Results 1-20 of 56 for epa speaker:Seán Fleming

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Page 12 features a table on legal enforcement activity. The EPA had fines and costs awarded in the District Courts and the Circuit Courts totalling €390,074 in 2017. Are those fines payable to the EPA or to the courts?

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: I ask that because I submitted a parliamentary question this week asking about the number of fines or prosecutions taken to court by the EPA. The Minister replied that this was not the responsibility of the Dáil. I have asked this question across all public bodies. The Courts Service will come before the committee in a few weeks and we want to see where fines imposed on behalf of...

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Ms Burke is correct. We hear that the guidelines are being finalised. At first no environmental impact assessment of the policy was done because the Department did not know it should do that. That set back progress by a year. The EPA raised some other issues last year which the Department should have foreseen and that set things back another year. The technical information the EPA...

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...said the amount of waste going to landfill is decreasing but much of it is being managed by heat recovery or, to use the old-fashioned word, incinerator or waste heat recovery biomass. Does the EPA have a role in terms of all the new applications that are submitted? If, say, Bord na Móna is proposing a new large biomass plant, is the EPA consulted on those issues in terms of a licence?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: ..., dated 20 February 2018, from Mr. Fintan Gorman, chairman of Inland Fisheries Ireland, and No. 1113C is correspondence, dated 21 February 2018, from Mr. Mark Griffin, Secretary General, Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, both containing information requested by the committee regarding the national strategy for angling development on procedures used relating to...

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...one hears when driving in Newland's Cross unlike the noise a mile further along the road when the road surface changes to tarmac. I presume the noise reducing surface is more expensive. The EPA also mentions airports and there is a Bill to regulate noise levels at Dublin Airport going through the Dáil. What about noise from wind farms? Does the EPA have a role in that regard?

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes, for the sake of completeness. The list we have in front us is a little bit old. There is no issue with that. It is good that the EPA has an advisory board. I have a suggestion that might be more for the Department than the EPA. There might be a cost but an advisory board would benefit from having some people from outside the State on it. The advisory board seems to be comprised...

Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...compared to some of the more significant pressures identified in the Draft River Basin Management Plan 2022-2027. Detailed assessments of our water bodies by the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, and the local authority waters programme, LAWPRO, as part of our river basin management planning cycles will aim to refine and identify the most significant abstraction pressures. This will...

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: There have been changes. That is the reason I am not sure about that so that would be helpful. That concludes our business. I thank the witnesses for coming in today. It is a compliment to the EPA witnesses that we are finished a little early. There will be a routine meeting to discuss its annual financial statement. We chose to invite the witnesses. I am not sure when they were here...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...That had arrived shortly before we issued our interim report which made a recommendation on that. He refers to that in the final paragraph. In due course we will get a detailed response from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of our report. Can we note this? We will get a response to our periodic report, which contained that recommendation. He refers to the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...next item is from from the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Charlie Flanagan, dated 10 May 2019, providing information requested by the committee on proposed legislation regarding the court poor box. A reparation fund is to be established which will be used to provide additional funding for services for victims of crimes and compensation payments by the Criminal Injuries...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will deal with the chapter on overall funding on 8 March. We will alert the Department to send a detailed briefing note to us on this topic well in advance of that so that we can be well armed with information when the issue is raised. The next correspondence is No. 1046 from an individual dated 9 January 2018 regarding an alleged co-ordinated sabotage of a research programme focused...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: -----or by the EPA, and on a local authority by local authority basis, on remediating public sites as well. We will write to the Department directly on that. The next item-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: EPA representatives would have been here some years ago, perhaps prior to the last election. There was a major clean-up outside Naas. Deputy Murphy knows all about that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will start on that basis because EPA representatives appeared before the committee periodically to deal with the annual financial statements. Those meetings dealt with governance, enforcement, costs and so on.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is the EPA not involved in collection thereafter?

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: -----together with the costs. I think the EPA would get refunded for its administration of that.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: When Ms Burke referred to "major development" I wondered if there was a certain category of strategic infrastructure that the EPA would examine.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: I do not know the stage at which the EPA comes into that entire process. Does it come in at the end or the beginning?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: We had a good meeting with the EPA some weeks ago. Two weeks is more than long enough for a Secretary General to provide a response. We will follow up the matter directly.