Results 21-27 of 27 for waste management speaker:Eamon Gilmore

Service Charges. (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 75: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to establish a national waiver scheme for low income households to coincide with the increased waste charges expected over the next three years with the implementation of the EU waste management directive; the progress made to date in regard to his discussions with the Department of Social and...

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: ..., at an appropriate time, reminded the House of the intent of the motion. This motion is about pensioners, people on social welfare, workers who are on low income and people who cannot afford the waste charges bills they are getting from either their local authority or the private bin collectors. The motion simply asks the Government to introduce a national waiver scheme on their behalf....

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion. (15 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: ...Government to introduce a uniform national waiver scheme for domestic refuse charges in view of: —the way in which the decision of the Government in 2003 to transfer responsibility for setting waste charges from democratically elected councillors to local authority managers has led to a very significant increase in the level of charges; —the fact that these charges can result in...

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion. (15 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The purpose of this motion is to persuade the Government to introduce a national waiver scheme for domestic waste charges, to apply to households with low income. Tens of thousands of households have refuse collection bills they simply cannot afford to pay. These include pensioners, the widowed, people dependent on social welfare, workers on low wages, large families or parents of children...

Written Answers — National Development Plan: National Development Plan (9 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: ...drawn to the serious concern expressed by the Institute of Engineers of Ireland regarding the failure to meet targets set out in the national development plan, particularly in regard to housing and waste management; the steps he proposes to take to deal with these delays; if he will act on the institute's recommendation for the creation of a national waste management agency; and if he will...

Written Answers — National Development Plan: National Development Plan (9 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: ...drawn to the serious concern expressed by the Institute of Engineers of Ireland regarding the failure to meet targets set out in the national development plan, particularly in regard to housing and waste management; the steps he proposes to take to deal with these delays; if he will act on the institute's recommendation for the creation of a national waste management agency; and if he will...

Water Services Bill 2003 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (5 Oct 2004)

Eamon Gilmore: ...use and if necessary to ration the water. It allows future EU water legislation to be implemented without further primary legislation being brought before the Oireachtas. The Bill empowers county managers to make and amend strategic water service plans without any public consultation and without having to obtain the approval of the elected councillors. It permits water service providers to...