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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Was it because of the nature of what was on offer changed from 900,000 premises?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: One small point which ties in with what Deputy Connolly said, concerns the delivery of the contract. The Department will talk to local enterprise offices, LEOs, and the link person in the local authorities to identify the priorities.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Will information be available in each local authority and LEO on the areas which will be dealt with in year one, year two and year three?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: What is the role of the liaison officer in the local authority in this process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: If Mr. Griffin says that one more time, he will be sorry he said it in public.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I am already compiling my list. On the environment fund, under which Department does Met Éireann come?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Why is it not under the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment? Under the environment fund, the Department is paying €4 million to international meteorological organisations.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Why is the Department paying funds to international meteorological bodies?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I will start off with a general observation about waste and litter. The countryside is a dirtier place now than it was a few years ago. More dumping is happening on the sides of roads with, for example, couches tossed out of the backs of cars. In the environment fund, expenditure on waste prevention and national market development programmes was reduced in 2015 compared with 2014. I also...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I will touch on these points. Under "environmental awareness", the Department had €32,550 for BirdWatch Ireland in 2014 but nothing was contributed to that organisation in 2015. Perhaps, it carried out a survey for the Department in 2014, I do not know, but we have to be concerned about wildlife in the natural amenity. Why did that happen and what is the most recent position in...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: That is utterly-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I am talking about bins for waste collection.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I do not mind the colour - a bin. I have a blue and a black and my neighbour has a green and a black. A green bin for recycling in one area is a blue bin in my area. It depends on the contractor. My question is very simple. How many houses have a waste collection facility? It is mainly done through the private sector.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: No, that pay for waste collection and recycling. That is the question I am asking. We are dealing with this environment issue. I do not think I have ever sat at a meeting like this without asking this question. Of the approximately 1.6 million houses in the country, how many are paying for waste collection and recycling each week?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I am very disappointed that the Secretary General does not know and I hope it is in excess of 1 million. However, the cost of waste collection in County Laois is €360 per annum for a wheelie bin. I pay it, but it is bad value for money. It is €1 a day and €7 a week for a person in receipt of social welfare payments. I used to travel through towns years ago and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: The number of households should be uppermost in people's minds when we talk about waste management. By his own admission, the Secretary General tells me at least 600,000 houses are outside the system, if it is 1 million. That is an awful admission but the Department does not seem to know about it or have any information. I am being a bit difficult on this because I do not believe the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Everything we get from the Department is only 50% of the truth because it is only covering 50% of the houses. The Secretary General can understand-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Which is 50%. The Secretary General gets the point.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: The public system of waste management is fundamentally flawed because I do not believe people at Government level. The fact is that even Mr. Griffin, the Secretary General of the Department, cannot tell me. I am not being personal; I am saying it is endemic in the system not to want to know. The Department does not ask those kinds of questions, it just issues licences and there it goes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: We would appreciate that but I am expressing a frustration here. The Secretary General can understand that.