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Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...packages that are prevention-focused. Accordingly, Smile agus Sláinte reflects the ethos, practices and intentions of the WHO's global oral health resolution strategy and action plan. Smile agus Sláinte also applies the Sláintecare vision of enabling patients to access the right care in the right place at the right time in respect of oral healthcare based on the best...

Seanad: Waste Management: Statements (22 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...local authority shall collect, or arrange for the collection of, household waste within its functional area. The obligation to collect or arrange for the collection of household waste does not apply if: an adequate waste collection service is available in the local authority's functional area; the estimated costs of the collection of the waste would, in the opinion of the local authority,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...and the Irish Farmers Association. Under the approved scheme, producers pay an environmental protection levy to IFFPG based on the quantity of product they place on the market. The environmental levy applies to all products based on the Irish market. The levy, along with a collection fee set by IFFPG, is used to fund and provide for the collection, transportation and treatment of farm...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...Ireland and the rest is exported for recycling. The management of recycling waste is monitored and enforced by local authorities. There are strict rules on what can be done with waste and that applies in many other sectors as well. If the Senator is asking if I am worried that the material will never be recycled, I am not, but I am keen that all the rules and regulations are being...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (14 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...will start in July 2024 and complete in August this year. I do not have data on Baile Bhuirne. I will come back to the Deputy on that. If he comes to my office I will give him the answer. That applies to any other area the Deputy is curious about. I will go back to NBI to see if it can provide more detailed information on when surveys are happening. People are curious to know when...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (14 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...suggested that the local authorities should have the most accessible machines and that is a very good suggestion. I will go back to the local authorities on that. He asked about credit being applied to people's phones. Local authority civic amenity sites do not handle very small quantities of cash, such as 15 cent. They are really looking at what the solution is for dealing with cash....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cybersecurity Policy (14 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...incidents in the State, and builds resilience in IT systems with particular emphasis on critical infrastructure and Government. Those resilience-building measures include a set of security requirements applied to critical infrastructure which is to be augmented and expanded through the transposition of the new network information security directive, NIS2; a formal information sharing...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Commercial Rates (9 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...4A and 4B of Schedule 4 provide for exemptions for property used exclusively for community sport and otherwise than for profit. It is understood from Tailte Éireann that an organisation seeking exemption must apply in each case, by way of a revision application to Tailte Éireann valuation. The statutory fee for such an application is €250. Tailte Éireann valuation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...Given that substantial volumes of this weight are potentially preventable, re-usable or recyclable it presents a significant opportunity for us to reduce our circularity gap. The recovery levy does not currently apply to the recovery of construction and demolition material and therefore the challenges we face in terms of Ireland’s overall waste performance and the achievement of EU...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...guidelines in this area. The Government has new green procurement guidelines and an action plan. There is a section on food procurement. Although it was very recently published and will not apply to existing contracts, there is a new school year coming up. While I do not want to give me and my Department extra work, it would be a good idea for me to co-ordinate with the Department of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)

Ossian Smyth: I remember it. It applied to lemonade bottles and so on. Those same products were then sold in plastic. Clearly, the technology developed such that it was possible or cheaper to produce them in plastic and then have the plastic bottle thrown away and just make another in a single-use way. It was an example of technology moving forward to allow us to create a very wasteful system. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)

Ossian Smyth: If anyone is interested in any social enterprise and wants to try doing anaerobic digestion locally in their community, they can apply to do it through the circular economy innovation grant scheme and we will consider that.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Childcare Services (17 Apr 2024)

Ossian Smyth: I take the Senator’s point that the matching of demand and supply has to be very local and that applies in a county which has large distances between different towns and villages but investment in early learning and childcare services has quadrupled in the last nine years. It went from €260 million in 2015 to €1.1 billion this year. That increased investment has focused...

Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...-led and she is right to mention that distinction. Up to now, we have had a developer-led approach for wind farms. It has not led to the creation of any wind farms but just a view that you can apply anywhere and the interest and planning would come from the market. The whole thrust of the legislation this Government has developed has been about moving towards a plan-led approach, in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ..., means the price that the land would have fetched if it had been sold with good marketable title on the open market immediately following the grant of the permission; “net monetary value” means, where permission to which this Chapter applies is granted in relation to land, the market value of the land on the date of the grant less the existing use value of the land on that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...and (b) in force immediately before the repeal of the said section 47 by section 6, shall, on and after that repeal, be deemed to be an agreement made under this section, and accordingly this section shall apply to that agreement. (14) An agreement under section 47 of the Act of 2000 or section 38 of the Local Government (Planning and Development) Act 1963 that was— (a) made for...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (20 Mar 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...of certain other social welfare payments. That allowance assists with the cost of communications and home security solutions. More details are available from that Department, including how to apply, how to qualify, and relevant rates, etc. Separately, under the regulatory framework for electronic communications, there is provision under the European Union (Electronic Communications...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Illegal Dumping (7 Mar 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...responsibility, EPR, scheme for tyres. There is a take-back scheme for them. That has been extended beyond car tyres to all types of tyres. Those types of schemes, particularly those that apply to cars, are leading to a very high rate of take-back compared with the days in the 1980s when one would see cars dumped in fields. I want to see an extended producer responsibility scheme for...

Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...excluded from being appointed by order as majority-shareholding Minister in the Gas Regulation Act 2013 due to full ownership unbundling restrictions under the third gas directive. This does not apply to the Minister for Finance; therefore, there is no basis for that Minister to be excluded. In other words, we are implementing the third gas directive. We had a look at the existing...