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Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...nature reserves across the country through the establishment of new ones and increasing investment in the ones we already have. We are also publishing legislation to provide a legal basis for the parks and putting management plans in place for each one. We are on track to have draft heads of Bill published and plans in place by the end of this year. Questions of accessibility for...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Michael Collins: ...smaller businesses, this additional financial burden may pose a challenge. While automatic enrolment aims to increase participation, some employees may resist being enrolled. They might prefer to manage their own retirement savings or have concerns about the impact on their take-home pay. The Bill does specify investment options or guarantee returns. The retirement savings of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (17 Apr 2024)

Marian Harkin: ...and when possible, to hear the Minister responsible speaking on these issues. The Minister of State is quite right that the Minister has no role in the independent functions of administration and management of Garda business. However, it is up to the Government to provide funding and a total of €1.3 million was spent on the acquisition of a site at Caltragh, outside Sligo. That...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...x2014; (I) a permission under Part 4 and an integrated pollution control licence or industrial emissions licence under Part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992, (II) a permission under Part 4 and a waste licence under Part V of the Waste Management Act 1996, (III) a permission under Part 4 and a waste water discharge licence under the Waste Water Discharge...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...x2014; (a) the construction of a new road, or the widening or realignment of an existing road, to any such house, (b) the construction or erection of pumping stations, treatment works, holding tanks or outfall facilities for waste water or storm water, to serve any such house, (c) the laying underground of sewers, mains, pipes or other apparatus to serve any such house, (d) the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (9 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...but also the cost of financing, operating and maintaining the facility, including services such as planned and reactive maintenance, grounds maintenance, cleaning, caretaking, security and waste management. By its nature, a PPP contract is tightly defined and controlled and the PPP company must provide a fully maintained facility for the duration of the contract and carries the risk in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...should specify what those areas are so there is clarity. That would also offer clarity to people buying in those developments because they would know which areas are the responsibility of the management company, and for which they will be paying management fees, and which areas will be taken in charge by the local authorities. I am seeking to provide clarity and there is often a lack of...

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...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...of the men were very happy to be moving from Mount Street on Saturday because the conditions had become very unsanitary and there was a public health issue. There were no toilets or showers, there was waste in the street and there was no management of the public sphere there. Unfortunately, however, the men were taken away and dumped at the border of Dublin and Wicklow in the Dublin...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Legislative Measures (20 Mar 2024)

Ossian Smyth: In June 2023, I launched a public consultation to help inform Ireland’s environmental response to disposable vaping devices. Disposable vaping devices present several challenges to our current waste collection and recycling system, and they can and should be recycled in a responsible manner. Over 3,000 submissions were made by individuals and organisations, including retailers, and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Public Private Partnerships (20 Mar 2024)

Michael McGrath: My Department does not have any planned Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects or ongoing PPP contracts. The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) is a body under the aegis of my Department. My Department has not sponsored any PPP projects. However, the NTMA acting as the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA), procures and delivers PPP projects where requested by State...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (20 Mar 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department has not sponsored any PPP projects, however, the OPW under the aegis of my Department manages the Convention Centre Dublin on behalf of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media who are the sponsors of the project. In terms of costs for the completed projects, the payments made by the State over the life of the PPP contract (typically 25 years...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Private Partnerships (20 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: ...but also the cost of financing, operating and maintaining the facility (including services such as planned and reactive maintenance, grounds maintenance, cleaning, caretaking, security and waste management). The PPP company must provide a fully maintained facility for the duration of the contract and carries the risk in relation to rectification of any construction defects that occur...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (20 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 589 to 593, inclusive, together. The policy of providing grant funding for remedial work on Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems (DWWTS), including septic tanks, arises from the need to address damage being done to water quality in sensitive areas in particular. The grants are focused on the areas of greatest environmental priority and are available...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (20 Mar 2024)

Helen McEntee: ..., the Minster for Environment, Climate and Communications. I understand that the relevant sections of the Circular Economy and Miscellaneous Provisions Act allowing for the use of CCTV under the Waste Management Act and Litter Pollution Act, and the use of other Mobile Recording Devices under the Waste Management Act, were commenced from 15 February by Minister Ryan. I understand from...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...plan within such a strategy, must include measures for the effective implementation and monitoring of the strategy and the plan, including an indication of priorities for infrastructure of scale relating to transportation, water services, waste management, energy and communications networks and the provision of educational, healthcare, retail, cultural and recreational facilities....

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Richard Bruton: ...comes from sustainable practices. We can also verify that we are not polluting our rivers and that we are restoring them to a pristine condition. Farmers know better than any of us what it is to manage land in a sustainable way. They have husbanded our land for years. They know how to do this, but we must ensure that they are incentivised and supported to do it. Many people looking...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Illegal Dumping (7 Mar 2024)

Ossian Smyth: While the primary responsibility for management and enforcement responses to illegal dumping, including any decision to deploy CCTV and other technologies, lies with local authorities, my Department continues to provide extensive policy, financial and legislative support to the local authority sector to support its efforts. Almost €18 million has been provided to local authorities...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with the Deputy. The use of biomass in power generation has a role. The main example we have at the moment is the Edenderry power plant, managed by Bord na Móna, which was designed to be 100% biomass compatible and has done exactly that. We switched away from the burning of peat in it. We are using 100% wood material now. I met Bord na Móna on this issue last week and I...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...of State at the Department of Environment, Climate & Communications. The relevant sections of the Circular Economy and Miscellaneous Provisions Act allowing for the use of CCTV under the Waste Management Act and Litter Pollution Act and the use of other Mobile Recording Devices under the Waste Management Act were commenced from the 15th February. It is therefore now open to any...