. When we have a debate about tax issues, we...

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: ...of the EU’s new border on our island are by no means the only issues we have to face, although they are the most obvious. The draft guidelines, with their insistence on a firsts-thing-first approach, manage to postpone consideration of these vital issues. It would be a tremendous waste of time and resources if the negotiating teams spent two years locked in argument over...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: -----and we set it out very clearly. But in the Labour Party's manifesto, we started the section dealing with the economy with, "Sound economic management is a fundamental requirement of good government" and we said that budgetary policy would be absolutely linked in terms of our commitments in the context of the various structures of the European Union. Not only that, we actually...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (27 Mar 2014)

Joan Burton: ...Exploration €33,388 Accenture Enhancement of Means Assessment Object Project €352,645 Enhancement of Means €391,829 Bearing Point SDM - Support & Maintenance  €10,093,362 Contract awarded pre May 2011 => not included in response - Bearing Point Redundancy & Insolvency Functions €1,165,158 Contract awarded pre May 2011...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Contracts Data (25 Mar 2014)

Joan Burton: ...awarded pre May 2011 => not included in response Redundancy & Insolvency Functions €1,165,158 Contract awarded pre May 2011 => not included in response SDM - Non Contributory Suite €1,115,031 Contract awarded pre May 2011 => not included in response SDM - Activation Customer Profiling & Case Management €132,788 Contract...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Contracts Data (11 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: ...Object on the BOMi Accenture €391,829 Y Business Objects Modelling Advice & Expertise (2013-2015) Naked Objects Group Ltd €463,710 Y BOMi Technical Development Advice (2013-2015) Haywood Associates Ltd €524,694 Y Predictive Analytics Model Accenture €15,744 Y SEPA Compliance Project Accenture €169,316 N Technical Change Services in Medical...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (10 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: ...1,809 B Mining and Quarrying 272 C Manufacturing 5,891 D Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply 25 E Water supply; Sewerage, waste management and remediation activities 398 F Construction 7,324 G Wholesale and Retail Trade; Repair of Motor Vehicles and motorcycles ...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Benefits (29 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: ...between our employment and income support services and the unemployed. The Pathways to Work approach involves more regular and on-going engagement with people who are unemployed through active case management and profiling. These policies apply to former construction workers in the same way as for other unemployed workers. There are various initiatives to allow those who are out of work...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services (11 Dec 2012)

Joan Burton: ...internal provision of services. These contracts range from the provision of scheme payments and employment services to information technology and medical certification. They also include cleaning, waste management, washroom services, transport services, pest control and security services. The Department is currently examining the feasibility of contracting private providers of...

Banking System: Motion (30 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: .... We know, however, that Mr. Derek Quinlan, who was a partner in the ill-fated Irish Glass Bottle site venture, is in Switzerland. We understand that Mr. David Drumm, the recent and former managing director is in somewhere such as Cape Cod in the north-eastern part of the United States. Mr. Johnny Ronan, after the rumble in Ranelagh, went for a pricey weekend to Marrakesh - €60,000 or...

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: ...those on the lowest are protected; third, if, and only if, the spending cuts are spread across the board in each Department and are focused on the elimination of duplication and other sources of waste and inefficiency; and fourth, if, and only if, there is compelling evidence of deep cuts in the cost of maintaining this bloated Government with all the perks and luxuries accumulated for...

Vote 12 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Supplementary) (20 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: The presentation of this Supplementary Estimate summarises all that is most difficult and in default with regard to the Government's management of public finances. It expresses as well the difficulties that lie within the McCarthy report. Each Department seems to have produced a wish list, while the expenditure section of the Department of Finance also had one, and the two wish lists were...

Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (11 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: ...143: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will put in place special arrangements to ensure all receipts are returned to farmers by the end of February 2009 under the farm waste management scheme in order that they can claim back their VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4872/09]

Written Answers — Recycling Policy: Recycling Policy (5 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 40: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the material collected for recycling by local authorities or licensed waste management operators in 2007 or 2008 that has been used for fuel or to supply waste to energy production; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3915/09]

Finance Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: There is no reason the Revenue Commissioners could not provide tax relief at source in respect of environmental and waste collection charges. After all, service charges for waste collection, be it by public or private operators, are normally set once or, at most, twice a year. There is some certainty associated with them, which makes it very easy to calculate how much is to be paid and the...

Finance Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: ...Residential Tenancies Board in order that they can pursue landlords who are not paying tax on the rental of properties. The HSE and the local authorities need to get their act together to end the waste of public money which is resulting from the Government's management of the rent allowance structure. It seems the Government has decided to hardly ever again build old-style local...

Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2008)

Joan Burton: ...of justice and a dereliction of Ireland's duties under the Geneva Convention if it were assumed that all asylum seekers are "bogus" or "economic migrants". We need to strike a balance between managing migration flows and fulfilling our humanitarian duties under the Geneva Convention. The concept of subsidiary protection has been developed by the European Union over recent years as a means...

Pre-Budget Outlook: Motion (23 Oct 2007)

Joan Burton: ...Minister and his party for economic wizardry and competence has vanished also. The Minister, perhaps in an unguarded moment in a press conference last week, said that he could not be expected to manage the wind, that we could not shape the wind and that we could just hope it was on our backs. The Minister is managing the nation's economic fortunes in the hope that it will be all right on...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 318: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the annual cost of the farm waste management grant scheme, on an annual basis from the date the scheme started; if she will quantify the activity generated by the scheme for each year for which figures are supplied; the smallest, the average and the largest individual payment made in each year under the scheme; the projected cost of...