Results 5,201-5,220 of 9,994 for speaker:John Gormley
- Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: There is a plan in place.
- Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: I have said to the Deputy over and over again that we have put a plan in place, and more of a plan than existed previously. We have made more information available than ever before.
- Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: No, that is a plan.
- Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: That is a plan of action. I am glad the Deputy is not blaming me in this respect because there is a legacy issue here. As I said to Deputy Hogan, I have gone over the files and my preliminary analysis showsââ
- Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: I certainly will.
- Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: I would like to see the Deputy's response to them because his party did not produce any plan for this site.
- Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: I will publish all the information and I will meet the Deputies any time they want regarding this.
- Planning Issues. (9 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: There are two aspects to the judgment of the European Court of Justice delivered on 3 July. First, the compatibility with the requirements of Directive 85/337/EEC on Environmental Impact Assessment, as amended, of Irish legislation under which permission may be granted for the retention of unauthorised development and, second, whether appropriate environmental impact assessments were carried...
- Planning Issues. (9 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: The Deputy is correct. The Commission challenged the enforcement measures put in place by Ireland to ensure genuine application of the EIA directive. According to the Commission, Irish legislation did not impose any clear obligation to bring unauthorised development to a stop. In particular, the Commission felt Ireland had not presented evidence of clear guidelines for local authorities to...
- Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: In response to the programme for Government and the national climate change strategy commitments to introduce a carbon offsetting scheme for air travel on Government business, including flights by Ministers and civil servants, I have developed the principles of a scheme which will operate on an annual basis starting in 2008. I am currently finalising the necessary logistical and...
- Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: It will be invested in countries in which we have projects.
- Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: That was a wonderful question. I do not even know what the question was. The Deputy mentioned the "brunt". Friends of the Earth supports this scheme.
- Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: REEEP is a "gold standard" company. I met its representatives in Bali. It is sometimes difficult to understand what Deputy Tuffy says. What is the Labour Party's position on this? Her colleague, Deputy Burton, has raised this issue time and again on the Order of Business, asking the Government when it would introduce this scheme. I got the clear impression the Labour Party was waiting...
- Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: I am very aware of it.
- Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: I was not aware that we are letting people away with murder, but that is Deputy Tuffy's assessment.
- Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: I went to quite some difficulty to ensure this measure got through Government.
- Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: It is "gold standard" offsetting. We can be quite assured that the people involved in these projects are only too delighted to get renewable energy such as solar power put into their villages.
- Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: I am very disappointed the Labour Party is opposed to progressive measures such as this, which will assist the most vulnerable people on our planet.
- Death of Member: Expressions of Sympathy (9 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: I was very saddened to hear about the death of Séamus Brennan, a very good colleague in the Government. I convey my deepest sympathy on behalf of the Green Party to his wife Ann and his children, and to his colleagues in the Fianna Fáil Party. Séamus Brennan had a very distinguished political career and made a great contribution to Irish public life. I got to know him very well when I...
- Special Areas of Conservation. (8 Jul 2008)
John Gormley: A similar ten-year derogation applies to bogs designated after 1999. When NHAs were designated in 2004, under an agreement with the farming organisations, another ten-year derogation was put in place, allowing cutting in NHAs until 2014. In the meantime, a review of the state of our bogs has revealed severe and continuing damage by domestic turf cutting. In the ten years since commercial...