Results 101-120 of 164 for waste management speaker:Alan Kelly

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (12 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...remedial works, or carry them out itself and recover its costs. The functions under section 62 were transferred to Irish Water under the Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013. In relation to private wastewater treatment systems the position is that Section 91 of the Water Services Act 2007 provides a water services authority with the power to intervene where a private waste water system is being...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management Regulations (12 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: Issues concerning the enforcement of waste management legislation are a matter for the appropriate regulatory authority and should therefore be pursued with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or the relevant local authority, as appropriate. The Office of Environmental Enforcement within the EPA has a mandate to deliver enhanced environmental compliance, both through enforcement of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management Regulations (11 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: The treatment and management of waste material is subject to a registration and permitting system by local authorities or licensing by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as appropriate, and governed by the Waste Management (Facility Permit & Registration) Regulations 2007 or the Waste Management (Licensing) Regulations 2004, as appropriate. Environmental standards in relation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (10 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...in electoral governance ideally need to command broad political and public support. Quite frankly, there would be no point in the Government driving home an electoral commission. It would be a waste of time. Broad political and public support is needed from across the body politic. The people have to come with us. We have to see measured improvements in what we are doing. That is why...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fuel Laundering (10 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...for the Revenue Commissioners from the point of view of avoiding loss of revenue to the Exchequer. My Department assists local authorities in carrying out their role as competent authorities under waste legislation, which involves taking the necessary measures, on behalf of the State, to ensure that any waste generated and left abandoned by diesel launderers is disposed of without...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fuel Laundering (5 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...in May. The Council meets in the Environment Sector in order to discuss common policies and approaches in a cross-border context in areas such as environmental protection, pollution, water quality management and waste management and this is, I believe, the most appropriate forum to address this serious issue from a waste and water quality perspective. More generally, I believe that a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Pollution (4 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...for the Revenue Commissioners from the point of view of avoiding loss of revenue to the Exchequer. My Department assists local authorities in carrying out their role as competent authorities under waste legislation, which involves taking the necessary measures, on behalf of the State, to ensure that any waste generated and left abandoned by diesel launderers is disposed of without...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Pollution (4 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: The implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive requires the extensive monitoring of groundwater quality and the inclusion of programmes of measures in each river basin management plan to ensure continuing improvement in the quality of groundwater. In transposing the Directive, the European Communities Environmental Objectives (Groundwater) Regulations 2010, as amended, give legal...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...and decades. Irish Water published its capital investment plan for 2014 to 2016 last May. A total of €222 million has been provided by the Government to Irish Water in respect of its capital expenditure in 2015. This will fund progress on projects set out in the plan, including key water and waste water infrastructural projects. In addition, €399 million from the local...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management Regulations (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: Article 30(1)(g) of the Waste Management (Collection Permit) Regulations 2007, provides that the requirement to hold a waste collection permit shall not apply to “the collection and transport of animal by-products, other than catering waste”. In this regard, “manure” is a Category 2 animal by-product and is defined in Article 3(20) of the Animal By-products...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (17 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 511 to 513, inclusive, together. During the period in which local authorities were directly involved in the collection of household waste, a minority of individual councils offered different levels of discount to selected households, based on different qualification criteria. As local authorities exited the waste collection market, some required the private...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (10 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...no decisions will be made on this matter until extensive research and public consultation is undertaken, it would be my intention that a proportionate abstraction control regime will effectively manage abstraction risks and pressures without imposing unnecessary regulatory burden. Recognising the relatively low abstraction pressures in Ireland it is expected that a regime would focus on...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fuel Laundering (5 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...for the Revenue Commissioners from the point of view of avoiding loss of revenue to the Exchequer. My Department assists local authorities in carrying out their role as competent authorities under waste legislation, which is to take the necessary measures, on behalf of the State, to ensure that any waste generated and left abandoned by diesel launderers is disposed of without endangering...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (3 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: I am committed to ensuring that the regulatory regime applying to waste collection is robust and delivers quality outcomes for householders and the environment. As part of implementation of the Government’s waste policy, A Resource Opportunity, my Department carried out a public consultation last year on options for revising the existing regulatory regime which applies to waste...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (3 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: As part of the Producer Responsibility Initiative (PRI) Review, my Department published a report on waste tyres in November 2013, which concluded that the current system is not functioning as intended, with a lack of basic information, poor structure, poor environmental outcomes in the form of large stockpiles of waste tyres and a substantial proportion of waste tyres unaccounted for. The...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management Expenditure (3 Feb 2015)

Alan Kelly: Section 33 of the Waste Management Act 1996 requires a local authority to collect, or arrange for the collection of , waste within its functional area. However, it also provides that this requirement does not apply where any of the following conditions are met: (a) an adequate waste collection service is available, (b) the estimated costs of the collection of the waste concerned by the...

Other Questions: Waste Management Regulations (28 Jan 2015)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Deputy. Flattery will get him everywhere. The Government’s waste policy, A Resource Opportunity - Waste Management Policy in Ireland, was published in July 2012. Among the measures included in the policy document was the establishment of an interdepartmental working group to report to the Government with options to minimise the impact of waste charges on low income...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Illegal Dumping (27 Jan 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...activities is primarily a matter for the Revenue Commissioners from the point of view of avoiding loss of revenue to the Exchequer. My Department assists local authorities in carrying out their role as competent authorities under waste legislation, which is to take the necessary measures, on behalf of the State, to ensure that any waste generated and left abandoned by the diesel launderers...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Pollution (22 Jan 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...a matter for the Revenue Commissioners from the point of view of avoiding loss of revenue to the Exchequer. My Department assists local authorities in carrying out their role as competent authorities under waste legislation, which is to take the necessary measures, on behalf of the State, to ensure that any waste generated and left abandoned by the diesel launderers is disposed of without...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Plastic Bag Levy (20 Jan 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...have been audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General. Funding from Environment Fund can only be used for activities or initiatives in a range of areas such as, inter alia: - schemes to prevent/reduce waste; - waste recovery activities; - research & development into waste management; - production, distribution or sale of products deemed to be less harmful to the environment...