Results 141-160 of 1,045,525 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Brendan Howlin OR speaker:Anne Rabbitte)
- National Waste Management Plan. (3 Feb 2004)
Rory O'Hanlon: I ask Deputy Allen to resume his seat.
- National Waste Management Plan. (3 Feb 2004)
Bernard Durkan: On a point of order, the Minister deliberately wasted time giving a history lecture to the Opposition Members. If that is the way it will proceed, we are wasting our time here
- National Waste Management Plan. (3 Feb 2004)
Rory O'Hanlon: I am asking Deputy Durkan to resume his seat.
- National Waste Management Plan. (3 Feb 2004)
Bernard Durkan: You can. The Chair could have interrupted the Minister when he was wasting time, but he did not.
- National Waste Management Plan. (3 Feb 2004)
Rory O'Hanlon: The Chair has no control over the length of replies. If Deputies are not happy with the way questions are organised, I suggest they go to the Dáil reform committee.
- National Waste Management Plan. (3 Feb 2004)
Martin Cullen: The detail is in the question, as the Chair rightly said. I could not finish within the rules of the House. That is not my fault. The information will be made available to the Deputies. The final decisionsââ
- National Waste Management Plan. (3 Feb 2004)
Rory O'Hanlon: The Minister initially had two minutes, which the Chair intervened to point out and the Minister resumed his seat. Deputy Allen then took two minutes to ask a question and the Minister took another two minutes. I intervened to tell the Minister the six minutes were up. I now call Question No. 139
- National Waste Management Plan. (3 Feb 2004)
Martin Cullen: I think it is Question No. 138.
- National Waste Management Plan. (3 Feb 2004)
Rory O'Hanlon: Question No. 139 in the name of Deputy Joe Higgins as Deputy Gilmore is not here.
- National Waste Management Plan. (3 Feb 2004)
Emmet Stagg: On a procedural matter, a Cheann Comhairle, can Deputy Gilmore's Question No. 138 not be taken when I am here?
- National Waste Management Plan. (3 Feb 2004)
Rory O'Hanlon: A Priority Question is never taken unless the Deputy who submitted it is present.
- Priority Questions. (3 Feb 2004)
Waste Management
- Waste Management (3 Feb 2004)
Joe Higgins: Question 139: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason it is intended to spend a total of â¬1,539,348 on the production and airing of a television advertisement depicting householders as responsible for a waste crisis when, in fact, householders account for 15% of waste going to landfill.
- Waste Management (3 Feb 2004)
Martin Cullen: Excluding private/industrial landfills, which are largely dedicated facilities provided in conjunction with certain types of industrial installations, the report shows that a total of 3.1 million tonnes of waste was accepted at local authority landfills in 2001. Of this, 1.25 million tonnes, or 40%, was household waste, with a further 0.53 million tonnes, or 17%, being attributable to the...
- Waste Management (3 Feb 2004)
Joe Higgins: Would the Minister agree that spending â¬1.5 million on an advertisement showing ordinary households being responsible for a waste apocalypse is an outrageous misuse of taxpayers' funds because it is fraudulent advertising? Householders account for only15%, or one seventh, of what goes to landfill.
- Waste Management (3 Feb 2004)
Martin Cullen: They do not.
- Waste Management (3 Feb 2004)
Joe Higgins: I have studied this.
- Waste Management (3 Feb 2004)
Martin Cullen: The figure is 40%.
- Waste Management (3 Feb 2004)
Joe Higgins: Thanks to the Minister, I had four weeks of leisure to study it in the autumn.
- Waste Management (3 Feb 2004)
Martin Cullen: I am glad the Deputy did so. There is always a silver lining somewhere.