Results 201-220 of 1,030,658 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Richard Bruton OR speaker:Danny Healy-Rae)
- Prelude (18 Jun 2024)
Prayer and Reflection.
- Prelude (18 Jun 2024)
Paidir agus Machnamh.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (18 Jun 2024)
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (18 Jun 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I wish to announce for the information of the House that four Members of the Dáil have been elected to the European Parliament, namely, Deputies Barry Cowen, Kathleen Funchion, Michael McNamara and Aodhán Ó Ríordáin. Pursuant to the European Parliament Elections Act, the Deputies will cease to be Members of the Dáil when they take up their seats at the first...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2024)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: We have an epidemic of domestic violence. This morning, Women's Aid reports that last year it received its highest level of domestic abuse disclosures in its 50-year history. The figures cited in the organisation’s impact report are frightening, with more than 40,000 disclosures of abuse against women and children made in 2023. That is a jump of 18% on the previous year. Reports of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Richard Bruton: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. When the circular economy Act was passed, we envisaged that we would have the circular economy strategy within six months. It seems that two years on we are still talking about analysing the baseline from which the strategy would evolve. What has gone so radically wrong with the original intention?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Richard Bruton: The Act stated not later than six months from the date the section came in-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Richard Bruton: That in itself is a bit of a cop-out. We brought in a strategy that envisaged six months, but the relevant section was not activated so we do not have a strategy. It is hard to square that with the sense of urgency that people feel about the use of materials that have huge emission impact, etc.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Richard Bruton: When does Mr. McLoughlin expect that will be published?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Richard Bruton: I will ask about the existing producer responsibility schemes. Can Mr. McLoughlin give the committee the current recovery rates and the destination of the material recovered? The purpose of this is to recover a high percentage and then see that the material is reused in some fashion that would give the highest value potential. Does Mr. McLoughlin have them available now? I have not seen...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Richard Bruton: No. Ms Kiely has them all there. There is: vehicles, tyres, farm plastics, tobacco filters, batteries, packaging, WEEE. They are all listed there. There are eight or ten of them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Richard Bruton: Do we have a baseline performance for Ireland on these eight streams as of now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Richard Bruton: Surely the baseline data are there if you know that they are collecting a certain number of tonnes. As a small number of people are doing the collection, surely the baseline is evident.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Richard Bruton: That would be excellent to get. On the reuse, the fear is that it is exported in a ship and no one really cares much as to what happens afterwards where the intention is to recover to get a maximum value. What information has the Department on the value of the chain after these materials are recovered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Richard Bruton: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Richard Bruton: Okay. Will it be part of the circular economy strategy to bring that in, as such?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Richard Bruton: I would have thought that was relatively low-hanging fruit, and that we would not need a strategy to start to tighten some of those matters. I want to ask about the green procurement baseline. Reading what Ms Kiely said will come out of this, the only sector she seemed to be firm about was ICT. It struck me that it is probably happening anyhow. It is not a stretch target that by 2025 a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Richard Bruton: The OGP has a very bad record. Saying the Department is working closely with it does not fill me with confidence. At some point higher up in the hierarchy of command, there has to be a decision that green procurement matters. The EPA is right in saying it has not really impacted. I do not know how-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Richard Bruton: The targets have to be more severe on the public sector in delivering on procurement than we would be envisaging for the rest of the consumer sector.