Results 61-80 of 6,680 for waste management

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...of buildings was well made. Across Dublin, we routinely see perfectly good buildings that were built in the 1940s or 1950s and could be repurposed being demolished, with the construction and demolition waste probably ending up in landfill. Our waste management legislation is also important in this regard. I recall being involved 20 years ago when we were looking at mobile crushers...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Priorities (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Health Among Residents of Oliver Bond Report". I anticipate that there will be input also provided by the report authors. The details of that meeting will be finalised in due course. The management and maintenance of DCC’s housing stock is strictly a matter for the Local Authority. DCC have advised that the Council has been undertaking works to improve the living conditions of...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...that were not paid, it comes to just under €2.1 million. At the same time, people left RTÉ with massive packages who had squandered €2.2 million or €2.3 million on Toy Show The Musical. People wasted millions of euro that could not be accounted for and which was not signed off and who, having listened to what we heard today, made decisions with no...

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...broadcaster and the television licence; notes with concern that approximately 13,000 people were summoned before the courts last year for not purchasing a television licence, while no one has been held to account for the incredible waste of public money at RTÉ; and mandates the Government to: — scrap the unfair television licence fee with immediate effect; — invest...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Fintan Warfield: I support this amendment around various things the mayor should be doing, such as chairing the joint policing committee, and having powers in terms of waste management, regeneration and the public realm and, importantly, the introduction of a living wage, and promoting that initiative. The mayor having an ambassadorial role in the delivery of a living wage, which by the way is a programme...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (13 Feb 2024)

Eamon Ryan: 'MyWaste.ie', an initiative of the Regional Waste Management Offices on behalf of my Department provides advice on how to manage waste, including duvets and pillows. See www.mywaste.ie/what-to-do-with/duvets-pillows/. Our current plans for textile waste is set out in a Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy 2020-2025 which establishes our commitment to tackle the environmental...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Social Welfare Schemes (13 Feb 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Local authorities are responsible for municipal waste collection and waste management planning within their functional areas. It is open to the Chief Executive of any local authority to exercise their executive function in relation to waste collection to re-enter the waste collection market as direct service providers if they so choose, either alongside existing permitted service providers or...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (13 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to engage with local authorities to explore the possibility of local councils providing more public waste collection services, particularly in the context of private companies raising the price of bin collections for many households; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6532/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Waste Management (13 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 256. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to engage with companies providing residential waste collection services in respect of them raising the price of bin collections for households, in some instances several times in a year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6531/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (13 Feb 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...as stipulated by the Schools Procurement’s Unit (www.spu.ie), the school meal supplier is responsible for operating policies which progressively addresses environmental considerations such as waste and packaging. My Department does not keep statistics on food waste or packaging. The method and logistics of supplying the meals is decided by the school. Under tender documentation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Feb 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The matter of waste collection charges is the responsibility of my colleague the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications. I am advised by the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications that there is no national waiver scheme for household waste collection. The waste management market in Ireland is now serviced by private companies, where prices charged are...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (8 Feb 2024)

Marie Sherlock: ...Education to the National Council for Special Education and to SENOs throughout the country - indeed, to the Department itself - that we need to do better. We need to ensure there will be active management of the places that become available with the families who need them. All too often, families come to me and tell they are being left in the dark. It is not good enough that a family...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Paul Gavan: ...not, the mayor is going to have a role in this area. Why not give him or her this particular power in respect of the JPC? The amendment next states, "The Mayor shall have executive powers in the realm of waste management." As a trade unionist, this is something very close to my heart. My union and others have campaigned for this for years. I live in the small village of Castleconnell,...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Waste Management (1 Feb 2024)

Waste Management

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Eileen Flynn: ...from the Part 8 provisions when to comes to Traveller accommodation. What is the officials' opinion on that? I am aware, from being on the TAP in Ballyfermot for many years, that a lot of the accommodation budget goes to waste management and that is annoying. How much of Cork City Council's Traveller accommodation budget goes to waste management? Should that responsibility not lie...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (1 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...and the tenth consecutive year in which the overall allocation to ODA has increased. This is estimated at 0.36% of the gross national income. In 2024, slightly more than 38% of total ODA is allocated to the Department of Foreign Affairs, to be managed through Vote 27, or 54% if Ukraine first-year refugee costs are excluded. The remainder is managed by other Departments and includes...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (31 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...with local organisations to understand further the remit and function of this proposed role. For Public Works contracts such as redevelopment it is a matter for DCC to bring forward proposals for Capital Works Management Framework Stage approvals from my Department. The stage applied for by the Council is dependent on the progress of the redevelopment involved. Stage 1 Capital Appraisal...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (31 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...of 25 years post construction. The annually published appropriation accounts for my Department contains a section on the payments of PPP projects. This table lists the operational PPPs currently managed by my Department, including for NMCI and CSM, and includes the cumulative expenditure to the previous year, the expenditure during the year as well as the legally enforceable commitments to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (30 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 153 and 157 together. [3903/24] and [3912/24] together. Under the Waste Management Act, the primary responsibility for management and enforcement responses to illegal dumping lies with the local authorities. It is a matter for each local authority to determine the most appropriate public awareness, enforcement and clean-up actions in relation to illegal...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (30 Jan 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what proportion of households have their waste collected, broken down by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3911/24]