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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister of State for coming in today. My daughter asked me to say "Thank you very much" on her behalf as she makes an absolute killing from returning bottles and cans, which also considerably reduces the amount of pocket money required from her parents. I want to raise the issue of disability proofing the new recycling machines. When the circular economy Bill was before the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: A huge amount of money would have been spent on designing these machines. They will not be easily retrofitted to make them accessible so this work should have been done. Re-turn Ireland won a contract or was the designated body that the Government established to run the scheme. I gather from what the Minister of State has said is that there was no direct consultation with the likes of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: I would like to get an understanding of exactly what level of consultation took place, and perhaps this needs to come from Re-turn Ireland itself. My guess is that either there was no or very limited consultation or that when consultation happened, the feedback it got was not incorporated into the design because we essentially have machinery in all the major supermarkets across the country...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: That is just to use them, however. Essentially, Re-turn Ireland was to set up a scheme that was accessible under the rules that Government set down. Dopes the Minister of Sate believe it has set up a scheme that is accessible, and, if not, what is he going to do?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: It is a binary thing for someone in a wheelchair who cannot reach the hole to put in the container.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: It is hard, though. I am really conscious of my time, so the Minister of State might forgive me if I am cutting across him. If a blind person goes up to a machine to try to access it, there is no voice telling him or her what to do. There are no buttons, symbols or Braille or anything on the machine. The first time I used it, I was sort of standing there wondering what to do. If a person...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: I am sure it is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: However, the Minister-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: Yes, but we are not talking about shopping. We are talking about-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: However-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: The best time to make them accessible was at the start. According to the Minister of State, the Government said it was to be an accessible machine, but it seems to me that Re-turn has not done that. What engagement will the Minister of State have with Re-turn to tell it it did not adhere to our guidance and statutory instrument and to ask it how it will rectify the situation? Going...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: But this relates to something the Minister of State said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: Has the consultative group the Minister of State mentioned been set up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: Has it met?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: On 8 February, the Minister of State told me it was being set up. One would have hoped that it would have met by this stage.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (25 Apr 2024)
Neale Richmond: I will restate a few points. I acknowledge that the reports were made by a UN committee. The Government also has a position. We cannot always take everything as read. On the process and the vote the Deputy mentioned, I will provide exact clarity. It is important to recall that Ireland signed up to the OECD two-pillar solution in October 2021. We intend to follow through on our...
- Report on Politically Exposed Persons: Motion (25 Apr 2024)
- Report on Politically Exposed Persons: Motion (25 Apr 2024)
John McGuinness: I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, and Reform, and Taoiseach entitled "Report on Politically Exposed Persons", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 13th December, 2023. I thank members of the committee and all those who appeared before us, including departmental officials, to...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (25 Apr 2024)
International Agreements
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (25 Apr 2024)
Joan Collins: I note that the Minister for Finance is not in the Chamber.