Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

One thing at a time. There were many options for what I could put into the first version of the deposit return scheme. I could have done glass. I could have opted for Tetra Pak products, etc. I had a million different options, but I wanted a working scheme to launch on the day when it was meant to. I look at other countries that took more than a decade and then did not manage to launch schemes at all.

Everything is available for version 2. For example, we could do charity donations where people can opt to give their money to charity rather than take it back. We can do different products. We could do reusable products. Those are all options for version 2. I will be pushing my officials to work on what they will launch in the next version. There will be changes happening this year, even in May.