Results 1-20 of 44 for waste management speaker:Paudie Coffey

Seanad: Local Government Funding: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Paudie Coffey: ...where councillors can frame the budgets of their councils. The main sources of income in the revenue accounts include commercial rates, housing rent, charges for goods and services, including for waste disposal or parking, and application fees. All these charges are set by the councils in their respective areas. The local property tax, which goes into the equalisation fund, is also a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Paudie Coffey: ...Water Services Act 2014, which I would presume had the approval of the Attorney General as it has been enacted, and under the current suspension regime? Is she looking forward, in the river basin management plan, at further risk assessments? That is a critical point to make. Taking account of the obligation that we as policy-makers have and that we as a country have, I will ask some...

Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Paudie Coffey: ...environment on land and at sea. We have made strong progress in recent years in that regard. Senators have alluded to the plastic bag levy and the smoking ban. We can make further progress in areas such as waste management and on how best to sustain the environment. I, therefore, ask Senators not to take deep personal offence, as they seem to be taking. In parliamentary politics the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Economic and Community Plans: Discussion (23 Nov 2016)

Paudie Coffey: ...was substantial public funding. I recognise that many of the projects were excellent. However, if we are to be honest about it, many of the projects were poor as well. There was a lot of money wasted in many Leader projects in which governance possibly was not as it should have been. Improvement was needed and a greater recognition of the elected mandate of councillors was needed. ...

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Paudie Coffey: I welcome the Minister. I know he has been closely engaged with this issue since long before the recent events highlighted by the Opposition and others. We need to examine how we behave and manage waste. The starting point was our unsustainable dependence on landfill. This has left many local authorities with major legacy issues, with which many Senators will be familiar. We are still...

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Paudie Coffey: I do not hear Sinn Féin acknowledging the significant progress made by local authorities in diverting waste from landfill. This success and progress should be acknowledged. Instead, the party acts opportunistically by jumping on people's fears and concerns and hyping up the issue to change it into something else. I am entitled to hold that opinion. Statistics show that in 2011, when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2016: Motion (27 Jan 2016)

Paudie Coffey: If it is, I urge the Deputy to take up the matter with ESB management. I know for a fact that, if there are particular problems, it does engage with customers and landowners. I know of cases in which land was destroyed and compensation paid, but that is essentially a matter for the ESB and the landowner involved. On exempted development, there are no specific legislative powers available....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2016: Motion (27 Jan 2016)

Paudie Coffey: ...provide for the clarification of limitations or conditions on certain existing exemptions relating to electricity service transmission and grid connections, the removal of exemptions for portable waste disposal compactors, the insertion and amendment of some definitions, together with a number of minor technical amendments to the principal regulations generally. In this context, my...

Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management Regulations (26 Nov 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I thank the Deputy for raising this important matter, which I am taking on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly. We have a serious problem with waste tyres in Ireland and elements within the tyre industry will not face up to that problem. They do not accept producer responsibility and they do not accept the polluter pays principle. Prior to the adoption of the current 2007 tyre...

Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management Regulations (26 Nov 2015)

Paudie Coffey: ...published by my Department as far back as 2013. One of those is quite startling, which is that between 25% and 50% of tyres are unaccounted for. They are not being disposed off by licensed waste collectors or in landfills. They are unaccounted for, which means they have been illegally dumped, transported elsewhere or burned. It is as simple as that. It is important to have...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2015)

Paudie Coffey: The Government will not be accepting the amendment. Essentially, it means a landlord would be responsible for managing the waste of his tenants. Considering the fundamental polluter pays policy and the responsibilities that go with it, I see no reason to accept the amendment. Essentially, tenants are responsible for their waste. I acknowledge the part of the amendment that refers to the...

Seanad: Water Services: Motion (21 Jan 2015)

Paudie Coffey: ...the mess created by this Government. I remind Senators that this Government has for the past four years been working to clean up the mess. This is another legacy of under-investment and a lack of management with regard to the water networks, which has resulted in substandard systems that will not meet the needs of society. This must be addressed. It is timely to recall that the...

Topical Issue Debate: Water Supply Contamination (21 Jan 2015)

Paudie Coffey: ...avoiding loss of revenue to the Exchequer. However, the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government assists local authorities in carrying out their role as competent authorities under waste legislation. This role involves taking the necessary measures on behalf of the State to ensure that any waste generated and left abandoned by diesel launderers is disposed of without...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 3) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 3) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Nov 2014)

Paudie Coffey: ...system imperative. Our population is growing, and is forecast to continue growing in the coming decades. Our economy is recovering, bringing with it added water demand for industry and agriculture. Clean water is expensive both to produce and manage. There is a complex process involved in turning raw water into clean drinking water and treating waste water so that it can be...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Waste Management (8 Oct 2014)

Paudie Coffey: ...me the opportunity to reply today on behalf of Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly. I am happy to clarify the matter. Planning for the provision of waste management facilities forms part of a waste management plan. The preparation and adoption of a waste management plan, including decisions on the provision or operation of particular waste...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Waste Management (8 Oct 2014)

Paudie Coffey: ...and the Government and the Department are precluded from interfering or exercising any power over the local authority in a case such as this. The Government must take account of the national waste framework directive where we propose sustainable waste management policy based on the hierarchy of reduce, reuse and recycle. If he wishes, the Senator can ask the relevant local authority to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Charges: Commission for Energy Regulation (1 Jul 2014)

Paudie Coffey: ...the Uisce Éireann water charges plan has been made to them. It is in the best interests of transparency and public debate on the charging plan. We are debating a new national utility that will manage a reformed water system. No doubt the existing system has been identified as being a broken system. It has been inconsistent in terms of the state of the network where it has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Forthcoming Environment Council: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (5 Jun 2014)

Paudie Coffey: ...heat goes up the chimney. We have incentives for wood pellet boilers, geothermal systems which are justified but they are expensive to install and following installation they are very difficult to manage and control. In the context of our concerns about fuel poverty I raised the issue of incentivising the installation of a simple stove at that meeting, as a stove has the reverse...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (9 Jul 2013)

Paudie Coffey: ...have operated their own networks on an individual basis and that the work will now be co-ordinated in the overall Irish Water network. Is there provision for an overall co-ordinated asset management system for water networks? One notes that approximately €1 billion per annum is being invested in water networks when the level of leakage into the ground is over 50%. This is...

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Paudie Coffey: The Minister has made it clear that water networks will remain in State ownership. Irish Water will be a semi-State company. Sinn Féin representatives will always look at the county manager or the Department for investment at local level but will never tell us where the money will come from. Sinn Féin should stand up and be counted and responsible. If the party wants investment...