Results 5,621-5,640 of 7,652 for speaker:Joanna Tuffy

Local Government Elections. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle was the Minister who introduced section 72 of the Electoral Act 1997 which would allow the Minister to make regulations limiting election expenditure in local elections. I would like a straightforward commitment from the Minister that he will introduce limits on spending in next year's local elections. The Green Party and the Labour Party have a lot in common....

Local Government Elections. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: We introduced the legislation and we brought in the limits for general elections.

Local Government Elections. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Consensus is good and I have no problem with it. Has Fianna Fáil stated the Minister can do this in time for next year's local elections?

Local Government Elections. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Has it agreed yet?

Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 38: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the latest information available to him regarding any threat to human health or life, animal or marine health or life, or the environment arising from contaminated waste at the Haulbowline site in County Cork; the steps he is proposing to take to deal with any such threat; the plans for the safe disposal of...

Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: I thank the Minister for his reply. My question raises issues concerning the threat to public health and that of the people who worked on the site, those who live nearby and to the marine environment, air quality and water quality. Approaching this issue from a slightly different angle, I have raised with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment a number of times the fact we have...

Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: ——to ascertain if the Seveso directive would apply to the management of this site. That is not clear because the Minister said it is not listed as an establishment under the directive. I tabled that question because it is the type of directive that should apply to the management of this site. I want the Minister to examine this further. The directive requires the putting in place of...

Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Will the Minister set out a planned approach for dealing with the site? A plan should be put in place setting out the steps to be taken over a period of time and it should be made public. Such a plan should cover emergency planning, day to day activity in the area, who carries out work and who visits the site. All those arrangements need to be planned. It is not enough to have a report....

Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Will the Minister specifically indicate whether the Seveso directive applies to this site? I would like people to be told the answer to that question. The directive provides that residents must be protected in terms of the threat posed by dangerous substances on sites. All such considerations must be taken into account in residential planning. The directive covers the protection of human...

Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Yes, but what about the directive and the legal position?

Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: That is not a plan; that is a report.

Waste Management. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: That is not good enough.

Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 40: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding proposals for carbon credits on flights by Government Ministers and officials; the way the amount to be spent on carbon credits for each flight will be calculated; the flights for which they will be purchased; the person from whom they will be purchased; the environmental purposes the...

Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Those are the first proper details I have had of the scheme. I was very interested in what the Minister said. The money will be given to a company called REEEP which will invest it in renewable energy in the least developed countries——

Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: That is the problem with this type of scheme and has been identified by a number of people including Friends of the Earth. The Minister says we will keep doing what we are doing, putting out our emissions, and let the least developed countries take the brunt of reducing emissions. They can have renewable energy but they cannot have the technology we have. It is all to make the Green Party...

Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: These companies are not regulated. I do not include the company the Minister mentioned because I do not know anything about it, but Friends of the Earth has raised many issues around this. These companies are not regulated and we do not know what will happen to the money. It is a load of nonsense.

Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: No, it does not. Friends of the Earth in Ireland does not.

Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Friends of the Earth in the UK argue that supporting carbon offsetting companies could delay laws being put in place to set targets for everybody to cut carbon emissions. Is the Minister aware of that information on the Friends of the Earth website?

Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Why not put more buses on the road? The Minister is letting the Government away with murder regarding buses. The Department of Transport is making people take buses off the road, and then the Government is paying this out to some other country.

Environmental Policy. (9 Jul 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: I spoke metaphorically.