Results 1-7 of 7 for waste management speaker:Ruairi Ó Murchú

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...Dundalk. Where I live is redeemed land. I assume nobody is considering rewetting it because to do so would create issues. All joking aside, we all know the significant plans for catchment flood risk assessment and management and flood protection. We need to make sure that other laws are not unintentionally impacting on the ability to deliver in that regard. We have the nature...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Decarbonisation of the Heat Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...;Rourke and Smith dealt with the issue of communal heating systems. On some level we all see the potential in regard to district heating systems. Everyone gets the idea of Poolbeg and this huge volume of waste heat. Why not use it? There is not even too much worry about losses from efficiency or whatever, as it is all waste. That is spectacular. However, a particularly Irish...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I agree. We have all seen district heating systems and the idea of using waste heat from big industrial operations. That is a definite win. The problem with these is that they were communal heating systems that were obviously fed initially by biomass and, for multiple reasons, possibly even planning laws and so on, which all need to be looked at and which I have corresponded with the...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...of what we are dealing with in relation to climate change. Recently, Councillor Antóin Watters and I met Louth County Council on the necessary projects of catchment flood risk assessment and management, CFRAM. One worries about the delivery of these projects and the difficulties around planning. Unless we can get our act together in this field, we might be wasting our time....

Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (12 Nov 2020)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...who would benefit much more from solutions to the coming wave of mortgage arrears and increased capacity in our hospitals, rather than arcane legislation that will delight private equity asset managers. Much has been said in recent days about how time is prioritised in these Houses. Over a number of weeks, the Government has spent hours in the Dáil and Seanad progressing legislation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Oct 2020)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...working, which a number of craft workers have not accepted? They are now on 60% time. There is a belief among some of them that these are work practice changes and it is almost a case of "never waste an opportunity like this", namely, the Covid-19 pandemic. As some workers working in terminal 2 are on contracts that are not as good as those of people working in terminal 1, they have...

Climate Action: Statements (17 Sep 2020)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...so on are only operable in a situation where people have alternatives. Otherwise, we are simply impoverishing people who are already poor. The same goes for some of the initiatives relating to waste management and ending two-for-one, whether in respect of clothing or food. We need to be careful that we do not carry out actions that possibly have good intent but that will impact on those...