Results 1-10 of 10 for waste management speaker:Verona Murphy

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: .... At a time when we have the greatest housing catastrophe in the history of our State, we have overspending in our Department of Health and there are no checks and balances, billions have been wasted annually. We have a Government that displays complete incompetence in the management of the public finances. This story comes out of a clear blue sky – manna from heaven to distract...

Short-term Lettings Enforcement Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: ...of every county development plan, as no specific minimums have been set out in the specific planning policy requirement, SPPR, or in the ministerial guidelines. After a bit of tooth-pulling, I eventually managed to extract from the Minister of State confirmation that there are no minimum density requirements, despite An Bord Pleanála applying minimum density standards of its...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (12 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: ...cc'd to the Minister and which I have to put on the record: My son Leo has an extremely rare form of bethlem myopathy muscular dystrophy, a completely unique variation. Its a progressive muscle wasting disease with no cure and no treatment. Therapies are essential to maintain ... his mobility and his independence. [He] has attended hse services since he was 6 weeks old. He then moved...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Verona Murphy: ...There was a long list of answers, but leading the way by far as the most popular two responses were the cost of living and housing. Instead of really getting to grips with them, the Government is wasting energy pursuing a climate change agenda at a rate of knots, with little regard for the costs, to appease a party that is now languishing at 3% in the opinion polls. There is no...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: ...per year for exceeding nitrogen oxide, NOx, emissions above what is allowed under EU rules. I was astounded to hear Mr. O'Neill respond that the barriers at Dublin Port Tunnel are there for traffic management and control. I advised him that I have been all over Europe and many parts of the world and that I have never seen a toll barrier used to control traffic in a tunnel. I ask that...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Verona Murphy: ..., transport and agriculture. Unfortunately, in the 12 months that followed, very few of these issues have seen any progress. The policies of spending unprecedented billions, much of it in a wasteful manner, while at the same time putting the brakes on our economic activity have resulted in soaring levels of debt and soaring bills for the future generations that will have to pay the...

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Verona Murphy: ...towns and villages to create balanced development; to create a strategic plan for water investment and to put in place a transparent cost structure for new, and extensions to existing, water and waste water treatment infrastructure. To put it in one sentence, it is an opportunity to get it right. We need to take this opportunity because we cannot allow any town or village to be in a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jan 2021)

Verona Murphy: ...in many instances where it wishes to bring a prosecution for enforcement. What legislative proposals are being brought by Government to assist county councils to bring forward prosecutions under the Waste Management Acts to cure this anomaly to ensure that this disgusting practice stops?

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Verona Murphy: ...the political process. There is one underlying problem with this budget which is highlighted in all its pages. That problem is simple. The Government is currently in the business of crisis management rather than crisis prevention. The Government is letting crisis after crisis evolve and develop, irrespective of the consequences, and then wants to be looked upon as the heroes for...

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (13 May 2020)

Verona Murphy: ...sometimes inadvertently and sometimes without any regard to the disastrous consequences of those primary policies. We have had experience of this in recent years, such as with the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, collapsing the housing and building industry, an increase in heavy goods vehicles, HGVs, on the roads due to a reduction in load-carrying capacity and high-density...