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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

...; economic development; infrastructure, roads and footpaths; climate change; environment and biodiversity; planning, land use and strategic development; arts, culture and sport; night-time economy; tourism and marketing; waste management; community healthcare; emergency services; childcare; support for Traveller and Roma communities; transport; water; policing; primary healthcare; primary...

Trends in Mortality and Estimates of Excess Mortality: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: ...of community pharmacies, building on the enhanced community care model that we now have in healthcare, which I welcome, making sure that people with chronic pain and chronic conditions are treated and managed in the community where we can, and delivering the statutory home care scheme to ensure that people can be cared for in their homes. All these are areas where we need more investment....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

...for the sector and need to be addressed as a matter of urgency to ensure our critical mass of growers is not further eroded. I will now address these three points in more detail along with addressing the issue of food waste, which was a request of the committee today. With regard to strengthening the position of growers in the marketplace and developing a retail charter, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...but the uptake of those meals would tell us as a committee whether we are getting value for money with that. Some of us are old enough to remember the school milk scheme, which was a wanton waste of milk and money. The milk was not consumed in school. It was going into bins and down the sinks, but it was not being consumed. Are the school meals delivering what we all want in terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: EU Directives (17 Oct 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...27/6/85 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment C-261/18 INFR (2013)2056 - Application of Directive concerning urban waste water Directive 91/271/EEC concerning urban waste-water treatment C-427/17 INFR (2015)2006 - Designation of Special Areas of Conservation in Ireland ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Policies (12 Oct 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...change in energy conservation and emissions reduction initiatives. Last week we ran a Climate Action and Sustainability week which focused on climate related matters including transport, energy, waste management and climate change. The Department’s Learning and Career Development Unit is actively considering the provision of relevant climate action leadership training as part of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waste Management (12 Oct 2023)

Patrick Costello: 128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what regulations exist for requiring apartment developments to provide green bins and ensure proper recycling facilitates are in place. [44475/23]

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...analyse a budget. Notwithstanding the good points and the payments that are being made, I would like to give some of the reaction. The Antipoverty Network in Ireland described the budget as a wasted opportunity. It said that by prioritising short-term one-off payments over adequate and sustainable permanent measures that would enable Ireland to meet its antipoverty targets, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (11 Oct 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Ms Lynne Sweetman: I thank the members for the invitation to address the committee on the challenges facing the fruit and vegetable industry in Ireland, specifically in the food waste aspect at both consumer and production stages of the food chain. Keelings is a 100% Irish-owned, third generation family business that has been operating and innovating within the fresh produce industry...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (11 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Dublin City Council is designated as the National Competent Authority for the export, import and transit of waste shipments under S.I. No. 419 of 2007 Waste Management (Shipments of Waste) Regulations, 2007. These Regulations give effect to Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1013/2006 on transfrontier shipments of waste, which sets out notification procedures, specifies waste listings and...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Cathal Berry: ...agreed, approved and published. The Defence community learned two lessons today. There is no point in engaging with processes such as commissions of the Defence Forces, strategic documentation or focus groups. They are a waste of time. All they delivered was heartache and false hope. Even as a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, I find it hard to invite RACO or...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Provision (10 Oct 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...off North Brunswick Street. It is kind of a hidden site. You would pass by North Brunswick Street and you might not even notice it. Since the 1900s, it has been used as a city council depot for waste management, engineering and mechanical activity. There are old tram lines running over the cobblestoned streets. The site has been earmarked for the development of housing as part of the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 41, 42 and 43 together. Textiles is a key priority area for action to realise this Government’s circular economy ambitions. The Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy, 2020-2025 (WAPCE) establishes our policy commitments to tackle the environmental degradation caused by textiles, in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders. In 2022, my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Pollution (10 Oct 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 298 and 299 together. Primary responsibility for the monitoring, management, protection and improvement of water quality is assigned to local authorities under the Local Government (Water Pollution) Acts and related legislation. Since 1 January 2014, Uisce Éireann has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023) See 7 other results from this debate

Ossian Smyth: ...the progress that has been made in the last year and to discuss the priority areas where we now need to focus our attention. I think we are all agreed that the linear economic model of take-make-waste is environmentally and economically unsustainable. The transition to a circular economy offers an alternative. In a circular economy, waste and resource use is minimised, and the value...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Timmy Dooley: ...happened and have decided for various different reasons to send a message by not paying their licence fee. They are still, however, consuming the product. RTÉ is still delivering every day, from senior management to the people who open the doors every day. The content gets out there thanks to the people I meet working on the broadcasting areas, the rigs, the vans and the cameras....

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: ...day carrying children and that it led them to wonder why their child is being refused a seat on that bus. Another email is very concerning. It involves a family that has come through homelessness and has finally managed to get somewhere it can call its own. This family is now facing a journey of 20 km twice a day five days a week because there is no mechanism for that child, who has been...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (3 Oct 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...for EMEA and will function as the centre of SHEIN’s operations in the region. SHEIN plans to increase their workforce in Dublin by filing roles in big data and analytics, security engineering, finance management and legal, as well as expanding SHEIN's graduate programme in Ireland. SHEIN aims to fill 30 key roles in the Ireland office by end 2023, with a view to increasing that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (28 Sep 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...practice, we are focusing on larger-scale projects, supplying heat to a range of buildings that can include public, commercial and residential across an entire district, for example using the heat from the waste to energy plant in Poolbeg in the docklands and beyond. Given the reliance on gas in communal schemes, the cost to households increased significantly last year. To support...